The best time to start building your own Thunderdome was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

You’re good, I was trying to make a joke about how Glubb’s claims are just as believable as a monarch’s claim that they have a divine right to rule

I agree with you though, about not putting a hard date on the end of (most) empires. I get why historians want to do it, it definitely makes discussions simpler. But especially in the pre-modern era, the fall of an empire means very different things for different subjects of that empire. From the perspective of the people on the fringes of the empire, it could have either ended quickly when the Romans couldn’t protect their own borders, or it ended gradually as local leaders gained more and more autonomy from a diminishing central authority.

The point is, your comment isn’t out of place, because I always enjoy talking about stuff like this :)

Byzantium? I hardly know 'um!

The Roman Empire absolutely ended in 180 CE though, that’s when Marcus Aurelius died and ended the divine right of the Caesars to rule, a claim just as plausible as Glubb’s

Counter-counterpoint

They installed those rootkits out of the goodness of their hearts, dammit, they cared about us the whole time and we never showed our appreciation and now look where it got us

Eh, it just happened long enough ago that it’s socially acceptable for them to be colonised

Unfortunately, even thinking the word “solidarity” is grounds for termination here

Okay you can’t just say that online and not share recipes

Seriously, what should I do as an individual to singlehandedly change this?

Not in a fedposting get-you-to-incriminate-yourself way, I’m genuinely asking what you expect me to do, one person out of nearly 400 million

I’m fucking trying, I’m doing everything I can in my rented apartment and my shitbox from the '90s

Who the fuck is the target audience for this on Lemmy, Europeans glazing each other because they did their imperialism before the internet existed?

I’m not familiar with anomaly horror as a genre, but it sounds like a very well-made game. I’m scared that I’d be too scared though

And they say that American exceptionalism is a myth

Yeah I was just shitposting under the influence, and now there’s too many comments to surreptitiously delete it

Edit: I must live with my shame

It’s specifically Richard Nixon’s head that I was campaigning for

Also Winter Olympics > Summer Olympics

Preemptive strikes are part of my culture 😤

It’s true, I distinctly remember the abject horror of the infamous Paris Olympics Murder Spree

a bunch of stupid cheap dickheads

Hey, give the poor tourists a break. Do you really expect them to afford an international trip, tickets to a massive sporting event, and a few $5 tips?

I always worry that I just imagined that the president of the united states of america was gushing over Arnold Palmer’s magnum dong

Anyone else and this would have been the defining quote of their presidency

I mean, it is the new normal? None of us (hopefully) want it to be, but it’s the reality we have to deal with, unless the laws of physics that make thermometers work suddenly changed and no one noticed

Idk when record-breaking high temperatures are showing up weekly I think they stop being “extreme” data points

Outliers aren’t outliers anymore when all the measurements are in that range