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Roman ruled areas went back. The Byzantine empires and middle eastern caliphates did not - as you say. Greece, England, western France, Nordic countries all developed intra-connected Monastic libraries that were attacked by raiders for their books.
Yes, it was bad for Italy, but so was Berlusconi, and we don’t say that caused the decline of the entire world.
the “Dark Ages” was a term coined by a guy from Tuscany who was a big fan of classical antiquity about the fall of Rome 600 years before he was born and is an incredibly biased term from that perspective, and was coined because Petrach believed Rome’s collapse meant the death of classical Latin as a lingua franca and thus the world is bad.
It’s literally just “phone bad, wife bad, oldey timey malt sodas and rollerrinks good, make America great again” hokum but from a guy in the 12th century talking about the 5th century
From any other perspective the idea of that being the shame of mankind is kinda silly.
This idea was then co-opted by the Protestants in the 16th C as a way to say “See?! The Catholics fucked us! We need to un-catholicize the church with a schism!”
41·8 days agoThe UK just had a high profile synagogue attack on Yom Kippur. Not defending Israel, but a lot of the diasporia are being victimized because of the war.
the first one is pointlessly censoring fuck, the second is trying to make a pun on alleged/aged
Halle Bailey is from Altanta, though, the demonym is accurate.
I am white but I sit on a board of directors for a majority-black arts org, the founder who is a black woman uses the term African-American.
Not wanting to speak for anyone, but it’s probably a mix of your age, social class, background, culture and context that may affect that choice.
In the sense that Starbucks aren’t coffee shops they’re investment portfolios, it probably does
I mean about as confusing as the Tory / Conservative cross over in the uk.
paragraphs 2 and 5 in the article. The employees get to keep their contract buyouts, meaning they got half a year off at the same rate of pay.
yeah I mean look at the Clinton Impeachment, the Drudge Report, that guy who shot a BLM protestor… conservative pockets are deep.
The solution is to regulate all news outfits to enforced neutrality and a clear separate of fact and opinion which can’t be reported adjacently.
I mean down that road you end up at “what is anything? does anything exist? does free will exist?”
2·24 days agoHobbyist - I only use it for casual home projects. I open the bookmark of my repo to see a major update definitely uploaded and then close it again.
if you’re asking genuinely - no - software does not have a bill of lading.
neither were/are gay/bi people. Still got thrown in prison for the last few hundred years for daring to love.
1·28 days agoWhile I’m not saying they don’t both exist, there are plenty of people writing the original definition for tech products, too.
And I’d argue that purely scientific papers are often written to promote products and viewpoints, too.
developers want to read documentation
they won’t look at any white papers
?!?!?!?!!
so Republicans need votes and to get votes you need policy so its still the Republicans fault for not courting policy to court votes