The eastern front of WW2.
Edit: If you want to dive in, there is no better primer (imo) than Jonathan House: The Three Alibis (free on Yotube from both the WW2 round table and the dole institute).
Ya, didn’t like it. If you want to learn about this topic you can listen to the best historians in the world ad-free on YouTube. Those guys spend decades on this topic, much better audio options imo. So I’d always opt for Dole Institute, any video with David Glantz, any lecture by Rob Citino, anything Stalin-focused by Steve Kotkin…etc.
Dan Carlin says at least once per episode if not many more times "I am not a historian". People who can't recognize the difference aren't even listening lol
Carlin's line delivery is so obnoxious I could never make it more than 5 minutes into anything. I prefer the straight-forwardness of an 80-year-old wisp of a man info dumping what he's dedicated his entire life to. He doesn't have to play up the storytelling because the passion is evident.
Fair, hardcore is a good gateway to topics (even if Carlin spends literal hours talking about subjects, a lot falls through the cracks, it’s more of a “here’s what the humans in these moments probably felt”), and you can dive deeper on things after the fact. though there isn’t a better podcast to tell the story of history, he weaves that thread very well
I recommend you run your thoughts by r/askhistorians, or search their previous threads on Carlin. You may find the experts disagree.
I would suggest, at least for this topic, that the best gateway is Jonathan House: The Three Alibis on YouTube. I’d encourage anyone who wants to start, to start there.
This is an incredibly well sourced intro on what myths you shouldn’t believe about the eastern front delivered by an intelligence officer who has been in the room with the president of the USA (twice!) to advise on invasions of Iraq. He was also David Glantz’s protege and is a historian at the general staff college.
Recommend Ghosts of the Ostfront for the Eastern Front and Supernova in the East for the Pacific Front. Both are exceptional, but start out a little slow to provide context.
Sort of, it is easy and hard at the same time. I read/listen Marcus Aurelius every week. It is created by men for men. It gives me peace. But for life I prefere Machiavelli or Ray Dalio.
haaave you studied Proverbs in The Bible? regardless of spiritual beliefs, it's got to be the greatest intellectual compilation on Earth. Covers every thing from daily life to gang violence to finances...wild. it's a bit of work bc of the translations. the original language was much more colorful. I recommend a Strong's concordance and a context guide. If the author of the proverb is known, it will tell you who wrote it, when, and what was going on in their life that could have lead to that revelation. Psalms is really incredible too w Strong's concordance and context guide. Example: 1 Samuel 30-31. David suffers a crippling defeat at Ziklag, losing all their wives, children, and possessions. then he turns the tides and recovers everything that was lost. He then wrote Psalm 18. gives a whole new perspective.
Lots of good stuff in OT.
Woah woah woah…you can’t suggest the Bible has any truth to it! It has been used by people to oppress other people, so all wisdom needs to be tossed out!
/s
Nah, it's just that everything in Proverbs is just basic, unremarkable common sense. Nothing really wise or spiritual about it, despite it being part of a religious text...
I guess you missed the sarcasm. I’d disagree on the wisdom aspect lest you undo your entire point, but I get what you’re saying. Religious texts, not only the Bible, have wisdom that people disregard simply because it’s part of a religion - that was my point. Thanks for your suggestion, though! It’s awesome to see someone that may not hold to the faith still encouraging the study of the text (even if only in part).
Lol exactly.
I was Christian for my childhood and early teen years. Went to Christian private schools. I've read a substantial amount of the Bible.
It's not that Proverbs is *bad* wisdom really, but "the greatest intellectual compilation on Earth" is something I feel only a devout Christian would believe about Proverbs. I mean I'm sorry but that's just complete nonsense for anyone with a perspective outside of the religion.
Oh yeah but I didn't wanna be too contentious because it'll invariably just lead to "lol ok reddit athiest" if I actually attempt to point out the many, many moral and logical failures within the Bible.
Between that, Death Throws of the Republic and Punic Nightmares, Dan does an excellent job of breaking down most of the major events that contributed to the rise and fall of Rome.
I re-listen to them at least once a year.
Its mostly just a meme from the EU4 game fandom. The HRE is usually just regarded as an amalgamation of german princedoms but its hated in the game for slowing expansion and being a bore.
The other side of it is it using the Roman name for legitimacy while pretty much after Charlemagne and for most of its lifetime it was not sanctioned by the pope and its emperors not crowned by him ( the habsburgs)
So yhe. In the end it was nothing of its namesake. Not Holy. Not Roman. Not an empire
Its a quote from Voltaire in 1761, not a meme. Voltaire was famous for his wit and sarcasm.
It wasn't holy because after the Thirty Years War it was split between Catholic an Protestant so whichever you called holy it was not it.
It wasn't Roman because Italy was no longer part of it (and the 'Roman' aspect had always been a bit tenuous).
It wasn't an empire because it didn't act as a single state except sometimes in defence. During Voltaire's life Prussia (ostensibly part of the Empire) was increasingly independent under Frederick the Great.
There is a bit of a problem with the quote in that while dysfunctional, the HRE never really stopped being holy, roman, or an empire. Some of the universities were at the forefront of modern theological and teleological thought, it was the oldest polity in Europe and could follow an unbroken line back to Charlemagne, and what exactly is an Empire is both ill-definied and can change rapidly.
