size of animal which is feasable in a environment is determined by largely 3 things (besides general genetic limits) - climate, food availablilty, and any predators. within tundras it is very beneficial to be big because your surface area to mass ratio would be less (you lose heat through your surface, and the total heat you produce is roughly proportional to your mass). So most tundra animals grow big.

my guess with dogs being prefered is that 1) they are available, 2) humans have history of collab, 3) they are also predators. last is important, as 1 of the reasons to go out is to catch some prey, and dogs are good predators. goat might fit other 2, but does not fit 3 (their pray is usually very sparse, and almost always ‘vegitative’). In areas where there is hardly any other pray (like himalyas), dogs are not raise because their hunting skilss are useless. Yaks (fancy bulls) are raised because they can carry load, and also you can use their “side products” (hair in summer, and milk more generally)

I do not find this post uplifting. Is this like some thing I do not get because I am not american? cause this seems to be just a product launch

sorry, completely went past my mind. I read a peaceful scene and just stopped reading for some reason

sorry i did not quite get your point.

i guessed horses wer not available because of the great war, and hence I went to straight human plowing, but yeah, i guess most able men were also conscripted

til. I knew of the hairstyle, but did not know it was a law. I probably guessed that it is something that royality does, and rest of people just try to mimic it, but never quite thought of why everyone would do that.

forgive my ignorance, but why? was belgium (or this particular region or this person) a cattle-poor nation at that time? I understand dog sleds (well wolf like, but sure) in tundra, because there aren’t any cattle like animals, or horses. maybe yak in some places, but belgium is geographically flat euro land (so a bit cold, but definitely has cattle). Like my problem is not specifically why no cattle, but why dogs? because dogs are fairly weak for plowing, and human plowing is very much a thing. It is definitely labor intensive, but human would be faster.

any idea what is happening? on the right side a person is either measuring something around head, or some other procedure (but does not seem like a barber), and also there is some registeration or something going on in the middle, so is this outside some court (as in royality) or like a hospital?

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from the little that I know of culture of mid-west asia, eagle-falcon-hawk family are kinda treated very special, a bit like royality. and often it would be believed that such a “majestic” bird perching on someone’s hands would be a divine gesture of some person’s abilities. hence lots of military figures are depicted with such birds. it shows their bravery, and also roughly their royalty.

something lazy but also something warm. rest of days I can not eat with my family, so on sundays, we have often have a savoury pancake like thing made of gram flour.

I had been working on a project for some time (months) and this week we got some positive results, so happy because of that.

and just now I upgraded my phones os (went from lineage 20.x to 22.x). My phone stopped recieving official updates 5+ years agoo, and lineage support (official) was down since 2024 (and even then it was at 18). few months ago, I tried to find unofficial builds, found for 20.x, 21.x, 22.x, but i could only install till 20.x, because of some issues with recovery. I had been delaying figuring it out, and did that today. NOt quite the latest lineage version, but very close, so i am happy

that is what i thought, but then reaalised this photo being taken in 1874, and exposure time was still in hours, so he likely got very stiff holding it so could not hold out correct posture

number 81 should not be Ti (that is short for titanium)

the for most parts and intents is not really a good distinctintion. i did not go into details, mostly because it is a unrelated thing, but for most things, you can gradually transition from liquid phase to gas phase, without a proper transition. this is called a super critical fluid. consider like this, ice in solid form is not really “miscible” in liquid form. gasses and liquids of same stuff can mix. a

yeah, i a am a bit ashamed

understandable, happens to the best of us

here is fun fact (fun is subjective)

liquid state is a lie. or more correctly, it is hard to distinguish liquid fluids from gas fluids (a textbook definition may say something like fluids shear, but gasses do to, it is just that it is almost negligible).

for most things, solid to gas happens, and solid to liquid happens under specific pressure conditions (generally higher)

(they were hinting at feds as in federal agencies, often used as a proxy for govts and 3 letter agencies, police forces, etc)

I kinda currently do sputtering for living, and it is still the most wonderful thing for me. a perfect representation of wave nature of light