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Certain people within Rome, at a certain time, were unable to be employed except as a soldier. They were given free food and free entertainment, and the occupied themselves with feasts and sex. Rome definitely had hardships, and not all of the people were well off. The only times that this...

Rome was post-scarcity. The Roman Empire was not. There's a distinction. I've read Gibbons, Tacitus, De Re Militari (Vegetius), Mary Beard's several works, Pax Romana, several works citing the dramatic fall in literacy from 30-50% to less than 5% following the Antonine Plague, The Rise and...

He doesn't own the park, obviously. His foundation is something that donates to St. Judes or something of the like. Theme parks don't save lives.

Well if I actually need to defend myself, ban me permanently. I've been wrong in some of my posts, mainly politics, but not in this thread. I understand human nature pretty fucking well, I just have a hard time applying it in real time.

I only started behaving in this manner after you guys repeatedly tried to tear me down by calling me a combination of autistic, retarded, austistic, dumb, terrible, and autistic. I've never received such a terrible reception, although a few posters, including a mod, send me PMs saying they do...

No. To win at poker you need discipline, a good grasp of psychology, the ability to read people. Taking insult has nothing to do with it because poker players normally aren't very rude, at lose with grace. It does get annoying when a bad player wins and starts professing like he knows...

I enjoy this forum simply because of the breadth and diverse topics discussed as opposed to a specialized poker forum or specialized Roman history forum. And it's not as much chaos as some of the others. But there's a lot of people who just like to hate to hate, and there's a lot of people who...

Twoplustwo takes famous posters arbitrarily and votes them "out" survival style. Whoever is more popular wins, loser gets banned. I won one, lost one, and got banned. The only negative is that you have to make a new account and lose your post count. It happened to EVERY famous poster on 2p2...

Hating on me is the easiest way to get five likes and twelve solidarities.

To be fair I'm responding to information that is totally incorrect and shit like,"wooly jerks it to Pixar." Look man, the only way climate change could collapse the West was if people began starving. They weren't. North Africa was still producing massive amounts of food and income until the...

I posted my reasons for the difference. The West was weaker, less easily defended, and Gaul/North Africa were prime vulnerable targets for settling. Why would they go East? The Vandals clearly targeted North Africa. It was very rich and the Romans could not defend it. The Theodosian Walls...

They killed off Hector and had soldier NPCs restrain some guests when a family with children was approaching Sweetwater. What was that machine excavation machine that was causing the ground to shake? That motherfucker was scary, especially since it was aimed near them.

Fuck you guys. I'm posting good and accurate information, and I get this kind of response?

Battle of Yarmouk - Wikipedia "Although Yarmouk is little known today, it is one of the most decisive ... the modern world would be so changed as to be unrecognizable." The Eastern Roman Empire almost wiped out Islam.

I never said the Roman Empire fell. I said, "dissolution of the Western Roman Empire." Read my words. The East was far, far richer because of trade, a church that wasn't as strong, and had a more defensible position. Gaul was a ripe target, and then North Africa. The Battle of Cap Bon was...

That's as much bullshit as lead poisoning causing the "fall". It may have played a part, especially in the prevalence and rise of disease and Smallpox/Bubonic Plague. The Empire of the 1st and 2nd centuries would have easily repelled the barbarian migrations, like the Eastern Empire. Rome had...

Sarcasm? I gave a quick summarization that a laymen could understand. It's not my job to educate you, nor am I writing a book on the subject. I also think the Romans/Phoenicians reached the new world. They had triple masted ships capable of crossing the Atlantic. I'm sure a few were sent...

I frequent a forum with many scholars on this period. Several of them have written the most recent books, given the most recent lectures, teach on the subject, and help organize re-enactments. These guys know what they're talking about. The Roman Empire and the causes of its collapse are a...

Gibbon was absolutely correct that Christianity was one of the largest causes for the dissolution of the WRE. Unfortunately, he was born before we really knew the extent of the Antonine Plague and Plague of Galen which could have wiped out as much as a third of the population. There was an...

Odd Ford said Arnold was insane while conveying some disturbing behavior.

Guarantee I know more about the Roman Empire than anyone on this board, perhaps the entire board put together. I may be misunderstanding what a post scarcity economy is, but not my history.

Captain Capitalism: Why Post-Scarcity Economics is Scary How isn't Rome post scarcity? They owned the world and had access to everything, and the state covered the cost/simply took what they wanted.

Making the world a worse place!

Cmon, at least make it a DS9 analogy.

Was that video necessary? I'm gonna have the thing removed and now I'm having second thougghts.

What's hard to understand gentlemens? The people of Rome had no available jobs, and were given free food, and entertainment. There were basically soldiers and slaves with the former being replaced with mercenaries.

We know what it is! It's a bump. Seriously though, Said it's either a cyst or lipoma.

Doctor was like,"if it was cancer, you'd be dead by now. nothing to worry about." "Shouldn't I at least get it checked?" "Sure, if you want to waste your money." "Um, okay."

0 The website also says this. It depends on the "package tier." There's like Bronze, Silver, Gold. The lowest tier is $40,000/day, but the Gold tier is 200,000/day.

I honestly think it's close to 90% or higher that civilization collapses, or we destroy ourselves. We can't control our population or consumption, and are unwilling to even try. If global warming starts causing real world consequences, people start starving, and it drives large scale...

We already have examples of post-scarcity economies in history, idiots. Rome was a post-scarcity society. They handed out grain to all of the cities inhabitants, who were largely unemployed, and gave them free access to games that cost the state massive amounts of money. Bread and Circuses...

Ed Harris is obviously rich enough to go to a park for 30 years that charges 1.2 million per week. He runs a foundation that helps sick children. It saves some dude's sister's life. ...but now he's on vacay. And in Westworld, we don't help little kids, we murder them.

When machines put 75% of our labor force out of work, and we all start receiving basic income via stipends, then that doesn't that change us to a Socialist/Communist society? What will people start spending their time on? Increasingly entertaining games and media? Working to improve the...

Dolores waking up with the gun kind of torpedoed there being two timelines. If you don't know the significance of a machine (piano) being able to play itself in the context of this show, then you're dumb. Anyway, I'm still shooting 50%.

I'm watching the episode now. How about you guys wait off on the two-timeline theory for now, because unless William is directly seen conversing with a member of the current timeline, it's still in effect, because of clever editing. They wouldn't reveal the two timelines in episode 4, and...

I haven't watched the latest episode but I actually had two theories. One about William, the other about Ford. I said Ford was much darker than we expect, and is a sociopath capable of murder. It sounds like that may be true. So at worst I'm shooting 50%.

Aren't Lipomas soft? Yeah I'm going tomorrow, will let you guys know. It could be a space alien baby.

Correlating symptoms? B-symptoms? Weigh loss? General malaise? Bleedings from orifices? None. I've gained a lot of weight actually.

I have an appointment scheduled. First time, it got pushed back because of some bullshit. Second time, the Dr. decided to take the day off. Let's speculate until I can get in on Monday?

So about five to seven years ago, I noticed a small bump on my chest right above my stomach but below my ribs. I've ignored it thinking it was just a cyst, as I was only 23 at the time. It doesn't portrude much from my skin because it's deep. I could only notice it by moving my hand over my...