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This is all from "Wine and the Birth of Civilisation", episode 666 of The Rest is History podcast. A summary was generated in minutes using Decant and produced these fantastic insights. 🔗in bio.

"Carpe diem", literally "pluck the day", is a Roman wine metaphor. Horace meant it literally: pluck the day as you'd pluck a bunch of grapes from the vine.

Caesar's conquest of Gaul was partly a wine operation. Roman merchants, addicted the Gauls to wine, banned them from making their own, then set the exchange rate at one amphora per slave. The slave labor made more wine. More wine made more addicts. Caesar just walked in. 🧵

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The night Trump threatened "a whole civilization could die" — reporters captured what happened inside Iran when those words landed. What people felt, and how they responded, is not what you'd predict from either side.

From the May 3rd episode of This American Life: Iran has been under an internet blackout since the war began. Virtually nothing has gotten out. This American Life found a way to smuggle voice memos across the blackout — and what people inside said is not what you'd expect. 🧵

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