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Ibin khaldun was working as a technocrat for the mameluke regime, they sent him to see what was up when timur was besiging a city in syria. Timur kept him in captivity for a month until he got bored. An autobiografical acount should be easy to find.

The debate is also interesting because recently the idiotic claim that middle easterners didnt knew their own ancient history until the 19th century when europeans arrived, has been gaining popularity. But in said dabate they are arguing about said ancient history, and while timur has a wrong take, ibn khaldun has the modern take. it is also clear they have acces to sources on ancient mesopotamia. And when you re examine such claims you realize that europeans knew abouit ancient history from the bible and the greeks, both of wich would have been avialable to medieval muslims. Yes, cyrus the great does not appear in the shahname, but kay khosrow does, and both are esentially the same character.

I once had the biggest of my boot drives eat the smaller one and then die because there were a lot of duplicate files and indexes.

He was the son of a rich merchant from shaharesabs, the city of apples, near samarkand. He recived the one of best educations of his times, mostly in persian.

He later left his home and turned to banditry because he was an asshole. And from there he went to the army. Now that i think of it he does sound like a wuxia mc.

Any way. Timur is important because he is very close to the point in technological development after which the steppe can no longer compete with agrarian empires. As evidenced by his leading an army from one of the periferal refions of eurasia (even if it was the least periferal) thousands of km deep into russia to own the nomads ruling there. After that, other agrarian polities in china and russia began enclosing the steppes.

In iran he is known for being a debate lord. There was a time when he kidnaped the economist ibn khaldun and the first thing he did was to challenge him to a debate. We have ibn khalduns acount of his captivity. it is said that because of this love of debate timur did not molest shrines or monastic orders because aparently he liked to debate the monks. Because he was an ashole to everyone else, monastic orders and religious foundations filled the power vacum and became very powerful in iran to this day. The safavids themselves were one of the orders he patronised.

Alternativley it could be that because of the geographic and historical peculiarities, iran favors monastic rule, after all, there are famous cases of religious institutions taking over the state (adrashir). Then, timur would have left the monks alone because they had the real power, and the debate lord crap was just to save face.

its unquestionable he was very good at rethoric, to the point he convinced many people to accept chagatai rule.

In mexico this is mixed with other stuff and sold as gallnasa, gallina being hen in spanish. I live in a rural area and a fewomnths ago there was these unknown disiese killing cattle. ranchers already living in subsistence conditions lost most of their wealth wich was in cattle. Some people maingth have eaten the contaminated meat and died. The really scary thing is that vultres ate some of the dead cattle and started to die off. And those guys are suposedly adapted to eat all sorts of diseases and not die.

Eventually it was concluded that a batch of gallinasa was contaminated with something. No one was held acountable.

Not even that. She is the daugther of a failson of a wastern puppet. I dont think she even speaks persian. she is just some rich kid in la.

That would be a cool movie. A horror film where dredd is the alien/predator equivalent. With lots of gratuitous gun violence of course.

Mike flynn, refered to him as a prophet of calvinism.

The question is wether calvinism can be considered as christian, given that dawkings has wierd opinions on taxonomy, he probably thinks it is.

There are more than 2 countries. There are also chinese survivors. If america is not nuked it will be very bad fo both those grpups. And very good for americans. Because of this there is no paradox or moral conundrum. If you run a nation state, then your duty is to ensure the best outcome for your realm's people; maybe its more rational to not only nuke the yanks but nuke everyone else so that history resets and the survivors of your side are not taken advantage of by countries that still have an intact industrial base.

Completly agree. These are perverse incentives. They never consider that the "risk" means a portion of them will be sacrificed.

I was listening to a show that had michel hudson the other day and he was talking about how it goes against the laws of thermodynamics. That you cant charge mere interest than a certain fraction of land yields or the society inevitably collapses, thats why most societies frowned upon the practice. And it was allowed on some ventures like trade expedition because it was asumed that most of them would fail and woulndt have to pay anything back.

In mexico we did a huge ceremony lasting over an hour every monday, and on some special days. There was the anthem. some nerds carring around a falg, marching in circles. then there was an oath to the falg. The calss in charge would also do some sort of play or dance or something wich they usually reahearesed for months. And then there whould be anouncments. So even if it was every monday instead of every day the time invested was probably more than in the us.

When i was in a religious school there would also be prayer and some bullshit. But mexico has a long history of facism, only turkey comes close.

Why? Its like that time graeber wrote a critisism of pinker and everybody was thinking "you are hitting down at unworthy foes" but more so.

I havent eaten out since covid, but i remember it being the only decent fast food chain.