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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History depending on how well you know the topic.

He's great for things I'm not familiar with, annoying when I know the topic very well.

>>1679556
Thank you but Carlin seems to be fixated on the greek and persian war. Can't find anything outside that subject

>>1679539
History of Rome podcast

France

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10's

1920s

Both

Neither.

>>1679494
>slavic language
>slavic culture
>greek religion
>Jeez i wonder which one
Really makes you think

Ten Days That Shook the World

The Soviet Colossus by Michael Kort

>>1681697
>>1679451
thanks!

I pull the lever because given a choice between acting and not acting the former is preferable.

I'm not a civil transportation employee so I have no business interacting with the lever that changes the trolley's orientation on the tracks. I simply leave the lever and return to home in time for supper. Mother made a meatloaf and I need the protein.

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I'd prefer not to wave to people, so I won't pull it.

Internal instability.

>>1679272
Most of the contributions during the Islamic Golden Age came from Persians from Greater Khorasan area of Greater Iran (e.g., Avicenna, Al-Khwarizmi, Rhazes, Al-Farabi, Khayyam, etc. all came from this area). When the Mongols invaded, it was like a reign of terror in Greater Khorasan. Approximately ten million people died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia

There was about 280 years of instability in war-torn Greater Iran. When the Safavid Empire were able to reassert Persian ethos, more energy was invested in creating a better defensive military rather than the sciences.

>>1679272
Mongols. Mongols ruin everything.

Fascism is the result of communism and World War I.

>>1679265
Countermovement to Communism, and a result of the perceived failures of democracy/monarchies after WW1.

Democracies, like all systems of government, are naturally vulnerable to domination by a rent seeking clique.

The Weimar republic was a particularly young, unstable, and, at least in the eyes of the "stab in the back," illegitimate democracy.

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>Best mythology
>Norse
Terrible meme. Everything interesting in Norse mythology is told better in Celtic mythology or Slavic mythology. Greece is fine, it's a standard, but it cribs so much from the Near East it's kind of annoying. Go back to early Mesopotamian mythology, Epic of Gilgamesh level shit, now that's based.

I tried to read a book on Norse mythology, and it was incredibly convoluted

Aztec. It's insanely complex with deity interactions, but is also strict, unlike some more animistic mythologies that have a lot of deities. And most of it is about gods killing themselves and each other.

From wikipedia.

>Lances were still in use by the British, Indian, French, Russian, Belgian, Turkish, Italian, and German armies at the outbreak of World War I. In initial cavalry skirmishes in France this antique weapon proved ineffective, German uhlans being "hampered by their long lances and a good many threw them away".[8] A major action involving repeated charges by four regiments of German cavalry, all armed with lances, at Halen on 12 August 1914 was unsuccessful.[9] Amongst the Belgian defenders was one regiment of lancers who fought dismounted.

>With the advent of trench warfare, lances and the cavalry that carried them ceased to play a significant role.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance#World_War_I_and_after

Actual set lances? None. There were cavalry charges with sabers and pistols, but no accounts I know of with set lances or even mounted spearmen. I think that's a Polish hussars WW2 meme.

>>1679212
>>1679213
Thanks for the info m80's
Have a (You)

Kind of. The "Anglo" does best the further away from home he is.

what even was its point

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I only regret it didn't happen sooner.

Unless the Houthis or ISIS have gotten really lucky while I wasn't paying attention, no.

There have however been losses to ATGMs, but not of US crewed tanks.

There have been losses of US crewed Abrams, but only to IEDs.

There have been fatalities inside US Abrams from RPG-29s, but in both cases, the tank was able to drive back to base under its own power, with the original crew.

Sorry for going into so much detail, but there are dedicated Abrams shitposters on /k/.

Amazing to think that the M1 Abrams is over 30 years old now. I wonder if depending on the next president, a new main battle tank will be designed.

>>1679224

Probably not. A new MBT is pretty low on the list of priorities in the sort of counterinsurgency war America is likely to be facing in the next 2 decades or so. You'll probably only see a new MBT if someone starts posing a credible threat to American military/economic hegemony. China's the best candidate, but even for them, I'm not really seeing it happen.

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What a fucking Icon.

Oswald mosley

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>>1678972

>>1678920
quantum delayed eraser -> simulation -> top down recursion -> conciousness

The lack of existence of free will contradicts phenomenological observation, as from your first-person perspective you make choices that influence your future based on criteria. Whether or not you were "always going to make these choices" means nothing because, phenomenologically, you're still making decisions. I could care less about whether or not determinism is reality, all I care about is logical validity and soundness, and phenomenological reasoning is the only logically valid and sound line of reasoning you can procure through your first-person perspective, because that's literally what your perception of reality is sourced in.

If you observe yourself holding an apple, apples objectively exist. If you observe yourself making choices, choices objectively exist.

If you think you have any way of observing reality outside of phenomenology, please, by all means, explain.

>>1678920
>Dualism can be explained as the fact that a brain doesn't know what it looks like, and doesn't recognise itself.
But I know what my brain looks like, and with sufficient education might be able to recognize my brain. Unless you're on some weird tangent about how "the brain doesn't have eyes lol". Except it does.

>that guy who is falling for the philosophy meme

just listen to college lectures on youtube, read books of said philosophers, discuss on forums and save your money and time on a worthless degree

>>1678872
Invest in a coding bootcamp so you can get a real job.

Yeah can I get fries with that

look for PDFs first, don't spend money on what you can get online for free.

get this
https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-1-7/dp/0385265204

cute af and well researched

>>1678749
>well researched
alright, Im remembering some things that chaffed me in regards to it's accuracy.

its still cute though and the broad strikes are mostly right.

>>1678741
The best translation is by Hays.

Epictetus is a better philosopher and practitioner than Marcus Aurelius and I would advise you to read his books.
Seneca has written better texts than Aurelius as well, some of his readings are very important to take a good idea of Stoicism. Just take in mind that Seneca was not a Stoic sage and his problem with money (he was a greed man and tried to justify it at times) sometimes appears in his texts.