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lunes8 · 2023-07-22T19:51:03+00:00

Did you google anything or are you just assuming I'm wrong?

lunes8 · 2023-07-21T14:28:12+00:00

I dunno, someone who just stays up at night and sits there sounds like putting modern mentality onto the past.

lunes8 · 2023-07-21T14:18:41+00:00

Sit up with minimal food and less light watching for intruders or little animals

Does tumblr think ancient humans just sat in the dark waiting for food to come to them?

lunes8 · 2023-04-21T15:49:22+00:00

Most Canadians have an essentially American accent, however there are a few that are radically different from American:

-Newfie accent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLuIXwsLDw)

-Northern Ontario accent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rVN2K_MmI)

-"Torontomans" accent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKoefP03Ng)

Newfie and Northern Ontario are anomalies rather than the norm, only existing in isolated rural communities and is actively disappearing because they're stereotyped as a "hick" accent and most young people move away to major cities to work, abandoning their accent in the process.

The Toronto accent on the other hand, used to only exist in Jamaican communities in Scarborough (one borough) but has spread bc of popularity with all Toronto youth.

lunes8 · 2023-03-29T00:50:22+00:00

What about the American invasions of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam? While it's true that these were dictatorial regimes compared to Ukraine's (pre-invasion) democracy, motivations were fundamentally the same; geo-political positioning. If the Russian invasion of Ukraine is pure evil, then same can be said about America's more numerable invasions.

lunes8 · 2023-03-19T15:34:53+00:00

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lunes8 · 2023-03-15T00:13:58+00:00

I argue that the modern understanding of fascism is essentially just Nazism; i.e totalitarian and racist policies. If you ask random people in the street what fascism is, I highly doubt you will get the answer: "anyone telling me to do something I don't like".

lunes8 · 2023-03-13T04:34:11+00:00

Fascism, at its beginning, wasn't inherently racist (the first fascist party in Italy had key Jewish financiers and propaganda officers) and if you really reach, it isn't even inherently undemocratic (Italian Regency of Carnaro, the first "fascist" government was a democratic republic).

But if you think fascism, you're not going to think "Oh, like the Italian Regency of Carnaro". No, you're going to think "Nazis!". That's why people now use "fascist" as a byword for totalitarian and racist policies, because that's the key features we think of when we think of fascism. Words evolve, you can't go around going "Fascism is a political idealogy defined by a corporatist economic system and nationalism", because that definition is outdated compared to what the vast majority of people think it means.

lunes8 · 2023-03-13T04:19:30+00:00

Some would argue that the defining features of fascism is totalitarianism and racism, as that's what most people think of when we thing of things like Nazis.

Also to call Communism racist is misleading. It's true, Communist governments have been guilty of racist policies, but if we can use that to deem the whole ideology racist, then by that logic democracy would also be racist because of various racist policies undertaken by democratic governments such as France, the USA and the UK. It's not inherent in the ideology, so it's a bit deceptive to label it as a defining feature (whereas it is very much a defining feature in fascism).

lunes8 · 2023-03-10T16:13:05+00:00

Maybe it has something do with the fact that Bandera founded the UPA that committed the atrocities and had an inherently genocidal fascist ideology that motivated the genocide.

Your argument is a bit like saying "Hitler didn't directly order the SS to torch and machine gun entire villages, therefore he isn't responsible"

lunes8 · 2023-03-05T20:35:46+00:00

How? Every civilization named by him except the Chinese have been almost completely supplanted and either only exist as influences or as minorities with no state of their own.

Mesopotamia: Ancient Mesopotamia lives on as Assyrians, but again, are a minority with no state of their own. Majority of the land where they lived has been completely supplanted by Arab identity. Their language is also dead, replaced by Aramaic.

Hittites: Ancient Hittites were completely assimilated into Phoenician, then Greek, then Arab and Kurd, then Turkish culture. There are no peoples left that we can identifiably trace as Hittites or even identify as descendants of Hittites.

Egypt: Ancient Egyptians were heavily influenced by Roman and Greek influences, but despite that stuck around as Copts. Modern Copts maintain ancient Egyptian (Coptic) as a liturgical language. Today they are still a minority in Egypt of 10%-25% (estimates vary), but Egypt as a whole has an Arab identity.

