• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2 days

    Fun fact most “medieval” torture devices were invented much later in history

    • glasratz@feddit.org
      2 days

      True. It’s amazing what they could do with a bit of rope and some sticks. Thumbscrews were the most technical thing.

      Even torture itself was only employed in trials very late in the middle ages. It was quite a step forward from trial by ordeal or reputation.

  • Tiral@lemmy.world
    3 days

    As bad as everyone thinks it is, this is one of the most peaceful times for humans. You’re just bombarded with news 24/7 of how shitty the world is. Can you imagine if it was like WW2, the world powers are CAROET BOMBING major cities. You think a stray missile hitting a school of 150 kids is bad/evil? Lol, try dropping thousands of tons of dumb bombs a day hoping you hit something important. Entire cities were leveled.

    • RidderSport@feddit.org
      2 days

      And if that wasn’t enough, a significant portion of bombs had a time delay trigger. They’d only explode once people left the bunkers an hour or 2 days after the bombing. However that delay was caused by a chemical reaction which pften failed, meaning a lot of the bombs are undetonated but active even now some 80 years later.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pub
      2 days

      This is why I have a very weird feeling inside when someone says X is worse than Nazis. Boy, nothing in modern age stands close to actual nazis and what they did. And before you say Israel - it’s essentially a local conflict with 0.01% of the deaths in comparison. Even Ukraine war is much more deadly, and not even Russia stands close.

      EDIT: The fact that this got a downvote… wish I could see who so I can add a tag “Nazis horrors denier”

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
    3 days

    Look, I remember the “good old days“. It was 1994, and I was doing my best to pirate Adobe Photoshop 2.5 so that I could make fake IDs and print them out on my new-fangled Canon “BubbleJet” 250C printer.

    The early 90s… The “digital age”…, New York State was the first to make “digital ID cards“ and they were crap. Extremely easy to make fake ones, and I did — for years.

    It was a while before New York State finally started producing ID cards and drivers license licenses that weren’t garbage. But those early days… I made some good bank making fakes. It was very very easy.

      • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
        2 days

        Omg, yeah, right about the same time, lol

        My first encounter with Linux was spending almost 3 days downloading the source code for Red Hat 2.0 and then spending another two or three days compiling that shit into 9-13 floppy images. Then trying to install it.

        Then, a few months later, red hat 2.5 comes out with pre-compiled binaries. I was so fucking pissed…

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    3 days

    Look, a fortune-teller told me that that man was full of gold, what was I supposed to do?

  • gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 days

    No, I mean the old, old days.

    Like in ancient China where they would flay you alive and let you slowly die of

    spoiler

    ___hypothermia in most cases, believe it or not. Without your skin to insulate you, it only takes about 30 minutes. However, without your skin, I’m sure it feels like much longer.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      2 days

      That doesn’t sound plausible. I’d guess blood loss or infection would kill you. Unless it was - 40 outside, but then having skin wouldn’t have saved you…

  • rogsson@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 days

    ”Please sit upright and completely still while we proceed to cut you in half”

  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
    3 days

    This isn’t punishment, it’s medieval mental health care. Oh, you have a headache? We have to let the spirits out. Johann, help me with the saw will you.

    Hm? Oh, nothing to worry about. I’ve done this plenty of times, and never had a single complaint.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    3 days

    It’s probably a funny depiction of trepination, right?

    The drilling, sawing or scraping of holes in the skull is one of the earliest medical procedures we have evidence for. It relieves pressure and brain swelling. As gruesome as it sounds, it was quite survivable and people survived multiple trepinations deep into prehistory.

    Once you get hospitals in the medieval period the survival rate drops - don’t be in a room of sick people when your skull has a hole in it.