God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

This is a self-hosted, single-user instance running on snac2.
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Homepage: https://michal.sapka.pl

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@michal@sapka.pl

Well, I think I found a great Youtube channel worthy of prasie - Fall of Civilizations. Interesting, deep historical documentaries. It reminds me of the old docs I watched on TV as a young man, before everything became either MythBusters or Storage Wars (or Ancient Aliens).

https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations

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[?]loStronzoRocco » 🌐
@desantis@mastodon.bida.im

@michal I remember those days. For me, watching Discovery Channel’s “Terra X” was peak childhood/early teenage years. Anything with early humans or Earth’s geologic history was perfect.

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    loStronzoRocco boosted

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    @michal@sapka.pl

    Personally I would watch anything about Egypt/Rome. Sadly, there was very little about Central America (Mayan) docs shown, as I would devour them as well. I never cared about World War II or docs about animals. Give me huge temples!

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      [?]loStronzoRocco » 🌐
      @desantis@mastodon.bida.im

      @michal I recently saw a documentary about the possible reason of a Mayan city collapse, it was definitely plausible. There was basically a micro climate change which reduced the water levels in their aquifer, and the upper crust of society basically poisoned their only source of water because they dumped their leftover food into a well. That food would then start to rot and breakdown, leading to terrible water conditions.

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        @agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social

        @michal My two favorites, which are hard to find, are James Burke's "Connections" (science history), and Jacob Bronowski (the rise of human civilization).

        I keep looking for DVD's of "The Body in Question", by Jonathan Miller, but so far I've had no luck.

        I haven't seen this one, but it sounds good. I'll check it out over the weekend.

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