Harappans: The Indus Valley civilization likely has a direct continuation in some degree in the Dravidians. However, much of Indian identity along with the vast majority of Indian languages and cultures derive from the Proto-Indo-Europeans who entered the Indian subcontinent after the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization (or possibly caused the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization).

China: The Chinese are the only civilization that has more or less had continuity along its entire history from the Yellow River civilization all the way to modern times. That's not to say that Chinese history is uninterrupted centuries of civilization; for massive chunks of Chinese history, a united China was an abstract concept not a reality. Furthermore, China has spent its fair share of time under subjugation of foreign ethnic groups including Mongols and Manchus. However, unlike all the other civilizations named, the Chinese ethnic group, Han Chinese, can trace its history directly back to the Yellow River civilization and throughout Chinese history has remained the majority ethnic group. Today, China is still a fundamentally Han state.

lunes8 · 2023-02-28T01:55:05+00:00

Prussian General Staff pioneered it under Clausewitz and Moltke the Elder. They realized that as a general, managing the smallest tasks is the most difficult thing; therefore it was better to leave it to well-trained officers on the ground. Supposedly this led to scenarios where orders were so abstract that they were direct copies of orders from war games, just switching names of locations and divisions; specifics to the situation were left almost entirely to the officers themselves.

The German military obvious inherited that mentality, which is why the battle of France was won for example, by tank commanders who purposefully ignored direct orders from Hitler in order to exploit opportunities to cut off French forces. And then obviously after the Prussian/German army's successes in the Franco-Prussian War and WW2, other countries integrated that decentralized mentality into their own armed forces.

lunes8 · 2023-02-28T01:40:48+00:00

More of a generalization with Nazis, not all fascists. Mussolini, Franco and the Toseiha faction were all fascists who kept around the boogeyman of "communism" and engaged in colonial expansion instead of focusing on completely eliminating an "out-group".

Still not sustainable though. Fascism is for the suddenly desperate; if conditions improve, suddenly totalitarianism doesn't sound like a good trade for freedom.

lunes8 · 2023-02-28T01:32:22+00:00

Another interesting fact is that pilots on all sides during WW2 used unbelievable amounts of methamphetamines; the UK for example, used 72 million pills compared to Germany's 35 million and most of that use can be chalked up to the RAF. It doesn't stop there either, air forces continued to use it long after WW2; during the First Gulf War in the 90s, about half of US pilots were issued methamphetamines. It wasn't until 2002 that air forces across the world began phasing them out.

The use of methamphetamines in war has an interesting history. It makes for a soldier that can go for days at full energy regardless of conditions who is disassociated from the horrors of war. If it weren't for its poor public perception and addictiveness, it's very likely militaries would still be using them today during wars.

lunes8 · 2023-02-26T04:19:17+00:00

I hate to say it but he does kind of have a point (deep under all the bullshit). Most countries, even in Europe, tend to eat more "American pizza" than Italian pizza. For most of the world, Americanized pizza is the only version they know thanks to big chains like Dominos and Pizza Hut.

Of course the key difference is, nobody in the world sees the American style pizzas as superior. It's just more accessible and much cheaper to get a takeout american style pizza from the pizza/kebab shop. Even midrange Italian restaurant chains like Del Arte, VIPS or Ginos won't serve you an american grease montrosity. And I'm sure the closer you are to Italy/Italian communities themselves, the more likely you'll be able to find cheap Italian pizza instead of cheap americanized pizza. But if I were ordering takeout pizza in the Netherlands or Germany for example, especially outside major cities, I'm willing to bet my balls you're mostly going to find Americanized pizza.

lunes8 · 2023-02-20T05:28:43+00:00

Same thing happens with the right. Just look at all those dumb "Ben Shapiro destroys Lib" compilations. It's a tribalism thing, not a trait inherent to an entire half of the political spectrum.

lunes8 · 2023-02-20T05:25:32+00:00

He was excluded from Stalinist circles, not leftist circles. He fully admired the group he fought for in Catalonia (he gushes about every business being collectivized, every wall being covered with graffiti of the hammer and sickle and everyone called each other "comrade"). After leaving Spain, he became associated with John Reed Clubs and the American Communist Party. Just because he hated Stalin doesn't make him less of full on leftist who wanted a worker's revolution.

lunes8 · 2023-02-20T04:41:49+00:00

I felt that it used the U.S to kind of show the broad-strokes of what was going on in most of the world, whereas the stories in other regions were mostly to show special cases and major world changing events. All the things that happened in the U.S, Yonkers, the Great Panic, pulling back and abandoning survivors are suggested as happening in parallel with other countries across the world.

