@K0styan @BooBeenie @QuetzalPhoenix Point stands, unless you’ve got evidence of Yemeni houses that predate the ice age
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@doormatt26
Product and tech, @em_bergz 's cooking, geologic catastrophe, narrative history, financial memes, and overreacting about sports
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@doormatt26 @BooBeenie @QuetzalPhoenix Not so sure - or, well, depending on what is 'being around'.
The land itselfs existed well before, yes. But it became an island only after the latest Ice Age, when North Sea appeared.
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This door in Westminster Abbey, London is:
Older than the Incan empire
Older than the Aztec empire
Older than the Maori in NZ
Older than the Zulu in SA
Older than the Lakota in the Plains
Older than Islam in India
Older than the Turks in Turkey
Older than Horses in America
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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@HamptonPrezcott isn’t that… exactly what the Virginia GOP did in the NoVA suburbs? Not sure how that disproves the bros
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The “Georgia is next Virginia, bro” discourse is beyond asinine, but the primary reason why the State is now competitive is that the GOP collectively decided to stop trying to compete in Metro Atlanta, which is insane given how incompetent the local governance has gotten there.
Calvinist50@Calvinist50
Atlanta suburbs used to be pretty solidly Republican. Fascinating how quickly they changed. 2004 on left, 2024 on right. They’re still trending left.
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The English claim to Canada dates to within 50 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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@C_hoffmanni @ettingermentum At what point did those powers originally acknowledge the title of “Rome?”
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“But Islam”
“But Inca & Aztecs”
“But…”
SHUT UP, BITCH.
One of Turkey’s concessions to Versailles/the Entente after WW1, one that allowed for complete war debt forgiveness, was finally giving up the title of ‘Rome’. Like Napoleon with the HRE.
The Roman Empire ended in 1922.
ettingermentum@ettingermentum
Explain how the Ottomans weren’t successors to Rome without resorting to moralism or idealism. I’ll wait.
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@supergeekmike Well if you’d previously asserted that New york was fictional, and the people found it, with evidence of a big super hero fight, that coincides with the timeline asserted by Spider-man 2, you’d maybe have a little more humility
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This is like using a picture of New York to prove the authenticity of Spider-Man 2.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord
Historians used to say the same thing about the Iliad. Anyhow, here's Troy.
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Era defining events that happened nearly overnight and single-handedly shaped the decade to come:
2020s: COVID
2010: Great Recession
2000s: 9/11
1990s: Fall of Communism
1980s: ???
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@Lib_Development small, cheaper to operate, easier to repair, fits more places, better visibility, less likely to kill people in a commission, lower maintenance costs, etc.
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In what way could this possibly be better than a truck
Eat DC@eat_dc
Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.
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A thread on the 50 best fortifications to go and visit in the world according to me. They are all fun for at least one in the family. They are listed in reverse rank order as determined by how much fun, unique and awesome they are.
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My head canon is the Death Star weapon system was still in ‘Silicon Valley minimum viable product’ state - they could make it work for the investor demo but they literally had engineers hand tweaking things from the consoles in the depths of the machine to make it work.
jacob@jtimsuggs
The fact that there are no guardrails in this area because the Death Star was designed by Geonosians that could just fly away in case of an emergency is honestly such a great detail.
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What makes it funny is less that it’s a well written joke and more in Ford’s delivery.
Harry@hdwmovies
funniest joke in all of Star Wars imo
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@matpolloy as we found out in Andor they were in a huge rush and panicking, most likely Krennic cut the “install safety railing” phase of the project to get the laser working asap and please Tarkin.
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Meanwhile the Geonosians did have barriers/railings in the Petranaki Arena?? 😭
We literally see Coleman Trebor fall over it after being shot!
I think the Death Star contractors were just trying to save some resources.
jacob@jtimsuggs
The fact that there are no guardrails in this area because the Death Star was designed by Geonosians that could just fly away in case of an emergency is honestly such a great detail.
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@NickyFrank30 Wes Moore does, he’s a former college player and held his own in the Ringer talking Fantasy Football
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There is no one in Democratic politics who knows football.
Like nobody.
Not a single person.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
I still don't understand how Tim Walz could possibly have tweeted that AOC could "call a mean pick six." He was actually a football coach, right? He is, presumably, a Vikings fan. But no one who has any familiarity with football would ever say that. So what the hell happened?
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@kirk_bado Weird metaphor but the lighthouse was also destroyed like the library so i guess it works
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This is the lighthouse of Alexandria for election twitter. Just a boneheaded decision from ABC
Nathaniel Rakich@baseballot
ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
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When I'm president, the oval office will reflect my constituency. A millennial gray color scheme. LVP flooring. Minimalistic art. I am a man of the people.
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@iJordanMoore Football’s Mecca isn’t an NFL stadium, it’s the Rose Bowl.
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The Mecca’s of each major 4 sport…
MLB: Fenway Park
NFL: Lambeau Field
NBA: Madison Square Garden
NHL: Belle Centre
There shouldn’t even be a debate.
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ME: fuck, this spreadsheet is going to be unreadable
ENENTARZI (Sumerian accountant whose soul is imprisoned in my Excel program): O great scribe, by the blessing of Nadu, perhaps a pivot table?
ME: hey thanks man
ENENTARZI: Truly this afterlife is a wondrous and blessed one
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@taskmasterfan Ah you’re right, i forgot there’s another year jump from Ghorman to Lonni and the Death Star leak.
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@doormatt26 a couple of years out, but yes! i’m sure it was still painfully fresh in everyone’s minds
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“ghorman is being slaughtered. it’s my people today, and yours tomorrow”
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@doormatt26 @business its an immigration restriction and although there's a lot of hysteria to convince people to vote against it, has nothing to do with fertility
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Switzerland looks set for a nail-biter vote on a proposal to cap its population at 10 million people, with a new poll showing the public is split down the middle on the issue bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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