A map illustrating the rise and expansion of the Tsardom of Russia under the rule of Ivan IV Vasilyevich (commonly known as The Terrible, from the Russian “grozny“(грозный), Fearsome or Awe-inspiring). Originally a Grand Prince of Moscow, Ivan IV became the first to be crowned and rule as the Tsar of all Russia (from the Latin Caesar), previously a conglomerate of dutchies. He laid the foundation of absolute rule, engaged in a reign of terror against the nobility, reformed the government, opened diplomatic relations with England, wrote music, oversaw cultural and religious renaissance, and aggressively expanded the Russian borders through war and conquest. Shortly after his death (in 1584), Russia entered decades of instability known as The Troubles (Смута) that ended his Rurik dynasty and opened the way for the Romanovs.
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have been confronted with information that leads me to sincerely believe that I may have been the first ever iPad kid
at least one of them, because apparently I got mine as my primary tool to write (and unintentionally, fuck around) literally a week after it came out. Sorry gamers I was patient zero
You know when the iphone and then ipad first came out apple was a premium brand but not yet a titan. So the people who got their products day 1 were a type of guy. Sorry to inform you but your parents spent the mid 00s telling their friends "mac is better because it's easy and intuitive, watch" then did an 11 keystroke hotkey to empty the recycling bin.
I am 100% aware of this fact and have been fully cognizant of this since I was eight years old
3rd grader me asking why we can't get a computer that has games while my dad absolutely insists I use the 2009 mactop for its features (I already have an iPad for school so I literally am only going to use it to play games)
If it makes you feel any better, I very clearly had extremely online brainrot by 2004, and it wasn't a publicly-recognized phenomenon for at least a decade.
World War Z gets funnier every year. In the book - China covered up the zombie disease and let it spread across the world in secret. And it spread via organlegging of presumably falun gong or some bs.
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the Israelis said "aww shucks" and invited all the palestinians in to their giant anti-zombie wall, then fought a civil war between secular Israeli's and Kahanists over that with the secular Israeli's winning and Palestinian's staying in Israel.
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Iran nuked Pakistan.
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America was very effective at combatting the early stages of the zombies with it's very effective spooky special forces guys.
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German military officers refused to abandon the civilians they were protecting because they felt bad for being Nazis or some bs
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Russia collapsed in to a medieval Soviet/orthodox theocracy with Putin as Czar or some bullshit.
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America saved the world with it's plucky courage, national unity, and superipr manufacturing skills.
If we lived in a just society, we would hold book clubs just for criticizing and making fun of this book and the person who wrote this would be dragged out into the streets and publicly humiliated for writing such a ridiculous, reactionary, American-exceptionalism-
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Japan has otaku samurai and blind warrior monks roaming the land.
Honestly not that far off though with the resurgance of weird nationalists.
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Racism is such a goofy ass ideology when you think about what they actually believe. Imagine thinking you're superior to someone for having less melanin? If someone came up with that shit in a book/other work of fiction they'd get laughed at for making something so stupid. "It's unrealistic, no one would ever believe that," people would say.
It makes no sense at all. I can see how it could be a little easier to pass it off in a more segregated society when you haven't grown up seeing people of other races, so it hasn't had a chance to set in your mind that they're just normal people. But the more exposure you have as a child, the harder it is to entertain some notion that there's something fundamentally different about some person because of their skin color and some facial features.
Shared humanity tastes so much better when you don't have some racist in your ear telling you how bad everyone is.
Google is so fucking useless nowadays, almost all the results are scam websites or something unrelated.
In 2006, before the iphone came out, mac guy was a type of guy. Basically just a gentrified linux guy.
lol remembering those obnoxious mac vs pc ads with justin long
What's somehow more obnoxious is Microsoft used to hand out "I'm a pc" shirts to admins at enterprise conferences
why does my friend get shown all sorts of super cool communists on his dating app while my profile (same app, neither of us pay) gets nothing but 'i like expensive vacations and margaritas and sports and JESUS' profiles shown to it
also how tf are you supposed to meet people irl without alcohol being involved
also how tf are you supposed to meet people irl without alcohol being involved
i don't think it's possible anymore unless you already know people
I went to my local pub today, and some guy wanted to talk about politics
After a while he asked if I was an anarchist, I replied that no, I'm a communist
His retort was to ask the (asian, I've no idea of his country of origin) owner of the pub because "he escaped communism"
The owner replied "he's always lying"
The sad part is that the guy I was arguing with told a couple of minutes earlier that he was living on $700/month
I almost said that I'm six times better capitalist worker based on income (in all honesty it would have been infinity because he's living on social security) but I just said good night to the owner and left
Brainwashing and pride is the downfall of the proletariat
The moral of the story is to keep fighting even for these misinformed jackasses, they deserve better despite their ignorance
Sometimes I think people are afraid to admit that the system is designed to hold them down, because that's a scarier concept than "just not quite having struck it rich yet..."
Content warning: Mild hate crime(?), Racism, Islamophobia
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Please excuse me if this post is unorganized I am venting. I was walking from work today and some old fuck told to me (a hijabi) that "I bet you support those Hamas terrorists." At first it didn't register to me as I was completely off guard and was daydreaming but by the time I realized he quickly walked away. Honestly I felt like I should said something but I just wasn't expecting as I have seen this man multiple times and he has never spoken to me. I really feel like I am making a big deal out of it but it is really bothering me to the point of sleeplessness. I really hate living in a small city in Canada.
You should have told him that you are hamas. Their fear is your energy. When we flip the table we will treat these people worse than they treat us.
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Crazy train got played like Ramblin Man and they're both good songs but I am done with them forever now
I get it. Don't Stop Believing, Sweet Home Alabama, many songs that are ruined by overplay. My personal audio nightmare is Rolling in the Deep.
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L Musk in his quest to make twitter worse has made likes private, now you cant judge people for liking nazi edits and other bad shit, this probably to help his many nazi friends
tiny domino: people making fun of elon for liking small penis humiliation content
big domino: private likes
HockHam's Razor: When trying to understand or resolve a situation, the approach that involves the least effort and gets them out of work quickest is the one cops will always choose.
"Oh, the murder you called to report? Uhh yeah, turns out you did it. It was almost the perfect cover, you sick fuck."
Hamhock's razor - this isn't a thought experiment Chinchzilla's pig Rufus has a razor and he's going to cut you if you don't share your lunch.
Someone please tell me how the fuck people are continuing to pay attention to professional sports while the US continues to degrade at an unfathomable rate
Maybe I’m just getting old, but I thought watching millionaires paid by billionaires play a game for entertainment would lose value when owning a house is a pipe dream and rent continues to increase (despite the price being completely detached from reality)
COVID should’ve shown EVERYONE that professional athletes don’t satisfy a societal need whatsoever. Every “need” in this godamned country is a treat
Watching sports will always be a way to cope for people. However I do have a feeling that the European football championship is being hyped up way more than usual to distract the people from the atrocities happening in Palestine.
The empire is crumbling, yet the only thing on the mind of the people of Rome is who will win in the epic showdown between Priscus and Verus??
NGL, my enjoyment of sports has taken quite a dip in the past few years. Probably helps that most of my favorite teams also suck, but I've also just been thinking way more about the kind of people that are in sports (owners, players, fans).