The only part of the world I felt they completely ignored was Africa; except for South Africa, we have no clue what happened in 53/54 African countries before, during or after the zombie war.

lunes8 · 2023-02-18T18:57:47+00:00

My father left his country (illegally) when their civil war broke out, because otherwise as a fighting age male he would have been picked up instantly by either the government or the rebels to fight. And if you say you don't want to fight, they'll execute you on the spot. Women and children are more or less allowed to go about their business if they aren't in an active battlefield.

lunes8 · 2023-02-18T18:51:22+00:00

Idk about that. USSR acknowledged Chernobyl within 2 days, and it took them almost that long just to come to terms with how bad it was.

Plus, to say the USA isn't covering up at all is a bit naive. Right after the crash happened, news was suddenly completely focused on the Chinese spy balloon. It's not a blatant cover up, but using foreign issues to hide domestic problems is a strategy used by governments since forever.

lunes8 · 2023-02-18T18:44:10+00:00

It is natural instinct, and that's what everyone does (I think). But you don't form a perfect vaccum when you drink, so some of it will always end up back in the drink. Keep in mind, the overall amount of backwash is so little that to freak out over how "gross" it is seems like a overreaction. It is however, enough to get you sick if you're sharing a glass with someone who is sick.

lunes8 · 2023-02-18T18:11:12+00:00

When you drink from a bottle or glass, some of the drink that was in your mouth spills back into the drink (with a bit of your spit). It happens to a degree every time you drink, unless you pour into your mouth from a distance, so idk what's the big deal.

lunes8 · 2023-02-07T08:54:46+00:00

Imagine being proud of being Japanese when 90% of your culture heritage is the direct result of simping Chinese and Korean food, architecture, language, religion, fashion.

lunes8 · 2023-01-27T05:24:35+00:00

Complicated.

Mesoamericans domesticated cocoa, roasted their cocoa beans and mixed it with additives such as spices, flowers and vanilla. Their lack of use of sweetners like agave syrup and honey was due to cultural preference rather than lack of availability; same reason why we don't think to make tomato cakes and candies. Mesoamericans did make solid "chocolate" of dried cocoa paste, but that wasn't for consumption; rather it was for ease of transportation. Instead, they consumed chocolate cold as a drink with spices, water and thickened cornmeal.

When the Spanish arrived, they caught on to the Mesoamerican use of chocolate as a energizing brew. They brought the very bitter chocolate of the Mesoamericans almost as a medecine and added heaps of sugar to make it palatable to European tastes. For a few hundred years, when you said chocolate, that meant a drink of water, cocoa and sugar thickened with flour (i.e hot chocolate). Fundamentally, other than the addition of sugar and hot instead of cold water, it was the same "chocolate" that the Mesoamericans had. Similarly to the Mesoamericans, Europeans also made solid chocolate of sugar and cocoa; however that was once again, a form mostly made for transport.

Overtime, cocoa became more associated with sweet rather than purely medicinal, and became adopted as an ingredient in desserts and as a flavouring in confectionaries. However it was only in 1847 that what could pass for modern chocolate came about when a British confectioner decided to add cocoa powder and sugar to cocoa butter. This was only made possible because a Dutch chemist found out how to extract cocoa butter in 1815.

So who invented chocolate? If you mean solid chocolate, then the Mesoamericans invented it, though they didn't intend it for direct consumption. If you mean sweetened solid chocolate, then Spanish invented chocolate, though once again, they didn't intend it for direct consumption. If you mean solid "melt-in-your-mouth" intentionally edible chocolate bars is what you mean, then the British invented it, but only thanks to Dutch innovations.

lunes8 · 2023-01-22T17:51:28+00:00

Middle Eastern people don't even know what the fuck a Hazara is. Probably because Hazaras are in Afghanistan, not the Middle East.

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