minus-squareNiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Man arrested for violating Japan’s anti-dueling law in downtown TokyolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·28 days agoTo add to this, it wasn’t just about looking good but the fact that, in later centuries, dueling scars most often came from academic fencing. So a dueling scar meant you went to university, and therefore a higher rung of society. linkfedilink
minus-squareNiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparisonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month ago as old as time_fast32_t linkfedilink
To add to this, it wasn’t just about looking good but the fact that, in later centuries, dueling scars most often came from academic fencing. So a dueling scar meant you went to university, and therefore a higher rung of society.