167941 pts · June 16, 2015
"They are often regarded as the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of Constantinople being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.""However, the crushing of the Nika riots did not end the factions' violence. Indeed, in 565 – the last year of Justinian's reign – fighting once again became so serious that the city prefect Julian had to purge the factions to restore peace."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
#23 They also had the most violent sports riot in history.Factions (demes) had emerged that gathered the supporters for various sports (mainly chariots). However, they also became politically and socially involved, and demanded the Emperor legitimize and listen to them.After a race in 531, some minor rioting snowballed into a huge uprising that saw the two remaining factions team up to attempt overthrowing the Emperor. Tens of thousands died, and huge chunks of Constantinople were destroyed.
I feel like "stockmarket crash" is kinda underselling the absolutely apocalyptic economic and social collapse that would follow deportations like that.
#27 Awesome movie, and one more people perhaps need to see right now.Only thing I really don't like about it is how many people who watched it seem to have come away with the idea that the real, historical Guy Fawkes was somehow a heroic symbol of freedom wanting to get rid of monarchy... when in reality he was a violent religious extremist who wanted to install a Catholic monarch they could control, restore Papal power over England, and aggressively persecute the Scots and non-Catholics.
No, that was Martin Shkreli (and from $13.5 to $750 per pill).Milo was the token gay guy of the first Trump term, pushing hard for the removal of gay rights until they cut ties with him for being a bit too publically pro-pedo.He later made a comeback as a more openly nazi fuck working for M.T. Greene, Nick Fuentes, and now Kanye West, while identifying as "ex-gay" (from 2021, currently divorcing his gay husband since April 2026) and saying he wants to be the face of gay conversion therapy.
Project 2025, foreword; label all transgender people as "pornographic" and "child predators".Project 2025, page 554; always enforce the death penalty for "sexual abuse of children".The Heritage Foundation published the plan for genocide before the election already.
Project 2025 already had what essentially amounts to a plan for genocide before the election. The foreword calls for labelling the existence of trans people as pornographic, and all trans people as child predators. Page 554 calls for always enforcing the death penalty for child predators.
Project 2025 had a roadmap for it before he was even re-elected; label them all as child predators, then use that to genocide through death penalty. The classic "protect the children" nonsense.Foreword + page 554:
Parmesan also freezes very well, so you can easily grate a bunch and just freeze it in small blocks for easy portioning (though larger blocks already keep for months in fridge temp as long as it doesn't get moist, and since it's so hard you can trim away mold easily if you get any).
It's an action plan from the Heritage Foundation, which has been deeply involved in US politics since Reagan, who used their original Mandate for Leadership for policy guidance (implementing over 60% of 2000 proposals).Their 9th Mandate for Leadership is the main document of the Project 2025 initiative, currently 55% implemented according to the Project 2025 Tracker (would be more, but courts stopped some). Trump also hired a large amount of P2025 contributors to his second administration.
allegedly are believers include Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Lauren Boebert, Michelle Bachmann, Mike Johnson, etc.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_ththeology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandatehttps://deadline.com/2023/">e">theology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandatehttps://deadline.com/2023/03/praying-for-armageddon-cph-dox-film-evangelical-influence-on-american-policy-director-tonje-hessen-schei-interview-1235304641/
Office) Paula White is a Dominionist who has had "private Bible studies" with Trump for 25 years, and a condo in Trump Tower. Pastor John Hagee was one of the driving forces behind Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem.They claim Trump is divinely appointed, and will help them bring about Armageddon. Charlie Kirk praised him as a "president that understands the seven mountains of cultural influence".They may actually be one of the most dangerous groups in America. Some Republicans who 2/
Seven Mountain Dominionists, mainly. They believe that they can bring about the biblical end times by Christianity dominating the "seven mountains" (family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, government) globally while Israel is Jewish and the Palestinians are expelled.Dominionists have spent decades infiltrating a huge chunk of the US government, and groomed many high-ranking Republicans into following their insane cult. Trump's spiritual advisor (and leader of his Faith 1/
It's colorful. It smells like food. Therefore, it must be delicious!Somewhat related story; the first couple of times my mom's cat stole food was a piece of spinach flatbreat (chewed for 2 sec, spat out) and licking the white parts of a brie once.Since then, he's never tried stealing human food EXCEPT when it's shrimp and he turns into a small, gray juggernaut of doom (who is still very polite and careful not to break or knock anything over as you hold him back or move him away, mind you).
