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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ve seen this memed so much I don’t even remember the real line from the film.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She says "Wolfie's just fine."

Incidentally a Canadian guy who made comedy videos under his real name Jon LaJoie put his serious music under the name Wolfie's Just Fine

https://youtu.be/yYHFAHldg_8

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did not know the show me your genitalia guy ever did anything else

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I like his song about starting as a baby

https://youtu.be/fAWvvE9w6Po

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Terminator asks John if he has pets, John says no, Terminator then asks John's mom about the dog, Wolfie. She says Wolfie is fine, blowing the T-1000's cover.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No, the dog is barking in the background and he asks what’s the dog’s name. John responds β€œMax,” and then the terminator says he can hear wolfie barking and the foster mom responds that wolfie is fine.

https://youtu.be/MT_u9Rurrqg

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They have a dog and the T800 asks the name and John says Max (iirc). Then the T800 asks what's wrong with Wolfie, using a fake name to trick the T1000

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The T1000 then kills the dog and checks the name tag, realising it was tricked, and instead of wasting time waiting to ambush John at home it starts actively hunting again.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Everyone knows it was government inefficiency. If only they had an Elon Musk to ~~steal their money~~ fix everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

On one hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was legendary and that virtueless cretins like Musk probably would've had a field day.

On the other hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was so ill-defined, government and economics so intertwined, and politicking so cutthroat and capricious that incompetent cretins like Musk probably would've ended up exiled to some Gr*ekoid rock in the Aegean Sea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'd argue it's was Heraclius, when he adopted the title of Basileus. \s

But then again, that's just where I am on my listen through of History of Byzantium

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I’d argue it’s was Heraclius, when he adopted the title of Basileus. \s

~~This but unironically~~

[–] humanspiral 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice one!

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

The Romans

[–] humanspiral 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Overextension of empire then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

More like an internal decay. Like a tooth rotting from the inside out. Bigger or smaller makes little difference - it's the internal dysfunction which drives it until a crushing, agonizing collapse.

A lot of issues are involved. Government instability and lack of legitimacy. Economic decline and irrational economic behavior. Hardening of a corrupt plutocracy into an intransigent aristocracy with independent power bases. Detachment of the population from the core civic identity of the state. Immense incompetence and nepotism in a period of increasingly centralized and bureaucratic control over society. It goes on and on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Victor Pelevin, a Russian postmodern writer, explained the dissolution of USSR a very zen way: "USSR became so perfect that it stopped existing". Same could be said about the Roman Empire.