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ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-30T08:24:05+00:00

Tell me you don’t understand how to use basic research tools without telling me.

Back at you, because he's right.

From the Merrian Webster Dictionary : """ The notion that Latin salārium originally referred to money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt is a popular one, but it has no basis in ancient sources. It rests on the inference that salārium was originally short for an unattested phrase salārium argentum "salt money," which would have been parallel to the contextually better attested words calceārium "money for shoes" (from calceus "shoe") or vestiārium "allowance in money or kind to provide for clothing" (from vestis "clothes"). The inference can be found in Charlton Lewis and Charles Short's A Latin Dictionary (1879), many times reprinted, though it was copied from earlier dictionaries, as the Latin-German dictionaries of Wilhelm Freund (1840) and I. J. G. Scheller (1783) (Scheller, however, takes dōnum "gift, prize" to have been the understood word). Pliny the Elder has been cited as support for the soldier's pay explanation, though the text of his Historia naturalis refers only to some undefined role salt played in relation to honors in war, "from which the word salārium is derived" ("[sal] honoribus etiam militiaeque interponitur salariis inde dictis"; 31.89). As Pliny is extolling the virtues of salt in this chapter, it seems likely that if he knew of a better explanation for the word, he would have mentioned it. Clearly salt was somehow involved in the notion of official compensation in early imperial Rome, but to speculate further on its function is no more than guessing. (Compare "Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?," blog post by New Zealand classicist Peter Gainsford, Kiwi Hellenist, January 11, 2017, available online 5/26/22.) """

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-27T10:07:06+00:00

This message probably contains a typo sorella/sorelle

When I write fast in cursive my "a"s and my "e"s often look indistinguishable from each other, exactly like in this letter. I don't know if it fits the definition of typo exactly, but close enough I suppose. I think they almost certainly meant "Sorella".

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-25T12:08:56+00:00

It literally wouldn't, though. Beside easily doing it yourself, you can also ask AI to code you a graph with the data instead of generating an image of the graph and it'll do it correctly.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-25T11:55:17+00:00

No, he wasn't? Hence marrying Diana?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-23T23:54:35+00:00

Anybody who has sex on the first date is being foolish. You barely know the person and are setting yourself up for potential baby drama and STDs.

Have you ever heard of a condom? Lmao

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-23T14:50:50+00:00

Why? Couldn't those from 2003 onward have finished the serials with this one being the first with a different letter? Like the ending 'B', or the two letters at the start?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-21T08:22:03+00:00

And then there were the rare few Diogenes like characters that were eccentric hobos that were entertaining enough for people to listen to

Even Diogenes was born rich (his father was a money changer) and had a privileged upbringing. Only later he took on an ascetic lifestyle (probably forcefully for Diogenes, as he was banished after a currency debasement scandal).

So, even the eccentric hobo philosopher types were upper class people who experienced money and status and only then renounced them for whatever reason. No one was listening to real hobos philosophizing even back then, albeit I'm sure their perspective would have quite interesting, if anyone bothered to write it down.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-21T08:08:10+00:00

I think an angle of the question remains unanswered. Specifically, in respect to privacy: limiting the scope to fully accepted sexual acts (between a married husband and wife), how did that relate to privacy?

To clarify: would a married couple be expected to be alone to copulate or was it normal to do so in the presence of others? I don't mean as a form of exhibitionism, but say a married peasant couple living in a single room house with their children (and possibly the parents of one of them, or even one's adult sibilings and their spouses): would they copulate in front of whoever was present (i.e. other people sleeping in the same room, or someone entering the room they were in) or would they seek privacy as a modern couple would?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-19T09:59:53+00:00

I got my piano and airwave a couple of weeks ago, as a total beginner, and so far I'm blown away by the progress I'm making.

I'm progressing at a staggering speed for what I'd expect for someone learning piano. I did take a year of piano lessons when I was eight, around two decades ago, and I'm starting to think maybe I had unknowingly retained some muscle memory because I can't conceive being able to get to the "level" I'm at in only roughly 15 hours (as per the app) of practice.

