Carthage looked cool on drawings and stuff, that harbor was pretty advanced.
My biggest wtf was learning Hannibal was in Italy for 20 years. I don't understand how that worked.
While Rome ruled Italy, the majority of Italy was not Roman, it was tribes and city states who had acknowledged Roman hegemony. Hannibal's strategy was to break their ties to Rome and leave the city itself isolated. Unfortunately while that got him new recruits in the North and from Gaul, the main objective never really took, and only one city toyed with unilateral defection. He could march up to a town and capture it, but because he avoided battles unless he set the terms of it, when his army marched on Rome could retake it.
Also by all accounts he inspired serious devotion in his troops.
Carthage looked cool on drawings and stuff, that harbor was pretty advanced.
My biggest wtf was learning Hannibal was in Italy for 20 years. I don't understand how that worked.
While Rome ruled Italy, the majority of Italy was not Roman, it was tribes and city states who had acknowledged Roman hegemony. Hannibal's strategy was to break their ties to Rome and leave the city itself isolated. Unfortunately while that got him new recruits in the North and from Gaul, the main objective never really took, and only one city toyed with unilateral defection. He could march up to a town and capture it, but because he avoided battles unless he set the terms of it, when his army marched on Rome could retake it.
Also by all accounts he inspired serious devotion in his troops.
Wrong Hannibal was sent to do that job.
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Carthage looked cool on drawings and stuff, that harbor was pretty advanced.
My biggest wtf was learning Hannibal was in Italy for 20 years. I don't understand how that worked.
While Rome ruled Italy, the majority of Italy was not Roman, it was tribes and city states who had acknowledged Roman hegemony. Hannibal's strategy was to break their ties to Rome and leave the city itself isolated. Unfortunately while that got him new recruits in the North and from Gaul, the main objective never really took, and only one city toyed with unilateral defection. He could march up to a town and capture it, but because he avoided battles unless he set the terms of it, when his army marched on Rome could retake it.
Also by all accounts he inspired serious devotion in his troops.
I mean, i'd be devoted too if i was under threat of being eated.
Get it?
it's a joke.
About the contemporary novel character of Hanibal.
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I see, it's interesting. There are a lot of wtf's like that for me regarding ancient times. Time and distances are really weird.
Like if you ask me how far someone could realistically travel in a lifetime in 300 BC I could imagine myself guessing like 1000 miles. But then someone will be like btw Alexander fought and conquered from Greece into India in like 5 years oh okay.
Genghis Khan was born in a little old village and conquered basically two continents in his lifetime and traveled on a horse oh okay.
I see, it's interesting. There are a lot of wtf's like that for me regarding ancient times. Time and distances are really weird.
Like if you ask me how far someone could realistically travel in a lifetime in 300 BC I could imagine myself guessing like 1000 miles. But then someone will be like btw Alexander fought and conquered from Greece into India in like 5 years oh okay.
Genghis Khan was born in a little old village and conquered basically two continents in his lifetime and traveled on a horse oh okay.
This is why it's important to travel in a TARDIS when you visit ancient times.
I see, it's interesting. There are a lot of wtf's like that for me regarding ancient times. Time and distances are really weird.
Like if you ask me how far someone could realistically travel in a lifetime in 300 BC I could imagine myself guessing like 1000 miles. But then someone will be like btw Alexander fought and conquered from Greece into India in like 5 years oh okay.
Genghis Khan was born in a little old village and conquered basically two continents in his lifetime and traveled on a horse oh okay.
I've had some interesting musings about how humanity doesn't care about distance as much as we care about travel time.
I know it takes ~24 minutes on the subway to get from home to central Stockholm.
The distance? No clue.
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In investigations of corporate and/or political misconduct, the standard defence when you are unable to hide the smoking gun is to either feign ignorance or "admit" you made a mistake. This comes from a very human notion that it's better to admit incompetence than deliberate malfeasance.
The problem with this from an ethical standpoint is some cases of misconduct are so terrible that the source of your misconduct effectively becomes moot and you should be punished regardless. In my experience though the "incompetent" are able to scrape by.
Example: The phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch's defense was to claim he had no personal knowledge of it going on. But short of evidence of his subordinates striving to conceal it from him, isn't it his duty to know? To make sure his company isn't breaking the law? And in failing to do so shouldn't there be consequences for him?
These questions are from an idealistic perspective and the real world probably disagrees with me, but I still think it's interesting to consider.
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I get to see Weezer from about 20ft away on Friday
My sister saw the open for panic at the Disco. Pretty jealous. But I haven't followed Weezer since idk like 2002 and even then I probably would just want to hear Pinkerton cuts.
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Also hi chat good morning hope you are all well.
I am drinking coffee in bed and listening to the recent elliphant album and it's great.
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Loads of old wars stalled out while both sides waited for new soldiers to reach fighting age so that they could actually field an army again.
