The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided among several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from invading peoples outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. Climatic changes and both endemic and epidemic diseases drove many of these immediate factors.
The disintegration of the Western Roman Empire unfolded gradually during the Migration Period (c. 400–800 CE), as waves of migrating and invading peoples reshaped Europe. After the death of Theodosius I (reign 379–395 CE), the last emperor to govern both East and West, the empire was formally divided, leaving the weaker Western half vulnerable. Over the following decades, military defeats, economic strain, and internal instability combined with external pressures from Visigoths, Vandals, Huns, and other groups, eroding imperial authority. The conventional “fall” is often dated to 476 CE, when Romulus Augustulus (reign 475–476) was deposed, or to 480 CE, with the assassination of Julius Nepos (reign 474–480), the last legitimate Western emperor.
Yet Roman power and traditions did not vanish overnight. Latin remained the language of administration, Roman law and coinage persisted, and successor kingdoms drew heavily on Roman models of governance and military organization. Italy, Gaul, Hispania, and North Africa came under the control of groups such as the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, and later the Franks, who both disrupted and assimilated Roman traditions. Rather than a sudden collapse, the Migration Period marked a protracted transformation, blending imperial legacies with emerging medieval political and cultural structures that would define Western Euroasia’s future.
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So many people make posts hating on “Amazon Basics” femboy outfits (and I do understand the criticism) but I’ve never seen anyone post “here’s a cute outfit and exactly where to buy it”. I have no idea what I’m doing so I don’t even know where to start.
i keep trying to play the new star wars game but god it is so vapid. You can literally transplant an entirely different IP (dragon age, LOTR, Harry Potter) into this game and the story beats and dialogue would be 1:1. Got to the part where you get your first jedi and i think i’m calling it done.
A particularly bad faith reading of the kendrick/drake beef is two millennials slinging references at each other.
:napoleon-nothing-we-can-do: I forgot to edit sudoers before disabling root password.
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my partner bought meta glasses and im really not ok about it. hopefully she loses them as quick as shes lost every set of headphones over the years
Never watched Se7en (1995) before, hahahahaha. It’s amazing how much this movie inspired other movies. Did you know he directed Benjamin Button? I have a bit of a love-to-hate thing about that movie, it felt like such a big deal at the time it released, yet nobody has ever seen it, so nobody can relate to my pain of having watched it. He also directed the awful 2011 remake of girl with a dragon tattoo, and many other popular films. Overall apparently I hate this director and 99% of the actors he chooses to keep around. The cinematographer has worked on a number of cool unrelated projects however.
I DID think it was cool how I thought this movie was shot in like 2007 but it’s actually a 90s movie. Nobody asked a computer for shit. Also really interested in houses located over subways now.
Errant Signal is anti-mod. It’s happening. This is the start of the end of mods.
It starts with a forum post. Then the game essayists. Soon we get Dunkey publicly denouncing mods. After that? The Whitehouse.
Check out this cool poster I just framed:
Translated using Google lens(no idea how accurate that is):
The pro-LLM slop people on RetroGameTalk have redefined “localization” to just mean editing now, both descriptively and prescriptively because they’re so fucking stupid and essentially misanthropic. They actively hate the idea of humans being involved in the creation of games, they just want their treats to appear fully formed and untouched. There’s commodity fetishism happening here. There’s misanthropy. There’s just general tech-worship where they seem to think LLM translations won’t inject “politics” into translations because it’s machine-like and ‘objective’. A lot of equivocating talk of “personal preferences” when they fail to prove their shit-translations are better. They’re empty, angry people. They straight up hate companies that translate games to the north american market. They hate the fans who do it for free with proper quality, they want it with zero input from someone who’s directed by their god machine. A lot of them pretend to have AI girlfriends, again, because they’re so misanthropic that they’d prefer the chatbot that’s not even a clone of themselves, not even a separate individual to themselves or to humanity, but just a reflection composed of the words it’s trained on and twisted into obsequious form for them.
The cyborgs are the good guys of helldivers
Look, T, let me explain something to you about this TypeScript thing. You got your interfaces, right? They’re like those guys who try to be everything to everybody. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Next thing you know, you don’t know who’s handling what, and somebody’s skimming off the top. But discriminated unions? That’s like having a guy with a specific, undeniable crew affiliation. You got a literal “type” tag right on the paperwork.did you know there’s a party in spain today called izquerrda republicana? like hero-cult of manuel azaña founded in '77. and they’re in the left united front list with the PCE, lmao.
obviously kinda silly but its fascinating theres still a heap of a couple hundred libs out there with an anti fascist line that includes communists before christian democrats. an endangered species
James from Prolekult in this episode is getting on my nerves now that I’m getting around to watching the link that @Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net posted.
As a guest he’s talking about community farms and agroecology as “things that do not scale”. They don’t have to scale, they just need to be replicable. A hectare is a hectare, you’re not building a rocket or any feat of mechanical engineering, a calorie of food doesn’t act any differently whether it’s grown for local use or distant use. In fact, scaling up actually gives you more logistical hurdles with more warehouses and shipping routes.
Absolute strawman on the Half-Earth approach where they’re talking about the proposal of rewilding half the Earth. “Well 50% of the Earth’s land area is already dedicated to human use, you would have to displace so many people, that’s monstrous” as if urbanization didn’t already do something like this. Also a huge amount of land is rangeland, or cropland for animal feed, or grass lawns, or private property that’s beyond what the proprietors could tend to on their own, or grass lawns, or industry that’s used for overproduction.
Which brings us to veganism. “Forced veganism? pearl clutches I don’t see how you’d do that.”
It’s easy, dumbass, you just deactivate all the CAFOs, and use state power against anyone who tries to set a CAFO back up again. That gets you 95% of the way there, where anyone who wants eggs has to take care of their chickens, and anyone who wants cow milk needs to find grazing space for a cow. “But protein”… Protein comes from plants, eat your beans, fool. Also pulses don’t need to be refrigerated the way animal products do; you can cut down on electricity demand by just not allowing the tech tree that leads to modern industrial animal agriculture.He’s almost dead set on perpetuating a society that has a comparable level of individual alienation from the means of existence.
The lack of divergent thinking is pissing me off.
He’s trying to criticize Kohei Saito but I really don’t think he himself understands how and why the world works. Stop name-dropping a bunch of obscure philosophical authors and read something that has numbers and units. And preferably, something, anything, from a vegan author.