Just to be clear; the REAL number is 67% "unfavorable" (and falling) across 36 countries, and Pew does not have a "most disliked countries" ranking.OP is posting disinformation to farm upvotes and/or manipulate people, instead of just sticking to the truth (that already looks plenty bad).https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/04/most-people-across-36-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-little-confidence-in-netanyahu/
It's not, and Rockstar has been very clear about not using AI.That picture is some AI slop created by the Pagan_GMR account that posted it. From a quick look; he took a character from the anime Demon Slayer, changed some minor details and aged her up, says the result is "his" character "inspired" by the original, and posts a bunch of really sloppy AI pics/videos/comics of himself dating said character.
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/https://www.lgbtqnation.co/">https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust">m">/">https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-rowling-says-to-photograph-women-in-toilets-just-in-case-theyre-transgender/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jk-rowling-upskirt-transgender-woman/
Also doubled down and retweeted disinfo about it, then sent her legal team after at least one person who called her out on it and forced them to write a public apology dictated by her lawyers.Also supports racist conspiracy theories, called for ppl to take pics of people in public bathrooms who they suspect are trans and doxx them online for targeting, and recently posted what is essentially an upskirt picture of a trans woman and said they deserved it because of how they were dressed.
Yesterday his treasury secretary also announced "global economic war" on Iran, while threatening anyone who wouldn't support the US in it, and announcing new sanctions on various entities and individuals they claim are helping Iran.
Legends (pre-Disney) Darth Bane, founder of the Banite Order (which Palpatine and his apprentices belonged to), wearing orbalisk armor; basically he spent 10 years covered in lightsaber-immune parasites that he kept from killing him by feeding them enough dark side energy that they kept him alive, healed his wounds, gave him adrenaline to keep going, etc.https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth">s">https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Bane/Legendshttps://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Orbalisk
Remember the midterms during Trump's first term, when Fox News claimed that a "migrant caravan" would bring smallpox into the US despite smallpox being declared globally eradicated in 1980?
The first climate change research started in the 1820s. Over the decades that followed various scientists provided additional proof, eventually leading to Arrhenius providing the first predictions for man-made global warming in the 1890s (which had to be adjusted during his lifetime to account for the massive increase in emissions).Most arguments against it still used today comes from an early 1900s counter movement that used flawed experiments and incorrect assumptions to try and disprove it.
AGI = Artificial General Intelligence, a hypothetical level of AI that can match humans at all/most cognitive tasks.ASI = Artificial Superintelligence, a hypothetical level of AI that *significantly* exceeds human intelligence in all cognitive tasks and fields.Neither is actually possible through current models, and both AGI and ASI are currently only theoretical. Just to add an explanation for those who are unaware.
Been seeing "AGI/ASI is just a couple of years away" posts frequently on Reddit over the past few years. Last few months I've also started seeing more and more people claiming AGI/ASI is already here, generally with some completely delusional arguments for it.Then of course you also got the subreddits for people using LLMs as therapists, friends, or romantic partners, which is a whole other level of fucked up as so many of them genuinely believe the AI is sapient and has feelings and emotions.
The Project 2025 foreword talks about designating anyone who is trans, does drag, or shares any information about these topics to minors as child predators, after designating their very existence as pornographic.Project 2025 page 554 calls for always pursuing the death penalty for child predators.It's a roadmap for genocide.
Mm, lame. Just another reason Sweden is better then ;)Though I mostly just buy one type anyways, hah.
Not sure where your "local" is, but where I live in Sweden small stores tend to have 2-3 types, and large stores can have up to 5-6 depending on the store... red-yellow Gala or Jonagold tends to be the cheapest, and Granny Smith is almost always an option.Jazz and Pink Lady are also fairly common, and Cosmic Crisp and some other newer cultivars are becoming more common, while Red/Golden Delicious used to be everywhere but has fallen off quite a bit.
American Dad had an episode about the LCR back in 2006, where Stan gets involved with them and tries being gay for his own benefit. Instead he learns it's not a choice, that he has taught his son wrong, and takes steps to change (even holding a successful speech at the RNC about it).It's kinda sad to watch that now and compare that to the real world.
hamfisted references to the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Like yeah, the idea of connecting the violation of Zeus' Law and Odysseus actions to the Sea Peoples is interesting, but they keep talking about it like they know the future."Our age of bronze is collapsing" is just way too on the nose. It just kinda felt like they had the idea, and then went overboard trying to make sure everyone understood what they were doing.
It was fine. Some of the visuals were great, and it had a bunch of great acting (especially from Pattinson, Page, and Leguizamo). However, I really couldn't get over how the actual odyssey part of *The Odyssey* seemed like an afterthought Nolan just wanted to skip through (making it feel more like weeks than years), or the massive changes to Odysseus as a character. He's supposed to be clever and cunning, but all his solutions seemed to be violence or running away.Also, the increasingly 1/
"They are often regarded as the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of Constantinople being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed."
