cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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They're up today, unless I'm missing something. Is there another Nvidia besides $NVDA?

Yeah, Caesar is a bad comparison. Sulla fits better, although at least he was legitimately successful before his coup.

He does strike me more as the flaccid type.

In general, the more a person brags about something, the less true it is — and Americans love to brag about how tough and free they are...

vital

Funny that you emphasized this word, which has become such a tell of ChatGPT (along with "delve" and "crucial").

CRIBSUS

Every time I read an article like this I have to shake my head because they make Americans look like the dumbest people imaginable, absolutely incapable of understanding cause and effect.

South America in general. Peru even had a president named Fujimori not that long ago.

They were OK as long as leopards ate only other people's faces. Anyone who isn't a straight white male deserved it.

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.