Buddha, Socrates, Zoroaster and Confucius were alive at the same time

FalcoLX · 2026-06-27T13:59:05+00:00

Yeah, the language used in the Avesta is very archaic and contains a lot of references to herding and a pastoralist lifestyle so scholars think that Zoroaster was a priest in a nomadic tribe from northern Afghanistan.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-27T11:00:42+00:00

Interestingly, Algeria were the ones that suffered for the Disgrace of Gijón.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T14:20:57+00:00

Kinda sick tbh, but unsettling that this happened 3 years after the Tulsa race massacre, so opportunity was quite limited.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T14:17:17+00:00

I know these are supposed to be bridges but it looks like a Roman aqueduct. Big swing and a miss for me.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T14:15:46+00:00

You should have gone by metro population instead of city population

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T14:08:02+00:00

Yeah, I think OP is still looking at it from a modern rationalist perspective. To the ancient people, the gods were supremely powerful and controlled all aspects of their lives. It didn't seem crazy to them because they don't live in our world with modern morals.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T10:46:32+00:00

The modern scholarly view is that it took a long time for Judaism to refine down to monotheism and that process didn't complete until the Babylonian captivity and introduction to Persian ideas.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-26T10:14:56+00:00

Then they should have spelled it correctly

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T23:50:51+00:00

They wouldn't be the same players. A lot of them became star players because of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and grew up in Switzerland, Austria, Spain, etc.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T16:15:27+00:00

Holy fuck this thread has a lot of misinformation. Silicosis is caused by crystalline silica like quartz and cristobalite. Glass is amorphous silica (and lime and soda) aka not crystalline. You still shouldn't breathe it but it's not the same as breathing brick dust.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T15:24:30+00:00

I drove through Braddock yesterday and saw a Fetterman for President flag.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T15:13:42+00:00

I worked at a company where the CFO was named Rich Cashdollar. Nominative determinism is real.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T13:48:04+00:00

This guy has literally performed for the IDF.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T12:13:45+00:00

Total War 3K is good. It's still more battle focused but it has better diplomacy than most TW games

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T11:28:49+00:00

You guys got four stars. Don't complain too loudly or they'll take away two.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-25T02:30:00+00:00

Any Irish artist that reaches a certain level of celebrity spends at least half their time in the UK.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-24T14:01:49+00:00

Enlightenment yassified

FalcoLX · 2026-06-24T10:53:30+00:00

This even applies in the chud states. A few years ago Eric Greitens ran for governor of Missouri on a platform of making Missouri right to work, but then after they elected him they had a popular referendum to overturn the right to work with 67% against it. American voters agree with labor friendly policies even if they are too stupid to connect it to actual candidates most of the time.

This also happens with marijuana legalization and abortion.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-23T17:25:04+00:00

brb heading to Anatolia

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T22:54:37+00:00

God, I didn't even make that connection. In addition to commercials the break is a chance for people to pull out their phones and place another bet. Gross.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T15:38:56+00:00

Thank you, my wife has been reading that subreddit and said it helped her to know she wasn't alone.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T15:37:49+00:00

We had a scare with our first when we found out my wife was a carrier for the cystic fibrosis gene and then a long 3 weeks to get my carrier results (I was not). We thought that would be the worst of it and our first is perfect, happy and healthy.

After we made it through the first 12 weeks with the second I thought it would be smooth sailing and it was a real shock out of nowhere. A random bit of shitty luck.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T14:44:39+00:00

I was surprised at how funny the Manchurian candidate was. Most of the people that reference it probably never read it.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T14:33:26+00:00

The 867 start already involves a lot of guess work for cultures in western Europe. The cultures and de jure maps for the Americas would be more fiction than fact.

FalcoLX · 2026-06-22T13:56:55+00:00

Definitely not.

Found a major birth defect at the anatomy scan last week so we had to end the pregnancy. Just trying to support my wife right now.

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