PugJesus
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
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3·2 days agoThen Shah started screaming that he wasn’t afraid of anything, and started firing his machine gun at the walls, through the window—it just blew his head off. I didn’t like that at all, so I got out and went into my house, and Kit and Shmel were with me. And we kept hearing gunfire from that house.
Then Senya and Shah came back to our house—the two of them, with a bottle. Shah started revving the engine at Shmel and arguing [over the radio] with what appeared to be our commander, call sign “Kometa,” spouting nonsense: “I’m sitting under a tree! I’ll find you!” Then he started arguing with Kit, and that’s it—Senya kills this Shah.
And then, it turns out, drunk Senya kills Kit. He was sitting on a chair, begging, “Don’t!” and a delirious Senya was shoving a machine gun at Shmel, trying to get him to kill him. And then he shot him himself. What a fucking mess!
So, it turns out we had to kill Senya. Well, to stop him from threatening us, from pointing his gun at us—he just started shooting at the walls in a drunken stupor.
"I killed him with a machine gun while he was sleeping. Shmel thought he was shooting at the window again, and I went up to him and said, ‘Give me another clip, I’ll finish him off!’ We were really mad at him for saying that to us. But Shmel didn’t give me the clip, he said, ‘He’s already dead!’ That was it, we dragged him into the next room and locked ourselves in the basement and sat there quietly for two weeks. There was food there, the radio was working, and we only came out when they sent us packages. By then, we’d scavenged some drone batteries—the round ones—from the broken drones from previous deliveries and made a charger for the radio.
There was no water, but there was wine. In this basement under the second section of the house, we found five large bottles, probably 50 liters each—that’s how big they were ( shows ), just enormous containers. Homemade, 13 degrees.
2·3 days agoI know this is the shitposting Lemmy and historical accuracy isn’t the goal here … But you don’t honestly think they put plantations in infertile places and used slaves for no reason right? They made a shit ton of money
Overall, you’re right, but I’d like to point out two caveats here:
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Southern plantation farming was incredibly inefficient and utterly ruined the land it was practiced on - something that was recognized (and criticized) as early as George Washington. So they did build their plantations in fertile areas, but exhausted the soil and did very little to let it recover until George Washington Carver (unrelated) started spreading crop rotations around ~1900.
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The aristocrats made a shitton of money relative to the average person, but they were much, much poorer - both individually and as a society - than the industrialized North. Northern farming, even, was much more efficient - but the Southern aristocracy perpetuated their system because control was more important than money. In the slavery (and sharecropping) system, the plantation class effectively ruled little fiefs of dependent ‘free’ farmers and unfree (legally or practically) Black labor, able to exercise wide-reaching control not just economically, but also socially, culturally, and politically. Given the choice between more luxury or more power, they chose more power, and used that power to perpetuate their sickened systems.
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Explanation: The Chauchat was a light machinegun designed and manufactured by France just in time for WW1. Having an automatic weapon that a single man could lug around was considered potentially game-changing, and a large amount were made and distributed to French troops. It does have several questionable design choices which reduced its reliability and efficacy - including an open magazine.
Great for seeing how much ammo you have left! Not so great when trying to keep mud and debris out of the gun in the trenches to prevent it from jamming.
All the same, it was certainly better than not having automatic weapons, and so remained in use throughout the war.
It has a poor reputation in the modern day, however, in large part because when the Americans entered the war, we altered the design slightly in using the Chauchat for our troops… to a different bullet caliber, 30.06.
As the gun was not designed for this different caliber, and was stretching the limits of its design to begin with, the American-made Chauchats ‘mysteriously’ had a tendency to constantly jam, which did not endear the Chauchat to the American troops who were assigned one.
Funny enough, some historians suggest that pre-modern methods of warfare, counterintuitively, actually result in lower rates of PTSD.
