Wow how brave of them to reduce their operating expenses in protest. Truly inspiring.

And yet the American luegenpresse never fail to disappoint.

Video of the full debacle: https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-meets-with-ukrainian-president-zelensky/656418

This wasn’t a “clash”, it was schoolyard-tier bullying by Trump and his lapdog Vance. I would however not expect the malicious and sycophantic American press to be honest about this.

Those charts are hilarious: wow, it gives the right answer 62.5% of the time and only makes up completely false answers 37.1% of the time! It’s like Russian roulette, but worse!

Rio Tinto was exhausted, or at least exhausted of what could be reached using methods of the time. The output of those mines tapered off around 200AD which coincides (not really a coincidence) with the reign of Severus and the beginning of economic troubles. You’re correct that they didn’t exhaust Dacian mines but they did lose access to them, also not coincidentally a few years before our favourite cabbage-farmer took power and did what he could to right the economy.

(note - the decrease in silver content previously was not because of a lack of new conquests or mineral deposits, but because Emperors wanted to spend money without needing to raise or collect taxes on their wealthy supporters)

Technically true, but they had gotten by for centuries beforehand through plunder and opening new mines, in particular the enormous ones at Rio Tinto as well as those in Dacia. The system worked fine until there was no grist left for the mill.

That’s a hell of an awkward headline. Don’t they teach kids to avoid double negatives anymore?

It’s one cabbage, Diocletian, how much could it cost? 10,000 sestertii?

Edit: I should clarify this, because it looks like I’m describing inflation here. When Romans ran out of new conquests and mineral deposits, they debased their currency (reduced the amount of precious metals in the coins) which caused the value of new coins to be lower, but also caused those metals (and by extension older coins) to be worth more.

Bitcoin is similar in that there’s only a finite quantity of them, so once they are all “mined” the value of BTC would tend to increase forever, which is one of the main reasons why it’s worthless as a currency: why would you get rid of something that is increasing in value by the minute?

It’s also why BTC transactions are increasingly tiny fractions, i.e. is being debased, just like the denarius.

That and also an inherently deflationary currency tied to resource extraction. Bitcoin is also deflationary. Coincidence?

Disability advocates seem unaware of what right-wingers mean when they complain about “free speech”. This is it.

I don’t think that’s a reasonable metric. Germany and the UK wouldn’t be considered influential either, and yet they are.

Seeing anybody praise Chomsky online immediately puts me into a defensive anti-Tankie posture.

They control moderation, as they also do on Reddit. I don’t know about Lemmy but I have personally been shadowbanned on their Reddit sub. They can’t do that on Mastodon.

They have has as much of a seat as warrants their size and economic power, perhaps even more because of their location as a buffer against China. Most EU countries have pull only because they are part of the EU. Compare Spain and Japan on the world stage, for example.

Japan and South Korea aren’t in Asia? I’d certainly count them as “western”, especially Japan. if I’m feeling especially generous I might provisionally include Brazil too.

It was still a completely naive and idiotic thing to say and doesn’t show the forethought and strategic thinking that comes with being a good CEO, especially one of a service that could literally put people’s lives in danger if jeopardized.

They also can’t control the narrative on Mastodon like they do on Reddit and Lemmy through “volunteer mod” Nelizea. I’m glad I quit using them — they are becoming tech bro chuds (or maybe always were but just hid it better)

And a maritime border too. I really don’t know why or how the Netherlands come into the picture.