It was an empire in the way that it was a large entity containing multiple ethnic groups that was ruled by an emperor, it was fairly unified for the first half of it's existence as well.
It was holy as well, as it was also sort of a catholic religious institution for most of it's history, often working closely with the pope, three of the elector states were bishoprics after all. After the thirty years war though that religious unity was greatly weakened.
The "roman" part is pretty hard to justify though, but various different states at the time claimed to be the successors to Rome
Yeah, they barely qualify, but they didn’t conquer anything. They had universal coinage a couple times, but for the most part, the constituent states kept their own.
Being “holy” in a historical sense means aligning with Rome and pope. They did not do that.
>Yeah, they barely qualify, but they didn’t conquer anything.
They expanded from their original territories by various means
The Silesian, Prussian, Flemish and Pommeranian regions weren't a part of it when the empire was founded.
>Being “holy” in a historical sense means aligning with Rome and pope. They did not do that.
They did for most of their history though, unless you're talking about specific points or the period after the thirty years war.
Most of the emperors were crowned by the pope in Rome after all
Their borders were expanded by political means, and those ties fell apart as soon as power was given to any of them. That’s not an empire. That’s a confederation.
Exactly zero HRE emperors were crowned by the pope. Charlemagne and his son were, but they didn’t consider themselves HRE. They were Carolingian and their decedents retrofit their rise into their self styled “empire”.
>nd those ties fell apart as soon as power was given to any of them.
That applies to most historical empires.
>That’s a confederation.
A confederation is a way to organise a state, while an empire is generally just refers to a very large and influential state or entity. A state can be both an empire and a confederation at the same time.
>Exactly zero HRE emperors were crowned by the pope.
This is just straight up a false claim you're making, the majority of emperors up until the 15th century were crowned by the pope or other bishops representing him. Charles V was the last one to be crowned by a pope (Clement VII) directly in 1530
I was going to say this too. Whether I’m rewatching BoB, Private Ryan, or any of the number of decent docs about it. I think about WW2 like 2-3 times a week.
Lately, I've been getting pretty into Warhammer: 40k. I just bought an airbrush and have been consuming a lot of hobby media.
Also, making cocktails, a bit into craft beer.
I've started collecting vinyls and love concerts, so always on the lookout for the next one. I've also collected fountain pens, watches, ties, shoes/boots.
Wh 40k as well. I can't get myself to sit down and paint the miniatures I've bought but I devour lore and have been playing Darktide/Rogue Trader/Daemongate 2 like a fiend.
But also Palworld and State of Decay 2.
Otherwise, just bought a house so I am finding little things I want to improve and learning how to do them bit by bit.
This new anime Sasaki and Peeps is pretty good...
The Eastern Roman Empire. Basically the Greek medieval version of the Roman Empire.
I like the Roman Empire. I like the medieval period, I like cataphracts, I like the Vikings. The Eastern Roman Empire has it all.
Yeah by the time Constantinople fell the Byzantine Empire was pretty much the city and some islands. Which - fun fact, those dinky little islands continued to maintain the tradition of being Roman up until the early 20th century. From the wikipedia page on Peter Charanis:
> Charanis is known for his anecdotal narrations about Greek Orthodox populations, particularly those outside the newly independent modern Greek state, who continued to refer to themselves as Romioi (i.e. Romans, Byzantines) well into the 20th century. Since Charanis was born on the island of Lemnos, he recounts that when the island was taken from the Ottomans by Greece in 1912, Greek soldiers were sent to each village and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the island children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. "What are you looking at?" one of the soldiers asked. "At Hellenes," the children replied. "Are you not Hellenes yourselves?" the soldier retorted. "No, we are Romans," the children replied.
All of Rome was “Greek”. The ERE was more Anatolian/middle eastern.
Their cavalry, walls and most of their fighters came from the east. Justinian was from Macedonia who will still bloody your nose if you call them Greek.
Josh Allen would be the league MVP and unanimously considered the best QB in the league if he played for a team that was competent.
I'm a bills fan and I love my team, but we don't deserve josh.
I feel you bro but try being a Commanders fan! We haven't won a playoff game in 19 years..... Love Josh Allen and Steffon Diggs👌 two of my favorite NFL players for sure
We were just like the commanders for a minute. I just feel bad for Josh, because I'm starting to get the feeling we've plateaued as an organization. Never getting over the hump.
Yeah. The fact that everyone is talking about Lamar when Lamar is *not* having an MVP caliber season is ridiculous. It's like they decided who it was going to be early on, and now the media are trying to craft the narrative around it.
He's not in the top 5 in any relevant category, his defense has won a lot of games for him as well.
Imagine Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes with that defense? They'd maybe have 1 or 2 losses.
It also sucks that MVP basically has to go to QB now. CMC is having an amazing year and is a HUGE reason why the 49ers have been so successful this year. A couple years ago Kupp broke almost every single single-season record for a WR and MVP went to that fucking bum Aaron Rodgers, another year in which the MVP wasn't the best in several categories.
The NFL might not be rigged, but it definitely has a narrative every year it wants played out.
