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hahaha holy poo poo that is egregiously bad. Then again, Carlin himself is NOT a historian, he's a hobbyist that plays at it, and that's another thing I would caution listeners about before getting in to it. Carlin has a BA in history and that's as far as it goes. He was a reporter and talk show host, he's a pop historian at best. He's not a serious academic and his content shouldn't be treated as such Now that's not to say Hardcore History isn't a good listen - it can be, if you go into it with the mindset that you're listening to a pomped up longform pop-history article in audio form. Do not go into it expecting academic standard accuracy and take what you hear with the appropriate grain of salt. On the whole, you're better off saving your time and listening to Deathlands on audible instead HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Oh thank goodness. I'd forgotten whether it was Carlin or Keegan who was a bit off at best.
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Apr 21, 2023 08:01
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Either way, the 1.2x Carlin Caravan of Lies Podcast History of the First World War still set me on a path of appreciation and future discovery regarding WW1. Way more than my high school history teacher who, trying to convey the gravity of a million casualties, actually printed out 1,000,000 dots on paper and posted them around the classroom in some vain attempt to make highschoolers give a poo poo about history stuff.
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Apr 21, 2023 08:06
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Scam Likely posted:Either way, the 1.2x Carlin Caravan of Lies Podcast History of the First World War still set me on a path of appreciation and future discovery regarding WW1. Way more than my high school history teacher who, trying to convey the gravity of a million casualties, actually printed out 1,000,000 dots on paper and posted them around the classroom in some vain attempt to make highschoolers give a poo poo about history stuff. 1 million dots...how'd that work out? did the IT department stalk through the halls looking for the culprit?
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Apr 21, 2023 08:10
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B-Rock452 posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRd3SyL7zJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Wow, the Russian MOD gave a statement quickly and it looks like it was the truth. That must be a first.
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Apr 21, 2023 08:38
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CitizenKain posted:I'll have to check those out. I read "To End all Wars" by Adam Rothschild, and it had a initial focus on the social background leading up to the war. A big one that was mentioned was that a lot of European nations were honestly just itching for a war. For the "noble" class, it was a good way to get out and have a good time, run around shoot some people and call it a day. Throw on top some incredibly obliviousness over what modern weapons could do to people, and you had people marching in close formations against airburst artillery. But for some reason, a lot of people in the ruling class just seemed to think that didn't apply if you had a bit of can do spirit. That's even more classism rather than ignorance. The officers knew how deadly tech was getting and the beginning of squad tactics. But squad tactics require more independent thought from individual soldiers, and a loss of control for the officers. There were intense and angry debates in the military journals between those who thought conscripts would totally freeze up unless they are in shouting range of an officer and the uneducated masses were too stupid to ever learn how to do squad tactics and those who thought lower class conscripts weren't that stupid. But at the beginning of WW1, the officers who thought every enlisted needs to be in shouting range of an officer to fight at all were in the lead. So imagine a forum debate between "we need to micromanage every lower class soldier for their own good" and "they are not that dumb.". But every poster is a posh man covered in medals. golden bubble fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 08:46
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Lmao https://english.nv.ua/life/woman-receives-2-tickets-to-the-circus-for-her-conscripted-husband-in-russia-ukraine-war-50319159.html Local Clown posted:“The local authorities of Urupsky District promised me help. (They promised) to bring me firewood. Instead, they've brought me two tickets to circus. Serhiy Volodymyrovych Kornev, the head of the village municipality, was constantly lying. He said: ‘I'll bring it, I'll bring it, I'll bring it.’ But in the end, he brought two tickets to the circus.”
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Apr 21, 2023 09:18
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Fish blocks are so last year. Now we send you to literal clownshows to help you ruminate on our other, much larger, metaphorical clown show
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Apr 21, 2023 09:37
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Apr 21, 2023 09:40
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao Jesus loving Christ. This is somehow even more pathetic than the fake fur coat shoot.
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Apr 21, 2023 09:45
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Scam Likely posted:Either way, the 1.2x Carlin Caravan of Lies Podcast History of the First World War still set me on a path of appreciation and future discovery regarding WW1. Way more than my high school history teacher who, trying to convey the gravity of a million casualties, actually printed out 1,000,000 dots on paper and posted them around the classroom in some vain attempt to make highschoolers give a poo poo about history stuff. Yeah, Blueprint for Armageddon is still IMO a very good listen. I had a similar experience as you, and I've since gone on to read a lot of the books Carlin quotes in the episode (Peter Hart's "Voices from the Front" seems to be a big source, a lot of the direct quotes are straight out of the primary sources Hart quotes in his book) so it's definitely a good starting point and at least the big picture stuff he gets right. golden bubble posted:But at the beginning of WW1, the officers who thought every enlisted needs to be in shouting range of an officer to fight at all were in the lead. At the beginning and then throughout. As a whole the armies during World War I learned a great deal about how to make the best of the shitshow that was trench warfare on the Western Front, but crucially the people at the top didn't, or just ignored everything they were told for ~political reasons~. A topic that keeps repeating time and time again in for instance "Voices from the Front" is that the commanders in charge of planning battles and assaults did the work, made the necessary preparations and had a reasonable plan, and then Haig or someone busted in and went "OK so you had a great plan, a thorough preparation and did everything necessary and got decent gains on that attack, now do it again with none of the above and also I need you to get 4X the gains in this attack", and then tens of thousands of people die for absolutely no reason. Case in point: the Battle of Cambrai.
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Apr 21, 2023 09:56
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A car set on fire and blew up outside an FSB building this morning. https://twitter.com/russiasonfire/status/1649334981137768449
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Apr 21, 2023 10:27
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Tesla trying to do something useful
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Apr 21, 2023 10:43
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao This is just genuinely sad. This is how much the Russian leadership value human life.
