twlldun.bsky.social
Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
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That’s the dream Jon, that’s the dream.
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Dunno whether I want Bob Dylan to last another 5 years or whether I really want to hear Trump’s eulogy to him
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Forget it Twildun, it's...
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Sounds good to me.
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I am paying you £25 fine English pounds sterling to have my hair and beard trimmed. I expect to come out of the experience with the same amount of facial features I went in with.
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“Experience of government” is a big one, you’d think.
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Oh, see, I just don’t think it’s possible anymore. Back in the original era when everything was one guy’s code. Sure. Now, it’s just too collaborative an industry to be personality led.
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I mean I am not hugely bothered by it, while still thinking we could do with more railways lines that serve the coast and centre of our great nation
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Is in England and is not a North-South wales railway line, it’s an English railway line!
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Maybe your first issue is being concerned with that fact.
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There is no North-South Wales railway line
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*toggling through options menu in rising disquiet*
“Your voice profiles were last updated at _2am_ _today_.”
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The reason you don’t have internal monologues is you are both figments of my imagination
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Samsung fridges rocking up at my brother’s house 55 miles away.
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*clears throat meaningfullly* “Britons”. *clears throat meaningfully*
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The irony being that there are two whopping great events (the pandemic and Ukraine) which advocates for the tories could - correctly? - identify as hugely derailing their agenda and they just sail past them?
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Man, the link is still there. Amazing
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He watered his horses in the waters of lake Vänern Edward, wash your mouth out
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‘Honestly I feel like “empires” already cause some issues for people trying to squeeze them into a modern nation-state paradigm’ - be honest, tempted to expand “empires” to “pretty much every polity prior to the early modern period”.
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Generally speaking, maps are a pretty useless way to understand nomadic confederations
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Yeah they absolutely fielded armies there at one point, and had some kind of rule going on, but I’m going to say most of it was both nominal and highly likely not concurrent with their force projection elsewhere
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“Sphere of influence” is a pretty nebulous term also. It means things like “holding on to bits of Armenia for three years” and “sending an army into the Crimea” to literally claim they ruled them both decades earlier
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Yeah I see what they’ve done now. They’ve taken the largest extent of the sphere of influence of the two halves of the Turkic khaganate *after the khaganate split*, and backfilled a claim that the khaganate was a single unified state ruling directly over the entirety of that space.
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It’s a bit more “couldn’t afford a tv license for a decent part of it, then when I could made the switch to streaming instead” tbh
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(I haven’t, btw, but unlike most people I don’t think it makes me clever or interesting and I do actually still watch tv programs)
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As per my old joke “I haven’t had my tv tuned in for the best part of a decade, and it’s saved me so much time, which I mainly use to tell people I haven’t had my tv tuned in for the best part of a decade”
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Well, I guess you should be grateful I guesstimated your age wrong by about five years tbf
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(Costs both material and non-material, one could say)
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Tbf that came under “the costs of adulthood” in my equation.
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I suspect the big age divergence is the move to console - people my age and (mainly) younger made the leap, the older brigade mainly didn’t (the exorbitant price, the costs of adulthood coming hard in on them etc etc)
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Yeah, I think the cut off is nowhere near as stark as Jon thinks tbh and basically gamers get filtered out slowly. I remember buying home computers and games most of the way through the 80s and the shops being full of men a decade older than me.
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Just gonna tag him
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Their highly disciplined and effective PR message obv
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I mean, perhaps all those people around your age posting their worldle scores to social media every day don’t think they are gaming, but they are in fact gaming
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I mean, I have you down as late 50s, which would make you not particularly representative of your generation if my memory of early 80s arcades is anything to go by, but also ignores who made most of the video games until very recently & Stephen’s wider point on the influence of games on modern life?
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Oh yeah, I mean that’s my point essentially. This is a wiki article in which Turkish nationalists are basically backfilling pseudohistory to make a claim to universal empire when there is absolutely a presence but a much much much more modest historical claim.
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(In the same way I don’t believe that - say - the presence of Celtic influenced languages from Turkey through to Ireland both historically to the present day doesn’t mean there was a classical Empire Of The Celts. Because its bollocks)
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That there are and have been Turkic peoples in the area for millennia is undisputed. That an empire that size with very little evidence, material or textual, existed in the early medieval era *is* disputed. By me.
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Yeah, they are just occasional one line asides, and i’m distinctly unsure how much evidence they actually provide for the idea that there was an empire that stretched from Crimea to Korea that somehow existed in 576AD
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This is what I mean
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90% of the references for the whole article are Turkish or Chinese
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Yeah, that’s what I mean. It’s a modern Turkish nationalist project backfilling and *hugely* expanding the size of the first Turkish khaganate, which - and I know records are patchy but I can be pretty sure here - *did not* stretch from the borders of Korea to Crimea
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I think it’s taken some small stuff (there was a Turkish khaganate at the time) and claimed a world historical sized empire for them. Like, as big as the mongol empire if you look at the map. That’s…not true.