What are some of history's weirdest government offices/court offices.
Like, weird as in the role they performed was weird, or weird in the sense that their duties went above and beyond their intended roles.
>>1930451
>or weird in the sense that their duties went above and beyond their intended roles.
Supreme Court of the United States of America
>>1930451
I find it weird that Americans require artists to draw scenes in court hearings.
>>1930451
Not really weird but I find it funny that the original function of Sergeant of Arms is senate security & the removal of people who are either trolling, or wasting the senate's time.
Is 'The Great War' /his/ approved?
Are there any history related YouTube channels you lads recommend?
>>1930443
I strongly recommend Lindybeige
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pgQfOXRsp4UKrI8q0zjXQ
>>1930449
>>1930443
check out their other channel https://www.youtube.com/user/BlastfromthePast/featured
ITT: People who did nothing wrong
>Savages, just savages nothing more
What human invention has caused the most net harm (as in harm that outweighs the benefit) to the human race?
Inner net
>>1930392
Agriculture
>>1930392
The cotton gin
If you had to choose a single role model for yourself in history, who would you choose and why?
How has reading about your historical hero affected your life?
>>1930317
One story I particularly like is that of Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
He was an asshole but I have to give credit to a man who started out as a dirt broke, ugly sandal bearer for his lord using his ingenuity to impress and fight his way up the chain until he became the most powerful person in Japan.
Brasidas.
>sent off to Thrace to kick Athenian ass while the rest of Sparta was shitting its collective toga
>beat Thucydides out so fucking hard he starts writing a book about how Athens deserves to raped
>save Greek cities from Athenian tyranny, one city's so grateful they tore down all statues of their founder and put up new ones in Brasidas' honour, claiming he'd done more for them then he ever did
>solos the most violent man in Athens, forcing them to sue for peace
>dies in the final battle for Thrace, but not before making all the Greeks want to join Sparta in the war against the Athenians by being a stand-up guy
>>1930317
It may sound typical and I dont know much about her but everything about Joan of arc is pretty fucking impressive. The lengths this girl went to for her country.
>tfw you were born after the bronze age collapse
why even live?
>tfw I will never be the autistic town blacksmith
what do you mean? now I can play Dwarf Fortress which is the same shit except instead of being one disease ridden guy I'm everybody in the community.
>>1930196
Nobody in that picture would have been affected by the bronze age collapse.
Would Diogenes have found the men he was looking for if he browsed /his/?
no. maybe if he looked around in a homeless shelter.
the metaphor is that all humans that participate in society put up a facade and "lie" as a prerequisite for participation. so he can be accurate when walking through a crowd while implying that nobody is honest among it.
assuming it ever happened. diogenes was probably a well-known and outspoken town hobo who was used as a character for philosophers to demonstrate an idea, if he even existed. all kinds of stories were made up about him.
>was captured by pirates and made a slave
>made fun of Alexander the Great
>made fun of Plato
>fucked around with Socrates
The absolute madman.
I'M NOT WORTHY
Mixtec gold and jade ornament with thr symbol of quetzalcoatl ehecatl. 13th century Mexico.
They worshipped Asherah together with Yahweh.
>>1930027
>>1930041
even though not everyone acts in a perfectly rational manner
>>1929875
Behavior approaches rationality in lots of areas, though. Game theory finds applications in these areas, like international strategic weapons policy, where everyone really is looking at everything through a rational game theory lens. It also serves to establish norms for deliberate, rational behavior, so that groups can persuade each other that they are rational, which is really important for international relations.
>>1929888
is game theory a more viable model than say historical materialism?
1. It's simple to construct. It can be analytically obtained, whereas how people act irrationally has to be empirically observed, and may vary quite a lot across time.
2. People are more rational than you think. It still works pretty well as a generalization, though we can find particular instances where people act irrationally.
Schopenhauer biographer R.J. Hollingdale:
>"His famous misogyny is really his reaction to the way his mother was able to find a new and more satisfying life after his father's death."
