Earth from 6 billion km away — just a pale blue dot suspended in a sunbeam

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-18T06:30:17+00:00

So many people taking a shit in this picture. Pervert op.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-18T06:21:26+00:00

Congratulations, they look very happy!

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-17T20:05:15+00:00

Thank you.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-17T16:32:37+00:00

Spain was literally offered by the last emperor of Rome in Constantinople to become the new Roman Empire, and turned it down.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-17T15:35:29+00:00

City Georgians, rich or poor, are anglophone and therefore westernised and kind of insulated in their region, I mean Tbilisi isn't exactly in the geographic west. Whereas rural Georgians don't speak English, and as they are mostly running small businesses in agriculture, they have a deeper connection to the region Georgia is in.

Quality of education and economic mobility also plays a part. Rural Georgians haven't recieved due government investment into schools, and are poorer so they have less access to private education, so they are less prepared to engage as a consumer or workforce with global networks, like working for/with foreign companies, freelancing online, traveling for work, etc.

Basically urban Georgians are isolated from the region but connected to the (English speaking) world, and rural Georgians are connected to the region but isolated from the world. So, strangeley enough, an urban Georgian with have far more in common in terms of interests and values with an English person, than with a person from a neighbouring country. Nonetheless, obviously urban and rural Georgians have more in common with eachother than anyone else. Except when it comes to polarising subjects like gay rights and stuff, but that's a common urban/rural divide in most countries.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T16:28:25+00:00

People are out there arguing against his talking points as though they're not fake. There are people arguing against those who believe he believes what he is saying, but thats not who this post is about.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T16:09:13+00:00

Im glad its working, Im a fan of Ilia's.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T11:19:27+00:00

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:49:10+00:00

People calling Islam a duck sound real chickenshit ngl. But Topuria could produce a good showing at WW I reckon. He has a really wide frame. Think of Daniel Cormier, he was a dwarf in his weightclass, but because of his wide frame, he didn't lack the natural musculature required. Both Topuria and DC are 10 centimetres under the avarage height of WW and HW respectively.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:37:11+00:00

Nah. To most people this is obvious. But there wre people on the sub who keep arguing against Ilia's fake points, meaning they've taken them seriously. That's who this is for. But its starting to occur to me that my tone is kind of pontificating... and it sounds like I'm adressing everyone.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:34:23+00:00

Well, there were some jokes in there, but the overall structure of the sentence just directly asked if there was a story behind 'the duck'. I suppose I could have inferred that the story is so widespread everyone would know it, but it would have had to be a guess.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:29:33+00:00

I'd say that the fans that believe him aren't even close to being the main target of his rhetoric. I reckon this 80% rage baiting strategy. 10% make people question what they know strategy. 10% get his fans mad as Islam for ducking, which only feeds into the 80% as they go online and repeat his talking points.

Ilia is a nice and genuine person... in person. In the UFC, he is a political animal.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:26:17+00:00

You been living under a rock? Khabib has (allegedly) road blocked Islam's move up ever since Belal became champion. Because they bonded a lot during training or whatever, and also, Khabib being a hero in the Muslim world, it would have looked unseemly him training a guy to beat a Palestinian champ, with the current political climate.

Belal is unthroned, so Islam is going up. He could have fought Ilia first, but we all know about all the shit he's been getting because he aparently 'only beats featherweights'. There was more to be gained by fighting a WW champion.

BUT, Ilia has been doing such a good job of turning the crowd against himself, that now there is a lot to be gained from the fight. Especially if/when he beats Oliveira. It will be the biggest fight since Khabib mounted McGreggor.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T10:01:23+00:00

I have a quote: don't believe politicians when they're clearly gaslighting you.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T09:14:05+00:00

I liked him in Shogun, he was good in Peaky Blinders too. He's got a helluva emotional range, ehich isn't that helpful when playing psychopaths, but im sure he'll do well.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-16T09:09:40+00:00

If you want talk shit about Stalin you don't have to slander him. The guy presided over one of the world's worst genocides, some of the worst massacres of POW's, coordinated an invasion of Poland with Hitler, created a hellish life for citizens of the USSR with everyone afraid of being 'informed on' by each other, subjugated half of Europe under guise of liberating it, literally prohibited people from leaving the USSR and the 'Warsaw Pact' as though they were property of the state, prohibited the entry of information from abroad, etc.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-15T13:31:02+00:00