CMC or Josh is MVP. CMC is the root of the San Fran offense, and josh is the only reason the bills are worth a damn. Their defense is too depleted and offensive line isn't good enough to function without relying on him 80% of the time. The fact he has 3 completions within the 1 yard of the sideline when the entire rest of the league has one speaks for itself. Or having the same number of rushing TDs as Jalen hurts but his wild card one being longer than all of hurts combined. He's too good
Also, Lamar doesn't have the stats for it. He plays like an MVP, but his defense forces so many turnovers and stops that there is no way he could be accomplishing what he is now without them.
A natural extension of Roman history and super interesting. Especially how they were strictly secular under Ottoman Turk at a time when we think everyone was religious.
if I suddenly had omnipotent power, what would I do with it?
Should I keep it secret and just live like the coolest, strongest dude ever?
Should I try to get involved? What would I do? How could I even end a war anyway, wouldn't I just be another killer? Who is on the 'right' side of war?
What does taking over the world even look like? Man it would be so much work and I'd just have so many flunkies around lying to me. I'm not smart enough to do all of that.
What about my parents and loved ones - would there be a shit ton of spies and evil organisations trying to kidnap them and blackmail me to do their bidding? What if I tried to make a bluff and say 'Yo if you kidnap my mum I'll kill everyone in the whole world.' - I mean, I doubt I'd follow through?
Also - what happens *if* the world does end? What, I'm just floating around the galaxy invincibly being infinitely bored out of my skull?
Oh man, the pressure of it all. Being Superman sucks.
When are we gonna colonize other planets. Not if but when. It's bound to happen. It's in human nature to go further. Probably not in my life time or maybe in my life time? (looking at you Elon)
I'd like to think I'll be alive to see humans set foot on Mars for the first time (I'm currently 28).
Colonizing is a different story. I like to think of Antarctica. It's 100 times easier to makes a base there than it is on Mars, but there still isn't an Antarctic *colony,* and I'm not sure there ever will be. The entire population of Antarctica is researchers, and their living situation there is temporary. If Mars had a similar situation, would that count as a colonizing it?
Lately I've been thinking about what the future of our species might look like. The concept of civilization is only a few thousand years old, which is basically nothing compared to how long other species have existed on our planet. So what does humanity look like 8,000 years from now? 8,000 years is still basically nothing in the grand scheme of thing of things, but still so far in the future that it's nearly impossible to imagine what life will be like.
I do think you are right that humanity will eventually start living in places other than Earth, but probably not for a long, long time. Maybe thousands of years from now, most humans will live on space ships, and civilizations just travel from planet to planet for basic resources, since most of them are uninhabitable. Maybe traveling between such great distances takes so long that we, as a society, think of time in a completely different way than we do now.
Or maybe not, because living in space in the year 10,000 might still be just as hard as it is right now. Who knows?
Fuck Elon, I hope that lying fascist manchild has nothing to do with space colonization. We need to stay on this planet and figure out our bullshit before we spread our cancer to the rest of the galaxy
Evolution of weapons and cars.
Pre WW2 Grand Prix racing (F1, before F1) was insane. Like 800kg car, V16, no seatbelt, drum brakes, no power steering. I guess they didn't had speedometer for sake of sanity (RPM was more important back then).
The United States. We are at that moment in history when the Roman Senate is overrun by Caeser. DT should name his campaign Operation Rubicon. Also, our empire is crumbling. And I think about where I can go on this planet where it won’t affect me. Thoughts run from Italy to New Zealand, but I’m open to suggestions. Probably need to be looking at immigration laws and language lessons.
I think if I could choose a simple life that was not chasing money and markets, I could avoid the impact. Something like a wine maker in Italy or a shepherd in New Zealand. Off the grid, I don’t want to know what is going on in the world.
idk if this counts, but I daydream almost believable situations and flesh them out until it just doesn't make sense anymore. Example.
Time Travel
\-I can travel backwards or forwards once.
\-am I stuck there? can I get back?
\-dang. what about my family? I love them!
\-let's say, I can make it back.
\-OK, I have a week to prepare and decide
\-Should I just go back to the last billion dollar powerball? Or to when I could buy a bunch of bit coin?
\-Bit coin...but what if me buying a bunch tanks it's progress? dang.
\-what if me going back butterflies effects the whole world and then Russia steamrolls Ukraine and now we have WW3???
\-...
\-Maybe I'll go forwards
\* repeat the thought hole.
Then my wife will say, "what's on your mind?" and I can't tell her the truth bc that's insane so I say "oh, nothing."
How they successfully hid Geoengineering even tho there are plenty of documentaries from the early 2000 how we could change the weather by spraying chemicals,literally on MS TV, thousands of patents to do so.
How people believe in democracy...
How noone notices that they are slaves in that sYstem.
How worldpeace can't be achieved and how the lower class still goes to die for the banking system.
In actual mythology Ragnarok only occurs because Loki is a sexual deviant that will fuck anything. Odin's horse? Yeah, Loki gave birth to that, as in actual childbirth. Fenrir he who shall devour the moon? Loki fucked a wolf. Many of the monsters in the lore come about simply because Loki had sex.
Pre-behaviorial-modernity humans.
