I think this refers to…

Shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, Izumo was attacked on 14 August 1937 in a series of raids by Chinese Air Force aircraft during the Battle of Shanghai. Most of the bombs landed in the river without effect, but two bombs landed among spectators, killing hundreds.[42] Izumo’s Nakajima E4N floatplane and another from the light cruiser Sendai managed to get into the air and they claimed to have shot down one Curtiss Hawk biplane fighter and a Northrop Gamma bomber. Two days later, her E4N claimed to have shot down another Hawk.[12][43] Izumo was attacked that same day by a Chinese torpedo boat, but the torpedoes missed and the boat was abandoned by its crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Izumo

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

Dude! Dude! Dude! Check this out… I’d go to Stonehenge. Like the real Stonehenge in England, you know? And I’d write the lyrics to Stairway to Heaven… but I’d hide it just enough so they wouldn’t find it till 2026… when the world needed it the most…

Me, I’d travel to Babylonia (passing through enemy territory) and find the copper merchant Ea-Nasir. Then I’d punch him in the nose and say “Nanni says what’s up!” Then (and this is crucial) I’d get scribes to write out the whole thing on multiple clay tablets, emphasizing my deeds and exploits, and make sure those clay tablets are distributed throughout the known world.

It would indeed be amazing to see in real life. Especially what people are doing on the street and in their homes, the kind of food they eat, etc. But the reality is I’d probably be pretty low in the social hierarchy.

some “unofficial” replacements

• !streetart@lemm.ee… see !grasweeti@slrpnk.net, a lot of the same material (and is more active).

• !TwoGoobers@lemm.ee … see !relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun, a lot of overlap

• !webcomics@lemm.ee … see !webtoons@ani.social for a partial replacement

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Regarding !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee, @klu9@piefed.social has created !action_movies@piefed.social to replace it and more.

iirc the Spanish mostly won bc they had plenty of native allies who were enemies of the Aztecs.

When I looked through the list of lemm.ee communities I was subbed to, my first thought was: omg I hope JohnnyEnzyme takes this ok…

Oh yeah… I had a friend who worked in Elko for a while… they only stayed a year. Didn’t speak bad of it, but didn’t have much to say about it either.

I used to live nearby, and I had to look up what’s in Nevada besides Vegas and Reno. Is there something happening in… uh… Winnemucca that I never heard about?

Also, an American version of this meme would include DC.

You can just tell they got Asterix & Obelix in that ship.

Aw, she was fake? I feel… something a lot like loss.

Excellent point. Even something as relatively simple as a spreadsheet program enables things.

ridiculous contraption but ingenious for the time period

Yeah, I have to keep reminding myself that people back then were just as clever as we are today, they just didn’t have as much pre-existing easily-accessible information as we do these days.

wow there a lot of fascinating stories here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_assault_on_French_Florida

among other little tidbits:

On 20 July, 1565, the English adventurer John Hawkins arrived at the fort with his fleet … The French introduced Hawkins to tobacco, which they all were using, and in turn he introduced it to England upon his return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Caroline

Doppelsöldner

I thought you were talking about his sword, but actually it’s people who fought in the front line for double pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelsöldner

Trying to turn it into an example of minority oppression is a big stretch. AI will be used replace all races, sexes, and ethnicities of DJs. Not just minority DJs.

You are very close to seeing the problem here, which is: when one of us is oppressed, we are all oppressed.

hits different live

I guess I don’t appreciate things well, bc I didn’t really feel much from seeing the Pantheon or even the Sistine Chapel. But what I REALLY loved seeing live was just the downtown area in Rome between Piazza Venezia, the Spanish Steps, and the bridge to Castel Sant’Angelo. So amazing to wander around these 1800s/1900s buildings making up a bustling modern city and every single block has a church, a plaza, and some ruins. My favorite was the ruins of the Largo di Torre Argentina which I believe was where Julius Caesar got stabbed, and which houses a cat sanctuary. There was a newsstand nearby and a grocer, so I could get a comic book and a snack and sit on a bench looking down on it. Eventually a cat would saunter up and be like: what.