Ken Burns is in your future

[granitem@lemmy.world]

I listened to Hardcore History’s series on World War I in that window, so that was my assigned war of interest.

[clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world]

Barf, after my first few million they better be looking all over for me cause ima be peaced out to a 100 year vacation.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

pfft. enlist when you’re 18, you’ll get a whole new war.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

You’re underestimating your chances of survival and how much you’ll want to.

yes, you too can live out the remainder of your miserable days scrambling for rat meat in the irradiated future.

of course, the desire to live, to survive, overcomes a lot, but ‘want to live’ I think is stretching it a bit.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

I suspect what they’re getting at is: there are a lot of scenarios other than “all out exchange between major powers”, and when the fallout starts floating, you can either just hang out at home (and die of cancer in a year or two), or shelter in a basement for a week (and emerge to a troubled but liveable world.)

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

The Football War has entered the chat.

[mojofrododojo@lemmy.world]

shelter in a basement for a week (and emerge to a troubled but liveable world.)

give this a read sometime. penguinrandomhouse.com/…/nuclear-war-by-annie-jac…

I don’t think anyone’s going to hold up for a week then find the world very livable. even the areas not eradicated by direct strikes will suffer terribly from the food shortages and collapsing societies.

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

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[sergio@slrpnk.net]

TIL:

It is now believed that the Ottoman military was able to maintain rough parity with its rivals until the 1760s, falling behind as a consequence of a long period of peace on its western front between 1740 and 1768, when the Ottomans missed out on the advances associated with the Seven Years’ War.[66]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_decline_thesis

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

I’m familiar with the extinction event scenarios, and agree that in some cases one may not find the world worth living in. I recommend Krepinevich’s “7 Deadly Scenarios”, a couple of those involve nuclear attacks. The sitations are comparable to the recent Covid pandemic: millions of people die, the world is subsequently scarred, but life goes on for most people. A bit of planning can make things less horrible and a lot of it overlaps with natural disaster.

[bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world]

Due to a typo, I ended up with “The Cod War”

www.icelandreview.com/…/the-cod-wars-in-iceland/

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

“So, what’s Rome’s history like?”

“It’s all war.”

[triflingtoad@sh.itjust.works]

I think you missed the joke, it’s not making a point about all wars being bad it’s about middle aged dudes being obsessed with wars

[thepancake@lemmy.world]

This was me too. I probably listened through the “Blueprint for Armageddon” series three times. Never really found any other history podcast that piqued my interest nearly as much as that did.

[shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one]

By winning, you meantaking copious amounts of drugs?

[tsg_asmodeus@lemmy.world]

Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

This looks fucking amazing, thank you for the recommendation!

[majorhavoc@programming.dev]

When I’m a billionaire (and no longer temporarily embarrassed), I’m going to fund so much tasteless art. And by art I mean mostly pornography. But I’ll hire the best advisors to make sure it’s a classy positive influence on society.

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

I’m the war on drugs guy and I… what was I talking about? Man, those brownies were strong! *strolls off*

[afallinganvil@lemmy.ca]

I don’t think he knows about the second galactic civil war, PIp

[cataphract@lemmy.ml]

I’m in the same boat but during the Sumerian reign. Fall of civilization did an excellent video on it “8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities”.