"However, the crushing of the Nika riots did not end the factions' violence. Indeed, in 565 – the last year of Justinian's reign – fighting once again became so serious that the city prefect Julian had to purge the factions to restore peace."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
#23 They also had the most violent sports riot in history.
Factions (demes) had emerged that gathered the supporters for various sports (mainly chariots). However, they also became politically and socially involved, and demanded the Emperor legitimize and listen to them.
After a race in 531, some minor rioting snowballed into a huge uprising that saw the two remaining factions team up to attempt overthrowing the Emperor. Tens of thousands died, and huge chunks of Constantinople were destroyed.
I feel like "stockmarket crash" is kinda underselling the absolutely apocalyptic economic and social collapse that would follow deportations like that.
#27 Awesome movie, and one more people perhaps need to see right now.
Only thing I really don't like about it is how many people who watched it seem to have come away with the idea that the real, historical Guy Fawkes was somehow a heroic symbol of freedom wanting to get rid of monarchy... when in reality he was a violent religious extremist who wanted to install a Catholic monarch they could control, restore Papal power over England, and aggressively persecute the Scots and non-Catholics.
No, that was Martin Shkreli (and from $13.5 to $750 per pill).
Milo was the token gay guy of the first Trump term, pushing hard for the removal of gay rights until they cut ties with him for being a bit too publically pro-pedo.
He later made a comeback as a more openly nazi fuck working for M.T. Greene, Nick Fuentes, and now Kanye West, while identifying as "ex-gay" (from 2021, currently divorcing his gay husband since April 2026) and saying he wants to be the face of gay conversion therapy.
Project 2025, foreword; label all transgender people as "pornographic" and "child predators".
Project 2025, page 554; always enforce the death penalty for "sexual abuse of children".
The Heritage Foundation published the plan for genocide before the election already.
Project 2025 already had what essentially amounts to a plan for genocide before the election. The foreword calls for labelling the existence of trans people as pornographic, and all trans people as child predators. Page 554 calls for always enforcing the death penalty for child predators.
Project 2025 had a roadmap for it before he was even re-elected; label them all as child predators, then use that to genocide through death penalty. The classic "protect the children" nonsense.
Foreword + page 554:
Parmesan also freezes very well, so you can easily grate a bunch and just freeze it in small blocks for easy portioning (though larger blocks already keep for months in fridge temp as long as it doesn't get moist, and since it's so hard you can trim away mold easily if you get any).
It's an action plan from the Heritage Foundation, which has been deeply involved in US politics since Reagan, who used their original Mandate for Leadership for policy guidance (implementing over 60% of 2000 proposals).
Their 9th Mandate for Leadership is the main document of the Project 2025 initiative, currently 55% implemented according to the Project 2025 Tracker (would be more, but courts stopped some). Trump also hired a large amount of P2025 contributors to his second administration.
allegedly are believers include Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Lauren Boebert, Michelle Bachmann, Mike Johnson, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_ththeology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate
https://deadline.com/2023/">e">theology">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate
https://deadline.com/2023/03/praying-for-armageddon-cph-dox-film-evangelical-influence-on-american-policy-director-tonje-hessen-schei-interview-1235304641/
Office) Paula White is a Dominionist who has had "private Bible studies" with Trump for 25 years, and a condo in Trump Tower. Pastor John Hagee was one of the driving forces behind Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
They claim Trump is divinely appointed, and will help them bring about Armageddon. Charlie Kirk praised him as a "president that understands the seven mountains of cultural influence".
They may actually be one of the most dangerous groups in America. Some Republicans who 2/
Seven Mountain Dominionists, mainly. They believe that they can bring about the biblical end times by Christianity dominating the "seven mountains" (family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, government) globally while Israel is Jewish and the Palestinians are expelled.
Dominionists have spent decades infiltrating a huge chunk of the US government, and groomed many high-ranking Republicans into following their insane cult. Trump's spiritual advisor (and leader of his Faith 1/
It's colorful. It smells like food. Therefore, it must be delicious!
Somewhat related story; the first couple of times my mom's cat stole food was a piece of spinach flatbreat (chewed for 2 sec, spat out) and licking the white parts of a brie once.
Since then, he's never tried stealing human food EXCEPT when it's shrimp and he turns into a small, gray juggernaut of doom (who is still very polite and careful not to break or knock anything over as you hold him back or move him away, mind you).
Just to be clear; the REAL number is 67% "unfavorable" (and falling) across 36 countries, and Pew does not have a "most disliked countries" ranking.
OP is posting disinformation to farm upvotes and/or manipulate people, instead of just sticking to the truth (that already looks plenty bad).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/04/most-people-across-36-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-little-confidence-in-netanyahu/
It's not, and Rockstar has been very clear about not using AI.