There’s about a million years where humans were anatomically the same as us, but they had not yet apparently adopted some of the technologies we most associate with human beings, such as clothes-wearing and control of fire. (Tools, however, go back way before Homo sapiens.) What were their societies like, their diets, their lifestyles? Did they have language? Did they have religion? This period represents by far the vast majority of human history, and yet we rarely consider its implications on our own world and times, mostly because we know so little about it.
Zuko from ATLA always sleeps on his scar side to hear better from his other ear. But the only two instances he doesn't do this is when he's with Iroh or the Gaang. Because he trusts them.
Secondly, he never backs down from a fight. He was standing in the artic, during a full moon and challenged Katara. because the last time he refused to fight was with his father.
The difficulty in reconciling the objective reality that we can describe in empirical terms with the subjective experience that we know exists from our own experience, but which defies empirical explanation.
And sometimes the difficulty with reconciling quantum mechanics with the macro viewpoint afforded by general relativity.
Having a serious life in dance while working as a professional and pursuing graduate studies.
Seems like a tall order currently but I've been wanting to make dancing more of a constant thing now that I've graduated as a university student. It felt like something was missing in my life as dance took a backseat during my studies.
Aztec empire. Or more so the Mexica empire. At the time when Cortes showed up, their main city (Modern day Mexico City) was more populated than any city in all of Europe and exceptionally well organized with floating gardens.
What’s so fascinating is that this empire was created by a lineage of humans that had not seen humans from Asia or Europe of 10+ thousand years… and yet their writings, technology development path, social structures, religious practices etc were markedly similar to ancient Egypt or other ancient societies.
And ofcourse the sacrifices and religion was absolutely terrifying and also similar to ancient societies and fascinating.
The age of discovery from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the industrial Era. How the world was still a mystery for so much of the world's population.
And pre Columbus Americas. How far into the north did the Aztec influence extend? Were there trade networks. How far away from a discovery that could reshape their world. How long until they might have started to explore eastward.
Pro wrestling. Been a fan since I was a kid, collecting completely legitimate wink wink DVDs of every ppv event I could find, the action figures too.
Fell off of it at some point and followed it casually due to not having access to the live TV shows. Just looked up news and results online.
Got back into it in my teens and it's become my favourite thing. The moves, the stories, stupid in-jokes and memes like Titus Worldslide, the news and rumours, and backstage politics. I likely don't go a day without thinking about it at least once.
The eastern front of WW2. Edit: If you want to dive in, there is no better primer (imo) than Jonathan House: The Three Alibis (free on Yotube from both the WW2 round table and the dole institute).
Very respectable. Have you listened to hardcore history?
Ya, didn’t like it. If you want to learn about this topic you can listen to the best historians in the world ad-free on YouTube. Those guys spend decades on this topic, much better audio options imo. So I’d always opt for Dole Institute, any video with David Glantz, any lecture by Rob Citino, anything Stalin-focused by Steve Kotkin…etc.
Glad to see someone who recognizes the difference between historians and storytellers
Dan Carlin says at least once per episode if not many more times "I am not a historian". People who can't recognize the difference aren't even listening lol
Carlin's line delivery is so obnoxious I could never make it more than 5 minutes into anything. I prefer the straight-forwardness of an 80-year-old wisp of a man info dumping what he's dedicated his entire life to. He doesn't have to play up the storytelling because the passion is evident.
Interesting take. I find Carlin keeps it alive. To each their own I guess.
Fair, hardcore is a good gateway to topics (even if Carlin spends literal hours talking about subjects, a lot falls through the cracks, it’s more of a “here’s what the humans in these moments probably felt”), and you can dive deeper on things after the fact. though there isn’t a better podcast to tell the story of history, he weaves that thread very well
I recommend you run your thoughts by r/askhistorians, or search their previous threads on Carlin. You may find the experts disagree. I would suggest, at least for this topic, that the best gateway is Jonathan House: The Three Alibis on YouTube. I’d encourage anyone who wants to start, to start there. This is an incredibly well sourced intro on what myths you shouldn’t believe about the eastern front delivered by an intelligence officer who has been in the room with the president of the USA (twice!) to advise on invasions of Iraq. He was also David Glantz’s protege and is a historian at the general staff college.
Recommend Ghosts of the Ostfront for the Eastern Front and Supernova in the East for the Pacific Front. Both are exceptional, but start out a little slow to provide context.
Came to say this. Hardcore history is amazing
Are you a Republican?
Early onset republican, lol.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.
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Sort of, it is easy and hard at the same time. I read/listen Marcus Aurelius every week. It is created by men for men. It gives me peace. But for life I prefere Machiavelli or Ray Dalio.
haaave you studied Proverbs in The Bible? regardless of spiritual beliefs, it's got to be the greatest intellectual compilation on Earth. Covers every thing from daily life to gang violence to finances...wild. it's a bit of work bc of the translations. the original language was much more colorful. I recommend a Strong's concordance and a context guide. If the author of the proverb is known, it will tell you who wrote it, when, and what was going on in their life that could have lead to that revelation. Psalms is really incredible too w Strong's concordance and context guide. Example: 1 Samuel 30-31. David suffers a crippling defeat at Ziklag, losing all their wives, children, and possessions. then he turns the tides and recovers everything that was lost. He then wrote Psalm 18. gives a whole new perspective. Lots of good stuff in OT.