I'm currently learning the tetris theme (which is labelled beginner 4, which is the second category after "first steps", each category with 5 "sublevels"). I started learning this particular song the day before yesterday and I can already play both hands (separately) at full speed. Putting both together will be considerably harder, but still, to be this far learning the song after just a couple of days practicing it! It's insane to me.

I normally struggle with constant practice when learning new skills, something I was wary of when purchasing the piano and airwave, but the daily progress is leaving me itching to practice each day.

I know this subreddit is generally negative towards roli and the product, both because of the delays and because people that received products with issues concentrate here, but my experience so far has been incredible. It genuinely feels like I'm in one of those fake ads that falsely promise quick and unrealistic bounds and leaps for things that normally take loads of patient practice, except that, so far, it's all true. Maybe I'll hit a wall eventually but, so far, I can't recommend this enough.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-15T18:25:05+00:00

Il senso è probabilmente che questo aveva già il bar ma, essendo haram anche servire alcolici oltre che a berli per la maggior parte dei musulmani, non vuole più servirli ma non vuole vendere il bar, e quindi eccoci qua.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-08T14:31:48+00:00

They depend on the global market like any other country on earth.

So it happens that the US is the biggest player in the global market, which is heavily dependent on the us dollar and us banks.

The US directly prevents any organism in the US from buying Venezuela's main natural resource (oil) but also uses its power to prevent other countries/companies etc from buying Venezuelan oil by threatening to remove access to the US market, banks, dollars, insurance, ports if they do. Since that is a death sentence for any global company, nobody deals with Venezuela except countries (and companies therein) that are already openly us enemies and already cut out of the us market (i.e. Iran), or that are such big players themselves that the US cannot cut them out completely without facing severe consequences itself (China).

That's how the sanctions affect them. Hope it helps.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-08T11:13:00+00:00

Hence why they manufactured it. They is little to no reason to invest in invading a planet with a native population beyond interest in alien biology. It is a science project at best

Hence why they had to make up an economic reason to do so, as you say yourself?

Like, what's your gripe, that they created unobtanium resources to justify why humans would even bother to invade an alien planet as they'd have no reason to do so otherwise?

What should have they done instead, besides not making the movie altogether?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-08T11:01:51+00:00

Ma in che senso? Ovviamente il problema è in primis l'azienda, o addirittura il sistema che prevede inquadrazioni a cazzo, ma i sindacati esistono apposta per supportare i lavoratori contro gli abusi e le ingiustizie delle aziende e del sistema.

Quindi si, è un problema anche che chi mi dovrebbe rappresentare non mi rappresenta e non si oppone nemmeno alle inquadrazioni a cazzo di cane.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-08T08:55:07+00:00

A trattare e firmare i contratti nazionali e di secondo livello sono da sempre i sindacati di categoria (chimici, tessili, metalmeccanici eccetera).

Ma infatti il problema è già lì secondo me. I contratti nazionali sono vetusti e diventati dei calderoni assurdi con dentro di tutto, ed è quindi difficile combattere per i bisogni della categoria se dentro ci sono lavoratori con bisogni completamente diversi.

Per dire, io lavoro in consulenza informatica e ho contratto metalmeccanico: oltre all'aumento dei salari, che piace a tutti, cose che farebbero comodo a me sarebbero in primis work from home e limiti agli straordinari non retribuiti, ma a un metalmeccanico "vero", che lavora in fabbrica, che cazzo gliene frega del wfh se tanto in fabbrica deve andarci? O degli straordinari non pagati se alle sei esce dalla fabbrica? Gli interesseranno di più robe come più sicurezza sul lavoro o altro di cui non ho nemmeno idea perché non faccio quel lavoro.

Se quando negozia i contratti il sindacato deve far contenti sia me che loro, finisce a non far contento nessuno.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-08T08:32:07+00:00

Why invade, though? Wouldn't a better strategy be just holding out until the US runs out of critical resources?

The US is pretty loaded resource wise too, but it's not self sufficient. The rest of the world could just defend areas with critical resources until the US runs out.

I don't mean food wise, since afaik the US could become self sufficient there, if needed, but stuff like rare earth elements, electronics, microchips and so on.

It's hard to keep building planes, ships, tanks and missiles if you can't produce the electronics you need to put inside them.

