What blows my mind about the Roman Empire is that lack of technology is far easier to overcome than lack of freedom from bureaucrats
Like unironically these guys built the most insane civic architecture and still hold the record
We have to technology to build something a hundred times bigger than ever but instead we chose to employ bureaucrats and allow them to micromanage every detail of buildings down to toilet spacing and the number of fasteners per foot
They were willing to spend a significant portion of their GDP on making their civilization epic, and we have cheap bullshit and decay
Terrible trade
Absolutely humiliating
Keep seeing headlines about the explosive diarrhea parasite in Ohio now. And I'm just not gonna click those links.
It's whatever, man. I do not have the emotional capacity to also worry about the explosive diarrhea parasite. If it happens, it was so willed.
Paul Skenes on Ryan O'Hearn's 3 homer, 10 RBI game. 🤣
"I think it was kinda selfish, to be honest. Everybody else is getting on. Home runs are rally killers.
You hit a 3- run home run or a grand slam...and what now? There's nobody on. Nobody can drive him in. Good for him, I guess."
Been on a LoTR re-read and am almost through the Fellowship. Sean Bean was indeed the perfectly casted Boromir. Of all the characters in the film, I can't read a single sentence without imagining it in his delivery.