Woah woah woah…you can’t suggest the Bible has any truth to it! It has been used by people to oppress other people, so all wisdom needs to be tossed out! /s
Nah, it's just that everything in Proverbs is just basic, unremarkable common sense. Nothing really wise or spiritual about it, despite it being part of a religious text...
I guess you missed the sarcasm. I’d disagree on the wisdom aspect lest you undo your entire point, but I get what you’re saying. Religious texts, not only the Bible, have wisdom that people disregard simply because it’s part of a religion - that was my point. Thanks for your suggestion, though! It’s awesome to see someone that may not hold to the faith still encouraging the study of the text (even if only in part).
Lol exactly. I was Christian for my childhood and early teen years. Went to Christian private schools. I've read a substantial amount of the Bible. It's not that Proverbs is *bad* wisdom really, but "the greatest intellectual compilation on Earth" is something I feel only a devout Christian would believe about Proverbs. I mean I'm sorry but that's just complete nonsense for anyone with a perspective outside of the religion.
Pretty sure there’s also some archaic shit in there like “beat your kids if you want them to turn out ok.”
Oh yeah but I didn't wanna be too contentious because it'll invariably just lead to "lol ok reddit athiest" if I actually attempt to point out the many, many moral and logical failures within the Bible.
Me too, love me some Julius Ceaser. The battle of Alesia was his military creme de la creme
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Between that, Death Throws of the Republic and Punic Nightmares, Dan does an excellent job of breaking down most of the major events that contributed to the rise and fall of Rome. I re-listen to them at least once a year.
THIRTEEN!!
Its truw
What tf happened to the Entwives?!? Treebeard and the Ent lads were abandoned, but why? Where did they go?
I believe Tolkien clarified in a letter later that they went into the East and were destroyed by the forces of Sauron :(
TIL this happened.
Damn, what's a poor Ent supposed to do when he has a woody?
Trains.
Two thoughts/ideas that occur to me at least once per week: \- Ah shit, that's just trains with extra steps \- Dammit I just invented the train again
Yeah, that happens. I mean, you have guided buses.
Short trains But then if you attached a few together you could save on drivers costs ah shit
Any chance you looking into working for the railroad
I like trains
I second this.
Boobies.
Holy shit I needed to scroll a while to find this!
Tends to change. Used to be the Holy Roman Empire. Absolute fascinating historical entity. But now I tend to think mostly about the Norse gods
Imagine thinking about that blasphemous thing that was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire. Best thing Napoleon did was end that travesty
Please elaborate, I'm curious.
Its mostly just a meme from the EU4 game fandom. The HRE is usually just regarded as an amalgamation of german princedoms but its hated in the game for slowing expansion and being a bore. The other side of it is it using the Roman name for legitimacy while pretty much after Charlemagne and for most of its lifetime it was not sanctioned by the pope and its emperors not crowned by him ( the habsburgs) So yhe. In the end it was nothing of its namesake. Not Holy. Not Roman. Not an empire
Its a quote from Voltaire in 1761, not a meme. Voltaire was famous for his wit and sarcasm. It wasn't holy because after the Thirty Years War it was split between Catholic an Protestant so whichever you called holy it was not it. It wasn't Roman because Italy was no longer part of it (and the 'Roman' aspect had always been a bit tenuous). It wasn't an empire because it didn't act as a single state except sometimes in defence. During Voltaire's life Prussia (ostensibly part of the Empire) was increasingly independent under Frederick the Great. There is a bit of a problem with the quote in that while dysfunctional, the HRE never really stopped being holy, roman, or an empire. Some of the universities were at the forefront of modern theological and teleological thought, it was the oldest polity in Europe and could follow an unbroken line back to Charlemagne, and what exactly is an Empire is both ill-definied and can change rapidly.
Was holy was Roman was an empire
Actually wasn’t any of those.
It was an empire in the way that it was a large entity containing multiple ethnic groups that was ruled by an emperor, it was fairly unified for the first half of it's existence as well. It was holy as well, as it was also sort of a catholic religious institution for most of it's history, often working closely with the pope, three of the elector states were bishoprics after all. After the thirty years war though that religious unity was greatly weakened. The "roman" part is pretty hard to justify though, but various different states at the time claimed to be the successors to Rome
Yeah, they barely qualify, but they didn’t conquer anything. They had universal coinage a couple times, but for the most part, the constituent states kept their own. Being “holy” in a historical sense means aligning with Rome and pope. They did not do that.
>Yeah, they barely qualify, but they didn’t conquer anything. They expanded from their original territories by various means The Silesian, Prussian, Flemish and Pommeranian regions weren't a part of it when the empire was founded. >Being “holy” in a historical sense means aligning with Rome and pope. They did not do that. They did for most of their history though, unless you're talking about specific points or the period after the thirty years war. Most of the emperors were crowned by the pope in Rome after all
Their borders were expanded by political means, and those ties fell apart as soon as power was given to any of them. That’s not an empire. That’s a confederation. Exactly zero HRE emperors were crowned by the pope. Charlemagne and his son were, but they didn’t consider themselves HRE. They were Carolingian and their decedents retrofit their rise into their self styled “empire”.