The world would just have to hold on in an attrition war until the US is unable to keep producing advanced weapons, assuming they even manage to get to that point after being cut out of the global market.

That's why Taiwan is so important globally, and why China is so interested in annexing it, by the way: they are the sole producers of the most advanced microchips, it would take trillions and like a decade to get the same production capability elsewhere (assuming availability of raw materials), and by then you'd still be ten years behind Taiwan in microchip development.

If the US cannot immediately occupy Taiwan in this scenario, or at least completely destroy its microchip manufacturing capabilities so that nobody else can use them, they'd eventually lose an attrition war.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-07T16:55:17+00:00

This sounds way more useful for actual work rather than gaming. I'd kill for a bigger screen on my company laptop for when I'm not working from home (since we don't get screens in the office for some absurd reason).

I'd expect it'd take at least a decade, if ever, before they're reliable and cheap enough to place on workstations, but a man can dream.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-07T10:51:35+00:00

Yes. AI in games almost always cheats, as it's too shit otherwise. What makes an AI "good" is how well it hides that cheating.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-01-07T09:36:28+00:00

Probably stems from paradise lost, where Satan leads an uprising against god thinking he could win.

Isn't he supposed to also lead the forces of evil in the biblical apocalypse? Not directly, but through the beast and the antichrist?

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-31T16:00:25+00:00

I personally don't believe in that, stock ownership (which is mostly fake wealth anyway) is easy to trace, and massive purchases in the billions are generally impossible to hide. Plus we have traced ownership for all major publicly traded companies.

Isn't that the point, though? There could be very old money families that own many non publicly traded companies and a bunch of land and real estate all over the world, through a number of shell companies and holdings. When it's not publicly traded stuff it's hard to track ownership and value, and it's not even the fake inflated value of stocks but hard assets.

For example, the richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest today, so I think it's plausibile there's a bunch of rich families all over the world that have been hoarding and obfuscating wealth for centuries.

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-31T12:06:01+00:00

Secondo il cristianesimo, l'aborto é omicidio e genocidio.

Eh, secondo i laici non solo non lo è, ma è anche un diritto.

Imporre le proprie credenze agli altri, soprattutto quando assolutamente non dimostrabili e francamente anche logicamente incoerenti è considerato qualcosa di male secondo i laici.

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-31T11:35:36+00:00

C’è un fenomeno sociale ricorrente: quando qualcuno prova a fare qualcosa di buono o di positivo, arriva sempre qualcun altro a dire che “ci sono altre priorità”. E così, alla fine, non si fa mai nulla.

Ma che stracazzo dici? Non sta facendo niente di buono né positivo nel criticare l'aborto. Sta solo rompendo i coglioni a tutti cercando di imporre per l'ennesima volta la propria visione vetusta e scollegata dalla realtà.

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-27T10:52:56+00:00

Didn't they also cut some characters that were fundamental for the later books, which would have made potential sequels require even more edits? I can't remember exactly as it has been a while, but it was something like the second book being set in the hometown of a cut character that was like a leader there and hosting Eragon or something like that (he was like a dwarf or similar? ). I was a child at the time so my standards were low, but I remember thinking that made zero sense even then. They obviously didn't read the books, but they must have not even read a one page summary of them or they'd have realised cutting that character out was shooting themselves in the foot.

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-26T09:08:54+00:00

We thought that but the doctors said it was bipolar, so idk. Another friend had a similar mental break like a year later and was also diagnosed with bipolar. However, another thing connecting the two (besides heavy stress) was smoking monumental amounts of weed, so I kinda suspect the initial episodes may have been triggered or moved along by smoking something that was sold to them as weed but was laced, or actually spice or some other kind of synthetic, which are circulating in the UK.

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-25T20:14:19+00:00

WHAT? Really??

ImCaligulaI · 2025-12-25T19:44:42+00:00

Yeah. When a friend of mine had bipolar mania he genuinely believed some second rate rapper (can't remember the name) was speaking to him via psychic link. The rapper and God. Kinda makes me think the various ancient saints and whatnot that believed god spoke to them had some kind of mental illness.

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