Pretty sure you mean bröther, bruv.

"This comment really shows you have a ZeroGravitas complex," They said in reply, their JackbyDev complex showing plain as day.

Honestly I thought it was gonna be shaped like a Trojan

I think it's silly that they used the term as a term in a movie like that when it's a trope term, but we have billionaires naming surveillance companies Palantir and the tunneling companies Boring Company. It feels somewhat accurate in that sense. Someone sort of vaguely nerdy, out of touch, and giving something a name that's just way way way too on the nose.

Something something literacy in America... 😒

“Oh please. He’s saying his name is Nobody? Like the Bob Odenkirk movie? Come on !”

I’m still pissed that you could see what was going on in The Hobbit films, 2/3 of it should have been pure darkness. They butchered the source material worse than Kubrick!

Ahhh a Dark City fan.

Skrymir

Oh great, those nords are now copying Skyrim and changing letters around to try and hide it!

"sleep"

That's not an "America Bad" thing, it's just fact? That's the explicit reason for the entire framing of western history in American classrooms. We start with Egypt, then the hand the torch over to the Greeks, then they hand the torch to the Romans, then the Dark Ages (spoooooky), then the Renaissance, the British Empire, and then the USA. It's one of our foundations for American Exceptionalism

Sudying Greek history and mythology merely for the sake of propaganda and as a through line to exceptionalism is not a fact, no.

Ya, like most things in the us, it's not ubiquitous. But my experience was similar to yours. We covered it, but it wasn't beaten into us like it was on some "we're the heir to the Athenian dynasty" tip.

I don't think your history experiences sound very typical. I didn't have anything about the Egyptians outside of pyramids in elementary school, very little Greek mythology, and then nothing about the Romans (beyond a bit about how they had good tech like aqueducts), dark ages (maybe a little about the plague and feudalism), or Renaissance. Did you go to a school with extra history requirements or something?

Noooo, I went to, like, 6 different elementary schools to two different states, all in pretty low income areas. This was pretty consistent. But this went well beyond elementary school. When you took world history in high school, what did that look like? This was pretty consistent. And it wasn't just history, this was all blended into English classes and stuff too

I see where you're misunderstanding here. It's not the studying, it's the specific western-centric framing that I'm talking about. Unless you spent a lot of time talking about the Ottomans? Or Aboriginal Dreamtime?

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And they would deserve a slap for it.