I like the details an author can give that the Wikipedia page doesn’t have room for. I was just listening to The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer which inspired my initial post.

I’m taking issue with your passive tone, as if things just naturally changed all by themselves. There is one specific group directly responsible and we should name them.

Do you exclusively interact with concepts described in a peer reviewed study?

Sargon was fucking nuts. From son of a gardener to king of the world.

Fun fact: I always thought the Mask of Sargon looks like the Chad guy in soyjack memes

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

It’s literally a concept described in this post.

Wasn’t Shamshi-Adad the first one to claim the title “king of the universe”? 🤣

Assyrian boasting always cracks me up. Sennacherib describes this battle against Babylon:

With the dust of their field covering the heavens, like a wide, mighty storm, they drew up in battle array before me on the bank of the Tigris. They blocked my passage and offered battle. I put on my coat of mail. My helmet, emblem of victory, I placed upon my head. My great battle chariot, which brings low the foe, I hurriedly mounted in the anger of my heart. The mighty bow which Assur had given me, I seized in my hands. The javelin, piercing to the life, I grasped. I stopped their advance, succeeding in surrounding them. I decimated the enemy host with arrow and spear. All of their bodies I bored through. I cut their throats, cut off their precious lives as one cuts a string. Like the many waters of a storm, I made the contents of their gullets and entrails rain down upon the wide earth. My prancing steeds, harnessed for my riding, plunged into the stream of their blood as into a river. The wheels of my war chariot, which brings low the evil and the wicked, were spattered with filth and blood. With the bodies of their warriors, I filled the plain like grass. Their testicles I cut out, and tore out their privates like the seeds of cucumbers of June.

Meanwhile, the Babylonian records say:

The Assyrians lost the battle.

No, they don’t work because they were systematically dismantled by Republicans for a generation.

Depends on the city. I live in San Francisco, and honestly I see almost as many gender nonconforming people out and about as I do gender conforming. There are trans flags waving all over the place. A few years ago a bunch of Trumpers tried to have a rally in Oakland and people threw stuff at them until they left lol

It’s like that time when Al-Qaeda told Isis to chill the fuck out

“The bullet” is what Trump nicknamed his penis

For some reason I can’t stop reading about Mesopotamia =/

Did you know that in 1770 B.C. Zimri-Lim, king of Madi, was so exasperated by his daughter being such a bitch to his political ally, the king of Ilansura, that he eventually traveled all the way from Madi to Ilansura to “liberate the palace of Ilansura from her presence” (his own words)?

The official renter ban is a bit of a loophole - a lot of Bay Area counties are taking over old federal properties (Navy and Coast Guard bases, former superfund sites, etc) and turning them into housing. Federal laws prevented having firearms in these places (for obvious reasons, can’t bring a gun to a navy base lol). During the “transition” period where the housing is partially built but not completed, there’s typically a joint ownership with the gun rules carried over from when it was purely federal property. The municipality could get these rules removed, but they really don’t want to. It’s a benefit to them.

But more typically, you’ll see every large landlord in the area ban firearms as a part of the lease agreement, with the tacit encouragement of local governments. So it’s not law, but you still can’t really have one.

Edit: plus the ban on all these places: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-02/judges-let-new-california-law-barring-guns-in-many-places-take-effect-challenge-ongoing

It’s illegal to have any firearm (even with a concealed carry license) in almost any public setting.

You mean unions? Because they did work, extremely well, for a long time.

Just because something isn’t an academic term doesn’t mean it’s not a real concept.

I haven’t seen any published scientific articles about you, are you sure you’re real?

I don’t think anyone calls themselves “a capitalist” lol this ain’t the 1800s

Some of us support the system of capitalism though. Almost all of us who support capitalism also support strong regulations on it.

I mean, it does sound reasonable if you don’t know the stats. Which I don’t.

The SF law (that’s where I live), various “may issue” concealed carry permit policies, extra taxes, local ordinances banning renters from having firearms in the home or in their car, it’s just a litany of small encroachments that add up to great difficulty.

Merde!