PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world Posts 4,824Comments 7,820Joined 2 yr. ago
Don't worry, I'm sure Stalin didn't mean for millions to die /s
tbf, the Roman engineering marvels that have survived are largely the prestigious "Some rich elite is funding this and gods help you if you make the rich elite look bad", or "The military needs this and someone is going to get FLOGGED if it isn't up to snuff".
There are a lot of accounts of private construction - particularly of apartments, and especially of apartments in the city of Rome before the establishment of building codes during the early Empire - wherein they were shoddy buildings that collapsed at the slightest (or no) pressure.
Anytime before the 1980s was a very different time for US-Israel relations.
Works fine on my end, but it's just a wiki article, so I'll quote it:
The groma (as standardized in the imperial Latin, sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times)[1] was a surveying instrument used in the Roman Empire.[2] The groma allowed projecting right angles and straight lines and thus enabling the centuriation (setting up of a rectangular grid). It is the only Roman surveying tool with examples that survive to the present day.[3]
Or you make Dwarf Fortress
Surveying instrument to make heterosexual lines
Pure, perfect creature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114
On 21 February 1973, the Boeing 727–200 left Tripoli and flew to Benghazi, for its scheduled stopover. After taking off from Benghazi, it became lost because of a combination of bad weather and equipment failure over Northern Egypt. The aircraft entered Israeli controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs,[1] it was shot down by the Israeli fighter pilots with the authorisation of David Elazar, the Israeli chief of staff.
The downing of the plane earned unanimous international criticism: both the Soviet Union and the United States condemned the incident, not accepting the reasoning given by Israel;[2]: 290 all member-nations of the International Civil Aviation Organization voted to censure Israel for the attack. Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, called it an "error of judgment", and Israel paid compensation to the victims' families.[3][1]
That doesn't contradict the meme. You may find Israel's victory distasteful, but that's different from misinformation.
And then, after all else fails, saying that criticizing China's persecution of LGBT communities is "Pinkwashing" for the "Imperial Core".
Ah, the PEOPLE'S bootlicker!
The push to lower the age for correction officers came after guards walked off the job in February while striking to protest poor working conditions.
Fuck's sake.
I may be toxic and populist, depending on who you ask, but I'm not a right-winger hiding behind a thin curtain of 'centrism'.
Too fucking late to realize that, twat.
OUR genetic dead-end, comrade!
No, but Shadowheart can't swim and Astarion can't care
Anthropomorphic zodiac figurines, Tang Dynasty China, 8th or 9th century AD?
"Pug is a good dog; I like it!" - Chairman Mao, probably
Protestants and Catholics, historically, have had a lot of conflict. In the US, Catholicism has been associated strongly with immigrant groups (Irish, Italians, and Latin Americans, primarily), which adds another layer of prejudice.