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“If you don’t fight back, we’ll let you live” For now. Make no mistake about scorpions though.
“If you don’t fight back, we’ll let you live” For now. Make no mistake about scorpions though.
“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”
Ferdinand Foch, 1921
Conversely, there are many other people from his time that definitely did exist and verifiably so. I have a bronze coin minted in Judea by Pontius Pilatus. I can look at it, I can touch it, it’s real. Even as an avowed agnostic, I see no reason why Jesus couldn’t have been a real person (minus the miracles that were almost certainly later additions).
Exactly this. In ancient Roman times, emperor Caracalla was infamous for having many of his enemies outright killed. One of these was the brother of a soldier who was assigned to his personal guard at the Rhine border regions. When Caracalla got off his horse for a piss, he got a gladius thrusted between his ribs. For all his might and power, he very much brought that on himself.
Sometimes people like that soldier are the last line of justice in the world.
I’m a Reddit refugee from when they axed 3rd party apps. I was quite active in the ancient coins subreddit, but there’s simply no way I will ever grace their site with a click again.
There’s an alternative on Lemmy, which I’ve used, but there’s literally only one other active person. Two does not a community make.
I’m gonna go with “no” judging by how things have been going in the past. I hope to be proven wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
I agree, all the evils of yesteryear are still there and active, just either well-hidden or people simply don’t care/pretend not to know (cfr football world championships in Qatar, …).
We’ve made enormous progress technologically, but humans are still the exact same as 2000 or 5000 years ago. We’ve changed exceedingly little in that time, and the few things that have changed could be reverted very quickly if shove comes to push concerning climate collapse etc.
Best I can do is a token effort as long as it doesn’t upset the shareholders.
I live with my SO and child and I’m still lonely as fuck. Not their fault, it’s not their role to be my therapist or w/e. But I sure wouldn’t mind being able to hang out with some people who share my interests. But ever since Covid, that reality is just… gone.
since this battery update was forced on laptops originally released in 2020, this issue has also bricked hardware outside of the warranty window, when previously users could simply send in the laptop for a free repair.
I hope HP aren’t surprised when they get accosted with bricked laptops through their execs’ windshields at random intervals…
Yay!
Gotta catch 'em all. Ain’t self-fulfilling prophecies grand? We get saddled with what are essentially debuffs for life, and as an added bonus we attract people who make all of them worse or even exploit them. And because we’re aware of this, it’s totally our own fault and responsibility to fix ourselves. If people keep taking advantage of us, well, that’s on ourselves for letting them!
Why the fuck are we even born in the first place? As NPC’s for “real” people to have their way with?
Yeah, this smells of “He saves, but he rapes. But he saves more than he rapes!”
Don’t care, hug kitty!
He’s totally going to get away with it, isn’t he?
If he does get elected (god forbid, from a jail cell), I’m taking a long walk off a short pier.
We don’t, but what does it matter? We’ll all burn on this ball together, some a little earlier than others.
Brave souls. Space is one thing, but Boeing… Godspeed heroes!
Google has a feature that lets you automatically send your account login info to an address of your choosing if you haven’t logged in in over, say, three months. If I croak unexpectedly, my family will eventually receive access to my email and will be able to subsequently access anything that email was tied to.
Not a huge fan of Google in 2024 but this feature is worthwhile.
Against his own explicit wishes…
Buy physical gold & hide it (and well, not just in the house).
What are they going to do? Sue your descendants for something they can’t prove?
And nail it to the doors of the Capitol