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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • There’s several millennia between modern politics and the ancient Greeks. Like there’s so much history between Ancient Greek politics and modern politics that it’s outright absurd. Sure the enlightenment thinkers thought of themselves as being engeriters of the Greeks in a lot of ways but most modern systems are based off of Roman structures since Rome was an actual state and not a bunch of polis with variable systems.


  • Just going to point out that cold storage predates modern refrigeration by literal millenia, hell there was a Greek island that mastered it well enough to consistently manufacture ice cream. I think the term I’ve heard is lagen basically a stone basement with evaporation boxes that can be used to keep tempatures around 50°F. The problem was consistency and how much labor it took to actually build the things, also they’d sometimes just kinda break if the environment shifted too much or were only usable during certain seasons.







  • Biggest problem with that movie is it’s pacing IMO, shouldve either been an hour longer or gone in with the intention of making it two movies. At the very least they needed to include some pre release specials on the Sci-fi channel going over the history of the characters mostly because while most of the characters come from early modern literature Mina Harker for example is pretty fucken obscure if you haven’t consumed more Dracula or it’s more direct adaptations.