Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

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  • The book I was reading made it sound like they were preparing for a proper siege, but the Wiki said they were fielded in lines. Which blows my mind.

    So this image. One legion (5,000) lined up against presumably the bulk of Hannibal’s* army (50-60,000), and then Hannibal “paper hands” of Carthage fucking leaving instead of fighting them!

    Yeah I can see how a Roman would ride that high into an empire. They were probably ready to die.

    Tap for spoiler

    I’m not sure if this was the bulk of his army. I havent seen any numbers on exactly how many of Hannibal’s men were there. I know he was baby sitting a lot of the shaky allies he’d made so he might have split it up to take care of those matters.

    I’m also not sure exactly how many legions were in Rome. It looks like Fulvius Flaccus made it back with 3 legions (15,000) and there was a swearing in of 1 (5000)

    But numbers get in the way of a good story.












  • Interesting read.

    I’m also an atheist looking for a religion. Though, for moral reasons I reject any organized christian sect. They are all guilty in being manipulated in getting the US to where it is now, and I refuse to let them think they’ve converted an atheist.

    Like the other commenter I’ve turned towards pseudo bhuddism. For me the morals and everything can be logical no issue. The real human desire we’re missing is community cohesion. A group of diverse people with a shared spiritual experience to ground us in the truth that we are social animals.

    I have a few posts about it, but to me god is a conception of communal love and cosmic probability to which we can offset anxieties.

    And just like the other poster, I am also practicing occultism and satanism as well as Bhuddism.

    I don’t know of I’d recommend satanism just because I don’t think it’s conducive to community building.





  • He’s a libertarian who is, self admittedly, hard to work with. He’s also petty and a pedant.

    Great for right to repair and digital sovereignty, but there’s a lot more arguably real issues in the world than making sure my tech is upgradable. Like I’m pretty sure he talk about supporting RFK Jr in 24 [citation needed]'. I don’t follow him as closely since he made a 20 minute video trying to argue that AOC is wrong about there being no such thing as unskilled labor by explaining the exact point.

    I really don’t wanna know his thoughts on trans rights or the mass racist deportations.