Another Professor Pushing Politics And Modernism WIRED React

[@metatronyt]

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[@willyb7353]

Saintly work, sir. Thank you for rectifying the W0KE trash and telling the truth.

[@bobradely8071]

Nice to see this video finally getting freed

[@CriticalEyeMMA]

Glad to see the impossible upload finally made it past the censors, Sensei Metatron!

[@vilevagrant4632]

Aurelian....you know "STARES DAGGERS"

[@jeusmarcomascarina4102]

She is indeed all for feminist empire

[@aaronpaul9188]

This is a common theme. She is not a history professor. I just looked her up. She is a professor of ancient literature. She is intentionally obfuscating her qualifications to give credence to the crap shes spewing. For those curious shes at Duke university.

[@Epsilonsama]

Good to know 😂

[@speckbretzelfan]

Sounds a lot like the issue with the new Assassins Creed. Instead of a Japanese historian, they have some literature writer as "expert".

[@bryantroyer8008]

Great comment. Thanks.

[@pacmonster066]

And for all your bluster, Raph didn't like *2* of her answers in a 20 minute video where she covered over a dozen questions. Let's settle down with the expert bashing.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Exactly! It's a very common theme for the people who pushes that ideology.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

I remember having a conversation with a retired history professor, he told me he tested himself at the end of every semester by asking the class to guess his political affiliation. And if at any point there was an accurate consensus about it, all or nearly all of them guessing correctly, then he would have retired that year. Because his job was to teach history, not his personal beliefs. Too bad there aren't too many left like him.

[@pandakicker1]

I can confirm that your professor was amazing vast majority of them are not like this anymore. I have had professors openly admit that they are trying to turn us into activists. I have had professors proudly proclaim that they are socialists while also claiming that socialism is a stepping stone to communism!!! My anthropology textbook from the last few years said in it that anthropologists analyze social structures through a Marxist lens. I shit you not! I can show you the book and exact page where it says that if you don’t believe me. I find this all incredibly disgusting and the go young people who go straight into college after high school are none the wiser because they’ve already been primed by their teachers in their public schools to carry that ideology with them already. The professors in college expect their students to already think that way. It’s disgusting. I lucked out because I waited like 7 years after high school to go to college so I already had lived real life before going. Not to mention he fact that I went to religious private schools until high school and my high schools were not quite as ideologically captured back then as they are now.

[@Andy_Sidaris]

This is a common copy and paste. Amazing how many thousands of people were in that class with you

[@Andy_Sidaris]

@@pandakicker1 He didn't have a professor like this. This comment has been on most Megatron videos by a number of different people Hopefully the professor existed for the first guy who made this post

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Andy_Sidaris you're right, I didn't have a professor like this, I never said that I did. It's just a guy that I talked to, and had a memorable conversation. Just because a story has been repeated doesn't mean it isn't real.

[@chriscross7494]

​@@pandakicker1just ask yourself, why they claim, that people who were trying to promote their professions were really trying to self-identify. It's like they can't even stop to think what life is like before newspapers and advertisements. Mark the Muckrake is proof of how wrong they are about things, both past and present.

[@redhairedviking2657]

She talks like every literature professor I have met. She definitely gives some good information, but she struggles removing her own opinion and emotion from what she's discussing.

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

And you know she will retaliate if you openly disagree with her

[@charlesmcgill2974]

@@nicolaspeigne1429yep lol, they act reasonable till you disagree, then they break out the insanity, some said to me “you are a white male” as if I can’t make an argument because of my skin color

[@pyotrbagration2438]

Ginsberg, the conspiracy theory people with hooked crosses will have a field day with this.

[@Kas-p4p]

@@nicolaspeigne1429 still waiting for that moment megatron leaves his man cave and actually confronts a proffesor. but i guess cuckservatives have no balls lol

[@065Tim]

That's toxic femininity for you.

[@RobBurden]

Marcus Aurelius didnt just 'write a book' it was a collections of his diaries, him working though his own practise of stoicism.

