Sergio

Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.

This isn’t really my area, but afaik…

• the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn’t the only cause of the French Revolution.
• the American and French Revolutions were both products of “the Englightenment” which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were “inspired by” the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
• I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it’d be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were “implanted” by the French Revolution.

I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.

a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we’d not have a lot of countries.

At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we’re in the shitposting community

There are a bunch of watch parties on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling. Usually, people all watch the movie at the same time and make brief comments (bc Mastodon is like Twitter, see?)

• Here on lemmy I post an announcement every Friday on [email protected] about the next “Monsterdon” watch party on Mastodon.
• see this calendar of Mastodon watch parties (WARNING: includes Bluesky, which has chosen the path of enshittification. Also, some of these watch parties may be dormant.)

edit: but yeah, it’d be cool to have a watch party here, where we could do “longer form” takes on things.

the Monty Python sketch about having an argument. Hello, is this the room to have an argument?

I haven’t even seen that sketch, but just reading about it made me laugh.

Some people are indeed that fragile. Often from trauma. I suspect that’s not the case here tho.

The ghosts are the game. The cats are game-masters. That’s why terrible things happen to us if we displease them.

You know how cats are sitting still staring at something, and you’re like “how can that cat sit still so long and stare at something?” It’s this. The entire world is a game to them.

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I dunno. Better report them to [email protected]

thx for the memes/shitposts in spanish, fam, every day I see posts in other languages but so few in spanish for some reason dunno why.

If I’m really exhausted and feel like I’m gonna die but still have to work, I’ve found that a 15-minute nap is amazing for “taking the edge off” so I can become functional again. If I’m stressed enough I can even have some lucid dreaming happen, or awareness of my surroundings even tho I’m asleep (like sleep paralysis) which is almost as fun. Under normal circumstances, yeah it’s hard to nap in under 20 minutes but I bet it’d become easier if I made it a habit.

You’re on another level, fam!

• Theme of ONE PUNCH MAN ~Seigi Shikkou - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxzqne_gWg
• Danganronpa - Beautiful Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5GIMiRKiw
• Attack on Titan First Season Opener (Bollywood Version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATb87inKC9E

Aw, even better. Did you bring anything back with you? You can say you raided the coast of England, Viking-style!

You shoulda taken a flag from your country and placed it in the ground, so you can say that you invaded England.

• [email protected]
• [email protected] - warning, includes archive and dailymotion videos too

There are countless other ‘niche’ communities that have no posts for months, however.

Hey, have you seen [email protected]? It’s got a lot of discussions on how to handle this.

I think that to grow a niche community, you need at least 2-3 regular posters, and you need to make posts that encourage discussion (i.e. ask questions or provoke a thoughtful reaction that readers would like to share.)

Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.

You need someone to tell you when you’re wrong. If you don’t, you’re headed for a fall.