modern day vikings gonna loot'n'pillage

you could have a winning personality - make women laugh (with you, not at you)... alternately, you could obtain a lot of muscles, that's all some women need. or move somewhere where men are in short supply - or where you'd be seen as exotic... and it'd be cheaper than leg lengthening surgery.

first two paragraphs should be enough to convince anyone that it's not news, just a highly biased opinion piece

Argentina's statistics agency on Wednesday published annual inflation of 254% as January inflation edged down to 20.6% from 25.5% a month earlier, just below forecasts of 257% and 21% according to analysts polled by Reuters.

that part is really confusing - it's down 20.6% to 254% from 257%?

depends on what side of the battlefront you're on

still very impressive.

this article was far more interesting and informative --> https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/14/identifying-the-mystery-vessel-at-the-site-of-trinidad-tobagos-national-emergency-oil-spill/

yeah I see what you mean. you'd have to replace all 12 hour clocks world-wide though - and then accept that it would take generations for people to adapt. it'd probably never going to happen.

it seems like one of the key defining principals of the fediverse is platform evolution - mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history.

cancer risk?