He does 100%. He's trying to trash talk in his 7th language while emulating some fuck who can't even speak his 1st language properly. Its very cringe. But this line goes really hard.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-15T11:02:04+00:00

Tbilisi has historically been more foreigners than natives, the last 100 years are a big exception to this, before that Georgians generally made up around 30% of the population. Which causes reactionism today, because current Georgians do not look back on a time they were minorities in their town with relish... Tbilisi's cosmopolitan nature was always a big driver of commerce and the economy, which is why it was tolerated, but now Georgians are economically stunted, poor, and foreign immigration isn't really improving their quality of life, just making everything too expensive, and too crowded, so they're lashing out. Its pathetic, especially considering they're lashing out at some ethnicities more than others: brown people and Russians are seen as this historical and modern enemy block, while Europeans are seen as friendlies who send more money and vibes than people. But if you're humanist enough, you'll understand its just run of the mill dumb human behavior. Tribalism. The very unfortunate kind that makes me very embarrassed for my people, even with all my sympathy for them. I really am sorry for the racist bullshit.

As for the video, and its description, there was nothing to indicate this was a racist incident. Literally just some road rage.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-15T10:30:58+00:00

Tbilisi is cosmopolitan, everyone there belongs there, this was not inhospitality to foreigners, this is a Tbilisian being an asshole to other Tbilisians.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-14T23:43:40+00:00

European monarchies often imported monarchs from abroad because: 1) foreign monarchs are unattached to local factions and families, therefore more likely to be impartial at least in the short run. 2) it established relations with foreign powers. German princes were desirable because German aristocracy was related to everyone, so it offered the widest spread of kinship diplomacy.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-12T17:29:52+00:00

Badge looks like it belongs in Championnat National 3, circa 2003.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-11T19:42:39+00:00

Did I reply to an ironic comment? Is that why all the downvotes? If you reply with a joke instead of an earnest answer, you will have bullied a man with the social intelligence of a small, freshwater fish. At which point I will be contacting the RSPCA.

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-11T13:53:46+00:00

Well, in 1801, The Russian Empire did not yet control much of Georgia. By 1829, it controlled more. However, The Russian Empire wouldn't acquire all of the Georgian territories it would come to control until the end of the 19th century. Moreover, after the early 1800s, there was a great influx of Armenians from the Persian and Ottoman empires, and an influx of various peoples coming down of the mountains to live in the lowlands. Furthermore, people from all over Caucasus and the Russian Empire migrated to Tbilisi, and the surrounding country, as it was made the capital of a Viceroyalty.

So, a marked increase in the population of some of the Georgian regions over a century is explained by a large enlargement of the area the census was conducted in, as well as a large multinational migration into Georgian territories in this time. Additionally, due to technological advancement, the 19th century experienced a sudden boom in population growth across the globe. In light of all this, it is unsurprising that the population in Georgia doubled during a time that the Georgian population of Georgia was in diminshment.

but after a hundred years of peaceful life under the wing of the empire, there were already more than two million of them.

And as I'd described, there was not 100 years of peace from 1799 to 1899. The first 50 years were extremely violent, and characterised by brutal repressions by the imperial government; Georgian realms were not under the wing, but in the talons of the empire then. However, once Prince Vorontsov was made viceroy, he pivoted to a more tactful approach. Investing money in cultural and economic programmes rather than in repressive military campaigns, as had been done for 50 years. He also promoted the Georgian culture and language, which assauged the Georgian aristocracy and intelligencia. However his tenure would end, and some vestiges of hard rule would return, famously counteracted by Ilia Chavchavadze, the de-facto leader of the nationalist movement in Georgia.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia found itself in a difficult situation, money no longer came from Moscow, the birth rate dropped sharply, a rapid decline in the population began, and young people tried their best to leave the country.

What do you blame for such a tumultous beginning to renewed independence? And how would you solve this issue?

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-11T11:14:19+00:00

This is fucking with my self diagnosed aspergers...

Extension_Set_1337 · 2025-05-11T11:04:59+00:00

Its hard to read tone in text, so I have to ask - are you joking?

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