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[Mephisto]

The pants-shitting abusive transphobe who occasionally craps out gross RPG supplements, Zak S, is getting litigious. If you play RPGs and haven't heard of the guy, I envy you.

Getting?

As in, lawsuits are actually happening instead of just internet tough guy blustering.

And he won. And then bragged about it. Because yay commonwealth defamation laws.

His suit against the ex that he abused is apparently still ongoing.

[pisskop]

Heeeey, gonna sound weird, but does anyone know, offhandedly, how much influence muslem cutlure had in the development of russian architecture and music?

this is, like, my longest standing drunk question, and Im entertaining it tonight.

[Reelya]

At least for the iconic onion-shaped domes, there's some evidence they've been around since in Russia about the time of the mongol invasions. However the problem there is that islamic nations didn't get those sorts of domes for another 2-300 years.

EDIT: Pretty much all the evidence points to Russia taking a large amount of influence from Byzantine architecture, not islamic. Though Islam assimilated a lot of that architecture too, themselves.

As for music, Russian Orthodox music not surprisingly also turns out to heavily influenced by Byzantine music.

For folk music, the most wide-spread influence was actually the Romany, that pervades pretty much everything:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_music

[methylatedspirit]

I got a new pendrive today. Its indicator light appears to be violet. While it's not an eye-searing blue, it's still fairly close to blue on the visible spectrum. I don't know what to feel about this color. Should I like that it's not blue for once, or should I deride SanDisk for not just going further and looping all the way to a pleasant red?

[Frumple]

You should appreciate it's purple, the Best Color, and discard other considerations. Though being not!blue is a step in the right direction regardless I guess.

[methylatedspirit]

Purple? Best Color? I'd disagree, red is Best Color. It's furthest away from blue, the Worst Color, so red must be the Best Color.

[Naturegirl1999]

I do like purple though, the darker purples are very calming

[hector13]

Purple? Best Color? I'd disagree, red is Best Color. It's furthest away from blue, the Worst Color, so red must be the Best Color.

Even red doesn’t think red is the best colour. Anything that appears red absorbs all the other wavelengths but the one that appears red.

[McTraveller]

I got a new pendrive today. Its indicator light appears to be violet. While it's not an eye-searing blue, it's still fairly close to blue on the visible spectrum. I don't know what to feel about this color. Should I like that it's not blue for once, or should I deride SanDisk for not just going further and looping all the way to a pleasant red?

I second this. Whoever is behind the stupid high-color-temperature movement needs to be given a stern talking-to.

This even happens in vehicle dashboards these days - lots of white and blue, destroys night vision.  Don't even get me started about the solar-flares as headlights nonsense.

It may seem trivial, but one of the things that influenced my vehicle purchase decision is the dashboard in my vehicle is red-on-black.  The needles are still white, but all the text is red.   Luckily it is "soft" white and I can dim them a ton.

[methylatedspirit]

Purple? Best Color? I'd disagree, red is Best Color. It's furthest away from blue, the Worst Color, so red must be the Best Color.

Even red doesn’t think red is the best colour. Anything that appears red absorbs all the other wavelengths but the one that appears red.

That applies for reflected color, if I understand it correctly. LEDs, though, emit a single wavelength of light (give or take). Red LEDs like the color so much that they only emit red light and basically nothing else so long as they're powered.

[Iduno]

I got a new pendrive today. Its indicator light appears to be violet. While it's not an eye-searing blue, it's still fairly close to blue on the visible spectrum. I don't know what to feel about this color. Should I like that it's not blue for once, or should I deride SanDisk for not just going further and looping all the way to a pleasant red?

Electrical tape. It doesn't answer the question you asked, but it does solve the problem without (de)soldering.

You should appreciate it's purple, the Best Color, and discard other considerations. Though being not!blue is a step in the right direction regardless I guess.

Logically, 740 nm red is the best color we can perceive.

[Jopax]

Got my card usage listing thingy from the bank for last month, pretty much everything checks out, except a single item listed on March 10th, 6 bucks for Amazon Video or something. Thing is, I don't remember buying anything off of amazon back then, it might've been a site that was using their service maybe? But I have no confirmation e-mails of any purchase done on that date. Nor have I written anything down in my little money-tracking booklet. It's more baffling than upsetting really, was the purchase so trivial that I forgot about it a month later? The card might be compromised? But if  it was, I'd have seen it drained sooner maybe? And I've had money sitting on it for a month now and nothing else happened, so I doubt it's that.

Real strange tbh.

[pikachu17]

Got my card usage listing thingy from the bank for last month, pretty much everything checks out, except a single item listed on March 10th, 6 bucks for Amazon Video or something. Thing is, I don't remember buying anything off of amazon back then, it might've been a site that was using their service maybe? But I have no confirmation e-mails of any purchase done on that date. Nor have I written anything down in my little money-tracking booklet. It's more baffling than upsetting really, was the purchase so trivial that I forgot about it a month later? The card might be compromised? But if  it was, I'd have seen it drained sooner maybe? And I've had money sitting on it for a month now and nothing else happened, so I doubt it's that.

Real strange tbh.

Maybe it's an Identity Thief that wants to take just a little money instead of alerting people?

[Doomblade187]

Got my card usage listing thingy from the bank for last month, pretty much everything checks out, except a single item listed on March 10th, 6 bucks for Amazon Video or something. Thing is, I don't remember buying anything off of amazon back then, it might've been a site that was using their service maybe? But I have no confirmation e-mails of any purchase done on that date. Nor have I written anything down in my little money-tracking booklet. It's more baffling than upsetting really, was the purchase so trivial that I forgot about it a month later? The card might be compromised? But if  it was, I'd have seen it drained sooner maybe? And I've had money sitting on it for a month now and nothing else happened, so I doubt it's that.

Real strange tbh.

It's quite common for card scammers to start small to see if you notice. You can always request a new card, but at least keep an eye on it.

[Jopax]

Yeah, what's more baffling is that it would mean that one of the like, 5-6 places I've used the card on have been compromised, because I got no idea how it could've gotten out otherwise, I'm the only one to ever use the damn thing and it never leaves my wallet besides that. And I've not seen anything about shit like Steam or E-bay being compromised lately :I