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Fun Fact: the Romans initially used “Caesar” as a title because their history as a republic made them leery of using “Rex” for rulers. Within a decade of the Western Empire falling meaning they wouldn’t be title shamed as fake Romans, the Eastern Emperors officially adopted “Basileus,” the Greek equivalent of “Rex/monarch” as a title that had been unofficially used for centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileus
Tl;Dr the Romans used Caesar as title because it would have been gauche to admit they were a monarchy again
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Casual UK@feddit.uk•Has anyone else had this flu?English
1·6 hours agodeleted by creator
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Casual UK@feddit.uk•Has anyone else had this flu?English
1·7 hours agoSuffocation in medical terminology applies to circumstances that impede airflow and therefore oxidation of the blood, aka your “their stuffed nose exhausted them” theory.
In other words, stop talking about things you know nothing about.
Isn’t it great when a flawed messenger lets you ignore an inconvenient message and give no further thought to any hint of outside influence? Even better when you can label any wrong thinker as part of their group!
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Casual UK@feddit.uk•Has anyone else had this flu?English
21·10 hours agoWhy do so many very, very stupid people think you can suffocate from a stuffy nose or surgical mask?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Animemes@ani.social•When you find your favorite anime's fandom
2·10 hours agoThe Wolf Among Us fandom was the same way tbh.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Animemes@ani.social•When you find your favorite anime's fandom
21·10 hours agoEva fans unironically have a better conceptualization of eternity and The Rapture than 99% of Christians, discuss
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196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•lets see what memes I have on hand
3·11 hours agoI feel like half the “timesavings” of AI could have been done better by someone making a code library that is actually organized.
Not even well organized… Just organized.
I feel like that can’t be the whole story because then you could just say cow, which are even bigger
Famously less populated and more forested than America, modern Europe
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Casual UK@feddit.uk•Has anyone else had this flu?English
21·11 hours agoExhaustion is literally a hallmark trait of the flu that colds don’t cause without underlying conditions. And this strain specifically lasts longer than most flus.
Try not diagnosing people over the Internet when you don’t know the basics.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Why American tech billionaires are quietly bankrolling Europe's far-rightEnglish
1·11 hours agoRussian billionaires
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World News@quokk.au•An AI-Powered Toy - Available Also In The West - Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points: "Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact."
3·12 hours agoThen it goes full Chucky, because the secret technology was the tortured souls of dissidents.
They’re called teachers, and being aware of basic knowledge isn’t “a smug gotcha,” it’s not being proud of your profound and willful ignorance.
Ah, the good old days, when it wasn’t the Secretary of Health and his handipicked cronies in the CDC
Uh yes it did it’s me, all my takes are the right ones and always will be
To the kind of people that pretend they don’t understand historical context sure









Well we didn’t think they’d pay $10b