Headphone jack.

look everyone who agrees to serve in the Trump administration gets what they signed up for but it's wild how unsubtle the pattern of firing is even among the select pool of talentless synchophantic goons

well, better than missouri, I guess

it's hard to beat the greatest place on earth

just had an extremely cursed thought. what if elder millennials are just unleaded gen x

Do you have a gift link?

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

Every time

CNO Caudle says F/A-XX downselect expected in August.

thoughts and prayers

My sister and I used to rent Clue almost every weekend when we were kids (late 80s). I now have a little club of adult Clue lovers. It's perfection.

i used to call that "taffy pulling"

my b!

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

Iran has requested to play its games in Canada or Mexico (its the first time Iran has qualified!)

(having spent a year at Northrop Space, I kinda want to)

I know people hate SpaceX, but it's like, have you met ULA?

F1 is not a bad movie. But it would be even better if Brad Pitt bothered to act.

better than "Pavoratti was a tenor, Paganini was a composer"?

i choose to consider it a feature, not a bug.

and is also just walking around the boat with his regular Tim Curry accent.

I've never thought *alcohol* was his biggest problem

hey I'm not a fucking milennial

I didn't say it wasn't controversial. I said it wasn't coherent - esp as used in current commentry.

sure, there were german (and italian) republics. usually small-ish. but there are also several centuries of absolute monarchies that most would still consider "the west" (England, France, Spain).

sometime i forget how many classes I took on this stuff:

-Western Civ
-Economic History of Europe
-British Political Thought
-History of Modern France (1848-present)
-Modern Europe (1870-present)
-19th Century European history (1789-1914)

God bless a well funded state school #rockchalk

194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money Podcast Episode · Empire: World History · 14 October 2024 · 36min

I have benefitted from much of the discussion in the Empire podcast for situating what else was going on in the world from the middle ages onward. The seasons on the Ottoman and Persian empires were esp good.

See also eps like this podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/1...

Happy to share / collect references to help folks explore more along these lines.

Some to start:
-'Industrial Revolution in England and France: Some Thoughts on the Question, "Why was England First?"'
www.jstor.org/stable/2594877

indeed. but even then it is pretty sloppily applied.

I remember seeing it for the first time!

You've reminded me that there was a new Gilgamesh novel (or translation) recently, and now I need to find it!