Kyrgizion @ Kyrgizion @lemmy.world

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If you mean in contemporary value, a denarius back then was a day's pay for general labor.

Today, denarii of caligula go for many thousands of €. This is a fourré, which is essentially a contemporary fake, and these are significantly less expensive, "only" hundreds instead of thousands.

"Ob Cives Servatos" - in service of the people

"PP" Pater Patriae - father of the fatherland

I just assume anything crypto related is a scam.

Wasn't always the case but definitely is now.

When you're in a whoremongering competition and your adversary is Messalina.

Working in IT, you learn CYA very fast.

Indeed, nothing quite as cathartic as going "No, U!" and proving it with an email forward.

Oof, hard punchline. 10/10.

If you curate your Youtube experience decently by subbing to worthwhile creators only it's damn high quality content.

Never paying Youtube a single cent though. I'll consider donating to the creators directly (or buying from their store) if their efforts are sufficient.

Greece? :-/

Sure, but this is the only one future historians will be holding entire seminars on.

You touch upon an important subject. If people are going to get serious about protests and organising, they will have to learn to leave their phones at home. Because they will absolutely be used against you at every possible turn.

They're not sending their best...

To what end? There's undoctored footage of him throwing a heil hitler and nothing happened. You could show a deepfake video of him raping an octogenerian and people would go "Woo look at him destroying granny's pussy" rather than decry him for the vile bag of pus he is.

They don't care. They know it's lies, they simply do.not.care.

Oh absolutely; either everyone takes what they dole out lying down, in which case they get their fully fascist state, or people fight back and give them a reason to enact martial law, leading to the same outcome.

All of these "inevitable" thresholds being crossed are picking up incredible speed though. At this rate they will have the civil war they're clearly trying to create in less than a full year tops.

AI being wrong. Say it ain't so.

We've known for years that starting school at 08.00 is detrimental to school-aged children and teenagers, but we keep doing it.

We've known for years that WFH can be just as productive and even more so than RTO, but we keep doing it.

We've known for ages that housing homeless people helps them and society much better than criminalizing them, but we keep doing it.

We've known for ages that repressive stances on drugs are counterproductive, but we keep doing it.

We've known for ages that a 4-day workweek results in gains for everyone, including the owner class themselves, yet we keep on doing 5.

I'm starting to think that gaining knowledge and insight is completely useless if the results are never taken into account if they don't fit the currently reigning narrative.

Humans are a deeply flawed species. That alone is bad enough, but we KNOW we are, we KNOW how to solve at least some of it, yet we simply refuse.

Why do today what I can do Friday afternoon in a frenzy while working up a heart attack?

It is, and they are :)

I've gone for months and months without seeing a change. Which then discouraged me enough to stop entirely. These days I just hope to die ASAP so the point is moot lol.