Pointing at an Automat vending machine from the 1970s that's got a big "AI" sticker slapped on it, and claiming it's going to take everyone's jobs.
zifnab25
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Extremely silly
I'm old enough to remember watching the Challenger explode, while my mom freaked out on the couch next to me.
Curiously enough, an unpopular opinion that's actually unpopular is a rare find on that site.
Xiongnu tribes continued to raid Northern China in spite of Han paying tribute regularly and marrying off imperial princesses to the leader of the Xiongn
I mean, when in the 350 year history between ascendant Xiongnu and their demise are we talking?
The only true lasting peace between the Han and Xiongnu came when the Han cut off the the Xiongnu from all their sources of tribute, and effectively caused the confederation to collapse and the tribes to descend into internal conflict.
That's a very reductive outlook, given the two populations had an on-again-off-again wars going back for the duration of their existence. Either way, components of the Great Wall already existed at the time of the conflict and did little to mitigate it.
Going to a Capitalism conference with my favorite book on Capitalism, "Das Kapital" and my second favorite book "Capitalism in the 21st Century" but getting lots of mean looks and boos when I try to get them signed.
More likely the former if its getting press. I'd be curious to find out how many Seals we're flinging out into the wilderness and how many we're getting back, but I doubt that's something even the President really knows.
Excited to get the shakey-cam video of HBomberGuy doing a signing at a Con only to have his head spontaneously explode when he accidentally autographs a piece of the Death Note.
Playing 100 hours of Paralogic and then feeling right at home when I see the Slaughterhouse that Siphons Souls at the center of Krakow.
the alternative is more expensive, a military expedition to the steppe with the massive supply requirements was really hard to pull off
Or just don't do that. Build trade relationships and family ties, rather than launching raids across the mountains.
Customs was important to control exactly what left Chinese territory, from controlling weapons to preferentially giving allies resources over their rivals.
That's true. But, again, the wall wasn't what drove traffic quite so much as the roads that were cobbled and supplied and patrolled. Smugglers could cross the hills and mountains just as easily as raiders. But crossing that territory is dangerous and taxes that aren't going to fund this enormous vanity project can be kept at a comfortable range.
the walls were also enough to stop small-scale opportunist raids
The terrain already accomplished this, for the most part. A few key forts at major passes and trade crossings do the rest. The Romans didn't need a giant network of walls to manage Southern Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East. And the Chinese still got invaded and sacked regularly after the walls were built.
FFS, the biggest vulnerability to Chinese hegemony at the end of the day wasn't Steppe Tribes. It was the ports of trade, through which the English injected their opium traffic.
A "genocide" this however not make, no matter how much this is repeated on tiktok and co.
Israel: Kills 1000 people
Reddit: "This is not a genocide"
Israel: Kills 10,000 people
Reddit: "This is still not a genocide"
Israel: Kills 1% of the population and displaces another 85%
Reddit: "Stop saying this is a genocide. You're just on TikTok too much. Just saying it over and over again doesn't make it true. This is classic Big Lie propaganda and you are falling for the same tricks that Hitler used to invade Germany."
Russia: Fires a barrage of missiles across the border to Ukraine
Reddit: "Vladimir Putin is history's greatest monster and we must post 10x harder if we are to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
Oh cool. ISIS regaining the title of "moderate rebels".