Catapult = energy comes from tension. Trebuchet = energy comes from gravity pulling on a counterweight
You can only build up so much tension in ropes and wood so the weight of what can be thrown is limited. With a trebuchet you can throw heavier objects by increasing the weight of the counterweight and length of the throwing arm
These are both examples of catapults, broadly, siege engines that use stored energy to make big projectile go over there real good.
What people tend to refer to when they say “catapult” is a mangonel or onager, and go on to imply that the trebuchet is not a catapult. It is a catapult, just a different kind. Much like we have cars, which are vehicles, but we also have trucks, which are also vehicles.
I feel like it’s not dominated by the same sort of content, but a lot of smaller communities and niche interests (at least the ones I’m interested in) have yet to develop on lemmy.
Instance owners can have full control over who they federate with. From the start, the mainstream in the Fediverse has had a tolerant, open-minded and positive mindset. Over time instances that don’t follow this (e.g. by promoting hate speech) are defederated, leaving mostly decent discourse. Users that try to join instances that follows the Fediverse ethics while not belonging, and try to spread hate, get banned.
We’re still in early days but this will keep happening until the verse is wide and large, and you can choose your own little corner that aligns with what you want, whether that’s more like what we have today, or the opposite end of the spectrum, but for now we get to enjoy to still have mostly only tolerant instances, and the nasty ones are defederated into oblivion.
I couldn’t bring myself to watch these videos but I asked a friend who’s more resilient to cringe to watch for me and here is what she reported back:
In the first video he covers his marriage and then halfway through begins talking about why women and men lie about their age, then complains about Chinese people being in Japan, talks about going to a university, then cooks some pasta.
In the second video he complains about missing a package delivery and walks to the post office, gets his divorce papers, and vents about stuff he left in Japan. Discusses the contents of a letter his ex-wife sent him, and then his personal feelings about the divorce. Ends with cooking.
In the third video he talks about the financial benefits of purchasing a “rubberized girlfriend”, which cost him $328, how there’s no risk of pregnancy, STIs, bleeding, rejection ("she can’t say no”), or crying. Ends with cooking and doxes himself.
In the fourth video he talks about why he doesn’t wash his rubberized girlfriend because of how difficult it is to clean it. “It feels like washing a baby in the sink or a raw chicken.” He also states he likes the smell of himself. Currently lives with his parents. Ends with cooking.
I didn’t realise this was old until you brought it up. I got here from the sub, which I got to by misclicking on the sub portion of a post when I just wanted to see its comments.
iirc family let this man’s sister bring all her friends on the family vacation and then while he was doing math homework they posed for this photo like hah dweeb
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