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PugJesus

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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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War takes the best of us. May he rest in peace.

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Marines have started writing in red crayon

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He was told, "War crimes are okay, but we're very strict on illegal immigration"

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Okay, just let me...

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There's a reason Stalin demanded a western front be opened, and it wasn't because he wanted to share credit for the victory over Nazi Germany with the Western Allies. Without D-Day or a similar opening of a western front, the Soviet advance would have been much slower, much bloodier, and the final outcome of their offensives much more dubious.

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No, the makeup of the Soviet military in WW2 was pretty proportional in terms of Ukrainians (and other minorities) to Russians. However, much of Ukraine was denied to the Soviet Union as a recruiting ground due to early Nazi successes, so one could argue that Ukrainians were overrepresented in comparison to the overall manpower that the USSR had at its disposal.

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To me, it's: That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.

Ancient peoples DID think the Earth was flat.

The conception of a spherical earth was only widely accepted in academic traditions derived from late Greek philosophy and even in those cultures, had a mixed reception in popular conceptions of the earth's shape until the 16th century.

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Knowledge of a spherical earth was never lost amongst serious academics in post-Roman Europe.

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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.

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My schools did this back in the mid-2000s and early-2010s. Strict rules on cell phones and electronic devices, weren't even allowed to have them on you, much less use them.

Never worked. Impossible to enforce without having the teachers play prison guard.

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Archeologists dig through ancient poop to study parasite loads of past populations.

All data is valuable to someone's specialization!

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I don't know where mine is. Pretty sure it's not charged. I only use it when things require a phone number for me for whatever reason.

I'm a millennial.

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Thank you, Nordic countries.

I hope we can rejoin their expressions of solidarity soon.

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Terrible at area denial, great at inflicting attrition.

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I hope you're right. Every time I see Orban show up in the news it's to vomit some new vileness.

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The invention of the phone and its consequences was an unprecedented disaster for the human race

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It’s a long process, that can take years.

Yes, and Ukraine has been working towards it for years. Ukraine's accession to the EU here isn't a split second, "Sorry about the war" offer, it was a core demand of Euromaidan and has been a goal of Ukraine since the early 2000s.

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Looks like the Hungarian bribe worked. One does what one must in politics.

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The EU released some ten billion in aid that was frozen to Hungary, despite minimal progress on judiciary independence.

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Huh. Can't say I'm overly familiar with the subject, I just read about it the other day.

Is there a maximum size for Kbin thumbnails to federate from other instances? (kbin.social)

Posting pictures from Lemmy.world since I still have trouble uploading on Kbin, but sometimes the pictures don't appear as a thumbnail on Kbin regardless of how long I wait for it to federate. Clicking on it still opens the direct image link, but there's no thumbnail when scrolling past in the feed. Is there a max image size or...

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Definitely have been keeping under 11 mb. Most of the ones I've had problems with are under 2 mb.

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It pains me that the dinosaurs in our government ate up the 'escalation' threats so readily for so long. Ukraine could have had F-16s in the sky by now.

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Your username looks familiar. Have you said stupid shit before?

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"The Frank advances on you, Vladimir. What do you do?"

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We'll need a fancy can opener to get inside

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It really puts into perspective (ha) just how much work goes into art, especially pre-modern art. There's such a limited margin for error, and still they made such beautiful works, often with inferior tools.

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Someone should make one of those "I need a die with only four sides - WORDS FROM THE ABSOLUTELY DERANGED" memes

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You've never told someone to go fuck themselves and that they're a fascist twat before?

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https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine_UA

https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine (not much activity but a lot of subscribers)

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A 'hide downvotes from blocked users' might be a good function. Won't solve the problem of reducing visibility of posts, but if you're bugged by it, it would be a help.

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Damn, the morons are really out in force this past week.

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This past week there have been a lot of "WHY DOESN'T AMERICA FOCUS ON ITS OWN ISSUES, UKRAINE BAD" commenters, presumably the Russian winter offensive has their bootlicking blood up.

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"God I wish the Senate would just PASS BILLS with its 0-vote majority and two conservative members when a 60-vote majority is needed to call a vote" - least uninformed "BOTHSIDES" fan

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All the Putin bootlickers gathering together to plan the best way to betray their countries.

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They will be in heaven! (Ukranians will make sure of that.)

Thinking warmer climes might be their destination.

