It’s all a bit reasoned backwards, isn’t it. I mean the marvels of Roman technology were grand. But the decline of kitchen utensils and the quality of pottery -like most archeology- is a bit dependant on survival bias.

The only ones that were pining for the Roman era were leaders like Charlemagne, who wanted the title. Literacy wasn’t so well spread in Roman times either. One could say that the monestary system did more fore literacy throughout Europe than most Romans did. For most parts we’re looking at the very elites of roman civilization housing for the poor was abominable. We only started caring about Roman times when we re-discovered their books in the renaissance, most of which were recovered through the Arab world, which peaked in the Middle ages in terms of enlightenment.

It isn’t all civilization-esque, where there is a score kept of who’s the most advanced.

But they must’ve suffered with their underpar crockery for sure…

For whom though? For the average citizen in Europe there wouldn’t really have been a gibsonian fall.

What’s the massive negative impact you’re taking about?

That last bit is the dark ages myth, mostly created in the 19th century.

The middle ages were way better than is commonly suggested. Aside from a couple of major epidemics, but we’ve recently seen that we’re not immune to that.

O yeah and quite a few warmongering autocrats, about territory and religion. We’ve risen above that too, haven’t we?

::: spoiler

We haven’t

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Goddammit Romania, you had one job:

Proving you weren’t the corrupt shit hole Tater bragged about you being.

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Department of human trafficking control

Yup, they are trying to put a backdoor into signal, even though their military advised against it.

It’s not technically necessary to fuck somebody too have offspring. Some of the most successful breeders are sperm donors.

I think you just gave it a raison d’ être

Conservatives don’t take well to parody, which makes it work even better

I just use Klarna for my karma.

I know a bit of French technology we could use!

Both your parents’

Not from the USA. How common is it for the fbi to meddle with simple shootings in which no kids or others were harmed?

Their god is money

Mon Dieu!

My dad had a similar story. When he got recalled they had to shoot a bunch of nearly depleted ammo for 155 mm arty.

They sit in the field waiting for the command to fire. Guy that has the pull cord had been smoking some weed and was sitting behind the gun drumming.

One of his beats is with the hand in which he has the cord, it was slightly to strong. The gun fires and he gets the recoiling breech block in his face.

My dad jumps on him and keeps his tongue from sliding back in the guys throat. Shouts at the commanding officer to get a medic, finally the guy gets wheeled out by an ambulance. Nothing heard from the guy.

Years later, in a bar he hears some drumming he recognizes. It’s the same guy, he got small fracture at the base of his skull and got an army pension for life. Buys the beers for my dad the rest of the evening.