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History of Byzantine Empire in Minecraft: Every Year
Chapters
0:00 New Rome
1:32 The Walls
2:40 Justinian and Theodora
6:55 The Last War of Antiquity
9:33 Fire on the Water
10:47 Empresses and Khans
12:03 The Golden Age
13:08 The Great Fall
14:38 Crusaders
15:33 1204
17:46 The Long Decline
18:21 The Last Siege
22:56 The Last Romans
Duke Luke retweeted
Lord of the rings is fiction and look at the exceptional armor WETA Workshop made
The odyssey takes place within an age of human history that is very much real.
Trying to refute the criticism of bad looking costumes by just saying it’s fictional falls flat
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Saifedean Ammous wrote The Fiat Standard in 2021 as the forensic autopsy of the monetary system governments spent a century building on top of your savings. His central argument is simple: fiat money is a debt-based parasite, and every institution connected to it, from the IMF to your local mortgage bank, exists to facilitate the extraction of wealth from you, the host.
The mechanism works like this. Governments severe the gold link (Nixon on August 15, 1971), then central banks issue currency backed by government debt. Debt becomes the reserve asset. More spending requires more debt, which requires more currency, which dilutes what you already hold. You pay this inflation tax without a vote, without a bill, without a receipt.
Ammous extends the analysis far past monetary policy. He traces fiat's fingerprints across nutrition science, urban planning, and sexual behavior, arguing that cheap credit subsidizes short-term consumption across every domain of life. The 1970s explosion of processed seed oils, for instance, coincided with agricultural subsidies financed through deficit spending.
Critics call this overreach. They prefer their monetary analysis contained in a tidy box, but the price system connects everything, and distorting money distorts all relative prices downstream.
Ammous also presents a cure for this disease. Bitcoin restores the hard-money discipline that fiat abolished, forcing individuals and governments alike to live within production rather than consumption. Whether Bitcoin will fulfill that promise remains an empirical question still playing out, but the diagnosis of fiat stands clean and documented.
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A lot of people don't know that the Spanish and Mexicans attempted to, and did, exterminate many tribes in the Southwest.
In 1599, Juan de Oñate ordered the destruction of the Acoma Pueblo during the Acoma Massacre.
Spanish troops killed upwards of 1,000 Acoma people, enslaved hundreds, and ordered that all surviving men over 25 have one foot amputated.
Pueblo groups across the Rio Grande Valley were subjected to heavy forced labor and starvation.
After a revolt, several villages faced mass executions and enslavement.
Indigenous groups targeted during these campaigns included the Acaxee of Durango and Sinaloa, the Guachichile and Zacateco of Durango and Jalisco, and the Karankawa, who were hunted down by Mexicans even decades after the region became Texas.
If the Spanish could kill them, they forced them into slavery, where many chose to fight and die rather than live under Spanish rule.
Tidbit, Mexico hunted down the Yaqui tribe of Sonora from the 1700s well into the 1920s, executing thousands and even using artillery and air strikes against their villages.
Duke Luke retweeted
JUST IN: Wendy’s new CEO admits the company “shortchanged” food quality to save money & is now trying to win back customer trust.
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To be fair they were not against gay marriage they just thought they would get less votes.
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Today, we remember a legend.
On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.
He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸
May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.
Duke Luke retweeted
This is rich coming from her. Here's a personal story of the irony here: 2007, CH does The Tonight show w Jay Leno. She makes fun of Angelina Jolie & her newly adopted son, 3 yr old Pax, who is Asian.
CH: “He probably doesn’t even realize he’s Asian yet! He certainly doesn’t know he’s going to be a horrible driver… or that he’s going to be amazing at doing nails!”
The next few days there was plenty of outrage, disappointment & accusations of racism levied against NBC.
2 weeks later, I'm booked on The Tonight Show & I've already had my set approved. I was told, I can't tell any of my jokes because of the blowback of her hacky, racist jokes. Yes, I couldn't tell jokes about being Asian because she did so much damage making fun of Asians.
Then, weeks later of 2007, I performed at a showcase where CH was present. Prior to, I had never spoken to, met or interacted with her & as I was wrapping up my set, I mentioned her in the crowd? It's odd to see a comedian sitting in a showcase watching w audience, so I mentioned it in passing. She then yelled out "you're doing a great little Asian job".
MY POINT: I personally know Shane & Tony aren't racist. In fact, I don't think Chelsea is racist. Sure, she's got a long history of promiscuity, an affinity for day drinking, publicly stated she's prescribed a healthy dose of anti depressants, rumored to be awful to work for or with, has a punch card to a plastic surgeon, accused of punching down in her comedy, never been married or had kids & lives alone in her 50s, had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein but c'mon gang, she's not racist.
Chelsea Handler is sharing her distaste for Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe‘s jokes at Netflix‘s Roast of Kevin Hart, slamming them as “racist,” “bigots” and “sexist.” bit.ly/4tQem7c
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My amendment passed! Pesticide liability protections have been stripped from the farm bill. 🔥⚔️🔥
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Washington DC is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year -- the lowest since at least 1930. Two years ago it had 274. Carjackings are also down (by 44%).
What changed:
1) New U.S. Attorney replaced a soft-on-crime predecessor and immediately started actually prosecuting, including seeking the death penalty for the worst offenders.
2) There's more visible law enforcement presence now. Federal law enforcement and the National Guard deployed to cover a 50-year low in local police staffing -- a hole created by city council budget cuts that some estimate will take a decade to fully close.
3) Ended policy of refusing to charge juveniles as an adult, signaling to the youth that there will be consequences for their crimes. The prior admin prosecuted exactly one juvenile for armed carjacking over a decade, so gangs recruited juveniles to steal cars. Arrest-to-offense ratio for carjacking went from 25% to 58% last year.
