• boydsterEnglish
    278·
    6 个月前

    Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government.

    • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
      64·
      6 个月前

      Strange woman here, anyone knows where I can buy swords in bulk, preferably with a pond thrown in? It’s for… a personal project.

      • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        25·
        6 个月前

        Are we to believe that famous actress Margot Robbie doesn’t have some sort of connection for bulk medieval weaponry?

        I am shocked and dismayed.

      • Masamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 个月前

        Have you tried your local Swords 'R Us? I hear there’s a July 4 blowout sale this week. Use promo code Pond50 for half of your pond!

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      165·
      6 个月前

      something something ‘watery tart’ something.

      You know how to kill any party? Start quoting Monty Python.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      6 个月前

      The woman = Amy Coney Barrett

      The pond = DC swamp

      The sword = Official acts

    • Tar_Alcaran
      4611·
      6 个月前

      Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year “off”.

        • Tar_Alcaran
          32·
          6 个月前

          I mean the reality was that the time “off” was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you’ll quickly realize it’s a LOT of work.

          • pelespirit
            203·
            6 个月前

            Meh,

            • They had horrible healthcare they couldn’t afford and WE have horrible healthcare we can’t afford
            • They spent a lot of time at festivals and with their communities helping each other and WE spend a lot of time chatting on our phones, but mostly playing games.
            • They spent a lot of time outdoors doing a lot of work but keeping active, and we can sometimes go for hikes or walks, but we’re Americans, we as a whole, don’t.
            • They knew how an could fix things around the farm, we can watch youtube videos unless it’s electronic or DRM.
            • They had witch hunts and misinformation and WE have witch hunts and misinformation.
            • All of the food they grew was organic but they had to grow it themselves and we have to pay an arm and a leg for non-poisoned food.
            • They spent all day working for the king and we spend all day working for billionaires.
            • They have poor starving people during famines, we have a too big percentage of poor starving people (13% of US population was food insecure during 2023).
            • They had xenophobia and WE have xenophobia.
            • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
              10·
              6 个月前

              All of the food they grew was organic

              Without someone inspecting the water and the soil, how safe was it? ♪♫ Hello typhoid my old friend… ♫♪

              • pelespirit
                5·
                6 个月前

                Except for that, yeah. We still have listeria outbreaks, etc. that kill people. It’s not like we’ve moved on from that, and that’s with all of the poisoned food to make it “safer.”

            • FaceDeer@fedia.io
              6·
              6 个月前

              When you delve into the details of what those bullet points actually entailed, they were all far far worse in medieval times.

            • Tar_Alcaran
              8·
              6 个月前

              And gathering your own firewood, and water, and making twice as much to prepare for winter, and the strongly reduced options.

              I mean yeah, it IS fun for a bit, I do medieval reenactment, obviously I enjoy it. But doing it every day absolutely sucks.

      • kakes
        15·
        6 个月前

        take up subsistence farming

        Where?

        • reversebananimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 个月前

          Plenty of places you can do this. Put “homesteading” into a search engine of your choice and you’ll get more information on the topic than you can handle.

          You’ll also pretty quickly realize its a very hard, tedious life and we have it pretty good in many ways in the modern world.

      • Lavitz@lemmings.world
        3·
        6 个月前

        So you think in order for people to not work their lives away we would have to take up subsistence farming? With all the tech and machines we have the only viable way to not be a company man is to give away all of the luxuries we currently have?

        How’s that Kool aid tasting?

        • Tar_Alcaran
          1·
          6 个月前

          That’s not remotely close to what I think the world SHOULD BE like.

          It is, unfortunately, what I think the world IS like.

          I’m also pointing out that if you want that aspect of the middle ages, you can have it right now by also taking all the crappy aspects of the middle ages…

        • Tar_Alcaran
          5·
          6 个月前

          No, but it’s like a dollar per square meter if you’re remote enough…

      • otp
        1·
        6 个月前

        Depending on the state and one’s farming capabilities, some people could already be halfway there! At least part of the year

  • ArbitraryValueEnglish
    903·
    6 个月前

    My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
      313·
      6 个月前

      TIL that the US doesn’t have apprenticeships. We have them over here in Australia, for the usual trades. But we also regulate a lot of those things - we’re not allowed to handle our own electrical work if we’re not trade qualified.

