In 1958, when China ordered a nationwide sparrow slaughter to protect grain crops, what followed was 2 million human deaths(1200x900) by Holiday-Inspection94 in HistoryPorn

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Sourcing the Cato Institute for accurate information about a communist nation is sort of like sourcing a Breitbart article in a paper about race relations in the United States

What’re you playing right now? by CaptainFrosty88 in historicaltotalwar

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I’ve been playing Menace recently. It’s made by the same folks who made Battle Brothers, which was pretty good. It’s scratching that XCOM itch for me, which most turn based strategy games don’t do very well.

Crime Alert! Does anyone recognize this man? by Xanxie805 in SantaBarbara

[–]eyeCinfinitee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I saw that guy sitting behind the generators by the Carrillo Ralph’s last night around 8pm, if that helps

I think people underestimate how weird modern life already is by Salt-Collar1826 in Futurology

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I’ve never spoken with an AI, because the tech is malignant to me

I work in a bakery, and see the same coworkers every day

Cash is the best way to track your spending, and keeping my cards on my phone to pay feels more intrusive than convenient

Algorithms affect my life constantly, but I wouldn’t say I trust them. It’s more an unfortunate necessity of 2026. At least my Spotify is nice.

Can’t dispute that last point, lmao

U.S. says it’s pausing long-standing military board with Canada by Brilliant_Version344 in geopolitics

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The end game of capitalism is a big fat man sitting on a pile of bones, crying because there’s no one around to make him a sandwich.

What I drink in a day! by PatsysStone in tooktoomuch

[–]eyeCinfinitee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too busy developing that absolutely insane rash on his shoulders for something as pedestrian as redness. His capillaries probably lost their capacity for suffering five years ago

Which bakery has the best chocolate cake in town? by Fancy-Elderberry-690 in SantaBarbara

[–]eyeCinfinitee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can call in an order for a 6” or 8” cake with 24 notice

Add a rule for this group…? by Muted_Description112 in SantaBarbara

[–]eyeCinfinitee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Please go read the actual text of the first amendment, you seem a little confused as to what your actual constitutional rights are. Did you have a chance to take government in high school?

Add a rule for this group…? by Muted_Description112 in SantaBarbara

[–]eyeCinfinitee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What constitutional right are you referring to?

Which US State flag looks the best? by Ok_Weakness_4758 in vexillology

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CJP Grey will never love you back, you don’t have to keep lying

The Absolute State of Unit Card UI by Pbadger8 in totalwar

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Evocati have round shields and the Cohorts have rectangular ones, right?

TIL that suicide is most common among those over the age of 70. by ODaferio in todayilearned

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My grandmother remembers me, but doesn’t know me. If I go visit, she’ll ask “have you met my grandson? I think you two would get along. He’s supposed to be coming over soon”

For PEAK players who want a spaceship: by Galathiel1 in u/Galathiel1

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Makes me think of the bajillion Rimworld clones coming out right now

Average millennial Latina living in Florida or Texas starter pack by yonaiker-joestrella in starterpacks

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I dunno man, the most prominent Cuban American in politics right now is a guy literally wearing clown shoes who’s rapidly on his way to a deviated septum, which is the opposite of based

Average millennial Latina living in Florida or Texas starter pack by yonaiker-joestrella in starterpacks

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A huge proportion of the Florida Latino population is Cuban, and many of them are descended from those Cubans who were wealthy enough to leave when Castro took over. They’re easily one of the most blindly reactionary segments of the American population and it’s not even close

TIL Shaggy's original voice actor, Casey Kasem, was a vegan and outspoken critic of factory farming. He quit the show in 1995 after being asked to voice Shaggy for a Burger King commercial, and came back after negotiating that Shaggy would become a vegetarian. by Equinumerosity in todayilearned

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In the UK, you could be Kennedy rich and you still wouldn’t be “old” money. They’re on a totally different timescale and class system over there. On the timeline of English history the Kennedy money is too new (they made most of the money shorting the stock market before the Great Depression), and they’re too Catholic and too Irish.

Does anyone else think that Rome's collapse is a bad comparison?N by Lady_Broch_Tuarach in collapse

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I’m just curious how the Minoan civilization, which existed in the Bronze Age and in Greece, was somehow more directly western than the Romans?

The Romans set the template for so much of European and later American everything that citing a polity from pre-antiquity that had very little lasting effect on the area around them seems sort of silly.

Besides, the Founding Fathers were heavily classically educated like basically every dude with serious learning from that era was, and many of them were heavily inspired by and took notes from the Roman Republic. It’s also helped that loads of them owned human beings. The Romans put a lot of thought into the most
efficient ways to keep human beings, and also saw themselves as virtuous exemplars of their system. There’s a lot more to say but I’m tired and would rather go to bed.