The Hundred Years war is a pretty good example of this I seem to recall? You have periods of several major, intense battles where sides wore down their usable armies, then a few years while they train up kids to take the field, then the battles start again.
Loads of old wars stalled out while both sides waited for new soldiers to reach fighting age so that they could actually field an army again.
The Hundred Years war is a pretty good example of this I seem to recall? You have periods of several major, intense battles where sides wore down their usable armies, then a few years while they train up kids to take the field, then the battles start again.
I think there were also a few short-lived peace treaties as well, making it more a series of conflicts than constant if lulled war.
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I see, it's interesting. There are a lot of wtf's like that for me regarding ancient times. Time and distances are really weird.
Like if you ask me how far someone could realistically travel in a lifetime in 300 BC I could imagine myself guessing like 1000 miles. But then someone will be like btw Alexander fought and conquered from Greece into India in like 5 years oh okay.
Genghis Khan was born in a little old village and conquered basically two continents in his lifetime and traveled on a horse oh okay.
I've had some interesting musings about how humanity doesn't care about distance as much as we care about travel time.
I know it takes ~24 minutes on the subway to get from home to central Stockholm.
The distance? No clue.
These days I care almost more about how hard it is to park at wherever I'm going. Certain places in SF, I just park somewhere easy and uber from there. But I'm shit with using public transportation so a lot of that is my fault.
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I am all for fun within strictly enforced parameters and with an intensively vetted list of people.
Attend one of these parties and report back. For science.
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An Australian "news and current affairs" program.
It is just beyond awful, empty and shallow.
I nominate a walking tour of York
They have hot water bottles.
Just piles and piles of them.
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My biggest wtf was learning Hannibal was in Italy for 20 years. I don't understand how that worked.
Second biggest wtf was that the elephants used snowboard, I always thought they used skis,
There's a lot of reasons but the tl:dr is that wars tended to be a lot slower back in the day.
While Rome ruled Italy, the majority of Italy was not Roman, it was tribes and city states who had acknowledged Roman hegemony. Hannibal's strategy was to break their ties to Rome and leave the city itself isolated. Unfortunately while that got him new recruits in the North and from Gaul, the main objective never really took, and only one city toyed with unilateral defection. He could march up to a town and capture it, but because he avoided battles unless he set the terms of it, when his army marched on Rome could retake it.
Also by all accounts he inspired serious devotion in his troops.
Wrong Hannibal was sent to do that job.
I mean, i'd be devoted too if i was under threat of being eated.
Get it?
it's a joke.
About the contemporary novel character of Hanibal.
Who is an anthropophagic person.
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Like if you ask me how far someone could realistically travel in a lifetime in 300 BC I could imagine myself guessing like 1000 miles. But then someone will be like btw Alexander fought and conquered from Greece into India in like 5 years oh okay.
Genghis Khan was born in a little old village and conquered basically two continents in his lifetime and traveled on a horse oh okay.
This is why it's important to travel in a TARDIS when you visit ancient times.
I've had some interesting musings about how humanity doesn't care about distance as much as we care about travel time.
I know it takes ~24 minutes on the subway to get from home to central Stockholm.
The distance? No clue.
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
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I get to see Weezer from about 20ft away on Friday
In investigations of corporate and/or political misconduct, the standard defence when you are unable to hide the smoking gun is to either feign ignorance or "admit" you made a mistake. This comes from a very human notion that it's better to admit incompetence than deliberate malfeasance.
The problem with this from an ethical standpoint is some cases of misconduct are so terrible that the source of your misconduct effectively becomes moot and you should be punished regardless. In my experience though the "incompetent" are able to scrape by.
Example: The phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch's defense was to claim he had no personal knowledge of it going on. But short of evidence of his subordinates striving to conceal it from him, isn't it his duty to know? To make sure his company isn't breaking the law? And in failing to do so shouldn't there be consequences for him?
These questions are from an idealistic perspective and the real world probably disagrees with me, but I still think it's interesting to consider.
My sister saw the open for panic at the Disco. Pretty jealous. But I haven't followed Weezer since idk like 2002 and even then I probably would just want to hear Pinkerton cuts.
I am drinking coffee in bed and listening to the recent elliphant album and it's great.
The Hundred Years war is a pretty good example of this I seem to recall? You have periods of several major, intense battles where sides wore down their usable armies, then a few years while they train up kids to take the field, then the battles start again.
I think there were also a few short-lived peace treaties as well, making it more a series of conflicts than constant if lulled war.
1337-1360
1369-1389
1415-1453
Sounds right
These days I care almost more about how hard it is to park at wherever I'm going. Certain places in SF, I just park somewhere easy and uber from there. But I'm shit with using public transportation so a lot of that is my fault.
Google it if you want to see @skippydumptruck naked I guess
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Viking museum or rail museum?
that is today's fun fact
Viking museum is currently Balkanized due to flooding damage, so Rail Museum wins by default.
It is? Shame
People have made fun of me for it
"There's nothing to do there" they say
Which is exactly the point