There's not even any maps anywhere.

Wonder how aggressively Egypt are on manoeuvres trying to claw back tourism. Would help if they opened up the desert roads so travelling the western deserts was actually viable as a ring route.

I always liked to think of empires as being defined by the people of a specific geography, bound by cultural and ideological tenets, making a development which allowed them to extract wealth from elsewhere.

The Northwestern US coast is the seat of the US empire, and is effectively defined by leveraging inward European culture, tech , and populations, to conquer a continent worth of free resources under manifest destiny, which has then scaled to the world.

If the capital moved to New York, the US empire would still be the same; based on the same history, culture, and geographical roots.

If it moved to California or Texas, however, I would consider it a new power entirely. The reasons underpinning the change would inherently make it an empire fuelled by a different history, geography, context in the world, etc, no matter how often people would claim to be a continuation of America.

I always like to think how the region would've looked if all these remnants of peoples had thriving nations.

In the current day, I just find it very worrying when you line up a map of global conflicts and where Islam is thriving.

It's such a shame that the various cultural holdouts in the Middle East never get much attention when they're systematically wiped off the map.

The Mandaeans in the marshes near Basra will probably be next to disappear into the sands of time. Not even a whisper in the media.

Oil sure has a way of drowning out 'human rights' in conversation.

>Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert Sounds incredibly misleading, as if some long lost civ is rising from sand dunes, lol. As far as I'm aware, there have just been ruins uncovered (which look like 6 rooms on the pictures) at Dakhla Oasis, and the site is very obvious on Google Maps.

Are they speaking about Kellis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellis https://maps.app.goo.gl/65daKj9K8qJ35x1c9

Imagine having such a warchest and being so bad at business, lol.

According to which lawyer caste?

Are American laws absolute truth? If not, who cares?

It's about the same valuation as bun, lol.

I also learnt that Anthropic should get better at what they do if they want to compete. If not, somebody else will win.

Or does this not apply to huge US corporations any more?

The so-called economist, is really light on economy.

>Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father. When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things. Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month. Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Prefered Demons, personally. Probably becuase I read it when more mature.

The world's become a gambling addict; chasing players in a huge virtual casino of clicks. It's sad.

Copyright and it's huge industry of lawyers = an enforcer caste of the American empire.

I just struggle to care about people complaining about 'ideas being stolen'. Make it, or don't, it really doesn't bother me.

"heart surgery" isn't a technique". Name something, literally anything connected to the profession, and tell me whether the training time is naturally bound to keep going up and up.

LOL!

Get a grip, son.