Eric

@Itzmi_yunaaa Sure is.

Your profile picture is actually you btw

@in3gal @histories_arch To the Aztecs, who practiced ritual human sacrifice, yes. But then 1.4 billion babies have been aborted since 1980. So who does it better than us?

@histories_arch So a human being is only worth a hundred tamales.

The Aztec Empire developed one of history's most unusual monetary systems between the 14th and 16th centuries. Cacao beans—the raw ingredient for chocolate—functioned as standardized currency throughout Mesoamerica. These beans possessed the essential qualities of effective money: portability, divisibility, durability, and universal recognition across the empire's vast trade networks. Cacao's value stemmed from practical scarcity. The trees grew only in specific tropical lowland regions, making beans rare enough to resist inflation while remaining abundant enough for circulation. The Aztecs couldn't cultivate cacao in their highland capital of Tenochtitlan, forcing them to obtain beans through tribute from conquered territories or long-distance trade. A single bean could purchase a tamale; 100 beans bought a slave; 8,000 beans represented significant wealth. The system created immediate problems with counterfeiting. Enterprising traders hollowed out beans and filled empty shells with dirt or avocado pits to increase their supply of currency. Merchants developed expertise in detecting fraudulent beans through weight, sound, and visual inspection. Unlike metal coinage, cacao eventually rotted, preventing long-term hoarding and encouraging active trade rather than wealth accumulation. Spanish conquistadors recorded detailed accounts of the cacao economy when they encountered it in the 1520s. Hernán Cortés initially dismissed the practice as primitive, failing to recognize the sophisticated economic thinking behind it. The Spanish eventually recognized cacao's utility and temporarily integrated it into colonial currency systems before gradually replacing it with European metal coins. By the mid-16th century, cacao's role as money had largely disappeared. The Aztec cacao system demonstrated that currency requires social agreement, not inherent value. Metal has no more natural claim to monetary status than beans—both work because communities trust them. The practice reveals economic sophistication often denied to pre-Columbian civilizations and shows how environmental constraints shape financial innovation. The Aztec cacao currency system established precedents that influenced economic thinking far beyond its collapse. It demonstrated that commodity money could function without centralized minting or precious metals, influencing later debates about what constitutes legitimate currency. The system's vulnerability to counterfeiting and decay prefigured similar problems in paper money systems centuries later. Spanish documentation of cacao currency provided European economists with concrete examples of alternative monetary systems, broadening theoretical frameworks about money's nature. The practice preserved cacao cultivation networks that outlasted the empire itself, as demand for chocolate as a luxury good eventually created global trade routes. Most significantly, the system's disappearance illustrated how conquest disrupts not just political structures but fundamental economic relationships, forcing populations to abandon working systems for imposed foreign alternatives. The cacao economy remains a powerful counter-example to claims that only gold or silver can serve as "real" money. #archaeohistories

@harukaawake Passivity. People have to stand up for themselves.

🇯🇵 What's one thing you -don't- like about Japan?

@odysseymovie This is some genuinely clownworld shit. Talk about falling off. How can a man go from making the best Batman movies ever made, to this bullshit trash, lmao

Defy the Gods. A film by Christopher Nolan. Shot entirely with IMAX film cameras. In theaters 7 17 26.

@natumi_hana 🙏 I hope your get your Retro future keyboard!

@QueenAnticommie The restaurant should be paying their bills. Not me. They work for the restaurant. I don't see how people are okay with this greedy ass ploy by the restaurants to do this to people. In Japan, it's considered obscenely rude to tip your waiter or waitress.

I agree with this! If you can’t afford a tip, stay home

@ronsterd89 Skin

@moonchild23580 Nana Okada. Isoroku Yamamoto.

gun to your head name a Japanese person.

@natumi_hana Welcome to the jug...

The squishy I was squeezing on stream got a hole in the bag 😭 I was gonna throw it away after touching it with my bare hands, but when I poked it a little I got attached to it… so I moved it into a different bag instead

@Dottovuu You did absolutely nothing wrong, and in all honesty, it kinda feels like you dodged a bullet. I'm glad you didn't put any time or effort into a franchise that is so disrespectful to VAs and talents. You are better, you deserve better, you will receive better. Chin up, always!

