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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (15 children)

That is one of the ways Marcus Crassus got rich in Rome.

The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.>

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I had a VHS tape mailed to me that had a preview of the game. Gameplay, graphics, and it even came in a special jungle leaf type VHS case. I think it was from my Nintendo power subscription, but I don't know If I still had it during N64.

Horny fact: I used my old DK tape to record porn from the spice channel when I was able to get the image to unscramble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is a lesson that took me many years to learn. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

"I don't care what you think." - his fans still listening to whichever version I want to hear at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Originally, I was planning on buying a bottle of Clase Azul because I like tequila and the bottle looked nice. I tried it and it was good, but a little too sweet for me. I now plan on buying a bottle of Komos and trying that. I saw a tequila sommelier video on YouTube and he mentioned it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

My wife always thought he was bullshitting. The church was trying a rebrand thing. They retired the pope that was in Hitler youth and got the cool 'young' still old pope that is more friendly towards gay people and dogs going to heaven. He never really felt legit to her.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I like his message to his former militia members and the paranoia they will have in the future from his actions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People already said what I was going to say, so I'll add something new.

Set a reminder for Mother's Day. It will be here in a couple months and she will have to remember the pain a bit. The 'first blank' without her Mom will be happening a lot this year. Those are the time to let her know you are available if needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

They would need someone exactly like Hegseth when they go through with their plan to purge generals that would uphold the constitution and promote trump loyalists to more positions of power in the military. I'm sure there are some on Lemmy that assumes all military members are the same and pro-trump. That isn't true. There were generals going around and talking to their counterparts to make sure the military would not come if Trump called during 1/6.

This will make it so next time they will have more backing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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