They’re unveiling the Special Agent Hands Memorial next week

It is, and Netflix killed it just like that cast iron skillet

Right, if you need anything other than nutrient paste and water for a job well done, you’re definitely not an adult

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

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

My friends and I got bored with regular Catan, but not because it’s a boring game, we just played it so much

Check local game stores for used copies of the expansions, but also just make up your own rules! One of our go-to “rules” is starting with all the resource tiles face-down and not flipping them until someone’s built a settlement on it

Games are supposed to be fun, tweak the rules as much as you want :)

!dropout@lemmy.blahaj.zone is over this way :)

This training video really helped me, I’m 6-1 against banana-wielding assailants

Turns out I’m just really into people who reject the binary gender expectations of society, but I also really like the bi flag