30671 pts ยท April 21, 2017
As much as branding efforts try to pretend otherwise a company doesn't care about anything because they're not people. They have no opinions or values. Publicly traded companies are just machines for maximizing shareholder value.
Another erasure that's happening is American Anglo cultural efforts to westernize culture heritage such as that of the Greeks into one non existent monolith, even though it is a Mediterranean culture oriented much more to the east. The culture war has reduced every discussion to a false binary. Not every a cultural critique has come from a dishonest place. That being said having a black Helen is really one of the least inaccurate things. The bronze age Mediterranean world was a diverse place.
They can be triggered to undergo metamorphosis in a lab. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Ambystomas.jpg/1920px-Ambystomas.jpg
One of these which is so pervasive in culture is the myth of the hero. A world where the gifted, chosen or noble individual is what moves the world. If not outright wrong it is certainly an overly simplistic view. While heroic tales can inspire they can also disarm, leaving us to believe we are dependent on or at the mercy of ''great men''. All the while they are more often than not interchangeable, their reach given, not by ability but by systems and collective power, as it can for all of us.
In Scandinavian bronze age rock art there are some pretty trireme looking ships that seem to indicate contact with the proto Greek peoples.
If the Atlantic current stops or reverses Europeans may well be the ones relying on the hospitality of other nations.
You could say the same about Western art but it's incredibly reductive to even generalize so many cultures and periods into one supposed monolith.
This and other crimes against humanity and nature are the inevitable end result of nationalistic rhetoric, ''warrior culture'' and dumbshit macho talk like warfighters and maximum lethality.
They shot them from trains to deprive indigenous people of food and other resources.
Even when he was getting a lot of flak for over promising and under delivering I still kind of respected him, as a guy who was just excited about making things, but he's really gone off the deep end with NFT's and every other tech fad.
Just the candidate we need to restore a sense of dignity to the office of president.
Then why go for an orange turd? They could've had the Giga Chad as president, or Jar Jar Binks.
What a ridiculous statement. It was the catalyst for a myriad of global seismic changes in war, espionage, law, aviation, economics, demographics, migration, politics, causing the rise and fall of nations, some of which are still in the process of falling... The rise of the far right, fueled by unrest from mass migration, caused by instability in the mid east. Brexit etc etc.
If industries would regulate themselves we wouldn't need such hamfisted laws but they're incapable of restraining their greed so here we are.
Don't you just love every time someone warns, that's what socialism will be like, using an example that is the result of capitalist society.
No. There is a difference between being okay with something and questioning the ethics of supposed justice. Ethnic cleansing is a crime. Which means if enough time has passed after said crime, the justice you suggest becomes a crime in itself. It is no different then expelling the descendants of colonist in the US back to Europe or dissolving Turkey and giving it back to Greeks. It is neither feasible nor ethical and nonsensical because modern people are a genetic mix of various tribes.
Yeah...But also no. While of course our own consumption and waste production matters, a lot discussion around personal contributions towards combating climate change only exists as a means to distract from those who have a larger responsibility. It is very much fair to call campaigns out on their bullshit if the narrative is just ''what can you do'' instead of what can society do.
I do want to make that case. History is an endless chain of tribes migrating that have been chased from lands they chased other tribes out of. Basically no land is except from some claim like that. Are we supposed to do a switcheroo until we're all back in Africa? It is absolute nonsense to ever try and enforce land claims thousands of years old.
#57 Knights were nobles. They generally had people guarding their doors.
Obviously it's not like the Dutch can lay claim to all of these ideas. Many thinkers and nations have contributed to their development and spread but there is a thread of ideas towards the US of from the Netherlands. Directly and indirectly to England for instance with the Glorious Revolution 1688. In contrast to neighboring countries there was almost freedom of speech and press, which is why the theories that shaped enlightenment thinking were pretty exclusively printed in Amsterdam.
What you're describing sounds more like nationalistic rhetoric than history. It isn't supported by the dominant academic stream of thought. There isn't even that much evidence of the term viking being used. It's more of a modern concept. If you're arguing raiding in longships was exclusive to Danes that's inaccurate just as is the idea that the Norse world entirely revolved around Denmark. Ignoring the likes of Birka, Upsalla, Irish colonies, Normandy, the Varangian voyages, Newfoundland etc.
Most, much, not a lot are all so vague that it isn't really debatable, but there is a significant influence from Dutch culture on the US to the extend that it is not at all an exaggeration to say it has shaped the US from its foundation through ideas such as liberalism, capitalism, egalitarianism, freedom of religion etc. If you're interested in the subject I recommend Russel Shorto's books, an American historian who's written extensively about the subject.
The people trading stocks at the time would've generally been of a merchant class. The nobility has never been as influential in the Netherlands as neighboring countries because the hostile sea has always necessitated a more collaborative society.
Apparently not. True, originally to go viking was an act rather than a culture though it is generally not understand that way today. Regardless viking raiders came from Danish, Norwegian, Swedish lands and later from lands colonized, though the Swedes tended to go east. Those lands were interchangeably ruled by tribal kings and when they wanted to raid they didn't just get Danes. Hell the end of the viking age is generally marked by the failed invasion of a Norwegian viking king in 1066.
Well that's just inaccurate. Much of Scandinavia had a shared tribal culture we would today recognize as Viking. With a shared language, mythology, ship building techniques and tendencies towards either trading or raiding.
The Nobel committee is Swedish.
I'm sure they can spare some resources from the Iranian child bombing program.
Delightful. Finally some good fucking news. Maybe they can play 1812 Overture as it comes down.