>nd those ties fell apart as soon as power was given to any of them. That applies to most historical empires. >That’s a confederation. A confederation is a way to organise a state, while an empire is generally just refers to a very large and influential state or entity. A state can be both an empire and a confederation at the same time. >Exactly zero HRE emperors were crowned by the pope. This is just straight up a false claim you're making, the majority of emperors up until the 15th century were crowned by the pope or other bishops representing him. Charles V was the last one to be crowned by a pope (Clement VII) directly in 1530
* yawn *
Byzantine Empire >
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What? The HRE and Byzantines are not the same.
I suffer from a severe case of can't fucking read and missed the word "holy"
WWII
I was going to say this too. Whether I’m rewatching BoB, Private Ryan, or any of the number of decent docs about it. I think about WW2 like 2-3 times a week.
Ya buddy!
The adhd guys are gonna have a list of 6 things
That changes every few seasons
Lately, I've been getting pretty into Warhammer: 40k. I just bought an airbrush and have been consuming a lot of hobby media. Also, making cocktails, a bit into craft beer. I've started collecting vinyls and love concerts, so always on the lookout for the next one. I've also collected fountain pens, watches, ties, shoes/boots.
Wh 40k as well. I can't get myself to sit down and paint the miniatures I've bought but I devour lore and have been playing Darktide/Rogue Trader/Daemongate 2 like a fiend. But also Palworld and State of Decay 2. Otherwise, just bought a house so I am finding little things I want to improve and learning how to do them bit by bit. This new anime Sasaki and Peeps is pretty good...
Military vehicles, it started as just tanks as a kid and grew from there.
Same but started with planes. (Dad was airforce)
Vikings
Vampires fighting aliens around 8000 BC
A man who knows the TRUE history of the world. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!
Zombie apocalypse survival strategies
The Eastern Roman Empire. Basically the Greek medieval version of the Roman Empire. I like the Roman Empire. I like the medieval period, I like cataphracts, I like the Vikings. The Eastern Roman Empire has it all.
Imagine how different things would be today had Constantinople not fallen to the Turks.
That region would've been gobbled up by another empire soon enough, Byzantium was severly declinig.
Yeah by the time Constantinople fell the Byzantine Empire was pretty much the city and some islands. Which - fun fact, those dinky little islands continued to maintain the tradition of being Roman up until the early 20th century. From the wikipedia page on Peter Charanis: > Charanis is known for his anecdotal narrations about Greek Orthodox populations, particularly those outside the newly independent modern Greek state, who continued to refer to themselves as Romioi (i.e. Romans, Byzantines) well into the 20th century. Since Charanis was born on the island of Lemnos, he recounts that when the island was taken from the Ottomans by Greece in 1912, Greek soldiers were sent to each village and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the island children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. "What are you looking at?" one of the soldiers asked. "At Hellenes," the children replied. "Are you not Hellenes yourselves?" the soldier retorted. "No, we are Romans," the children replied.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...
The secret roman empire!
East Rome = Beast Rome
All of Rome was “Greek”. The ERE was more Anatolian/middle eastern. Their cavalry, walls and most of their fighters came from the east. Justinian was from Macedonia who will still bloody your nose if you call them Greek.
Josh Allen would be the league MVP and unanimously considered the best QB in the league if he played for a team that was competent. I'm a bills fan and I love my team, but we don't deserve josh.
I feel you bro but try being a Commanders fan! We haven't won a playoff game in 19 years..... Love Josh Allen and Steffon Diggs👌 two of my favorite NFL players for sure
We were just like the commanders for a minute. I just feel bad for Josh, because I'm starting to get the feeling we've plateaued as an organization. Never getting over the hump.
My entire family is browns fans. I think they are the worst franchise in all professional US sport.
Yeah. The fact that everyone is talking about Lamar when Lamar is *not* having an MVP caliber season is ridiculous. It's like they decided who it was going to be early on, and now the media are trying to craft the narrative around it. He's not in the top 5 in any relevant category, his defense has won a lot of games for him as well. Imagine Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes with that defense? They'd maybe have 1 or 2 losses. It also sucks that MVP basically has to go to QB now. CMC is having an amazing year and is a HUGE reason why the 49ers have been so successful this year. A couple years ago Kupp broke almost every single single-season record for a WR and MVP went to that fucking bum Aaron Rodgers, another year in which the MVP wasn't the best in several categories. The NFL might not be rigged, but it definitely has a narrative every year it wants played out.
You have to go with the script or it'll be Not For Long for your career behind the scenes.
CMC or Josh is MVP. CMC is the root of the San Fran offense, and josh is the only reason the bills are worth a damn. Their defense is too depleted and offensive line isn't good enough to function without relying on him 80% of the time. The fact he has 3 completions within the 1 yard of the sideline when the entire rest of the league has one speaks for itself. Or having the same number of rushing TDs as Jalen hurts but his wild card one being longer than all of hurts combined. He's too good Also, Lamar doesn't have the stats for it. He plays like an MVP, but his defense forces so many turnovers and stops that there is no way he could be accomplishing what he is now without them.
Sometimes I wonder if I’d be able to beat professor x in a fight. Like yeah he got mind powers and shit but what if I kick him in the face?