That picture is some AI slop created by the Pagan_GMR account that posted it. From a quick look; he took a character from the anime Demon Slayer, changed some minor details and aged her up, says the result is "his" character "inspired" by the original, and posts a bunch of really sloppy AI pics/videos/comics of himself dating said character.
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
https://www.lgbtqnation.co/">https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust">m">/">https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/jk-rowling-says-to-photograph-women-in-toilets-just-in-case-theyre-transgender/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jk-rowling-upskirt-transgender-woman/
Also doubled down and retweeted disinfo about it, then sent her legal team after at least one person who called her out on it and forced them to write a public apology dictated by her lawyers.
Also supports racist conspiracy theories, called for ppl to take pics of people in public bathrooms who they suspect are trans and doxx them online for targeting, and recently posted what is essentially an upskirt picture of a trans woman and said they deserved it because of how they were dressed.
Yesterday his treasury secretary also announced "global economic war" on Iran, while threatening anyone who wouldn't support the US in it, and announcing new sanctions on various entities and individuals they claim are helping Iran.
Legends (pre-Disney) Darth Bane, founder of the Banite Order (which Palpatine and his apprentices belonged to), wearing orbalisk armor; basically he spent 10 years covered in lightsaber-immune parasites that he kept from killing him by feeding them enough dark side energy that they kept him alive, healed his wounds, gave him adrenaline to keep going, etc.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth">s">https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Bane/Legends
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Orbalisk
Remember the midterms during Trump's first term, when Fox News claimed that a "migrant caravan" would bring smallpox into the US despite smallpox being declared globally eradicated in 1980?
The first climate change research started in the 1820s. Over the decades that followed various scientists provided additional proof, eventually leading to Arrhenius providing the first predictions for man-made global warming in the 1890s (which had to be adjusted during his lifetime to account for the massive increase in emissions).
Most arguments against it still used today comes from an early 1900s counter movement that used flawed experiments and incorrect assumptions to try and disprove it.
AGI = Artificial General Intelligence, a hypothetical level of AI that can match humans at all/most cognitive tasks.
ASI = Artificial Superintelligence, a hypothetical level of AI that *significantly* exceeds human intelligence in all cognitive tasks and fields.
Neither is actually possible through current models, and both AGI and ASI are currently only theoretical. Just to add an explanation for those who are unaware.
Been seeing "AGI/ASI is just a couple of years away" posts frequently on Reddit over the past few years. Last few months I've also started seeing more and more people claiming AGI/ASI is already here, generally with some completely delusional arguments for it.
Then of course you also got the subreddits for people using LLMs as therapists, friends, or romantic partners, which is a whole other level of fucked up as so many of them genuinely believe the AI is sapient and has feelings and emotions.
The Project 2025 foreword talks about designating anyone who is trans, does drag, or shares any information about these topics to minors as child predators, after designating their very existence as pornographic.
Project 2025 page 554 calls for always pursuing the death penalty for child predators.
It's a roadmap for genocide.
Mm, lame. Just another reason Sweden is better then ;)
Though I mostly just buy one type anyways, hah.
Not sure where your "local" is, but where I live in Sweden small stores tend to have 2-3 types, and large stores can have up to 5-6 depending on the store... red-yellow Gala or Jonagold tends to be the cheapest, and Granny Smith is almost always an option.
Jazz and Pink Lady are also fairly common, and Cosmic Crisp and some other newer cultivars are becoming more common, while Red/Golden Delicious used to be everywhere but has fallen off quite a bit.
American Dad had an episode about the LCR back in 2006, where Stan gets involved with them and tries being gay for his own benefit. Instead he learns it's not a choice, that he has taught his son wrong, and takes steps to change (even holding a successful speech at the RNC about it).
It's kinda sad to watch that now and compare that to the real world.
hamfisted references to the Late Bronze Age Collapse. Like yeah, the idea of connecting the violation of Zeus' Law and Odysseus actions to the Sea Peoples is interesting, but they keep talking about it like they know the future.
"Our age of bronze is collapsing" is just way too on the nose. It just kinda felt like they had the idea, and then went overboard trying to make sure everyone understood what they were doing.
It was fine. Some of the visuals were great, and it had a bunch of great acting (especially from Pattinson, Page, and Leguizamo).
However, I really couldn't get over how the actual odyssey part of *The Odyssey* seemed like an afterthought Nolan just wanted to skip through (making it feel more like weeks than years), or the massive changes to Odysseus as a character. He's supposed to be clever and cunning, but all his solutions seemed to be violence or running away.
Also, the increasingly 1/