We are talking about the Roman era here, mate. The Romans conquered outside societies and enslaved them. Slavery in this context meant that these “foreigners” could earn Roman citizenship. There were some slaves that held higher esteem than some free citizens in the Roman Empire, most notably doctors.

Slavery was not just whipping people to make them plow the land. It was a very complicated socioeconomical construct and it was very much a “normal” thing. In the late Roman era, slavery grew rampant (because it was profitable) and often children of poor, free citizens were kidnapped into slavery. But in the Roman high tides, around the time of Jezus, it was, for lack if a better word, a rather sophisticated process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome

Damn, that’s a lot of zeroes. How do you even pronounce that? Brazillion? Vermillion? /s

The equality of women is indeed a point where the bible failed, but you can’t do everything right at once. I’m not a fan of the bible, but in it’s days, it was a good book that taught good values. Values that were better than society was at the time and it really improved society.

Slavery was very much and accepted socio economical practice in those days. The mentioning the bible does are often not reminiscent of the 18th century slavery we’re all familiar with. Slavery I’m those days was often a kind of servitude, for a couple years, tto pay off debt. The bible recognises that for what it is and tries to humanise slavery by saying things like to treat your slaves as your brother

I mean, it’s a 1000 year old book. Slavery was accepted and normal in those days.

We said the same thing about Facebook 15 years ago. Look at them now. Still twitching proudly with the vigour of youth while their teeth are falling out and their flesh is rotting.

Sail Hatan!

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:7160072/mmsi:408900300/imo:0/vessel:HATAN

No, not your religion, only my religion

I mean, $$$$ is literally the whole foundation of what America is about. The whole world revolves around money, sure, but in America it is not just the economy, also the culture, the religion, the media, the public parks, op’s mom, everything!

An IPad is a computer with a touchscreen interface instead of mouse and keyboard

Tbh, that sounds super interesting.

These are the same Republicans who stand for less government interference. You really think they will agree to force their people to vote?

In Dutch we have a saying: “Wie zijn billen brand moet op de blaren zitten” ->( if you burn your asscheeks, you have to sit on the blisters). It means that if you do something stupid, you have to suffer the consequences

I’ve been training for this for years. All those hours in L4D2 are finally gonna pay off.

That is so sad. I was just reconfigured my hone server with plex last weekend. Seems like it’s time to switch to jellyfin now. Luckily didn’t finish the configuration.

Lean management is all about stripping everything that isn’t strictly essential. So I can see why this particular brand is experiencing problems.

You can’t “not pay”, but a million people can “not pay”. You all need to get organised. These student loans are ridiculous, debilitating, crippling maybe even killing.

This thumbnail looks like a scene from The Office

It’s a very good book though

Correction:

Dolly Parten is the closest thing to a pure good rich person

There’s plenty of good people out there, if you care to look for them.