Article has no information whatsover about what they mean by “warmest year”.

Not 200 BC-- that date is for an unrelated language.

Hittittes were around from like 1600-1200 BC, so a language lost to them is probably at least like 1500 BC.

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

Ddg is driving me crazy with correcting what i type to give more generalized results. Searx is my new favorite. It’s not just a google reskin.

Another vote for protonmail. It’s honestly not as good as gmail, but it works well enough for what I need.

This has been my solution as well. Searx by default, ddg when necessary, wiby for fun, resulthunter as a backup, google when all else fails.

I think returntomonke could be a place you can belong. More memes than discussion at the moment, but I hope to build real community as membership grows.

I’m really enjoying these conversations here-- these are exactly the kinds of discussions the community is for.

You mean me personally? I use tech all the time, even when I have a choice. But I do think it’s important to consider the effects of the technology we let into our lives; particularly those effects that we don’t yet understand. I mean, that is kind of how we got into this global warming mess, right? I’m also more than a little sceptical of the idea that complex societies improve our lives.

But neoluddites and anarchoprimitivists are a diverse bunch with interesting and conflicting opinions, and I want to hear, debate, and meme about them all. Now they can unite under the slightly absurd yet oddly compelling banner of returning to monke.

If you are slinging shit around you might belong.

Well, the original luddites didn’t oppose all recent tech innovation, just the tech that made their lives worse. The Amish use tractors and air compressors. Similarly, maybe a neoluddite opposes AI but not the internet. Or maybe the actual primitivists aren’t in the community at all, and we use the space to talk about whether they should be and why or why not.

In point of fact this conversation we’re having now is a perfect example of discussing and critiquing return to monke, so you should post this there.

Or maybe you just want a place to shitpost a meme about the sweet irony of online primitivism.

Most recently, trying to directly access user files through explorer. More disturbingly, while trying to uninstall “system” software. It seems like windows resembles unrooted android more and more with each version.

I love how your downvotes illustrate your point; such sweet irony.

I get permission denied notices with a fully permissioned admin account on win7. I never got that with xp. That’s unacceptable on a machine i own.

Firefox still isn’t chrome.

That’s the traditional model, but I don’t think it applies anymore. We seem to be living in a post-nation state era. People are fully reliant on the top dozen or so companies, so those companies have tremendous power over government. Some governments are only just now realizing that fact and are trying to push back, but it’s way too late.