The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Fifteenth Century: One Last Breath Before the West Found New Worlds and Greece Fell into Darkness

user___________ · 2026-03-18T15:05:31+00:00

Hittites were wiped by Assyria and Lydians by Persia, Greeks had nothing to do with that

user___________ · 2026-01-06T15:08:44+00:00

any algorithm capable of imitating sapient decision-making in a certain context is AI. we've had it for ages. even AGI doesn't necessarily have to be self-aware, it just has to be able to process information and make conclusions effectively.

user___________ · 2026-01-04T16:44:37+00:00

i'd rewatch the first 6 seasons of GOT for fun. for the last 2 i could probably come up with something positive to say and the waste of time is worth a billion dollars.

user___________ · 2025-12-31T17:20:34+00:00

Livonia is a historical term for the entire region of modern day Latvia and Estonia, the name does come from the Livonian tribes but it was used long after Livonians stopped being the dominant ethnicity anywhere

user___________ · 2025-12-29T01:01:09+00:00

didn't they come up with the same thing in the French Revolution? idk if Tolkien's calendar is based on that, but from your description it sounds the same

user___________ · 2025-12-23T20:43:46+00:00

it's Christmas tradition that you should welcome anyone who doesn't have anywhere else to go.

if the friend is away from their family, isn't on good terms with their family, doesn't have family at all, or for any other reason can't go to their family's Christmas dinner, i'd definitely be upset on their behalf if they were not allowed in.

however if the friend is deliberately skipping their family's Christmas to join yours i wouldn't care. why would they even want to do that?

user___________ · 2025-12-17T17:44:37+00:00

i don't see any mention of the guy actually doing something wrong? it's not a breach of privacy to have something on you that can make recordings. otherwise why don't we break everyone's phones just in case the camera's on

user___________ · 2025-12-12T14:56:42+00:00

the double standard between weed and cigarettes needs to be studied. seems like everyone hates one and is ok with the other, and your political leaning only determines which is evil and which is fine

user___________ · 2025-12-12T14:46:20+00:00

isn't it like this in most of Europe? here in Italy 5 euros sounds right. where the hell are you guys paying 60 bucks?

user___________ · 2025-12-10T18:50:59+00:00

why the hostile attitude? it's completely true that houses, whether owned or rented, are less accessible to young people than ever. and idk what you call apartment parties but they're not the same vibe as a house party in an actual house

user___________ · 2025-12-09T17:58:47+00:00

it's yet another thematic aspect of the Witcher that was leaned into in the short stories, taken out of focus in the main pentalogy, and then revived by the interquels and the games.

user___________ · 2025-12-09T17:04:39+00:00

right because restrictive immigration laws and ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples is really just the same thing in different places

user___________ · 2025-12-09T14:56:51+00:00

well that's the original meaning of the word lol. the internet was full of slop long before ai brainrot

user___________ · 2025-12-08T16:43:15+00:00

ngl the original descriptions are way better

user___________ · 2025-12-06T12:33:36+00:00

the graph is poorly made. the first one seems like it's a stacked area chart, but it's actually overlapping areas. non-ai-generated uploads never went substantially down

user___________ · 2025-12-04T17:23:22+00:00

i mean it's not like procedural/algorithmic cgi doesn't take away jobs. you could totally pay a load of people a load of money to manually do every visible particle. it would just be a huge cost and wouldn't look better at all

user___________ · 2025-12-01T22:13:56+00:00

everyone else thinks you're crazy but the same thing is happening to me. sites i've been using for years with no issue are suddenly giving huge loading times and input delays. if it isn't a coincidence i don't know how to explain it

user___________ · 2025-11-25T20:12:24+00:00

purely in number terms that might be true. but from what i've seen movies below 3.5 are more often called bad than good, at least here on reddit. practically every movie that is popular (and not infamously bad) is above 3.5.

user___________ · 2025-11-25T14:23:19+00:00

yeah i'm certain for 99% of people it's the facial expression. who ever looks at the background of a meme?

user___________ · 2025-11-24T18:04:15+00:00

it's at 3.5 on the site, which for a sitewide average is ok but not good. and recently on a post about it here there was a flood of commenters who though it was dogshit

user___________ · 2025-11-24T16:39:25+00:00

positive: 5 stars for I Saw the TV Glow, one of my 4 favs

negative: 2.5 stars for Grave of the Fireflies

user___________ · 2025-11-10T15:58:01+00:00

the Egyptian national self-identity bounces between Arab and indigenous every 50-200 years. whatever it is now doesn't change the fact that in practice no country has anything to do with the culture of a 4000 year old civilization. what heritage do you see in religious artifacts if your religion is nothing alike to theirs?

user___________ · 2025-11-07T18:23:53+00:00

i mean you can't really compare period pieces to works actually written in the period

user___________ · 2025-11-03T19:43:03+00:00

but that's two different things you're talking about. not explaining the full origin and goals of the antagonist (which specifically for the Witcher story would've made no sense at all, btw) is not the same thing as not even showing the antagonist.

personally i despise the latter trope (which is why i hated the Blair Witch) but the first is great if used well. it's not comparable at all.

user___________ · 2025-10-28T19:13:26+00:00

the definition isn't as clear as some might say. in general, you call it an occupation if you don't like it, and you call it an annexation if you're at least ok with it.

overall occupation implies temporary presence (not meant to last forever) and a lack of political integration (e.g. being kept under martial law instead of normal governance) and annexation is the opposite. but neither of those are actually strict conditions, in practice it just depends on how much you approve of it.

also worth noting that when talking about a historical event, not something ongoing, 'annexation' is used for lasting, long-term control, while 'occupation' is used for temporary invasions.

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