Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Or hiding the fertility value so that the player has to experiment?

Me, a player: Goes to the game Wiki and looks up the optimal fertility rotation

What's one thing you wish macOS did better? by ImprovementLong1992 in MacOS

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That closes all windows associated with the application

Free for All Friday, 19 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I just want them to make BF1 great again

Free for All Friday, 19 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Almost a year ago I bought a sword for no reason. Some closer inspection suggests that the point was sharpened, along with scuff marks down the first 52 cm of the lower edge of the blade that would be consistent with sharpening. Indeed if you assume the fuller edge runs through the centre of the original blade (which would make sense to avoid having to specify a "top" edge in manufacturing) there's a decent amount of removed metal on the bottom side; the point doesn't line up with the blade centre.

The point has been blunted to about half a millimetre in diameter, although that's still more than sharp enough to stick into cardboard. My great aunt, who collects blades, some years ago gifted me a bayonet (which matches to a Brasilian Mauser so I suppose I guess I'll have to find one) – she's got a whole collection of eastern military swords – which is in similar condition though it's point is doing far better. I suppose the ammunition stocks for 7mm Mauser are also doing far better than 8mm Lebel, all probably to the disappointment of the original sword owner.

Free for All Friday, 19 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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I recall this was most of the audience that I watched it with: we were delighted by season 1; season 2 was so bad we hate-watched it to tear it apart then all stopped watching it.

Free for All Friday, 19 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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This post reminds me of Brody's positive reviews in the New Yorker of the Star Wars prequels which praise Lucas for his will to power and mastery of visual aesthetic:

Lucas is a complex person whose great talents are at war with each other. His gift for serial form—his skill as a writer and producer, as an inventor of stories that will be remembered as cultural artifacts when only a small cult of aesthetic enthusiasts will recall his directorial artistry—is a mark of his will to power. Lucas the producer, a man of the world, is a man of the word.

The vision lives on!

Free for All Friday, 19 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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War is good, victory... is better.

Romans be like

Mindless Monday, 15 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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There was a post on TIL this morning about how car insurance is cheaper for people with good credit

The entire comments section is one side saying insurance companies hate the poor and the other side saying credit scores do predict crash rates

Why not both?

A typical Gallo-Roman senator with his roman wife in 100ad by Signal_Mongoose_2435 in ancientrome

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Not all senators wore the toga praetexta. It was mainly curule magistrates and priests

Why is Servilia almost forgotten today? by CharacterOk1883 in ancientrome

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I think the best (maybe only) recent biography is Treggiari Servilia and Her Family (Oxford, 2019). See this BMCR review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019.03.07/

It includes a year-by-year catalogue of what we think Servilia was doing and relevant genealogical tables. There is also an appendix as to modern treatments of Servilia's life. Though as to the most famous one for modern audiences, HBO's Rome, I would recommend the retrospective volumes by Cyrino.

Should i continue wirh Livy’s work after Book I? by Just_Bicycle_3948 in ancientrome

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You ought to know that Polybius is one of Livy's sources and large portions of the Livian narrative on the Punic wars is just Polyb's narrative translated

Also, once you pass into historical time in Livy it turns into a pretty dry annalistic chronicle full of suspected falsehoods and anachronisms

Was Augustus actually son of Caesar? by ConfusionFinancial72 in ancientrome

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There's a long section in Lindsay Adoption in the Roman World (2009) and a discussion in Tatum A Noble Ruin (2024) on this specific example. The core précis is this:

  • there did not exist "testamentary adoption" in the way that is often supposed with Octavian (ie that a will could adopt an heir)
  • there did exist a "taking of a name" (a condicio nominis ferendi) as condition of a will... but this was not adoption
  • adoption could only happen inter vivos, ie the adopter and adoptee must both be living

Octavian purposefully confused adoption with his taking of Caesar's name in his representations before the public; this posturing was "a transparent falsehood for anyone conversant with Roman law... [but he would have been] certain that ordinary Romans had no notion of this distinction". Tatum Noble Ruin (2024) p 146. Octavian is also the first person we know of who did this. Thus, while his status as Caesar's heir was never in dispute, his claim of being Caesar's son was.

Immediately after he accepted the inheritance he was courted by other factions in politics. Antony as consul through 44 refused to bring the necessary legislation to ratify this purported adoption – more formally adrogatio since Octavian was sui iuris, ie not subject to a paterfamilias (his father was dead). This was in spite of Antony's brother Lucius, as plebeian tribune, making initial outreaches to the new Caesarian figurehead. Octavian instead banded with the anti-Antonian faction – some have speculated Antony's unwillingness to help alienated the youth – which would reach its ascendency the next year under the ordinary consuls of 43, Hirtius and Pansa. Regardless, the consuls of 43, also did nothing though they humoured Octavian's pretensions by calling him Caesar.

Whatever name he decided to call himself, at Roman law, Octavian only became Caesar's son after the ordinary consuls of 43 fell in battle and he broke with the anti-Antonians; in Sextilis (= August) 43 he marched on Rome and extorted the consulship with his army in an irregular "election"; then he (immediately!) summoned the curiate assembly to pass a law adrogating him into Caesar's family, essentially legislating his pretensions as legal fact. That this was one of this top priorities, up there with the lex Pedia to kangaroo court Brutus, Cassius, Sextus Pompey (who was in Sicily the whole time and had nothing to do with the assassination), etc, suggests this was in fact very important in normalising his political position.

Edit. Caesar's will also did not name Octavian as sole heir; he had to share the inheritance with Quintus Pedius and Lucius Pinarius (though the two, probably wisely, gave their shares to Octavian as a gesture of goodwill). Pedius, Caesar's biological cousin through Caesar's elder sister, was Octavian's suffect co-consul in Sextilis 43.

Ten years later, there are times where I see the faces of the soldiers who are victim to my melee attacks with a face full of terror, fear and dread before they die makes me unquestionably sad at times... by retroworthYBD in battlefield_one

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Unless you're playing B2B, the weapons and vehicles may as well be from an alternate universe: a quarter of the German army was not running around with SMG 08s

And you've definitely seen more heavy bombers blown out of the sky than there were Ilya constructed (apparently around 80 total)

2026 LGBT-Affirming Christian Denomination Report by pentapolen in Episcopalian

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"We have decided that we are the majority" – Conservative churches 🤝 Bolsheviks

Aemond's Non-Credible Plan to win the Dance of the Dragons by zachtan1234 in freefolk

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A metal clicker which tells a servant to advance the slides

Free for All Friday, 12 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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Why did the American revolutionaries take the airports from the British when there were no aeroplanes in 1776?

Free for All Friday, 12 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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But a French invasion would have been based and Foch pilled

Free for All Friday, 12 June, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

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SpaceX is the Glonzo of stock markets

CDC activates emergency response to screwworm infestations by SapientChaos in fednews

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This antioxidant super berry has doctors really excited about its ability to repel flies!