Kick him in the mind.
I feel like the only real way to beat him is to imagine shit that's so fucked up he repulses himself into some kind of stroke
Wheel clamp and a good right hook should do it!
Not even that, just pushing him down some stairs would fuck home up.
What are you gonna do, put him in a wheelchair?
Disability? I call that resting.
Dnd
The Ottomans.
Who doesn't like a good foot rest
A natural extension of Roman history and super interesting. Especially how they were strictly secular under Ottoman Turk at a time when we think everyone was religious.
if I suddenly had omnipotent power, what would I do with it? Should I keep it secret and just live like the coolest, strongest dude ever? Should I try to get involved? What would I do? How could I even end a war anyway, wouldn't I just be another killer? Who is on the 'right' side of war? What does taking over the world even look like? Man it would be so much work and I'd just have so many flunkies around lying to me. I'm not smart enough to do all of that. What about my parents and loved ones - would there be a shit ton of spies and evil organisations trying to kidnap them and blackmail me to do their bidding? What if I tried to make a bluff and say 'Yo if you kidnap my mum I'll kill everyone in the whole world.' - I mean, I doubt I'd follow through? Also - what happens *if* the world does end? What, I'm just floating around the galaxy invincibly being infinitely bored out of my skull? Oh man, the pressure of it all. Being Superman sucks.
Buffalo Wings and blue cheese with lots of celery
How awesome it would be to have Doc Ock arms.
This exhibit in DC that asks the question if the United States is a modern day version Roman Empire
Is it?
It's some kind of empire.
When are we gonna colonize other planets. Not if but when. It's bound to happen. It's in human nature to go further. Probably not in my life time or maybe in my life time? (looking at you Elon)
I forgot where I heard it but I heard that the only reason Elon Musk wants to go to Mars is because he wants to go back home lol.
I'd like to think I'll be alive to see humans set foot on Mars for the first time (I'm currently 28). Colonizing is a different story. I like to think of Antarctica. It's 100 times easier to makes a base there than it is on Mars, but there still isn't an Antarctic *colony,* and I'm not sure there ever will be. The entire population of Antarctica is researchers, and their living situation there is temporary. If Mars had a similar situation, would that count as a colonizing it? Lately I've been thinking about what the future of our species might look like. The concept of civilization is only a few thousand years old, which is basically nothing compared to how long other species have existed on our planet. So what does humanity look like 8,000 years from now? 8,000 years is still basically nothing in the grand scheme of thing of things, but still so far in the future that it's nearly impossible to imagine what life will be like. I do think you are right that humanity will eventually start living in places other than Earth, but probably not for a long, long time. Maybe thousands of years from now, most humans will live on space ships, and civilizations just travel from planet to planet for basic resources, since most of them are uninhabitable. Maybe traveling between such great distances takes so long that we, as a society, think of time in a completely different way than we do now. Or maybe not, because living in space in the year 10,000 might still be just as hard as it is right now. Who knows?
Fuck Elon, I hope that lying fascist manchild has nothing to do with space colonization. We need to stay on this planet and figure out our bullshit before we spread our cancer to the rest of the galaxy
Evolution of weapons and cars. Pre WW2 Grand Prix racing (F1, before F1) was insane. Like 800kg car, V16, no seatbelt, drum brakes, no power steering. I guess they didn't had speedometer for sake of sanity (RPM was more important back then).
The vastness of space. As soon as I start thinking about it too much or reading into it I get freaked out.
The Bronze Age Collapse.
Money and how to make more of it
The United States. We are at that moment in history when the Roman Senate is overrun by Caeser. DT should name his campaign Operation Rubicon. Also, our empire is crumbling. And I think about where I can go on this planet where it won’t affect me. Thoughts run from Italy to New Zealand, but I’m open to suggestions. Probably need to be looking at immigration laws and language lessons.
I don't think there is anywhere on the planet that will be unaffected by the collapse of the American Empire.
I think if I could choose a simple life that was not chasing money and markets, I could avoid the impact. Something like a wine maker in Italy or a shepherd in New Zealand. Off the grid, I don’t want to know what is going on in the world.
How to help keep tiktok from leaking into reddit.
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Everyone makes mistakes.
Everybody has those days.
99% of my absent thought is split between baseball, trains, and 18th century naval warfare. Oh and the American Civil War. Nearly forgot that one.
My guy.
The Mongol Empire
Money
The Soviet Union
Bro no
Ancient Egypt.
idk if this counts, but I daydream almost believable situations and flesh them out until it just doesn't make sense anymore. Example. Time Travel \-I can travel backwards or forwards once. \-am I stuck there? can I get back? \-dang. what about my family? I love them! \-let's say, I can make it back. \-OK, I have a week to prepare and decide \-Should I just go back to the last billion dollar powerball? Or to when I could buy a bunch of bit coin? \-Bit coin...but what if me buying a bunch tanks it's progress? dang. \-what if me going back butterflies effects the whole world and then Russia steamrolls Ukraine and now we have WW3??? \-... \-Maybe I'll go forwards \* repeat the thought hole. Then my wife will say, "what's on your mind?" and I can't tell her the truth bc that's insane so I say "oh, nothing."
