PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Man's just having a chill day. Funny enough, it's recorded that the Emperor Antoninus Pius also enjoyed fishing.

Okay they aren't actually for the sun, but to keep criminals and the accused from seeing the eyes of the magistrate, but god damn, look at that, that's so weird/cool.

That's the spirit!

If you're referencing the 'hours, days, or even weeks' comment at the start, that's in reference to troops forming up in opposition to each other. Essentially, both sides would form up for battle but not actually fight, looking for the right time or right place to offer an attack, or trying to goad the enemy into making an unwise attack. This could repeat for days or, as the video says, weeks, before one side or the other actually decided it was worth the risk to clash and start the battle proper.

Bürgerburger is people :o

Mm, to my knowledge this isn't true. It's the other way around - historical battles were typically fought over the course of only a few hours after the clash began, because combat is physically and mentally taxing.

My personal favorite is the dick with wings

Damn, you'd really have to stretch to get the original meaning. How unfortunate.

Damn, that's intricate. Positively masterful!

That's neat as hell! I know nothing about making jewelry, but it's those little connections that make pieces of the past so fascinating!

For those wondering what it translates to, it is apparently...

I received my stipend of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii; …food expenses 20 denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.

Poor sod lost all his money on mandatory expenses. Let's hope he had more luck his next pay period!

Yep! Broken bones galore. Such weights typically would have been attached at the end of a chain, like this

Well, yes, but that's not as dramatic and memeable.

𝆔 Veh Deh Veh, cyka blyat 𝆔
𝆔 Dumped in the water after sunset 𝆔

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

• President Eisenhower

A 'mere' 600 or 700 billion would be enough. Back in the Obama years we were considering a reduction to 'only' 540 billion. :o

My personal reading of the very limited information is that this was a clash of personalities and priorities rather than malice on either side. The principal probably came in expecting that a DEI seminar would be about methods to make students from minority backgrounds feel more included; the speaker presumably felt that the point of the session was to develop the tools examine one's own biases and reduce the implicit prejudices of our society and ourselves.

Thus, when the conversation turned to personal and societal biases, the principal felt unexpectedly attacked (as those who appreciate their societies often feel in such unexpected conversations) and became defensive. The speaker, on the other hand, probably took the defensiveness, without any context to ground it in, as some chud playing dumbass games and playing argumentative in a session they were forced to be in, and reacted with understandable hostility. The other facilitator seemed to recognize this to some degree by pointing out that the point wasn't to play apologist for one country or the other.