Unless they have access to a whistleblower even proper journalists depend on official sources for some reporting. The better ones at least add the disclaimer ''according to'' instead reporting things like ''a deal is imminent'' as fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil
As much as branding efforts try to pretend otherwise a company doesn't care about anything because they're not people. They have no opinions or values. Publicly traded companies are just machines for maximizing shareholder value.
Another erasure that's happening is American Anglo cultural efforts to westernize culture heritage such as that of the Greeks into one non existent monolith, even though it is a Mediterranean culture oriented much more to the east. The culture war has reduced every discussion to a false binary. Not every a cultural critique has come from a dishonest place. That being said having a black Helen is really one of the least inaccurate things. The bronze age Mediterranean world was a diverse place.
They can be triggered to undergo metamorphosis in a lab. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Ambystomas.jpg/1920px-Ambystomas.jpg
One of these which is so pervasive in culture is the myth of the hero. A world where the gifted, chosen or noble individual is what moves the world. If not outright wrong it is certainly an overly simplistic view. While heroic tales can inspire they can also disarm, leaving us to believe we are dependent on or at the mercy of ''great men''. All the while they are more often than not interchangeable, their reach given, not by ability but by systems and collective power, as it can for all of us.
In Scandinavian bronze age rock art there are some pretty trireme looking ships that seem to indicate contact with the proto Greek peoples.
If the Atlantic current stops or reverses Europeans may well be the ones relying on the hospitality of other nations.
You could say the same about Western art but it's incredibly reductive to even generalize so many cultures and periods into one supposed monolith.
This and other crimes against humanity and nature are the inevitable end result of nationalistic rhetoric, ''warrior culture'' and dumbshit macho talk like warfighters and maximum lethality.
They shot them from trains to deprive indigenous people of food and other resources.
Even when he was getting a lot of flak for over promising and under delivering I still kind of respected him, as a guy who was just excited about making things, but he's really gone off the deep end with NFT's and every other tech fad.
Just the candidate we need to restore a sense of dignity to the office of president.
Then why go for an orange turd? They could've had the Giga Chad as president, or Jar Jar Binks.
What a ridiculous statement. It was the catalyst for a myriad of global seismic changes in war, espionage, law, aviation, economics, demographics, migration, politics, causing the rise and fall of nations, some of which are still in the process of falling... The rise of the far right, fueled by unrest from mass migration, caused by instability in the mid east. Brexit etc etc.
If industries would regulate themselves we wouldn't need such hamfisted laws but they're incapable of restraining their greed so here we are.
Don't you just love every time someone warns, that's what socialism will be like, using an example that is the result of capitalist society.
No. There is a difference between being okay with something and questioning the ethics of supposed justice. Ethnic cleansing is a crime. Which means if enough time has passed after said crime, the justice you suggest becomes a crime in itself. It is no different then expelling the descendants of colonist in the US back to Europe or dissolving Turkey and giving it back to Greeks. It is neither feasible nor ethical and nonsensical because modern people are a genetic mix of various tribes.
Yeah...But also no. While of course our own consumption and waste production matters, a lot discussion around personal contributions towards combating climate change only exists as a means to distract from those who have a larger responsibility. It is very much fair to call campaigns out on their bullshit if the narrative is just ''what can you do'' instead of what can society do.
I do want to make that case. History is an endless chain of tribes migrating that have been chased from lands they chased other tribes out of. Basically no land is except from some claim like that. Are we supposed to do a switcheroo until we're all back in Africa? It is absolute nonsense to ever try and enforce land claims thousands of years old.
#57 Knights were nobles. They generally had people guarding their doors.
Obviously it's not like the Dutch can lay claim to all of these ideas. Many thinkers and nations have contributed to their development and spread but there is a thread of ideas towards the US of from the Netherlands. Directly and indirectly to England for instance with the Glorious Revolution 1688. In contrast to neighboring countries there was almost freedom of speech and press, which is why the theories that shaped enlightenment thinking were pretty exclusively printed in Amsterdam.
What you're describing sounds more like nationalistic rhetoric than history. It isn't supported by the dominant academic stream of thought. There isn't even that much evidence of the term viking being used. It's more of a modern concept. If you're arguing raiding in longships was exclusive to Danes that's inaccurate just as is the idea that the Norse world entirely revolved around Denmark. Ignoring the likes of Birka, Upsalla, Irish colonies, Normandy, the Varangian voyages, Newfoundland etc.
Most, much, not a lot are all so vague that it isn't really debatable, but there is a significant influence from Dutch culture on the US to the extend that it is not at all an exaggeration to say it has shaped the US from its foundation through ideas such as liberalism, capitalism, egalitarianism, freedom of religion etc. If you're interested in the subject I recommend Russel Shorto's books, an American historian who's written extensively about the subject.
The people trading stocks at the time would've generally been of a merchant class. The nobility has never been as influential in the Netherlands as neighboring countries because the hostile sea has always necessitated a more collaborative society.
Apparently not. True, originally to go viking was an act rather than a culture though it is generally not understand that way today. Regardless viking raiders came from Danish, Norwegian, Swedish lands and later from lands colonized, though the Swedes tended to go east. Those lands were interchangeably ruled by tribal kings and when they wanted to raid they didn't just get Danes. Hell the end of the viking age is generally marked by the failed invasion of a Norwegian viking king in 1066.
Well that's just inaccurate. Much of Scandinavia had a shared tribal culture we would today recognize as Viking. With a shared language, mythology, ship building techniques and tendencies towards either trading or raiding.
The Nobel committee is Swedish.
I'm sure they can spare some resources from the Iranian child bombing program.
Delightful. Finally some good fucking news. Maybe they can play 1812 Overture as it comes down.
Unless they have access to a whistleblower even proper journalists depend on official sources for some reporting. The better ones at least add the disclaimer ''according to'' instead reporting things like ''a deal is imminent'' as fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil