I despise any earbuds/cans that you can’t replace the battery in and prefer a wired set of headphones. so much e-waste every year or multiple times a year when they get lost. I’ve never lost a corded headset lol.

you had me at

if you want to read something depressing as all fuck, look at the history of opium production in afghanistan.

Sweden used to be very into solidarity and welfare and infrastructure, and then a bunch of brown people showed up and things have been getting dismantled as Nazis gain influence.

it’s amazing how being exposed to another skin tone changes some people’s thinking. sad.

their racism overrides other concerns. how fucked up is that even?

well, yeah, but also…

it’s always about picking who gets to be violent, when, isn’t it? I have no doubt, emissaries or not, defiant Khwarizmis were gonna get treated violently by the mongols either way. It’s usually a part of the horde overrunning your nation, the pesky men on horses filling your families with arrows bit - which, yeah, is actually really violent, and the burning down of your house, and the rape of your livestock etc., etc., etc.,

perhaps the Khwarizmi didn’t think they’d win the fight, but they could at least take out the assholes who brought the message.

thermopylae/300 vibes to typing this out… but I don’t recall the ‘kicks emissary into pit’ part being historic…

protip: leave the people in your will with a map to find your treasures in the horde.

because oh holy fuck is it hard making sense of what’s in those stacks when they have to move on to other housing or die.