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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldIt's imminent
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    15 days ago

    It’s low hanging fruit and there’s already a bunch of chuds talking about historical accuracies of the cast, so it’s unlikely going to produce much meaningful discourse.

    (Writing and horses were more important than bronze anyway. I think some BritDane just came up with the metal ages to begin with, and they aren’t used with the Americas.)


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    Last week the Trump admin added a bunch of companies to the list of those accused of using forced Uyghur labor.

    Sure enough all week there’s been renewed talk about Xinjiang. They’re trying to get ahead of the midterms, and they got nothing else.



  • It’s all a little fuzzy but essentially the Gros Michel was THE cultivar of banana, but it became susceptible to a disease. It still exists, but can’t be farmed like it used to be.

    The chemical was developed and likened to the Gros Michel variety in mind for it being called ‘banana’ flavor since the Cavendish (i think?) hadn’t yet replaced the world market as the banana cultivar of choice.


  • Oh I get that. That was kind of a disappointing part of ER. They established this sort of sanctuary effect, gave an example of it being revoked, and then never revisted it.

    I thought it was like callback to ds1 firekeeper sorta thing, which it wasn’t. Same thing with the Radahn fight and the giant desert arena. I thought it was a callback to Bed of Chaos or Seath with some hidden immortality gem to break and you had to feed phantoms to distract him until you did. Nope.

    But in that way ER is truly DS2:2 with the one-off mechanics.








  • Consider the context that World War 1’s conclusion left multiple imperial monarchies in ashes. The kind of government in question is one that is directly being sanctioned by aristocratic monarchy. The bourgeioise were and were working with kings and noble families as a matter of status quo, who had just spent years sending entire townships to the meatgrinder.


  • Yes, but at a time when social democratic parties in europe hadn’t quite formally formed or split into discernable socialist factions. The Social Democrats in Germany were in active coalition with monarchist anti-republic paramilitaries and had inherited the government from the abdicating kaiser. The KPD didn’t exist yet, and this was technically an internal critique of the Social Democratic Party of which she was a member.

    At the same time, the Social Democrats in Russia included Lenin.

    At any rate it isn’t worth giving the freikorps a pass by omission when unearthing conflicts about the SPD.





  • Back when I worked for a health department there was pretty good evidence that people mostly shit at work.

    I came across this evidence when inspecting homeless encampments which was also when I came to learn most of them fucking had jobs.

    Then covid came around and all the remote workers started blowing up their septic systems because they’d never been used so much and during the daytime.

    The sanitary overlap between tent cities and fancy farmhouses is much larger than you’d expect.