PugJesus,
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It's a bit of a double-edged sword. Representation is great, because it makes us feel less like a shame to be ignored or scorned - but also, being disabled fucking sucks, kind of by definition, and it's hard to take seriously people who peddle the 'handicapable' stuff. I don't need any toxic positivity in my life, thanks.

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Treasonous fucking pigs aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

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The GOP has becoming increasingly authoritarian since 2009, when a black man dared to win the presidency and a third of the country lost their ever-loving goddamn minds. The GOP seized on the opportunity to absorb these disaffected racists by leaning into what they liked - unsurprisingly, disaffected racists are typically low-information voters as well, and low-information voters tend to be both easily swayed by flashy propaganda (like, say, Fox News and other 'infotainment') and resentful towards candidates which posit complex solutions to ongoing issues (ie they generally prefer candidates promising easy solutions and 'strongman' style rhetoric). The party then shifted to suit these new and very loyal voters.

As such, the GOP has leaned more and more into a (sometimes explicitly) anti-democratic viewpoint that even neocons have started to balk at. Putin's Russia looks like what they want America to look like - a few people at the top getting very wealthy (what the GOP elite want), and minorities kept 'in their place' and a vain strongman putting on a circus of showing off how very powerful and totally secure he is (what the GOP's absorbed voters want).

It goes much deeper than this, of course. There are other causes and problems, but that, I think, is most core to it.

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Damn, when did Best Korea get so stylish?

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The original Conan short stories depict Conan as very intelligent, even if he despises 'overclever' solutions.

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Todd Howard you son of a bitch

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Broke Tankies: "South Korea is a US puppet!"

Enlightened NCD: "US is a South Korean puppet"

We should have been more cautious about their damn K-pop and K-drama. Now we dance to their tune in more ways than one...

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Can't speak as to this specific find, but it was common for slaves to be condemned to work in the mills or bakeries as a punishment. We don't think of such things as gruesome today, but, well...

When the day was mostly past, and I was weary, they un-harnessed me, removed my collar, and tied me to the manger. Though I was utterly exhausted, urgently in need of restoring my strength, and almost dead from hunger, still my usual sense of curiosity kept me upright with its nagging: I neglected the pile of fodder, and was pleased to watch the life of that detestable mill.

You blessed gods, what a pack of dwarves those workers were, their skins striped with livid welts, their seamed backs half-visible through the ragged shirts they wore; some with loin-cloths but all revealing their bodies under their clothes; foreheads branded, heads half-shaved, and feet chained together. They were wretchedly sallow too, their eyes so bleary from the scorching heat of that smoke-filled darkness, they could barely see, and like wrestlers sprinkled with dust before a fight, they were coarsely whitened with floury ash.

While the description here is from a satirical work, it is contemporary (The Golden Ass, 2nd century AD) and can be judged to be accurate in broad strokes, even written with dramatic flair in a fictional adventure.

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Early civilizations generally do. A mixture of reasons, but two of the big ones are the ability to retain labor consistently and the ability to absorb defeated enemies.

In societies which are generally operating on a subsistence level, it is important that labor, especially agricultural labor, be constrained in some way or form to ensure that the harvest is sown and reaped. Slavery is not the only way to do this - but regulation of contractual obligations in early civilizations can be sparse, especially when the central state itself is not particularly expansive. Serfdom, or corvee, or other forms of forced labor, are also common for this reason. As methods and laws for regulating labor become stronger, and the central state becomes more established, the need for slavery or serfdom in this sense tends to die off bit by bit.

The other part is that early civilizations are often based around comparatively small ethnicities commanding much, much more vast populations of unlike peoples. When these 'unlike' peoples are cooperative, everything is fine - and such 'cooperative' peoples often end up, over the centuries, being absorbed into the core ethnicity. When these 'unlike' peoples are uncooperative, methods are devised to ensure that they don't up and turn on the early civilization - and one of those methods is depopulation of the effective economically and militarily productive population (through slavery).

Slavery and other forms of forced labor are not a 'mandatory' stage of civilization or anything, but they provide a 'simple' and easily thought of solution to common problems faced by early civilizations.

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More people, but a MUCH smaller percentage.

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How to put your mercenary commander's requests for support on 'read' because of court politics

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Have you really played D&D until you set up a market stall in the middle of town and tried to convince the DM corpsing as a peasant to buy your exotic, all-organic, dungeon-harvested goods?

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