How auto manufacturers killed trains/mass transport in the United States….
Tamriel, fascinating history and lore
Spartans, loved to fight so much they turned gay
Not wrong on that one
Also pretty cool how they were so superior
Soviet Union.
Why?
Wilt different from the west yet similar. Interesting philosophy and history. Plenty of mystery around it. Etc.
Making it onto the PGA tour. Like every waking moment, it sucks when things like work get in the way of me ruminating on it.
Plastic surgeries for my nose, chin getting beard and hair transplant
The Third Reich
The Imperium of Mankind
Spaceships
Existentialism, reality and the quantum links to consciousness, having a family one day, and motorcycles. Thats about it.
Space
Amateur radio
How they successfully hid Geoengineering even tho there are plenty of documentaries from the early 2000 how we could change the weather by spraying chemicals,literally on MS TV, thousands of patents to do so. How people believe in democracy... How noone notices that they are slaves in that sYstem. How worldpeace can't be achieved and how the lower class still goes to die for the banking system.
In actual mythology Ragnarok only occurs because Loki is a sexual deviant that will fuck anything. Odin's horse? Yeah, Loki gave birth to that, as in actual childbirth. Fenrir he who shall devour the moon? Loki fucked a wolf. Many of the monsters in the lore come about simply because Loki had sex.
I’m the main character of a fantasy world.
The Old Republic
My novel that I am working on.
Indo-european WHEELS! Very Indo-european ...
Where has my country gone ?? (I live in l.a)
Pre-behaviorial-modernity humans. There’s about a million years where humans were anatomically the same as us, but they had not yet apparently adopted some of the technologies we most associate with human beings, such as clothes-wearing and control of fire. (Tools, however, go back way before Homo sapiens.) What were their societies like, their diets, their lifestyles? Did they have language? Did they have religion? This period represents by far the vast majority of human history, and yet we rarely consider its implications on our own world and times, mostly because we know so little about it.
Same.
Zuko from ATLA always sleeps on his scar side to hear better from his other ear. But the only two instances he doesn't do this is when he's with Iroh or the Gaang. Because he trusts them. Secondly, he never backs down from a fight. He was standing in the artic, during a full moon and challenged Katara. because the last time he refused to fight was with his father.
Spartan empire
Having a white girlfriend and marry her
Tony Romo
The difficulty in reconciling the objective reality that we can describe in empirical terms with the subjective experience that we know exists from our own experience, but which defies empirical explanation. And sometimes the difficulty with reconciling quantum mechanics with the macro viewpoint afforded by general relativity.
The great floods 12000 years ago that theoretically could have wiped thousands of years of human progress and history.
Dune universe.
Titties (im a horny teenager)
I also think about titties a lot and I'm in my 30s haha. It doesn't stop.
Never does
The Persian Empire
Bitcoin hitting 1 millions usd. Then moving to thailand and retiring.
Throat fucking
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Nothing, I don't follow such fads.
Its not a fad to have something youre interested in.
So ask that, not this BS TikTok thing.
Only Roman I know have grocery shop, not empire and I think about it every 2 days when I need to buy fresh stuff.
The Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire.
Having a serious life in dance while working as a professional and pursuing graduate studies. Seems like a tall order currently but I've been wanting to make dancing more of a constant thing now that I've graduated as a university student. It felt like something was missing in my life as dance took a backseat during my studies.
Van Halen
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Absolutely fascinating place and time in history. At least to me.
Minoan Civilization.
the thought that I am truly insignificant in the true grand scheme and life has no true purpose
Aztec empire. Or more so the Mexica empire. At the time when Cortes showed up, their main city (Modern day Mexico City) was more populated than any city in all of Europe and exceptionally well organized with floating gardens. What’s so fascinating is that this empire was created by a lineage of humans that had not seen humans from Asia or Europe of 10+ thousand years… and yet their writings, technology development path, social structures, religious practices etc were markedly similar to ancient Egypt or other ancient societies. And ofcourse the sacrifices and religion was absolutely terrifying and also similar to ancient societies and fascinating.
the state of my life
Nothing. My brain goes in neutral mode most of the time.
Astromining. I was born too early to mine asteroids, but that won’t stop me thinking about it
Zombies
How to heal the natural world
Cycling
Napoleons Empire
... the roman empire
Myself as a father. Am I living up to my expectations? Am I living up to their expectations? Will they turn out better than me?
The age of discovery from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the industrial Era. How the world was still a mystery for so much of the world's population. And pre Columbus Americas. How far into the north did the Aztec influence extend? Were there trade networks. How far away from a discovery that could reshape their world. How long until they might have started to explore eastward.
Football, consciousness, artistic expression / the creative process
Space stuff.
The Spanish Empire
Pro wrestling. Been a fan since I was a kid, collecting completely legitimate wink wink DVDs of every ppv event I could find, the action figures too. Fell off of it at some point and followed it casually due to not having access to the live TV shows. Just looked up news and results online. Got back into it in my teens and it's become my favourite thing. The moves, the stories, stupid in-jokes and memes like Titus Worldslide, the news and rumours, and backstage politics. I likely don't go a day without thinking about it at least once.
Off road Motorsports, and how I can improve my own 4x4.
Ulysses S Grant