      How does it work in the US, if a kid wants to become, say, a plumber?

    • norimee@lemmy.world
      24·
      6 个月前

      Thats not medieval, thats everywhere exept the US of A.

      Where I live, apprenticeships are officially regulated and for many proffessions you are not allowed to open a business without proper qualification.

    • Ziggurat
      8·
      6 个月前

      Wait, you don’t it in the US ? Kids who aren’t comfortable in school start learning a trade at 14, so by the time they’re 18 they have some skills.

      I get that it’s a pitty that non everyone reads philosopher or learn about history and science, but on the other hands, some kids are really uncomortable at school, so having them working one week, and going to school one week is an alternative which pulls some student out of the failure cycle

      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        6 个月前

        Education in general is quite shit in the US. Apprenticeships, contracts and unions are all things most Americans never experience.

    • Hate@lemmy.world
      131·
      6 个月前

      Imagine a king fighting his own battle, wouldn’t that be a sight…

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 个月前

        On Sep 7, 1944, a group of American pilots was tasked with bombing a radio tower at Chichijima Island in the Pacific theater. The Japanese resistance was strong, and many American planes were shot down. Eight pilots managed to parachute to the ground safely but were caught by the Japanese.

        The Japanese military tortured them and then brutally executed them, in at least one case forcing the prisoner to dig his own grave before killing him. After the prisoners were executed, the Japanese cannibalized them, not due to lack of rations but to show “fighting spirit”.

        A ninth pilot parachuted away that day. The Japanese sent small boats out to try to capture him, but American airplanes arrived to force the Japanese boats back. The pilot was swimming in the open ocean far from any nearby ships when an American submarine suddenly breached the water in front of him and rescued him.

        That pilot then went on to become the 41st President of the United States.

        • space_of_eights@lemmy.mlNederlands
          1·
          6 个月前

          Netherlands. Thailand and Morocco are even worse I guess. There, you’ll get punished harshly for beinig openly anti-monarchy. I feel sorry for those countries.

          • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
            1·
            5 个月前

            The Dutch monarchy isn’t too harsh on lèse-majestè, though I did shift from monarchist to republican almost overnight when our king said that “if you as a civil servant don’t like the far-right party PVV ruling, then you should be free to look for work elsewhere.”

            Well gee it’s not that easy for everyone to get accepted in work if you get discriminated, and gee, you need money due to this stupid capitalist system. While all the king does is look pretty and pay less tax… any person in the top 10% of their economy should pay way more.

            • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
              1·
              5 个月前

              This is untrue, you can drive if you have autism. However, formally you’d have to undergo an extra “examination” which in practice is a 5 minute talk that’ll cost €300, oh and, you have to pay it yourself.

              Even driving instructors tell you it’s bullshit and won’t bat an eye for not doing that.

              If you get found out of not having done this examination, and an accident occurs, however, then the police may be an ass. Which is bullshit as there’s your medical diagnosis, and autism should by itself not have consequences for driving ability. Dementia however…

              • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 个月前

                Well, I know of at least one person who’s choosing not to get diagnosed as a direct result of that policy.

  • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
    551·
    6 个月前

    Cloaks would be cool. I know that’s more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn’t matter.

  • explodicleEnglish
    44·
    6 个月前

    Inns, especially if they’ve got an enormous pot of perpetual stew, and people are giving out quests.

    • PostProcess@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

      As I understand it, the trebuchet is technically a catapult, I think you are trying to undermine it by referring to the lowly mangonel which is certainly inferior.

      • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 个月前

        If my Age of Empires knowledge serves, you can just crank out a pantload of mangonels and start blasting before the trebuchets have time to set up and reduce your town to rubble