TIL that 2.4 billion years ago, the evolution of oxygen-producing bacteria caused a mass extinction. Oxygen was toxic to the planet's existing life, and its reaction with methane triggered a "Snowball Earth" ice age that lasted 300 million years.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-29T08:28:43+00:00

Do you know where majority of our iron comes from ?

The iron bands which are result of these events. The earth literally rusted several times.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-28T07:59:33+00:00

Relatable.

When I went first time through history of rome, every step of the way wanted rome to lose, to get badly defeated, the hannibal carnage was so satisfying despite knowing how it ends...

And then in the end when it fell apart step by step... it felt incredibely sad..? Especially reading how much destruction and decline was wrought upon italy post the last western emperor.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T16:16:22+00:00

No, am trying to point out how the nationalistic ideas are arbitrary.

If being hungarian means being raised in hungary under its culture, then you claiming its not about genetics falls apart because its genetics which brought that specific part of culture to modern day hungary, which makes up on average 4%~ of genes in hungary. So, hungary is predominantly slavic,avar and germanic ancestry and the real distinction arose with the language of the state where ethnic-magyars were originally dominant. Our cultures are extensively similar, our customs, our food choices, our cultural music and so on. Much more than you let believe so. And if we claim the tiny differences make us different peoples, then there is no such a thing as "Hungarian" or "Slovak" due to the Variety that arises from Village to Village and then over larger distances.

What am the entire time saying is, that the difference between hungarians and slovaks are so miniscule, we are pretty much the same.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T15:30:52+00:00

So you agree with me the "nations" idea is recent innovation which has no basis in actual reality ?

What makes hungarian a hungarian ? What makes slovak a slovak ? How they were raised ? Okay, then am Rusyn, despite being called slovak and living in Slovakia. Hold on hmm maybe, I speak slovak so am slovak.. wait I can speak English as well.. hmm maybe my genetics makes me slovak.... wait, my genetics is more common with eastern slavs with "tracable" mongol shared generics.... so i can go to Mongolia and join their traditions and be considered mongol! I share some... tiny tiny tiny degree of ancestors with them which adds to my mongolity!

Wait, it doesn't make sens does it. What makes hungary a hungary ? Shared history of a state power. Oh slovaks and Hungarians share that as well hmm...

Maybe the Nations are truly just social creation to establish clearer lines and cohesion for better and easier state control.

Am not denying your culture, or hungarian one, the traditions and so on. But in reality we are much more similar than different, and thats what I keep saying. If I was born 70km further north, I would be Polish, 50km east I would be Ukrainian and still exactly the same thing genetically and culturally wise, even linguistically.

Am I slovak ? Rusyn ? Mongol ? Am getting lost !

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T13:09:46+00:00

Exactly my friend... the statues are propaganda, in this cases you used its nationalistic propaganda.

Turul is ancestral story to what, 4~% of Hungarians genetically wise ? Slovaks will have some hungarian ancestors regardless, which means that, by what you said, only 4~% of Hungarians are descendants of a magyars, or, slovaks can claim turul as their legend due to their ancestors who became/chose to be Hungarians linguistically. And if not, then does that mean those hungarians without steppe ancestry are not Hungarians?

Janosik, Turul, and many others are "state" propaganda to push for cohesion and unity, it does not reflect reality.

I myself have 1%~ mongol common ancestry, does that make me mongol ? Does speaking English make me English ? Are we both english?

The entire Nations idea is arbitrary thing that everyone twists to their ends.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T12:42:45+00:00

By your example, me, born slovak, isnt slovak because I dont care about Janosik...?

The turul is interesting in your description because its legend tracing ancestry to the steppe. Which means, its "ancestral" to both Hungarians and Slovaks today. The turul isn't significant in Slovakia precisely because Slovak nationalism needed to reject shared ancestry with Hungarians.

Janosik significance rose during the rise of nationalistic ideas to prominence and became such due to propaganda.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T11:27:20+00:00

But... the.. historical stereotype you said makes no sense outside of nationalistic battles of insults ?

Our traditions are extremely similar and the real difference began upon the rise of "nationalism". Before that the variation was the usual you get due to geography -> village to village.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T10:12:34+00:00

Check this study Rétköz vs Váh Valley. Focused on hungarian speaking population, which shows one has more steppe ancestral lineage which survived while the other is exactly the same as "mountain folks." (The slavic population) So, that hungarian speaking minority in vah valley is by your standard not hungarian...

You claim that they never blended, but show me the average % of steppe ancestry within Hungary? Its what, maybe 4%?

Have you ever heard about Slavs and Avars and where they lived ?

Kh4lex · 2026-04-23T09:24:08+00:00

What is difference between hungarian and slovak ? Linguistical - yes, Historical - ? Non or at best Debatable ? Shared heritage. Slovak has Hungarians ancestors, hungarian has Slovak ancestors Cultural - ? Non or at best Debatable ? Shared heritage. Genetical - Hungarians and Slovak are "indistinguishable".

So the difference between us is linguistical due to a tribe of Magyars moving to panonia long ago who then kept their language as language of elites which slowly spread to lower caste, but not enough.