That's right kiddos, On Women is LITERALLY just a ten page tantrum about Schopenhauer's unresolved mommy issues. His entire philosophy is bunk - of course life really is all suffering when you refuse to let go of your childish resentments towards women.
Oh look, another Schopenhauer gossip thread with zero discussion about his actual philosophy.
>>1929891
Just as well. Apparently even his biographers prefer gossip to real discussion.
>>1929863
>armchair psychologist bullshit
This shit grinds my gears so much, not just because every stupid faggot does it, but because its literally not an argument. It doesnt focus on the argument itself and instead just attacks the person who said it by trying to trace that view back to some embarrassing/tragic event in their past.
During world war 2, could the Germans have incited civil unrest among Ukrainians and other minorities against the Russians to assist in their invation of Russia? Would his have been an effective tactic?
it's pretty easy to see unrest between Ukrainians and Russians today but was it similar back then?
They could, but then they would have to treat Ukrainians and other minorities like humans, which would go against the whole Nazi ideology.
>>1929634
"Ukrainians" splits to 6 parts, with different relations with Russians and Poles. Germans united Poland and bad 2 groups of (west) Ukrainians, tryed to organize independent state for 2 other groups (central and east).
There wasnt any reasons to unrest in german territory, and it was impossible to do in soviet.
>Descartes argued that anime's existence can be deduced from its nature, just as geometric ideas can be deduced from the nature of shapes—he used the deduction of the sizes of angles in a triangle as an example. He suggested that the concept of anime is that of a supremely perfect show, holding all perfections. He seems to have assumed that existence is a predicate of a perfection. Thus, if the notion of anime did not include existence, it would not be supremely perfect, as it would be lacking a perfection. Consequently, the notion of a supremely perfect anime that does not exist, Descartes argues, is unintelligible. Therefore, according to its nature, anime must exist.
>>1929600
haha yes! thank you! my whole household revolves around anime! I'll be putting that one up in the kitchen where we eat breakfast!
il also be posting it on reddit
>>1929600
What's your point? Everyone knows Descartes's argument for the existence of God is bullshit. The reason he's still taught and is often used as an intro to psychology is because he was one of the early enlightenment philosophers and his method was an important contribution to philosophy. But any professor worth their salt will be sure to tell you why some of his arguments are flawed, and even introduce those who countered his arguments.
>>1929600
Anime waifus being real have already been argued for, and in my opinion much more successfully, in this paper
http://philpapers.org/archive/SINPG
>>1930660
>The reason he's still taught and is often used as an intro to psychology
Sure you don't mean philosophy?
Who here /1776/ ?
I don't know guys. Being part of the British empire wasn't all that bad and it came with a lot of boons. Maybe we should keep good relations with them.
>>1929584
>wants to be pretend romans
>set up republic
>forget that roma became an empire
>[COLAPSE]
>>1929599
>Augustus = Trump
Since scientific development has been by far the most important thing in the last 200 years why don't history classes focus more on it?
Teacher here.
We actually do focus on scientific history in Canada, at least. It is actually mandated by the curriculum here, actually, to explore concepts and examine the social relations between the societies which advanced science, and what that even means.
I do suppose it is heavily weighted towards a sociological understanding of science, but there is history. I even took a course in university called the philosophy of science where we examined the history of science in the west, at least.
I'm going to bring this up to the history department, by the way. Thanks for reminding me.
>>1929602
I tutor in classes and have taken many history classes in America and for the most part it is
>American history
>Pretty much all specific people or wars
>World history
>Specific events and movements
>Maybe a few paragraphs on the scientific revolution or Cotten gen
>>1929580
People don't understand basic science in general, guess they can't be bothered with the history of scientific advancement and technology either
or is that just a myth?
Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan.
Ones will argue that withdrawing isn't losing, but that's bullshit.
The Cold War