I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says “a world without Caesars” in Latin.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    Agreed. But if you’re going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.

    Other cool eras to fixate on:

    • Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
    • Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
    • Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors

    There’s a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.

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      You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.

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        Yes but I can’t let this chance go by to piss off the English and say they’re a German colony, the country they love to hate.
        Speak a germanic language.
        England, literally land of the Angle. Where are the Angle from? And who’s the other part of the Anglo-Saxons?
        Ruled by…The Windsors? Doesn’t sound right.
        Or did they change their Von Saxen-Gotha name for some mysterious reason in 1914?

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      Yeah, I can picture much of roman history in my mind and put into context. Asian history is almost like fantasy lore and no matter how much I learn about it I cannot wrap my mind around how recent tieping rebellion is even though christanity played a huge role in it.