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

It's _really_ important context that they're personal journals. He is often billed as a philosopher and his Meditations as a philosophical text meant to instruct others even though he was only a student in the context of philosophy and his journals were meant for himself and not for publication or the instruction of others, and it often leads to two erroneous courses of thought. First, by the gullible, that his Meditations are a manual for life that everyone should follow (there is plenty of wisdom and good advice there, but it is all intended for a Mister Marcus Aurelius; If you are not him, some of it is bound to be way offmark: One early and easily demonstrable example being that he describes an orgasm, in the process of mortifying his pleasures, as an expulsion of mucous, which does not apply well to a female reader). Second, by the overly critical, that Stoicism itself is fundamentally naive and that Marcus Aurelius was pretentious and somehow overhyped or overrated. How would you feel if all your life's work as well as your religion were judged by someone in the context of a set of personal journals you wrote specifically for working through trauma? Is it sensible to judge a school of thought primarily by the personal study notes of a single student? It is, ironically, a very naive take.

[@marcusaurelius4941]

People nowadays are obsessed with all the self-help personal growth stuff, so it was bound to be misconstrued in this way. A more sensible way to look at Meditations is to see it as a "peek into the mind of an Emperor", and yes, you will probably learn something along the way, but it's not meant to teach you anything

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

@@marcusaurelius4941 account meant to make this comment

[@thepatrusnostor5794]

​@@vitriolicAmaranth I think the same. I had a friend who said that he didn't agree with his books and that they were very messy when written.

[@magyarbondi]

I automatically disqualify anybody who mentions Marcus Aurelius these days. In the last 4 or 5 years he has become nothing but a reference point of pseudo-intellectuals who take everything out of context.

[@abrvalg321]

It was not "much like today" and she'd be surprised if she learned about the punishments for that.

[@soulknife20]

It depended on who was in charge. As far as historians can tell, it varied from emperor to emperor in the Empire they can't really find any evidence supporting or outlawing it during the Republic period. Rome spanned centuries. Its not odd to think attitudes changed. During the reign of Emperor Justinius in 500 AD time frame, it was outlawed and heavily punished

[@revilokid]

Found that he was a bit harsh with the “much like today” bit like it’s wrong but the rest was fine with what she said. He took a lot out of the “much like today” could have been a quick word saying that’s not true and stating the reasons then moved on .

[@anthonychrisbradley]

@@revilokidI agree, I didn’t see the issue with that. She wasn’t claiming it’s the same as today in the sense of how society treated same sex attraction/sexuality, just that people in the Roman Empire also existed on a spectrum of sexuality the same way we do today.

[@chriscross7494]

​@@revilokidI bet you would defend the idea that when people were self-promoting their professions that they were really trying to self-identify. Martin the Muckrake was just to advertise but modern intellectuals will tell you otherwise.

[@abrvalg321]

@@soulknife20 It was very not welcomed in republican period. Slaves could retaliate against the master that tried to abuse them in such a way.

[@stevenfletcher3411]

This video gave off some serious Monty Python vibes. "What have the Roman rulers ever done for us?" "All right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health what have the Roman Rulers ever done for us??"

[@lolaa2424]

41:09 41:18

[@fate8007]

the rulers created none of that. are you slow?

[@Colby-yg7nj]

​@@fate8007 I wonder who decided to help implement that, re-direct man power or allow education for that to happen🤔

[@NewUser000NewUser]

​@@fate8007in your huge brain, why do you think they had all that in the Roman empire but not in the middle age if rulers had no impacts?

[@marksmithcollins]

@@fate8007 Are you doing anything growing foods? Are you worth exist?

[@DirtyDan77]

It's so weird that modern people describe a "healthy" sex life, as having lots of sex with lots of different people. That sounds like the opposite of a healthy sex life.

[@Danko_Sekulic]

The word "healthy" as they use it has little to no objective validity!

[@geosef5329]

She didn't say anywhere about many partners lol... she says healthy as free to express, to be able to choose what you like. And Psychology does agree that people expressing their sexuality is a healthy thing. Honestly, you shouldn't need psychology to confirm that!

