Stilicho

Jacob Urowsky Professor of Strategic Studies at Hustlers University. Former CIA station chief for the Heard and MacDonald Islands.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

A thread with excerpts from The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell:

[Jim Sharp @prowrstlngstrng]

Average voter here

All I want is 0% interest rates forever with no inflation

Also I want manufacturing jobs back but I also don't want any factories built

Oh and I want housing prices to go down, while they also keep their value at the same time

Is that too much to ask?!

[Καλός @realKalos]

Maybe the only childlike sense of wonder I still possess is for books. The thoughts of men who lived hundreds or thousands of years ago are all there, waiting for you. You can read them whenever you want. Wow. Incredible.

[Narodowy Front Krzewienia Cnót i Zapobiegania Złu @FrontCnot]

Mieszkańcy Los Angeles oddają hołd Polsce z okazji Narodowego Święta Niepodległości. Dziekujemy!

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

@CyberPunkCortes I didn't overthink it, I just put a couple tablespoons in a glass of water.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

When I found out that Roman soldiers regularly drank Posca, a beverage of heavily diluted wine vinegar, I decided to try some -- it was actually pretty good! I have to get my hands on some now too somehow.

[India Infographics Guy @Deshpacito661]

The Romans used fermented fish sauce with every dish. There is a good chance that Roman cuisine resembled modern southeast Asian cuisine

[Aleksandr Groznov @AleksandrG78133]

On guard

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

@Babygravy9 I was half-expecting it to start speeding towards him before the screen freezes and cuts to static.

[Schmμτż ᛭𝟗᛭ @Schmutz_9R]

“For every eight guys who retire in this trade, only one guy picks it up. The whole industry is in danger.”

“Wow. Would you hire me? I’d love to learn it.”

“Absolutely not.”

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

The US version is sending Craig (pictured; Farm class of '78) to tell you that it doesn't matter that your daughter didn't do so good on the Gaokao because he'll make sure she goes to MIT instead.

[Occidental Anthropologist @occidentanth]

I got a q, why aren’t Americans renowned for their honey traps? Why is it always Russians and Chinese?

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

DR Congo sentences 66 soldiers to death for being 'cowards' https://t.co/jRVzyh18AW

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

A poast before its time.

[Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 @StevenGlinert]

“But Chairman Xi, that one is a 6. She's...mid. We chose a solid 9 for this mission.”

"That's because you are a fool...Release her on the DOGE boys."

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

On his deathbed, Cardinal Richelieu, also notorious for political grudges, was asked to forgive his enemies, to which he replied that he had no enemies to forgive, amazing his audience. To which he added: I have only had enemies of the French State.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

It's noteworthy that Thucydides always has Athenians make arguments based on interest and Spartans make ones based on morality.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

Starting a few weeks in the US with a stop in a Gulf petrostate where a charismatic cleric recently led the first successful regime change in decades

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

@MartinSkold2 I don't think this is true; merchants usually carry goods one way, sell them, buy others with the proceeds, and carry them back -- it's rare for there to be a long distance carry trade in physical money unless there's some good reason for it.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

I'm not qualified to evaluate the econometrics behind this but it seems to rest on the assumption that coins = trade in a way that doesn't line up with historical reality. The movement of coins is far more likely to reflect state spending, especially on armies, than trade.

[Econometrica @ecmaEditors]

@johannesmboehm and Chaney combine data on half a million ancient coins with a model of trade and money to reconstruct trade and consumption from AD 325 to 950. The estimates show economic activity shifting away from the Mediterranean from the 6th century.
https://t.co/LjwuEevS2e

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Today is the 109th anniversary of one of the worst disasters to strike human civilisation. Lenin's Bolshevik putsch in Petrograd, which overthrew Russia's first democracy and began 70 years of murder, theft and persecution. Imperial Germany arranged this event and paid for it.

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

We had 15 presidents between 1861 and 1933 -- three were Democrats! (And one wasn't even elected.)

[Stilicho @GenStilicho]

A lot of Americans have an intuitive sense that political power flips back and forth between the parties, but this doesn't line up with history at all. Rs were dominant from the Civil War to FDR, then Ds up until around Reagan. Current situation is an anomaly.

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.

[Canderous Ordoliberal 🪏🤠 @butleriano]

White culture when we were always in danger of being enslaved by Algerians: Republicanism, Hamlet, St. Peter’s, calculus, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, Girl with the Pearl Earring

White culture after Algerians stropped doing that: Insane Clown Posse, Joe Rogan, cuck porn