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Literally had a show about it

Which was quote meta considering he literally had a show about it.

Man I wonder what Tim Allen's been up to. I wonder if he did another show literally about performing masculinity where he literally has a show about performing masculinity in the show.

Man that'd be wild.

We don't generally fuck cloacas...

Have you ever...

Why do those trees have cloacas

All of a sudden "Darmok" is a much less stupid episode.

Not really interested until I can use it via api.

The AI bubble hasn't popped so free tiers for basically any AI is better than Lump which is just running other better models anyways.

In fact if the point is to spite american companies(you should), you should just over use free tier american AIs since it costs them lots of money.

My brain is fried.

I thought you said A.I. Bundy and I was trying so hard to see how this looked like A.I.

I agree that ruler was the wrong word. "Renaissance Henry Kissinger" is certainly more accurate.

I disagree that his most influential move was the militia. His most influential move was the complex diplomatic network of alliances, treaties, and call backs to how great Rome was was objectively more influential since we actually still do it.

The Medici also didn't really beg daddy pope. I'm pretty sure that the pope was a Medici. I'll edit here if I'm wrong: Not a Medici, but was good friends with the two Medici Popes

He apparently wrote a lot in his correspondences how much he loved Florence and despite the torture, he did get a job writing the histories of Florence paid for by the Medici who did originally exile him.

All of that, BTW, was also in the wikipedia pages I linked.

Context: One interpretation of Niccolo Machiavelli was as a practical "patriot" who saw the turmoil that befell so many of the great cities of Italy during their warring and feuding. So he invented his controversial political ideology that influences modern day politics. He knew his time as ruler of Florence was limited. So he wrote "The Prince" as a manual for how he managed to keep mercenaries out of Florence and freely circulated to his friends and then to his successor the Medicis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

Real and sad.

Boy I love being in a dying empire.

There was one account from "King Leopold's ghost" where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.

He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.

KGB Chief: "Alright which one of you did it! Do you have any idea what kinda jeopardy you've put the world into! If the Americans find out what you fucking did, the world may go to nuclear war! How irresponsible! Its only a matter of time before-"

Agent: "Boss, it wasn't one of us!"

Chief: "What... then who? The Cubans? Vietnamese?"

Agent: "We saw a mob boss, a federal reserve agent, and a CIA guy all talking an hour prior. We didn't think anything of it until we heard the shots."

My only gripe is with historians in the meme part

It should be

"Bigotted conservative officials making records of the events or destroying evidence once in power"

Historians have their problems especially previous generations, but they're only as good as surviving evidence.