Much of the money wouldn’t have been ‘on-hand’. When their employer (a claimant to the Persian throne) died, so too did all of his social pull and contacts. Also, during the Battle of Cunaxa, the encampment was captured, where any of the money that was present would have plundered by the enemy.

They were paid on the way, but when their employer died, so too did their pay! On the way back, they were unpaid, and only survived by looting, extorting, and scavenging along the way.

A ‘vexillation’ is a detachment.

Hate driving cars. Love riding an e-bike.

In a car, I feel much more vulnerable, ironically. I’m a big chunk of metal that’s hard to miss if anything goes wrong, and that even minor mistakes will result in expensive damage.

Meanwhile, I’m grateful that someone else is doing the hard work of sustaining and modding communities 🙏

Contributing irregularly is easy - being there a year later is the hard part!

“One day at a time.”

Hell In The Pacific, hands down.

Bread. I miss fresh bread.

I can’t think of any that I’d be particularly surprised by at this point.

My mother chose my father. Toxic relationship, divorced in two years.

My mother chose my stepfather. Wholesome relationship, still married some dozen years later.

Aw, is Roberts furrowing his brows really intensely?

lmao, no, not even, he’s looking ashamed and doing less than the bare minimum, just like at the impeachment proceedings.

When Luigi Mangione ALLEGEDLY did a good deed for the benefit of all of society, you mean?

My grandfather’s dog tags from Vietnam. He always kept them swinging from his rear-view mirror. Swore they kept him safe.

Also swore up and down that he wasn’t superstitious, lol.

The Houthis possess over plan B: flatten all Saudi oil reserves and refineries and collapse the global economy.

Fucking lmao.

But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them

Just one of those things. Means nothing about the companies themselves, but means everything about where society in general is at.

23. Back when I was whole of body.

Currently 30.

Honestly can’t think of any that aren’t already here.

“Working together regardless of class”

Not liquidating the bourgeois classes? Sounds a lot like class collaboration. I think you need a fiver in the GULAG to sort your head.

This is suppose to be a Canadian app why are we flooded with everything that’s happening in america?

New to Federation? You’re on Lemmy.ca, which is Canadian, but this community, !news@lemmy.world here isn’t based in Canada. You might find more luck in !canada@lemmy.ca or !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, though!

Beanposting, now that feels like an eternity ago…