[@MCharlesPainting]

@@geosef5329 Modern, corrupted psychology says that. Psychology itself clearly sees expression within marriage as healthy. Change the word 'psychology' to 'history' and 'biology' or 'Darwinism' or 'evolution'. Very simple and strict. It completely crushes her view.

[@Crimson50]

@@MCharlesPainting What are you talking about? I think by "free expression" as he put it, was meant as in heterosexual, homosexual, exploration of fetishes etc. Not having meaningless sex with strangers.

[@geosef5329]

@Crimson50 free expression as to have sex with whom you desire. For the ancient there is not heterosexual or homosexuals. Is just sex

[@farrahtanner6432]

I'm new to your channel Metatron and I absolutely love it. You never back down from the truth and I love and respect you for that. I'm binge watching

[@metatronyt]

Welcome aboard and thanks!

[@MultipleGrievance]

Welcome to the resistance 😏

[@jus_sanguinis]

She didnt mention female gladiators. Usually feminists say they dont like violence, but at the same time they are chreering for female soldiers, gladiators etc.

[@DMG380]

Was Biggus Dickus a popular name in Rome?

[@Silvahhhhhhhhhh]

No, but Continentia Buttocks was

[@findmeinthecarpet]

Yes

[@altansirin5830]

@@Silvahhhhhhhhhh Just wait till Bigus Dickus hears of this.

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

No less than Gluteus Maximus or Mammus Bazookus

[@alssla3581]

"I'll just let her finish first". Proper Italian gentlemanship.

[@jackalope7774]

Lol. And about 3 minutes in he made the comment, “The State would go down on you…” 😂

[@FireflowerDancer]

'Decidely not togas!' Should be her catch phrase 😂 ok need to watch the full video now

[@Blox117]

not true, he didnt say "ah mama mia!"

[@alssla3581]

@@jackalope7774 He can't avoid being so sexy, it's an Italian thing, lol.

[@alssla3581]

@@Blox117 That's after he finishes.

[@gregmurphy8059]

i appreciate you calling out people attempting to use modern politics to politicize history. These accusations made in the public discourse towards many historical moments/etc are often overblown and ridiculous, but your assessments are always spot on and I hope it helps others be as discerning as you are - thanks! :)

[@glytchd]

With her own logic, Lincoln was a bad person cuz slavery was legal when he was president. Is also such a singular metric.. it's insane the entire good a man does can be Cancled because 'muh strawman'. Totally throwing the baby out with the bath-water seeing as ppl can only do so much within the sustenance that exist. Just look how much we are restricted from being allowed to use our own tech. This phone has 100 times the power i used to use to create massive works... yet i can even do half of what i could with windows xp and the infrastructure of the 2006 internet

[@TheMasterblah]

I'm really glad Metatron pointed out her inconsistent logic too. Rulers bad because slavery and oligarchy compared to TODAY. But women's rights are great FOR THEIR TIME!

[@ace448]

The real issue is that historical civilizations and peoples would be so foreign to us and we would be foreign to them. This idea that you can apply modern morality or ethics to them is laughable. Here is a sad truth, rights are not real. They are an agreement, a social contract one might say. We have lived with modern rights so long that we think they are inherent. They are not and they won’t be in a 1000 years. Societies evolve or change and it is only from our modern moralistic view that we judge them. In a 1000 years our morality and culture will be judged just the same. Democracy could be seen as insanity.

[@Paul-nn9oj]

@@ace448 Yes the present is just a 'flash in the pan' everything modern can barely last an election cycle, let alone a millenium

[@Lynximus]

i haven't even watched this video yet but your statement is really stupid, history is always political lmao

[@Lolux1701]

Why do they always get so weirdly excited when talking about how apparently everybody in ancient times was gay?

[@YouSuprised]

The Genes and DNA of Sodom and Gomorrah seem to be very strong in some... which is not a good sign as they hold positions of power and influence.

