they all just taste bad

Is it that hard to believe people like some alcohols just because they like the taste? And that they can stop at just one?

It’s disgusting what people will get up to on the internet.

OK, but I’m using your bowl.

She’s just going to drive away with it anyway.

Hamberders.

Well, the rootkits were the last straw for me, a decade ago. Used to buy Lenovo religiously.

Since @PugJesus@lemmy.world seems to be the expert in all things Roman, I’d be interested in seeing their take. Seems to me from what I’ve read that Rome was capitalist as hell and that was a major reason for expansion.

The notion that they gave out “bread and circuses” somehow made them other than that seems pretty facile. The bread and circuses was usually a quid-pro-quo to the colleges for their votes. There were very, very rich civilians and dirt poor nobles, and that doesn’t seem to happen in an inheritance feudalism very often. Funding an army as a general and taking the wealth it conquered seems about as capitalist as you can imagine. Yah, you had to wait for an appointment as a governor for the areas you conquered, but that was usually just a matter of form.

It was around for 12 years, had 600 employees, and was backed by Sage, which is one of the largest business accounting packages in existence. I don’t think it was fly by night.

The founder pretty much said FAFO regarding them ousting him. So it was doing fine until then.