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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
centrally-unplanned
st-just

When does does 'the Eastern Roman Empire' become 'Byzantium'?

Diocletian dividing the empire into east and west

Fall of Rome/Italy to the Goths

Rashidun Caliphate conqurs Egypt/Levant/Syria

Battle of Manzikert/loss of Anatolian plateau

Fourth Crusade

Other (later)

Other (in range but not mentioned)

never/'Byzantine' is a slur

vanilla extract

fnord888

Fall of Rome to the Goths. Before that, you could honestly say the Eastern Roman Empire was the Eastern *Roman Empire*, the eastern half of a greater whole. Afterwards, the “Eastern Roman Empire” is all there is, it makes sense to identify it differently.

I would, however, date that to 455 rather than 476. The “Western Roman Empire” soldiered on after that point, but it wasn’t effectively part of the same polity as the East. Yes, even under Anthemius, who despite being appointed in the East still ruled on Ricimer’s sufferage, as proven by the fact that when they went head-to-head Anthemius lost.

As an additional point, the next Eastern emperor to be crowned after 455, Leo I in 457, was the first emperor to be crowned by Patriarch of Constantinople. Obviously, any cultural transition is going to be gradual, but I think that’s a pretty significant threshold.

history this is kinda silly terminology disputes are inherently somewhat arbitrary
collapsedsquid
collapsedsquid

skluug: my priori that a random twitter user citing "every sane person" knows better than a unanimous supreme court decision is very low

collapsedsquid

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Supreme court on a bipartisan basis believes nothing a public official does can be fraud.

Ugarles's anger is not about how the Supreme Court is ruling "we don't think this is fraud according to the law" as much as "we think these laws against fraud are unconstitutional," from what I understand their arguments are around "this is shady but this precedent would make any lobbying illegal and is this really the court's responsibility to judge political officials?"

fnord888

I mean, you can *sort of* see their point but meanwhile poor people get convicted for “possession of burglary tools” for having a screwdriver and that’s apparently fine, so, you know.

criminal justice us law double standards
etirabys
etirabys

dumb question about how hard content moderation is at scale: who the fuck is uploading the child porn and beheading videos traumatizing the underpaid moderation teams in all of these exposés? If I were in possession of those things I would simply keep it to myself out of self preservation. Why and how are a small fraction of people doing it in such volume that it creates a huge problem for moderation teams? And don't say "some people are insane", that's a curiosity-stopper

fnord888

Sometimes shock value, as people have said, but sometimes I do think there’s a genuine desire to share the content with like-minded people (or, more selfishly, trade content with like-minded people).

While it’s not not dangerous, I don’t think it’s necessarily as dangerous as you’re assuming. The tools required for ban evasion probably provide protection against low effort law enforcement responses, and more sophisticated responses are limited by resources. Plus, the content may not even be illegal: actual CSA content is illegal almost everywhere, but simulated material and gore/shock stuff is often legal.

internet culture i guess
languageoficeandfire
languageoficeandfire:
“mapsontheweb:
“Annual cigarette consumption per person aged 15 or older.
by lingue.maps
”
You can tell this is map is based on a faulty analysis of data because of Andorra. Andorra is a haven for tourists when it comes to low...
mapsontheweb

Annual cigarette consumption per person aged 15 or older.

by lingue.maps

languageoficeandfire

You can tell this is map is based on a faulty analysis of data because of Andorra. Andorra is a haven for tourists when it comes to low taxes. French people (but not exclusively) are known to cross the border to buy alcohol and cigarettes, hence the whopping 6.000+ cigarettes per year per person

Basically, this map equates the number of cigarettes bought with the number of cigarettes smoked within the same country and totally overlooks the trans-border purchases that often take place.

This leads to blown figures for Andorra and possibly underestimated ones for France where French people go to Luxembourg, Belgium or Andorra to buy cigarettes

fnord888

Yeah, that.

Source: instagram.com
statistics economics geography
gcu-sovereign
utilitymonstermash:
“mapsontheweb:
“Annual cigarette consumption per person aged 15 or older.
by lingue.maps
”
Meanwhile in Andorra
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Andorra and Luxembourg both at >2x the next highest. It’s gotta be a statistical artifact, right? Like, it’s based...
mapsontheweb

Annual cigarette consumption per person aged 15 or older.

by lingue.maps

utilitymonstermash

Meanwhile in Andorra

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fnord888

Andorra and Luxembourg both at >2x the next highest. It’s gotta be a statistical artifact, right? Like, it’s based on sales but most of the sales in those countries are actually foreign visitors, something like that.

Source: instagram.com
economics geography statistics
spacific-sunrise
spacific-sunrise

Not to be anti-union on main but the ai related demands of the writers strike are dumb. Automation will come for us all and this is good actually, like, for society. Obv they're allowed to want to keep their jobs but you can't expect stop progress forever.

fnord888

The AI demands are dumb but only a small part of WGA’s demands. If you see a lot of coverage of them in the media, it’s because the AI stuff is new and interesting, whereas the yet another dispute over rates for online streaming is not.

I encourage you, or anyone interested, to check out the general statement of the demands:

Or the detailed proposal:

not that I necessarily agree with all the normal demands but most of the strike is about normal stuff so don't let coverage of the unusual stuff skew your perception current events

Pacific West Bancorp, a small lender based outside Portland, Oregon, is seeking to distance itself from a California company with a similar moniker, PacWest Bancorp, whose shares have plummeted amid the recent regional-banking turmoil.

I once joked on Twitter that the “biggest risk to the US banking system is there are 4000 banks and they all have like six names.” That was in response to a Bloomberg News story about Republic First Bancorp, which put out a statement saying that it was not First Republic Bank. Easy mistake to make! First Republic was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last weekend; Republic First is fine I guess.

Federal Reserve needs to implement racehorse naming for banks.

matt levine finance joke tag
oligetcetera
oligetcetera

genealogically speaking christianity gets all of the fun stuff (cosmic battles of good and evil, eschatons to immanetize, all that jazz) from judaism, which in turn picked it up during the exilic years in persia. so culturally zoroastrian, surely

fnord888

Happy Thursday (Thor’s day) to all my culturally Norse pagan followers.

discourse please state your argument in the form of a shitpost joke stolen but I don't remember who from