https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_Room >The total collection of the gold, after being melted down into standard ingots, and before division amongst the Spaniards, amounted to 1,326,539 pesos de oro, worth 15,500,000 in 1847 U.S. dollars. This equates to nearly half a billion dollars in today's money. Spanish chads robbing the Incans of half a billion dollars and then just garroting their Emperor to death in public and taking over. It doesn't get more badass than this.
Are you even cone pilled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation >The Inca nobility practiced cranial deformation.[62] They wrapped tight cloth straps around the heads of newborns to shape their soft skulls into a more conical form, thus distinguishing the nobility from other social classes. cc: @mono
A part of me wanted to try and be contrarian and defend Inca child sacrifice on the grounds of mysticism and Evola spookiness, but this is one area where I can't be ironic and have to say that they were totally wrong and retarded. Entombing kids in a volcano will not grant you a bountiful harvest.
I don't feel all that bad about the Inca getting pwned. People will say oh the Spanish are mean, but how do you think the Sapa Inca created his empire in the first place? Doing the same shit as the Spanish. I'm not really that keen on their practice of child sacrifice either, but at least they were slightly more humane than the Aztecs.
@sigmasternchen@lain I also wonder how easy Chinese is to read once you know a lot of the Kanji from Japanese. surely there's a lot of semantic crossover there.
@lain the contrast between Mercouris formal manner and his audience kook power levels is pure comedy. and he's so good at navigating it too, it's his legal background coming into play.
@lain that is the ambassador of the Central African Republic he's shaking hands with there. also Russian maid in background. it looks like his tantrum might have been a worked pro-wrestling style angle since he's apparently still running Wagner operations in Africa
@lain it sounds so scientific until you realize they're just physically smashing things together and then observing the wreckage like something from Jackass. its an incredibly expensive game of conkers.
I will never be satisfied until all goods are produced in Britain. tropical pineapples, sugarcane, cotton, silk, cocoa beans. This is the future they took from you.
@lain@sim it's what you get when you image search "future society". sadly I don't get to define what this looks like
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augustus pugin 🌖AA did another stream on Tony Blair's latest moves, in his talk he was discussing using AI to improve the health service. AA managed to tease out the fact that Blair was basically saying he wanted everyone connected to tracking apps that will enforce health on people. Mecha-Jamie Oliver will freeze your account if you try and buy food that exceeds your allotted calorie limit. BEEP, TRANSACTION DENIED. TRY HAVING A SALAD. ERROR. TRY HAVING A SALAD. ACCESS DENIED.