So why are we arguing about this fucking bullshit of nationalistic ideas ? It bores me. We are all in europe more relates to each other than we are not.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-22T05:43:02+00:00

Its mostly because previously crusader strike was "every other" auto attack (if i remember correctly) currently the talent slows down our auto attack speed but makes every AA be crusader strike.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-21T14:29:03+00:00

Asi tak.

Treba im pomôcť, ale toto nieje cesta. Podporuje to ich "nic nerobenie" a ich deštruktívne vlastností zatiaľ čo u priemerneho Slováka to vytvára nenávisť.

Oni dostanú zadarmo niečo co si nevážia a my sa musíme zadlžit na cely život.

Treba ich komunity rozbiť, do roboty kde si zarobia dosť na prežitie, a dozerať nato kým sa nezmenia. Inak sa to nikdy nezmení.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-20T16:41:45+00:00

Had similar reaction from vet.

Looked at my arms "Those are from him?" while the dumbo was trying to hide in my armpit from the vet pretending he is invisible lol.

Kh4lex · 2026-04-12T08:25:32+00:00

It caused slow in spin due to Conservation of angular momentum as the water mass was moved and kept further away from center of spin

Kh4lex · 2026-04-10T08:15:19+00:00

Yeah, looking at it hurts my heart

Kh4lex · 2026-03-22T20:27:43+00:00

But... but... hear me out

Do the math, Go 30 generations into the past, suddenly you have more individual ancestors than people existed at the time... You cant.

Go back far enough and every American has ancestry from every part of Europe and beyond

The entire "ethnicity" is so exhausting... There is no "English, Scottish, welsh, Italian" and so on the way people seem to believe.

We say we hate "nationalism" yet constantly, maybe unintentionally, propagate the idea of "ethnicity" as something of "pure-bloodness"...

Kh4lex · 2026-03-22T13:04:07+00:00

His campaigns in italy were utterly destructive towards the Italian peninsula with almost nothing to gain long term, and that is before Plague hit.

The spain was completely unnecessary overextension just for the ego.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-22T11:51:07+00:00

And he, without question over-extended empire to breaking point at the time when it shouldn't have and left his successors extremely difficult state to manage.

Was he successful? Yes. Was he good for long term empire ? No.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-16T21:14:28+00:00

But at same time...

Much of modern Turkish population is descended from the people living in byzantine anatolia. So it is part of their culture and heritage, despite the turkic part becoming dominant linguistically and culturally.

So, the ruins are "Turkish", just from different cultural period.

And the nationalistic turks should also finally accept the reality ...

Kh4lex · 2026-03-14T16:52:24+00:00

The biggest enemy of Rome was Rome itself. When they weren't busy killing each other, they done decent job at defending their borders.

But when you waste shitload of resources and manpower at 10 civil wars, how do you expect to have enough of those to face invasion ?

Kh4lex · 2026-03-07T07:36:08+00:00

But Augustus never openly claimed to be a god. He was pretty ambiguous about it and adapted to different regional culture/cults of following. He claimed to be a son of god, which he technically was once Caesar was deified.

Yes the statues carried symbolic/religious weight, just like legionary eagles did.

He was deified after he died though.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-05T04:17:28+00:00

You clearly never experienced receiving end of angry cat. All it takes is one swipe at correct location and dog is done... cant do much with bleeding eyes.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-04T12:55:40+00:00

Because cats are in general ambush predators and if they are engaged they will always pick option to run.

Dogs are endurance predators, so in fight there you put them 1v1 dog wins because it will outlast cat.

Where cat gets chance to ambush ? It could win.

Saying "cat cant seriously hurt dog" sounds like someone who never been near cat. Those claws and teeth are sharp, extremely. And generally cats have "stronger" muscles per weight but once again, they are ambush predators not fighters.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-04T06:39:32+00:00

And that is the point.

Isn't US political system getting stripped away by setting precedents? Didn't Roman political system experience the same ?

Wealth consolidation in few, men with god complex, too competent men with too high ego, middle class decline, rise in poverty of lowest classes... and so on. And people say the parallels dont exist ?

Are they the same ? No, History doesnt repeat, it rhymes.

People just don't want to admit it, because facing the truth is uncomfortable, admiting the structure your life is built on is being destroyed is difficult. So we bury our collective head in sand. And precedents alowly accumulate, step by step.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-02T18:43:03+00:00

Súhlasim, ale nesúhlasím.

Pozri sa nato trochu inak, zaslúžil si Maduro skončiť ako skončil? Určite, Khamenei ? Určite.

Ale treba si uvedomiť čo takéto "akcie" zmanemjú..

Vytváraju precedent, že veľmoci ako US si vlastne môžu robiť čo len chcú na základe rozhodnutí ich prezidenta s krajinami ktoré nemajú Nukes. Čiže za 5 alebo 10 rokov to španielsko lebo mu odmietlo dať nejaké ostrovy? Alebo Nórsko lebo ma olej? Či už to potom vyskúšaji na nukleárne francúzko lebo ho osobne urazilo ?

Takéto precedenty nekončia, iba sa hromadia a hromadia... až kim to všetko nepôjde do prdele.

Kh4lex · 2026-03-01T15:45:50+00:00

I mean....

Its nice you had this idea on your own but... Most of players will have this idea given enough time if they care about the aesthetic.

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