Coming from someone whose English is also not their first language, if English is not a language you're fluent in, I hope you are able to first analyze and understand what wordplay and a genuinely harmful comment is before taking action. This has always been a constant problem I've had with some individuals where they would process my words through a rough translator and twist my words. It was hurtful to see this but I didn't think it could be harmful but I see how mistranslations toward myself could make a negative impact. I hope those who would misconstrue words through a mistranslation could reflect on how their seemingly innocent action can impact others and be more careful with their actions. As for the individuals who misconstrue with ill intent in mind, I sincerely hope you can grow as a person.

@atoreiyu200001 I can tell you exactly what kind of person did it. I can tell you their race and their general appearance.

I want to ask people around the world who are not Japanese. At the restroom near Fushimi Inari Shrine last night — a sacred place — someone left diapers covered in feces and piles of trash in the hand-washing area and just walked away. Is this considered normal behavior where you come from? To whoever did this — what the hell is wrong with you? This isn’t just bad manners — it’s disgusting, disrespectful, and completely unacceptable. This is a place of worship, not a garbage dump. If anyone thinks this kind of behavior is okay, that’s the problem. Clean up your own filth and learn some basic respect. Don’t you all agree?

@moonchild23580 Red Dead Redemption (2 especially but also 1). Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3. Ghost of Tsushima. Cyberpunk 2077 (after it was patched and fixed).

dare to name this game?

@TheeMexiKEN @HidekiKamiya_X I guess the straight culture appropriation is coming to an end, huh?

Being an LGBT icon doesn’t make the icon itself gay or queer. Hope this helps, and that community is keeping your game alive and well you worm @HidekiKamiya_X

@Tahj42 @internett_baby Meaning yours, BTW. Hers is exactly correct and precisely on the dot in every way.

@Tahj42 @internett_baby Fatherless opinion.

If a man pays child support, and finds out later the child isn't even his, the mother should have to pay all of it back no ifs, ands, or buts. People arguing against this are wild.

@mrwtffacts We need this in America.

⚠️ In Brazil, a 48-year-old ice cream vendor abducted a 1-year-old baby girl from a floating boat where her mother had put her to sleep. He raped the toddler, murdered her, and dumped her tiny defenseless body in the river. When the horrific news spread, hundreds of outraged locals, including the baby’s mother, stormed the police station holding the suspect. They dragged the rapist out, beat him, doused him with gasoline, and burned him alive in the street. All captured live on social media.

@aaliyahvtuber_ If they're consenting adults, it's their business and no one else's. If you disagree, tell the younger that you don't think they're an adult and they're incapable of making their own decisions and you don't agree with their relationship. See how fast they spit in your face.

Correct me if I'm wrong but a 30-year-old man has no business dating an 18-23-year-old girl.

@AlisDekay @StingerChan @UmariTomoe Sounds like commie shitmouthing to me. Move to a commie country. Leave your Apple stuff behind, abandon your hybrid, and leave, my guy.

@StingerChan @UmariTomoe "Anyone upset with celebrating a bunch of terrorist collectivist paid via mass scale redistribution of wealth to commit acts of terrorism across the world is a Communist."

I know some people are probably gonna be upset about this, but doing a military charity event has become a yearly May tradition for me. I just wanna make sure my people are mentally well and don't feel isolated. I'm gonna keep doing my best to do my part in looking after them.

@MeltdownLouVT @UmariTomoe Oh boy, do I ever know which chuba I'm not gonna subscribe to.

@UmariTomoe Oh yes because we have many reasons to just LOVE the US Armed forces don't we? I mean let us not forget all the good things the US military has done recently. Killing families, commiting mass murder, war crimes. Good times yaknow :) But you don't care about any of that offcourse.

@MeltdownLouVT @UmariTomoe Complain to Israel. America didn't bomb Lebanon.