[@anothercat1300]

because they're in a cult that worships Slaneesh. Haha

[@Figgy_Jub]

It’s in an attempt to support their point of view, validation of the gay…. Which, nothing wrong with gay people, they existed at every time in history but when they see it happening thousands of years ago they jump at it like “oh look at this, I am right and you’re wrong about everything” without questioning the context surrounding the life of the period. A gay person today isn’t anything like one a thousand years ago.

[@DapperDan1492]

Because people have removed themselves so much from the things that give actual lasting meaning to life, they then have to constantly reaffirm their beliefs to themselves, despite them not holding up against their own time and causing them more pain. People wouldn't care so much about a particular belief, be it political, religious or anything for thag matter, if it wasn't shoved in their face 24/7 by every source around them; it's a fairly simple way to mess around with the way people think about truth and decision making, which can be used as a tool to further personal goals, which tend to be political or the manipulation of power over others. It happens on both sides of the isle. Long story short, it's an easy way to use people for their own gain. Crazy how we have so many phycology majors for students, but they can't figure out simple manipulation beyond what they're told in the classroom.

[@NaatClark]

@@DapperDan1492 In the 1990's kid were beaten to death in schools in America for being gay. I'm sorry you have to see the occasional rainbow flag but one group definitely "pushed" their beliefs on another just a little bit harder amigo

[@cathakjordi]

Cassius Dio: a woman approached Hadrian with a request. At first, he told her that he was too busy. She replied, "Then stop being an emperor!" He turned around and granted her a hearing. Tell me how many modern heads of state would do this.

[@rob_over_9000]

Try that with any modern head of state and you’d be arrested. That probably would’ve worked in the early years of the US because the founders were scholars, but after that generation was dead - probably the last time that was plausible.

[@charlespayne1707]

The first person that story is told about is Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. From what I've read of Hadrian and Philip I find it much more believable of Philip.

[@Blox117]

i doubt you could get a coherent response from biden

[@robo5013]

If a woman is approaching the emperor with a request she is from an influential family. If the emperor accepts her rebuke she is from a VERY influential family.

[@alexisjuillard4816]

​@@Blox117too easy mate 😅. Ah i really do enjoy having a more nuan ced political ideology then the RepvsDem dichotomy. Makes you able to laugh at everything, i mean i'm absolutely not voting for trump but thank god he ended himself (biden) cause at that point i'm pretty sure i'd have no idea who i would support voting biden. I mean clearly not him, he's just a pretty awful puppet at this point, idk who's pulling the strings but it has to be so annoying to try and make him learn a speech or take a position who very carefully and meticulously constructed and watch him be the worst person ever at presenting an argument. Fuck trump and him are actually pretty similar for different reasons, i hear a question and the beginning of an answer and at the end i have no clue of what the topic was supposed to be, mr president (or ex), i think we just asked you about student loans why did we finish on grabbing mecican pussy to throw them over the border, or why did you end on 'erm yes loans, err covid" 😅😅

[@TEFFTPATTERN]

Modern academia is regressing because of professors like this. They will tell you how medieval European history lacks credibility; the authors wrote through a Christian lens, and anything they said about foreign cultures is too biased to be reliable. Then do the same exact thing with their contemporary morality. We already know the Roman system was authoritarian and repressive. We know it doesn’t live up to post-Enlightenment standards. That question was an opportunity to talk about the achievements that different emperors made - civil engineering advancements they oversaw, brilliant diplomatic moves they made, resolutions for social/cultural issues they faced… You know… actual history instead of a redundant lesson in morality. Modern academics like her are equally incapable of providing quality information as their early Christian predecessors were.

[@noneyabusiness3253]

Ya it seems like an attempt to objectively look at history and to try to minimize your biases and write about it as objectively as possible was only a very brief period in history, we are now past that and every bit as biased as past writers were.

[@noxplay4906]

Wtf are you talking about everything we know is thanks to Christians, Christians preserved ancient texts and our morality is based on Christian theology. Our entire culture is based on Christianity. Also post-Enlightenment is not preferable at all, modernity is spiritually and morally dead. We sacrificed our souls for materialism.

