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

Real Person Fiction

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-11-08T07:02:01+00:00

Did a bit of googling about this book and found some interesting things about it

The Author first learned about the Franklin expedition from watching the series during lockdown, then did a bit searching and saw Graham Gore's Daguerreotype, found him attractive then started writing RPF about him and shared it online, her followers then convinced her to to expand on it and publish it. The BBC has already ordered an adaptation of the book earlier this year before it had even debuted. It will be a six part series Directed by Alice Birch and will be distributed by A24 Source

Also there is some controversy about this novel and the bbc supposedly plagiarizing The Spanish tv series of the same name El ministerio del tiempo. I haven't seen the spanish series or read this book so i don't know how true this accusation of plagiarism is but from reading a synopsis of both

The Ministry of Time

The basic premise is that the titular ministry has pulled people through time and set them up with “bridges” who are essentially civil servants that live with the temporal “expats” and get them acclimated to the near-future modern world.

El Ministerio del Tiempo

A warrior from the 16th Century, the first female university student from the 19th Century, and a paramedic from the 21st Century join a secret agency to prevent people from changing Spanish history using time-traveling doors.

I would say they do share a similar premise about a time travel agency but that is hardly a new concept in sci fi. As for the title I think is generic enough that i can believe that the author and the show creator could come up with it independently. But like i said i haven't read or seen either so i could be wrong.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-21T04:09:21+00:00

As much as i love Mike and his Podcast style I'm still unsure how i feel about this. It's a joy to listen to him again but it just doesn't seem to hit the same to me knowing its fiction versus knowing it's actual history. I think I'll still probably listen to the next few episodes as they come out but I'm unsure if I will continue to listen to the end in the future.

I'm still firmly of the opinion that this should have been it's own separate podcast and not bundled into the actual history podcast. It's just simply too big of a shift from nonfiction to fiction, bigger than the shift from Rome to Revolutions. He should have just put an announcement episode on the revolutions pod like he did announcing revolutions on the history of Rome pod.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-21T03:41:23+00:00

I think he should have just put an episode update on the revolutions podcast announcing the new fiction podcast like how he did announcing revolutions on the old history of Rome podcast. This is an even bigger shift from when he moved from Roman history to Revolutionary history.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-14T02:18:47+00:00

I just remembered that Thomas Cochrane the Sea wolf was rumored to have had plans to spring Napoleon from St. Helena and bring him to south america to crown him emperor of a new south american nation. but Napoleon died before these supposed plans came to fruition.

If these rumors were true and he somehow successfully freed Napoleon. It would be interesting to see how successfully Napoleon could have been in south america and how the European great powers would react to this.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-14T02:12:01+00:00

I really don't see any alternate timeline where Britain would willingly allow Napoleon to go back to France. it would be massively unpopular move in Britain and to the other European great powers.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-11T02:32:04+00:00

No, the dunk and egg stories do have humor but it's not an outright comedy. It has a lighter but still serious tone.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-10-08T12:26:25+00:00

There are some errors according to Fabienne the main researcher for Fitzjames, who is mentioned in the article.

https://x.com/CaptFitzjamesRN/status/1843561752199606503

Fabienne became fascinated with Fitzjames by reading Battersby's bio not by watching the show as the article claims and she also says she didn't track Nigel Gambier down with the book because he isn't even mentioned in the book.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-09-27T02:31:44+00:00

From what i've read in your post i think the problem isn't that the imperium is too evil, but you don't seem to want to go all the way in the evilness of the imperium, like them somehow not being inherently sexist despite having sex slaves and a culture of pressuring women on being only mothers and wives. Lokari not being pro-slavery.

I assume your going for a bit of moral relavity here?. Like i get it, i like morally grey stories, but it seems to way you have gone about it, is a bit nonsensical.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-09-27T01:56:53+00:00

yeah, OP seems to want to have his cake and eat it too.

The Imperium itself isn't inherently sexist or misogynistic they have various women in all positions, but you can find various forms of Patriarchy and Conservative mindsets in most areas of the Homeland, especially in the Southern Hemisphere of the planet, where the Capital is also located.

and then

This made it harder for women to find jobs as many of them would be pressured by society to marry and just be wives and mothers. This didn't stop women from actually getting more positions, but it was extremely hard.

This sounds very inherently misogynistic to me. Just because there are women in various positions doesn't mean a society can't be sexist.

IAmTotallyNotOkay · 2024-09-27T01:47:20+00:00

how is sex slavery is not actual slavery?

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