@archaeology The Muslim book (the Quran) does not speak against eating horse meat. The Bible (the Old Testament for both Jew and Christian) does give God's revelation that the horse is unclean, because it does not chew the cud or divide the hoof like a true ruminant, and therefore should not be eaten.If the Roman Catholic church is what invaded Hungary, they were not known to actually share the Bible in the native language.#Quran #Koran #HorseMeat #Catholic #Hungary

@Jyoti very fun, well-done! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"Anti-migrant racism also offers a particular resolution to the contradictions of neoliberalism as it relates to the migration crisis – in particular the contradiction between borders needing to be open to capital and be shut down to people. Fascism allows capitalism to maintain itself by ensuring that labour remains inflexible and immobile while capitalism moves freely. And that is one of the key reasons why neoliberals really rely on fascist ideology: it ensures that labour can only travel under certain conditions, which usually involves exploitable migrant-worker programmes or guest-worker programmes. Despite what they say, it’s not that fascists don’t want migrants; they rely on an anti-migrant politics in order to further racism and in order to further the exploitation, precarity and deportability of migrants. The goal is not to deport all migrants because neoliberalism and capital interests and the state require them. But rather to create the conditions for increasing precarity and increasing exploitation as capital seeks increasing populations to segment and exploit."

I feel this. Such push back to sustainability but then they very much act like we cannot expand forever.

"There has been a spreading ‘common sense’ that things are not going to get any better, that the pie is shrinking. Even climate denialists are often implicitly climate realists, for instance, when they talk about their apocalyptic scenarios of mass migration. After all, why would those mass migrations happen? Oh yes, it’s because of that very thing they’re saying is not the case.The neoliberal ravaging of social expectations has baked in a sense of precarity and a foreclosed future, which has played a massive role in making the victories of the far right possible. It has created an undercurrent of profound cynicism. Ultimately, my sense is that most people don’t believe in the grand rhetorical visions of becoming ‘great again’ or in futures of affluence or abundance but rather are mobilised by promises that they might retain some material and symbolic goods for whatever ethnic, national, religious or class group to which they belong. If things are inexorably immiserating, so the thought seems to go, perhaps that can be slowed down through policies of exclusion or hierarchy. Often the only goods available are purely symbolic, like the impoverishing or humiliation of others, not your own betterment. Using W.E.B. Du Bois’ term the ‘psychological wages’ may increase while the material ones flatline. This notion of a zero-sum game dovetails with the centrality of anti-migrant racist and xenophobic politics to the far right across the globe."

We don’t need to choose between analytical rigor and historical perspective. They should be integrated.In this age of rapid technological change and geopolitical uncertainty, understanding the human story across time and geography will continue to be essential. /2

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Watch "Master and Commander : The Far Side of the World" for a well done recreation of the life of a British midshipman. Even after being severely wounded, the young man is expected to continue his duties, including combat.

Looks like he just stole that chariot.

Or, I could post a clickable link that goes directly to the story, like I did. I did not mean for this to become a whole ordeal. Have a day.

@nocturne Open an issue to @mental_floss then

Again, that link is not clickable on Lemmy or piefed, nor does it take you to the story about oranges in stockings.

@nocturne I double checked, please see below:mentalfloss.com/holidays/chris

The link that shows up on lemmy/piefed is different and unclickable.

@nocturne This is the same link as we posted with a public domain image instead of the one used by @mentalfloss

@nocturne Sorry about that. Thanks!

The actual link: https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/christmas/oranges-christmas-stockings-origins

I suspect it was easier to access compared to beef and more nourishing compared to lamb/mutton.

Suddenly I'm visualizing something like a Monty Python sketch, where infected Roman soldiers turn into Scotsmen overnight, coming out of their tents as if in a trance, wearing kilts and sporting thick beards, then marching north with an outstretched fist leading the way, as the faint sound of bagpipes can be heard all around the terrified Roman encampment, as if emanating from the thick dawn mist itself, somehow distant yet intimate at the same time.

@j4k3 Aphrodite certainly doesn't hate Ares 😘

Everyone hated Ares. Really should have been a Monday.

@phistorians @Tarnport Saran Wrap!

@phistorians thank you for sharing this about it. I only had a few minutes on Wikipedia and it was not leading anywhere so I appreciate knowing there's nowhere to lead! Yet.

@Tarnport this type of diaphanous fabric is seen in many Roman frescoes, but the material involved is something scholars aren’t quite certain about. Theories include finely woven linen from Egypt or silk acquired through trade with Asia (even if the weaving methods were different from later processes).

@phistorians that sheer cloth of the sleeves is fascinating to me. Theoretically Chinese silk methods weren't open for another 900 years. How are they making or even imagining something so fine?