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@jasonllevin Yes, absolutely

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@Acyn Can be said about every Trump project ever, public or private

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@TheHerd @colincowherd Yeah, no. Drake is not a pocket QB. He’s a mess with a cake schedule in 25. It’s going to be ugly this season and Brown will be the same cancer he is everywhere

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@Laf4MVP_ Blake for Carolina

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@ClownPunchers @NHL They reviewed it. All OT goals are reviewed for this in the playoffs. You’re wrong. Screen was clean

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@NFL_DovKleiman Broncos

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@GourlieMatt @HasbullaCane Philly tried. 172 hits to Carolina 132. Stop with theBS troupes from years past. This Carolina team is different

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@BoltsL480 @HasbullaCane Really? Because I heard the Canes swept a cupcake in the 2nd round.

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@49ers_Avs @HasbullaCane Ottowa and Philly would have been 1-2 in the Pacific. Remind me who the Avs are playing in the WCF?

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To paraphrase Bud White in LA Confidential, “if I take you out, a hundred other billionaires will take your place tomorrow. They just won’t come on the bus.”

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@PFF Buffalo only has six prime time games

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@uscfan981 It’s not Alabama

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The real currency of Rome wasn't gold. It was the one thing that could raise a dead army....

Imagine a Roman quartermaster at sunrise. Before him: hundreds of legionaries, exhausted from a week of marching through Italian heat. Their bread is hard. Their meat is turning. Behind them, a two-week supply line through bandit country.

He doesn't hand out coins.

He opens amphorae of sal—salt—and watches men's shoulders drop with relief.

Here's what the movies get wrong: Roman soldiers were rarely paid directly in salt crystals. But every legionary knew that without salt, paycheques meant nothing. Your silver can't stop gangrene. Your gold can't cure salted pork gone rancid.

So Rome invented something clever: the salarium argentum—"salt money." A specific allowance so troops could buy this preservation powder. Over time, that allowance merged with standard pay. And the word salarium stayed. Evolved. Became the monthly number you see on your own bank statement.

Salary.

But the deeper insight is harsher. Rome didn't conquer because it was braver. It conquered because its food didn't rot mid-campaign. Germanic tribes raided. Gauls rebelled. But salt deserts? Salt routes? Those were strategic targets. Controlling salt meant controlling winter.

One Roman author, Pliny the Elder, wrote that in salt "lies the highest profit." He wasn't exaggerating. Without this white crystal, no Empire spans three continents. No aqueducts. No Latin alphabet you're reading right now.

A condiment built a superpower.

So next time you shake it on dinner? You're handling history's most underrated weapon. Just salt. But without it? Civilization starves before it ever fights.

We all enjoy the "Romans got paid in salt" story. It's punchy. It's memorable. But the real history is actually more interesting.

Rome didn't hand out salt crystals like pocket change. That's a 19th-century invention. What they did do? They gave soldiers a salarium — a specific chunk of money for buying salt. Think of it like a modern military ration allowance, but for the one mineral that kept meat from rotting and wounds from festering.

Here's where it gets clever.

The Roman state knew something brutal: an army without salt collapses in three weeks. Your fancy sword means nothing when your soldiers are too sick to swing it. So by guaranteeing salt access, Rome guaranteed march-ready legions. Not because soldiers loved salt. Because logistics win wars.

Pliny the Elder — yes, the guy who died investigating Vesuvius — wrote entire chapters on salt routes. He called them "the highest profit" because whoever controlled salt controlled food. And whoever controlled food? Controlled the world.

So no, your paycheck isn't named after a crystal in a pouch.

It's named after an empire's smartest supply chain decision.

© Roman Empire

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@MTSr48466 @FlyersNation If it was up the league, Carolina would play down a man all game every game so I don’t want to hear this bullshit

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@EW4Preds33 @FlyersNation Alright, bet! I’ll crosscheck you in the face and you try to stay up. Then we can discuss embellishment.

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@bahn_nick @FlyersNation Yes yes, when Carolina centers crash the net, the first thing on their mind is “fall to the ice and fake a penalty.” Goddamn you Philly fans are dumb as fuck!

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@Herc_BenchPress @FlyersNation Didn’t know Flyers fans were dumb and blind. Crosscheck to the face, clear as day

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@2JZ_MINI @FlyersNation You can when the whistle blows for an injury

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@SmithFamil25847 @FlyersNation You’re out of your mind! NHL offices despite the Carolina franchise. Been on the shit side of officiating ever since they relocated from Hartford