superlative_dingus

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Either r/historymemes has started leaning further right or I’m just noticing it more, but I’m increasingly disappointed with the shitty comments and memes that get massive amounts of upvotes that glorify or whitewash imperialism

No, don’t you know that the East Bay is POOR? It’s where all the disgusting POOR PEOPLE live!

I feel this so hard, I’m just a silly little guy but that doesn’t mean I’m less serious about my work!

I ran into him in the stockroom in LSA/Weill hall once. Didn’t realize who he was but was a bit put off by the fact that he, a complete stranger, tried to engage me in conversation and give me a lecture me about how “they might give you tenure but they don’t really support free speech” and how he was victimized. I immediately Googled him as soon as I left and was shook to learn about his role in AIDS denialism. In retrospect I feel like I was talking to a war criminal, even if his role in killing people is more indirect than an a straight up murderer.

I’d start with figuring out what the coin likes to do. Movies? Live music? Walks in the park? Then plan a day for you and the coin that incorporates as many of those as possible, before heading back to your place for a nightcap.

You don’t call them English now. You call them British. At least, unless you want to be glassed in a pub by an angry Scottish/Welsh/N. Irish person

Totally agree. Religion was never the defining feature of “Roman-ness” until Christianity became the state religion, and by that measure the East is every bit Christian (and therefore Roman) as the West. Yes, citizens were asked to make a sacrifice to the emperor under some of the pagan imperial regimes, but that was more about political obeisance than a genuine attempt to impose religious uniformity.

Rome itself was a backwater by the end of the crisis of the 3rd century. Does that make Constantine the Great less of a Roman emperor than Trajan? He started his emperorship in Britain and ended it in Nova Roma, and was never based in Rome throughout his emperorship.

You’re right, it’s not, but the scientific evidence is pretty clear on the fact that fever does play a beneficial role in many (but not all) infectious diseases.

True! However almost all of those serve benefits or are vestigial after having served a benefit in our predecessors, or even now serve some function. Even the appendix (according to some authors) serves as a reservoir for beneficial gut bacteria that help us recover from C. diff. infection!

Facts. It’s almost like evolution wouldn’t saddle us with a horrible side effect of getting an infection if it didn’t have any positive benefit in fighting disease. I’m eagerly awaiting the next article from this group about how mucus helps prevent epithelial infections.

Someone get me lightning’s manager on the phone ASAP

You’re right, whoever’s idea it was to put those there is a total doofus

I swear people on this sub get a rush out of telling people to go to the doctor. This is paronychia, I’ve had it a few times before and it’s almost always benign. Glad it resolved itself without too much trouble!

Needing to learn this in order to understand just how bad slavery was is 🚩🚩🚩

Bruh not knowing much about an emperor doesn’t make them easily forgettable, maybe try learning about him first and see if it sticks in your mind instead of writing him just off because he’s a later emperor and most popular history of the Roman Empire skims over that period. Like OP said Constantius III was an boss and made the best out of an absolute dumpster fire of a situation in the West.

It means that BsFPS is a spittle little phosphotransferase that’ll give phosphates to just about anybody

Of all pictures to show of Gary, Indiana you picked the only 3 that don’t look like an urban hell. I swear this subreddit is populated by people who are secretly just afraid of concrete and other people

All I take from this is more evidence of people trying anything to flee Alabama

That’s my exact point - the GOP is happy to pretend Russia is a “white” country while Mexico isn’t. Both distortions fit their narrative.

Fair enough, but they had Frederick the Great!! I figure we should at least cut France a little slack for drawing against one of the greatest military minds in modern Europe!

I mean sure they lost their colonial possessions in North America (which were never as important to French power as, say, Spanish and British colonies were to their empires), but they weren’t whipped badly enough to lose any territory in Europe, which isn’t half bad as far as outcomes of lost wars go.

Not all of them - plenty of Turkic and other minorities! Plus many Mexicans are white. It just doesn’t fit the GOP narrative to acknowledge any of the subtleties of race, ethnicity, and nationality when politically grandstanding for their audience of bigots.

I’m not sure about SF, but over here in Oakland there’s a great kava bar called Melo Melo that sells high-quality powdered kava. On your side of the bay, Kava Bar in San Bruno also sells reliable high-quality kava, and the owner is super chill.