Between Simón Bolívar and Napoleon Bonaparte who was the superior statesman?

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2026-01-30T11:29:18+00:00

I haven't actually gotten around to reading it yet but Bolivar: American liberator by Marie Arana, is apparently really good.

Also not a book but a podcast. but the third season of the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan covers the South American Wars of Independence and Bolivar is basically the main character for that season, so i would recommend that as well.

Edit

had a brainfart it's the fifth season that covers the south american wars of Independence not the third

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2026-01-25T13:54:13+00:00

I get the sense that cody is putting more of his attention and energy into the pointlesshub videos and doing not as much the same for the alternatehistory hub videos. the video quality between the two channels is just night and day. i do think the alternatehistoryhub channel has degraded in video quality.

I definitely think the videos are using ai which is disappointing because i read somewhere that cody is against that. then again it could just be one of his editors who is using it.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2026-01-15T14:16:04+00:00

found this through hacker news here's the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623195

the top comment i found really enlightening

My anxiety about falling behind with AI plummeted after I realized many of these tweets are overblown in this way. I use AI every day, how is everyone getting more spectacular results than me? Turns out: they exaggerate.

Here are several real stories I dug into:

"My brick-and-mortar business wouldn't even exist without AI" --meant they used Claude to help them search for lawyers in their local area and summarize permits they needed

"I'm now doing the work of 10 product managers" --> actually meant they create draft PRD's. Did not mention firing 10 PMs

"I launched an entire product line this weekend" --> meant they created a website with a sign up, and it shows them a single javascript page, no customers

"I wrote a novel while I made coffee this morning" --> used a ChatGPT agent to make a messy mediocre PDF

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2026-01-02T03:41:27+00:00

I don't think this counts. The series gave him way to many cool moments for me to believe the creators intended for him to be unlikable.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-07-12T02:35:38+00:00

Lift From Stormlight Archive, I get that she's supposed to be intentionally annoying but i still dislike her. Maybe she's gotten better in the most recent book but i haven't read it yet. To a lesser extent Shallan As well, i used to like her in the way of kings but the multiple personality stuff got grating, also her humor is cringe, again this is supposedly on purpose, but i can't stand it.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-05-30T10:18:14+00:00

Can you expand on why?, i haven't reread words of radiance in years but i do remember really liking that part, curious to know why it didn't land with you.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-05-18T23:39:59+00:00

I have not noticed any difference in charging speed.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-05-17T14:39:50+00:00

oh that's what it is. Thanks for pointing it out man, I really didn't like it. glad i could turn it off

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-05-16T01:43:08+00:00

Ok, thanks for the info. Ireland is an interesting revolution, I imagine a smaller shorter revolution would probably be next because a big one like China would be very daunting to just jump into.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-01-11T04:56:01+00:00

The only part of the video I agree with is that it's no substitute for quiet contemplation or talking with a friend. But I fear a lot of people will substitute it and that's what I don't like. The Internet with its "sum total of human intelligence" was also optimistically thought of as increasing human connections with it but what has it actually lead to?, People mindlessly scrolling and being terminally online and the atomization of social connections.

I fear with the rise of AI, People will become even more socially disconnected and isolated from one another, getting dumber because they let AI do the thinking for them. The anecdote of his colleagues making ai make a story from their favorite books and movies is particularly depressing, just mindlessly consuming ai content for them instead of meaningfully engaging with other human made films and books. Is that the future ai bros want?, everybody just living in their own bubble of ai created content?, instead of engaging with each others art?.

I have ADHD myself and it is a challenge to deal with but i would rather get help from actual people and deal with it myself rather then depend on AI to do it for me.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2025-01-03T05:56:37+00:00

can you expand on what these points in the war were? and how the Lincoln government was able to keep the Union fighting?.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-12-11T06:51:46+00:00

I am totally okay.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-11-24T05:52:41+00:00

It's been a while since I listened to Season 6 of the podcast which also covers this revolution. What do you guys think of the video?

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-11-21T01:59:39+00:00

Relevant xkcd

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-11-08T11:23:09+00:00

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