To many historians, the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century CE has always been viewed as the end of the ancient world and the onset of the Middle Ages, often improperly called the Dark Ages, despite Petrarch's assertion. Since much of the west had already fallen by the middle of the 5th century CE, when a writer speaks of the fall of the empire, he or she generally refers to the fall of the city of Rome. Although historians generally agree on the year of the fall, 476 CE, and its consequences for western civilization, they often disagree on its causes.
Unlike the fall of earlier empires such as the Assyrian and Persian, Rome did not succumb to either war or revolution. On the last day of the empire, a barbarian member of the Germanic tribe Siri and former commander in the Roman army entered the city unopposed. The one-time military and financial power of the Mediterranean was unable to resist. Odovacar easily dethroned the sixteen-year-old emperor Romulus Augustalus, a person he viewed as posing no threat.
Romulus had recently been named emperor by his father, the Roman commander Orestes, who had overthrown the western emperor Julius Nepos. With his entrance into the city, Odovacar became the head of the only part that remained of the once great west: the peninsula of Italy. By the time he entered the city, the Roman control of Britain, Spain, Gaul, and North Africa had already been lost, in the latter three cases to the Goths and Vandals. Odovacar immediately contacted the eastern emperor Zeno and informed him that he would not accept that title of emperor. Zeno could do little but accept this decision. In fact, to ensure there would be no confusion, Odovacar returned to Constantinople the imperial vestments, diadem, and purple cloak of the emperor.
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Just did my Canadian citizenship ceremony and in the oath I had to repeat a couple lines about how the laws of Canada and the constitution recognising and protecting the rights of indigenous people
Yeah there's a lot of words without action from high up.
That reminds me, someone in a sociology field should do a paper on how new immigrants come to be just as biased against First Nations people (or if they don't I guess, I only know anecdotally) as the older white settler families. It's actually quite remarkable just how efficient whatever system is that reinforces anti-indigenous attitudes. Because someone from like Nigeria or wherever (like not also settler-colonial like Australia or the US) shouldn't have ANY anti-indigenous bias but after a year or two here the stuff they say can be just as bad.
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I got mad at an argument with some friends. I was being skeptical, to a degree i think is entirely justified, about Starfield and what Bethesda's usual bullshit is going to look like now that MSFT is their overlord, and somehow it got in to walled gardens and right to repair, and one of them just straight up started mocking me and it's like fuck you, man, all this consolidation of megacorps and their domination of all cultural products is bad for everyone, and Beth has fucked up every game launch in the last twenty years, and Starfield looks extremely generic with none of the cool lore that makes Elder Scrolls so fun, or even the nostalgia for better days that makes their fallout games tolerable. The game looks like corporate memphis science fiction and they're getting totally get hype after I thought gamers decided that we were collectively going to stop buying in to the hype bullshit years ago.
There's more too it. Somehow car repairs came up, I was asserting that you can no longer perform many car repairs without expensive diagnostic software and tools, and someone said all you need is an OBDII scanner which I am almost certain is not correct but I don't know enough to dispute it. I'm so fucking tired of people who are accepting towards or even positive towards megacorporate cultural dominion. Like would it kill you to show an appropriate degree of skepticism and scorn? Especially with Beth games that are always a complete disaster on launch.
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It always shocks me. I was talking with my friends a few months ago and a couple of them talked about how they have maxed out their 401k contributions for the year so what they do with the rest (like put it in an IRA). The max contribution for a 401k is something like 19k a year. I so shocked that they thought having that amount of extra income to put into saving was “normal”. I put like $300 a month into mine plus the company match and have to think about stopping it all the time just have the $300 back cuz I need it.
Your friends are definitely the exception. That's like 30% of the median household gross income. Either they live with parents or make mad bank imo. Also no judgement if they live with parents, I'd rather have people save for their own retirement than their landlord's generally.
I was updating the emulation thread today with Sega consoles (glaring omission- apologies) and finished my first edit and noticed the only way for people to find information about Microsoft consoles was to read through the comments below.
I decided this was fine, edited the post, and then walked away.
5 minutes later I think to myself "No more half measures, Walter" and then go back and edit the Microsoft information into the main post.
This site has poisoned my brain; I love all my comrades.
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Showed a toddler one of my abstract paintings and she said I "messed up"
I stayed in baku for a couple months a few years back and they had people all over outside making fresh tandir and being able to get that fresh bread at a moments notice whenever is one of the things I miss most lol
More power to you, comrade. Remember: passive income = do fucking nothing at your job
Thank you for the great advice, comrade. Unfortunately, I work at an email factory where my performance is always monitored.
But I'm working from home and I'm doing my best to slack off as much as humanly possible.
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thread about Ukraine. They were very enthusiastically informing each other that Russia did horrible things in Siberia. They did not seem aware or in any way concerned that the nation that did those things was overthrown over a century ago, and that the entire royal family of that nation was rounded up and shot. Nor do they seem to care that the nation that overthrew that nation has itself ceased to exist. These things are irrelevant, because... uh...
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Showisn't the PFP on that bot kind of ableist?
bad faith redditor does not equal "ugly with neckbeard' and implying that the average person who doesn't understand left wing politics is always ugly is not good
I don't think it's ableist but I guess I could change it to something more neutral if that's a problem
Damn, I didn't know that it would say that. This really is the whataboutism of our lives...
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