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Apr 21, 2023 10:52
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huh, even Hungary? https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1649340949170888704 lol https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1649309247966961664 short thread (and paywalled article) on Russian efforts to undermine pro-Ukraine support in Germany through far-right AfD and far-left Die Linke https://twitter.com/CatherineBelton/status/1649328009713786882
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Apr 21, 2023 10:54
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Russia bombs Belgorod...
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Apr 21, 2023 11:03
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao "Two" tickets.
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Apr 21, 2023 11:09
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I feel like the circus is a step down from the water park tickets.
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Apr 21, 2023 11:13
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Dwesa posted:
I would certainly hope any serious German leftists would remember the poor choice of words of Ernst Thälmann when it came to ceding ANY ground to the far right.
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Apr 21, 2023 11:21
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Remember this from last year? When Russians accidentally used a picture of a Junkers JU-88 crew on their "they fought for the motherland" propaganda poster?  Well...
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Apr 21, 2023 11:40
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quote:Driver was drunk .337 mg/l That's not the same as blowing .33 is it??
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Apr 21, 2023 11:52
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pro starcraft loser posted:That's not the same as blowing .33 is it?? I think it is. that dude's liver must be made of adamantium
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Apr 21, 2023 12:02
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pro starcraft loser posted:That's not the same as blowing .33 is it?? If I'm reading the chart right that I just Googled it looks like it would be a .07 on a breathalyzer. E: Eh, I'm not so sure now. RoyKeen fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 12:12
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Looks like Ukraine should be able too start Abrams training very soon. Presumably the full fleet isn't all that far behind. https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1649368380615344136 Direct link to Politico https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-troops-training-us-tanks-next-weeks/
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Apr 21, 2023 12:13
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Scarodactyl posted:Really we just wanted to pick up the spare on those privateers. drat you Barrett!
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Apr 21, 2023 12:27
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Samovar posted:I would certainly hope any serious German leftists would remember the poor choice of words of Ernst Thälmann when it came to ceding ANY ground to the far right. Linke are boot-licking fascists, just as their East German predecessors.
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Apr 21, 2023 12:42
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I don't see any sensitive content in these images, but if scenes of a destroyed city might upset you be warned. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1649371121618235392?t=3Vn8U7D3f3SXukHiDGHHWA&s=19
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Apr 21, 2023 13:02
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That is CGI. Russia doesn't target civilian buildings
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Apr 21, 2023 13:47
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RoyKeen posted:If I'm reading the chart right that I just Googled it looks like it would be a .07 on a breathalyzer. I think something got messed up in the reporting. They're quoting 0.337 milligrams per liter, but alcohol is usually measured in micrograms per liter. (US breathalyzer measures in grams per 100 ml, because even when they use metric they have to include some hogshead per fortnight flavor) If it's meant to be 0.337 micrograms, that's about 1 beer, or blowing a .037. If the units are correct as stated, this guy is an alcohol elemental, more vodka than man (and very, very dead)
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Apr 21, 2023 13:48
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Milligrams of ethanol per liter of exhaled air is unit of breath alcohol concentration used in most of Europe. 0.337 mg/l is drunk, but not very drunk. It's about 2-3 0.5l beers or 2 shots PS: different units Dwesa fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 14:06
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"The bomb left a 20m (60ft) crater and caused an explosion so large it blew a car on to the roof of a nearby shop." If it was a Toyota Hilux, it'll be fine.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:14
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totally non-fascist Russia https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1649400498422784000 lol again https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1649389889237008386
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Apr 21, 2023 14:21
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Pablo Bluth posted:Looks like Ukraine should be able too start Abrams training very soon. Presumably the full fleet isn't all that far behind. Has the US promised to deliver Abrams? I missed that, I only heard about people donating Leopards and Challengers.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:28
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Gerblyn posted:Has the US promised to deliver Abrams? I missed that, I only heard about people donating Leopards and Challengers. Yeah, they'll be sending about 30 M1A1 to Ukraine - a token contribution as reassurance to trembling waif Germany, who doesn't dare do something like that alone.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:32
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The US agreed in January to send 31 Abrams to Ukraine. This was at least partially, if not primarily, to give Germany and Scholz political cover so that Germany could not be seen as leading the charge in providing tanks, but instead was following America's lead and was in the middle of the pack.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:34
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Gerblyn posted:Has the US promised to deliver Abrams? I missed that, I only heard about people donating Leopards and Challengers. Edit: 16th Jan - C2s announced 25th Jan - M1s announced but new stock with long leadtime. This provided the cover for/called the bluff of Germany to announce Leo2 at the same time. Jan-Apr Other countries start chipping in with Leo2s. 21st March - M1s switched from new builds to refurbs to speedup. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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Apr 21, 2023 14:38
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The hesitancy of NATO to properly arm Ukraine is so frustrating and terrifying. I feel like the frustration needs no explanation but the terror comes from the fact that Russia's threats are being taken seriously and are incredibly effective at deterring NATO. 31 Abrams? They could send hundreds, no problem.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:41
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao That sucks, your husband gets conscripted and as compensation they give you 2 more conscription notices.
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Apr 21, 2023 14:50
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Hopefully it'll open the process to continuing deliveries. Although they should have provided them earlier, in defence of only 31 M1s; (1) as big as the US military budget is, there's still a process they have to follow and any given package M1s would probably have to be traded off against other supplies, (2) Europe needs to pull it's weight in donations and an sudden '500 M1s' would have provided cover for this side of the Atlantic to hoard their tanks.
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Dwesa posted:huh, even Hungary? Wouldn't put a lot of stock in that, there's several European members of NATO who would not approve Ukraine joining, I think.
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