Lemmywinks

Even in the Western half of the empire a lot of the elites spoke Greek. For example: while he would definitely have been capable of speaking Latin, Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in Greek.

That’s not true

The Eastern Roman Empire was every bit as Roman as the Western Empire.

At the point when the empire split in two the capital had already been moved to Constantinople, so if anything it’s the Western Empire that was the pretender (though that is also a stupid take, both empires were clearly roman, unlike the much later HRE).

It’s only really the hyper developed countries that are experiencing the massive drop off in birth rates, so immigration would actually help this problem significantly.

Also, the lack of immigration in Japan is as much a matter of policy as it is everywhere else. Their government heavily discourages migrant labour (due in part to cultural racism), which has made their plummeting birth rate much more of a problem than it needs to be.

This is the worst argument against immigration I’ve ever heard

This one’s easily solved by removing restrictions on immigration

I got bit by a dragon fly once, and I wasn’t threatening towards it in any way. I just stuck my finger out in the hope that one of the many dragon flies would land on it, and one did, and then the fucker bit me for no reason and flew off

The “Land of the free” has jaywalking laws… They literally aren’t even allowed to cross the street without permission from the state

Shut it!

Do you honestly think someone calling their site Vegan Horizon eats meat?

That’s interesting. I used to work with a chef from Napoli who used soffritto (with celery) in his cooking, but he was originally from Sardinia, so maybe that’s why

Onion, carrot and celery is a standard base in Italian cooking that is the starting point of many dishes.

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

A goose loose aboot the hoose?

The Vatican claims to have more gold in its vaults than has ever officially been mined out of the earth, and considering how much they stole from the Aztecs, it’s possible they aren’t even lying.

I have a toggleable ‘Show bots’ option in Settings>Account Preferences. I’m using Boost for Lemmy, but maybe other clients have a similar option?

They aren’t talking about it being made to by other movies, they’re saying the movie continues to make money for a long time after it’s first week. To give a famous example: in the 90s the Kevin Costner movie Waterworld was declared to be a massive financial flop based on its first week(s) performance in US cinemas, but once you account for worldwide figures and VHS sales it was actually one of the most profitable movies of the decade.

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to claim that your gut biome doesn’t effect your mood, just that the serotonin in your gut isn’t making it’s easy to the serotonin receptors in your brain that make you feel happy

Any scientific definition of ‘fish’ which includes all the things we commonly consider to be fish also includes basically all animal life on earth (including humans and, presumably, pterodactyls).

Edit: Though generally this is avoided by declaring that ‘fish’ is not an evolutionary category.

The serotonin in your gut can’t pass through the gut-blood barrier, and therefore never reaches your brain, so it has no effect whatsoever on your ability to feel happy.

Unripe bananas are full of serotonin (which breaks down to melotonin as they ripen), but the only effect that has on your body is to give you diarrhoea.

Half of all science involves torturing mice in some way