That being said, I recall at least three incidents in Roman histories (which were generally not very concerned about the experience of the common soldier) wherein soldiers exhibited symptoms considered to be likely PTSD - one of a veteran of Julius Caesar who experienced intermittent attacks of disproportionate rage after a head wound; one of a soldier during one of the civil wars who was said to have ‘lost his mind’ after sacking an Italian city and committed suicide; and one of the great general Gaius Marius, who suffered from war-related nightmares and alcohol abuse later in life.
I once played a Fighter who was a pacifist. Not a “I attack nonlethally” pacifist, a full-on, specialized-in-weapons-he-refused-to-use pacifist.
His only kill was a Roving Mauler. He made the mistake of trying to grapple with it to restrain it from hurting the party, and as it tried to run away, the curious rolling gait of the Mauler caused it to twist its own head off in his arms, leaving the legs cartwheeling across the room while he cradled the Mauler’s head and the attached collar.
RIP Maxwell, you were some bizarre wizard’s beloved pet. 😭
Cuno doesn’t give a fuck!
Yeah, I picked a fantastic day to recommend the comm.
I guess we have a !askhistorians@piefed.social
6·7 days ago“Make sure none of the former colonies are strong or united enough to challenge our imperial hegemony!”
“But what if we become a second-rate power beholden to one of our former colonies in terms of international coalition action, and instead of benefitting from the division by playing strongman ‘mediator’ to maintain them in perpetual vassalage, end up a helpless and frustrated observer of spiraling regional chaos that actually works against our interests and, indeed, the interests of all of the world?”
“That would never happen to the Empire upon which the sun never sets! Don’t be daft!”
“Right, I don’t know what I was thinking. God Save The Queen!”
As long as you keep it just around a simmer, it’s not dangerous. No refrigeration needed! There are modern examples, even!
But why would I want to change an objectively correct view?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath
Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an African American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a postgraduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.
Bath’s research showed that blindness, especially caused by glaucoma, was more prevalent among Black Americans than the general population. In 1976, she co-founded the nonprofit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C., to advance a program of “community ophthalmology” that would expand the availability of treatment for, education about, and prevention of eye diseases to medically underserved populations.[1]
In the 1980s, Bath’s development of the laserphaco probe led to safer and more precise cataract surgery. With the device, she became the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.[2]
Now that’s what I call a doctor with vision!
Eh? Eh?
Explanation: Romans were early adopters (but not the inventors) of standardized and rhythmic marching paces, which they used to great effect in moving infantry quickly from one location to another. Travel en masse is much easier when there aren’t crowds of men tripping over one another!
While most of the attention in WW1 is focused on the European theatres, there was actually a protracted guerilla war in the East African theatre, with the brilliant Imperial German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck leading a mixed force of German and colonial troops to thwart and harass Entente forces in the region until the very end of the war.
EDIT: Of COURSE I recommend the comm today…
BUT you CAN approach SOME problems that way, and that’s what counts
Sounds like bi erasure to me, they were happily married to their wives and had relationships with men
Nerva was never married, and Hadrian was distinctly not happily married.
Trajan was married, but is often considered to have been in a ‘lavender marriage’, so to speak, despite getting along well with his wife.
Hadrian and Trajan could be considered to be bisexual depending on how you read the sources, but are generally considered to be homosexual, or so close to it that the modern label is broadly applicable.
There are a large number of bisexual Emperors in Roman history - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Titus, Domitian… that there are a handful that can probably be considered homosexual by modern standards is in no way erasing bisexual representation.
Also did these “great” emperors own slaves? 👀
Yes, as was the norm of the time.
I mean, they all wrote in Arabic, and Ibn Hayyan was an Arab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew
A perpetual stew, also known as forever soup, “eternal pot”, hunter’s pot[1][2] or hunter’s stew, is a pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously. The pot is never or rarely emptied, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary.[1][3] Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer if properly maintained. The concept is often a common element in descriptions of medieval inns. Foods prepared in a perpetual stew have been described as being flavourful due to the manner in which the ingredients blend together.[4] Various ingredients can be used in a perpetual stew such as root vegetables, tubers (potatoes, yams, etc.) and various meats.[3]
Trick or Treat used to be hardcore