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- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 6 months ago:
"Bro watch this"
[everyone in the room dies horribly over the course of several days]
- Comment on Question: When Turk/Ottoman Empire lost the WW I, did it offer Palestinians to move back to the new borders of the Ottoman Empire? 7 months ago:
Oh, God, no. The Ottoman Empire, after WW1, was more or less entirely at the mercy of the Entente, who had already decided to carve up the Middle East amongst themselves. The level of control the Ottomans had at the end of WW1 over the territory, or its ability to pursue any kind of policy, foreign or domestic, was about nil.
The Entente's imperialism actually would have been even worse, save that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and managed to make the modern Turkish Republic out of the war-weariness of Britain and France, and the poor performance of the Greek military.
The resulting Turkish Republic largely regarded Ottoman imperialism as undesirable and non-Turks* as not Turkiye's concern.
*Who was and was not a Turk was decided by Turkiye, of course, and curiously, a great number of Kurds in desirable areas contiguous with Turkiye were designated as "Mountain Turks" who just needed to get in touch with their "real" roots. For obvious reasons, the Kurds have never been particularly fond of this interpretation, and a great deal of violence has resulted in support of this oppressive position.
- Comment on Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? 9 months ago:
He became less racist later in life, but didn't, to my knowledge, express remorse for his previous racism.
- Comment on Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? 9 months ago:
No, we can excuse lack of refinement in talent, but not racism.
I love Lovecraft's work, but fuck is he incredibly racist.
- Comment on Please Joe... 9 months ago:
Well, that's the metaphor it's going for. It's 'retail', going in for small amounts of voters, rather than 'wholesale', going in for large amounts.
- Comment on Please Joe... 9 months ago:
Meeting with people on a small scale to discuss politics and justify your positions.
- Comment on "I know that I know everything" 10 months ago:
"Like all Greeks, I know everything."
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I mean, personally, I would note that US police departments are extremely uh, compartmentalized. I'm willing to accept that there are good cops out there, genuinely. But a good cop can only exist in a good department, and the structure of US policing makes good departments extremely unstable - and a good cop in a bad department inevitably either becomes no longer good, from accepting the abuses of their fellows, or no longer a cop, from their coworkers and superiors pushing them out.
- Comment on August 20, 1672 10 months ago:
Is Greenland hiding something?
- Comment on STOP DOING SCIENCE - a community for memes similar to the one shown below 10 months ago:
OP, the Kbin link should have /m/ instead of /c/ to work.
- Comment on STOP DOING SCIENCE - a community for memes similar to the one shown below 10 months ago:
You may be misinterpreting the meme - it's meant to be intentionally silly, anti-anti-intellectual if anything. "YEARS yet no REAL WORLD USE found for counting any higher than your FINGERS" is definitely poking fun at people who think that higher academic notions are useless.
- Comment on How Bread and Circuses should have ended. 11 months ago:
Also, if it’s a parallel to Earth, I guess we’re supposed to assume that the Christian underclass eventually takes over and are just as bad as the formerly pagan Romans they added into their fold.
Considerably worse, really.
- Comment on Motivational 11 months ago:
Joke's on you, I gave up long ago!
- Comment on Further study is needed 11 months ago:
What's 'offline'?
- Comment on Customer support 11 months ago:
"No new models, but if you have a lifetime warranty we can help!"
- Inhabited Beauty - For beautiful pictures of still-inhabited towns, cities, and other architecturekbin.social ↗Submitted 11 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Hey, Asimov. Bite me. 11 months ago:
There's one I haven't heard in a while.
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 1 year ago:
You're doing God's work
- an Appalachian
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 1 year ago:
YEE-HAW, I'm the FASTEST BOW IN THESE HERE WOODS
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 1 year ago:
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 1 year ago:
I heard it was Southern English which was closest to Elizabethan English.
In any case, reality doesn't matter. Perceptions matter. Britain is an old country, and America is a new country - so in 'translating' an accent to a past period, we tend to see the accent of the 'old country' as more appropriate.
- Comment on Fantasy rednecks 1 year ago:
American accents sound too 'modern' because American English wasn't a thing until the Medieval period had long passed, and most fantasy is medieval or medieval-adjacent.
I'm all for broadening the use, though. I love that the Witcher games gave Geralt and the other Witchers of the School of the Wolf American accents, though. And Dragon Age (back when it was good) giving the dwarves American accents.
- Comment on 4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle 1 year ago:
"Let no one mourn! The death of but one soldier, however high-born, is no great loss to the republic!"
- Comment on Knowledge is... power? 1 year ago:
Okay but have you read Shakespeare? Or, for the Roman graffiti you referenced, Plautus? Or Suetonius if you want some good tabloid fodder? They're similarly crude, and while there is a much higher level of literacy and wordplay, it's... not that much different at its core. Even that graffiti, funny enough, has an example in the other direction - there are instances of graffiti in Pompeii which demonstrate a knowledge of classical literature amongst the urban masses.
My point in the end is simply that history is written by writers, and writers are not necessarily less inisane, less gullible, or less prejudiced than the general population.
- Comment on Knowledge is... power? 1 year ago:
Previous generations had the advantage that their most asinine, pigheaded, and ludicrous ideas were filtered by history, since the more serious minds didn’t record in documents how a sizable portion of us were the absolute worst.
You may be overestimating ancient writers.
- Comment on Knowledge is... power? 1 year ago:
No, but without knowledge, you don't get to choose whether you believe reality or not. Reality is just hidden from you.
- Comment on Knowledge is... power? 1 year ago:
Then at least they have the choice.
- Comment on Horseshoe Theory of Breakfast Meals 1 year ago:
Wouldn't I call 'em chips if I was?
- Comment on Horseshoe Theory of Breakfast Meals 1 year ago:
Damn, that's an ice-cold assumption. I make my fries in a home deep fryer, like any civilized soul.
- Comment on Horseshoe Theory of Breakfast Meals 1 year ago:
Your wife has good taste in breakfast food