Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
- 1.96K Posts
- 2.66K Comments
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•"Maybe if you bitches weren't waiting for aliens to solve all your problems, you could build some nice shapes like we did"English14·7 hours agoWork often persisted after a pharaoh’s death. These damn architects are never on-time and on-budget!
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Wisdom of General Tubman o7English3·7 hours agoDamn, Civ 7 was no good? I haven’t heard anything about it yet.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Wisdom of General Tubman o7English20·8 hours agoExplanation: Harriett Tubman was an anti-slavery partisan who led dozens of people out of slavery in the pre-war American South. During the American Civil War, she assisted the (eventually) antislavery Union as a scout and spy, and, posthumously, was granted the rank of Brigadier General by the Maryland National Guard.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPto grimdank@lemmy.world•I can't wolfin' believe these wolfin' idiots who think everything about us is wolves.English1·8 hours agoThe Space Wolves call everything ‘wolf’ and emblazon everything as wolves with wolf insignia and wolf motifs in all their wolf-shaped equipment.
But in lore they quite insistently call themselves by other names. Which raises the question as to why everything is wolves.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Thanks Reagan, you fuckwitEnglish3·19 hours agoFirms driven by transient investors act as entities independent from society entirely. Each one is focused only on maximizing profit to please investors; the investors, likewise, are only interested in the next quarter, because at any given time they can take their investment and sell it. They are simultaneously putting money into renewables, but only insofar as it is profitable; as long as fossil fuels (still the larger portion of energy generation in most places) are more profitable, they will put more money into it. A self-feeding cycle which starves renewables.
The thing that is sometimes misunderstood by a disdain for the owner class is the incoherence of the owner class. They don’t make plans. Even their alignments are only because of common interests (such as ‘let the ultrawealthy investors make more money from their shitty investments’), not ideology or long-term plans.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•We still love you, Poland 🥺English2·1 day agoFair! But also, as we all know… JOHN PAUL JONES IS A PIRATE! NO LOYALTY DOES HE POSSESS!
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•We still love you, Poland 🥺English3·1 day agoThat’s the other way around, though - an American Revolutionary finding a place in Russia.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Nero wants his mommyEnglish16·1 day agoFor incest spiciness, you’ll want the mad Emperor Caligula, who supposedly carried on an affair with his own sister. Though this was only a rumor, and never confirmed, even by the notoriously gossip-happy historians of the time.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPto RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Kids have to learn how to handle the little things on their ownEnglish40·1 day agoThey had Gelatinous Cube for dessert that night, the remains are hard to get off the plates with anything less.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Nero wants his mommyEnglish38·1 day agoExplanation: The debauched and tyrannical Roman Emperor Nero was a mama’s boy who felt smothered early in his Emperorship. Naturally, he murdered her for this. Later, he would express regret and guilt for this act, despite his mother probably legitimately plotting against him as well.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•We still love you, Poland 🥺English27·1 day agoThere were a lot of foreign adventurers who found a place in the Continental Army. I’m not aware of any prominent Russians, though the Russian Empire did mediate the final peace negotiations, I believe, as a neutral party.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•We still love you, Poland 🥺English9·1 day agoUnironically, while cursive is not very useful in the modern day and I always hated both using and reading it, calligraphy is a beautiful and largely lost art in the general population.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•We still love you, Poland 🥺English25·2 days agoWe love Tadeusz Kościuszko in this house!
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Iran fatwa fundraiser to kill Donald Trump raises over $40 millionEnglish71·2 days agoRare Iran W.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVEEnglish2·2 days agoInteresting thought. Indeed, the person might think it’s some sort of exotic bolt thrower.
Pliny: “Fascinating! May I see it? I’m interested in this machine’s functioning!”
Me, overwhelmed by the interest of such an illustrious scholar: “Oh, of course!”
Pliny: “How does it activate?”
Me: “You just point it at what you want to kill and pull the trigger, which launches the projectile.”
Pliny, pointing the pistol at me: “You are going to help me rescue Pomponianus.”
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•Just as the Conscript Fathers intended o7English9·2 days agoExplanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the “Just as the Founding Fathers intended” copypasta.
“Mehercules” is “By Hercules!”, a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. “Ubi mel, ibi apes” means “Where there’s honey, there’s bees!” A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.
“Conscript Fathers” is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. “No, no, I couldn’t POSSIBLY accept a position of authority… unless… you were to insist… 👉👈🥺”
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVEEnglish4·2 days agoInteresting thought. Indeed, the person might think it’s some sort of exotic bolt thrower.
Pliny, as an extremely well-educated man, actually wrote a bit on chemical and incendiary weapons at the time. So while the notion of the chemicals being a propellant would be foreign to him, a warning shot from the smoke-and-thunder tube would probably give him a good basic idea of what he was facing - a machine that inflicted some form of harm via a projectile accompanied by fire and chemicals.
“YOU WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO BE THE SUPERIOR FELINE”