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I’m not saying it was a good idea but every society has tried to solve the problem of “society needs organization to function but power tends to corrupt people” and I like how ancient Rome’s answer was the position of the tribune, where you get to have unchecked power with no accountability for one (1) year but after that you’re just a guy and everyone you pissed off can beat you to death with hammers.

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yoberry77

he is water bending holy shit. did anyone know they could do this

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spacetwinks

been playing a game called Ishin No Arashi, which was am ambitious Koei sim for the famicom where you play a dignitary of your choice during the Bakumatsu era and try to convert others to your ideology. here's me playing as famous samurai Ryoma Sakamoto doing a dogshit job of winning others over by having an incredibly awkward conversation

a-lesbian-space-pirate

#I want it

constructreese

By far the funniest thing in the entire manga to date

captain-price-unofficially

#This cant be a real fucking panel

goatsandgangsters

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing