Now I know who’s responsible for that goddamn abomination of a song.

I now know who I’m going to assassinate once my time travel machine is finished.

I know this is the shitposting Lemmy and historical accuracy isn’t the goal here … But you don’t honestly think they put plantations in infertile places and used slaves for no reason right? They made a shit ton of money

Overall, you’re right, but I’d like to point out two caveats here:

1. Southern plantation farming was incredibly inefficient and utterly ruined the land it was practiced on - something that was recognized (and criticized) as early as George Washington. So they did build their plantations in fertile areas, but exhausted the soil and did very little to let it recover until George Washington Carver (unrelated) started spreading crop rotations around ~1900.

2. The aristocrats made a shitton of money relative to the average person, but they were much, much poorer - both individually and as a society - than the industrialized North. Northern farming, even, was much more efficient - but the Southern aristocracy perpetuated their system because control was more important than money. In the slavery (and sharecropping) system, the plantation class effectively ruled little fiefs of dependent ‘free’ farmers and unfree (legally or practically) Black labor, able to exercise wide-reaching control not just economically, but also socially, culturally, and politically. Given the choice between more luxury or more power, they chose more power, and used that power to perpetuate their sickened systems.

That’s the sort of thing that starts talking to the protagonist in a dark-comedy/horror movie that takes a turn for the existential and depressing near the end.

… basically, whatever you name it or it names itself, DO NOT TAKE ITS ADVICE

Explanation: What we were generally recognize as the physical form of a book in the modern day is formally called a codex - an invention of the 1st century AD Roman Empire that made reading and book storage much more efficient. Instead of a single sheet of paper that needed to be unraveled, smaller sheets were bound to a spine and protected with covers, progressing through the writing by turning the pages.

Stop living in the past! Embrace the F U T U R E!

Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a very long time…

I wonder who that’s for?

A fair barter is always honored by this one

Harris couldn’t make it out of Iowa when she tried a legitimate run and Clinton had to rig primaries to win against Bernie.

It’s astounding she managed to rig all the independent polling too.

… TIL people were punishing their fucking birds for whacking it.

have you tried downloading more RAM

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Gramercy, how archaic!

Mood.

Tbf it does say perceived speed. Perception is shaped by marketing and bells and whistles regardless of reality, and all that jazz.

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Kbin is my original, but Kbin went down years ago, before I even moved to Lemmy.world!

uwu

For the same reason Chaos and Wholesome are opposites

for the shitpost o7

“Talk is a national institution, but it does not help the slave!”

Hey… you’re pretty good…