[@leonardogregoratti386]

modern uk and usa academia

[@zhuyu9268]

They don't have a morality, they have an amoral religion

[@nigachu8249]

"Liberalism" has replaced Christianity as the dominant religion in the West.

[@sensur1]

He asked who was the best emperor *objectively* and then she answered in a completely subjectively manner

[@istvansipos9940]

who had the most soldiers? Who ruled the longest? etc etc Many questions can be answered objectively. The "best" is an opinion in every case. Even if the majority agrees on it, it still remains subjective. Such a question cannot be answered objectively in any topic.

[@nox5555]

@@istvansipos9940 Heinrich II is the greatest roman emperor because he wasnt just a great emperor but also a saint.

[@jakubcidlik]

@@nox5555 ?? Why do you mix HRE (germans) and Romans?

[@Worldtraveler3683]

I mean, it’s a subjective question. You can’t answer “who is the best emperor” objectively. Even if you make a case for one, there will be a dozen historians with different answers

[@verscarii3238]

​@@istvansipos9940 Anything would of been better than "none of them were very nice since it wasn't a Democracy 😔" Which was his actual point.

[@benjamintworek]

Someone who says "just like today" is worried about the acceptance she would not receive had she not said it. Honey, it's not that bad you can just tell the truth.

[@glytchd]

Tell me you've never been in Academia without yelling me you've never tried to survive in Academia. Telling the truth is what black baked all pie good scientists in the 90s and 2000s. Especially historians that found evidence for human civilization that conflicts with the narrative. I swear they're surpassing an entire list civilization but now i can't even find a trace of some of the ppl i chatted with in the 90s. Kayaking real Academia scrubbed from records Is scary

[@soulknife20]

​@@glytchdWhat evidence was found that conflicted with main stream narrative?

[@MeanBeanComedy]

It probably is that bad. I don't know if she has tenure or not.

[@toledo6036]

women

[@bigguy7353]

​@@glytchdI'd say the same thing and HAVE been in academia. For 12 years. Have a snarky dismission of that?

[@lordMartiya]

Metatron, you're Italian. Your answer to "how often do you think about the Roman Empire" is "yes", just like mine.

[@Rivershield]

I'm only half Italian and my answer is the same. The other half is "how much do you think about the third Reich" 😅

[@sergiocalcio9481]

@@Rivershield RiverShield is then surely an Ubermensche. Hats off Mein River . We salute you .

[@_Major00Donut_]

@@Rivershield Which becomes “How often do you think of the Axis alliance?”

[@jesse123185]

I'm 0% Italian, everywhere in northwestern Europe diaspora American the answer is still yes

[@sergiocalcio9481]

@@_Major00Donut_ Quiet Jude or Turd World Shill

[@SpookyNero]

That shot at Marcus Aurelius, methinks, was her spite towards, what people like her, consider 'right-wing trolls.' She's an open book. No character, lacking depth and aggressively naive...

[@meistereder9135]

Brother, consider her family name and phenotype. That tells you everything.

[@danielwoods3896]

@@meistereder9135 Gins(((burg)))

[@rustydavid5212]

​@@meistereder9135stop noticing patterns, nazi

[@kyckrox1]

@@meistereder9135bro just absolutely flamed her

[@toastysock]

@@meistereder9135 Why you bringin racism into this bro?

[@Miguel09MC]

need to watch this before its down again

[@rafaljt]

Sexuality of Romans: I sleep I don't care Best emperor is none: TRIGGERED

[@funtecstudiovideos4102]

How dare ROMAN emperor be not good for NOT Roman people. HOW DARE HE

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

​@@funtecstudiovideos4102people have forgotten that a good leader is typically pretty bad for people not aligned with the leader lmao. Life is inherently competitive. From the trees to the wolves

[@Paul-nn9oj]

@@mondaysinsanity8193 You dont want some weak push-over representing you

[@AttaBek1422]

@@Paul-nn9oj If I was a Gaul minding my own business in my village I wouldn’t want a ‘strong’ emperor constantly sending soldiers over to ‘collect taxes’ either

[@rustydavid5212]

A good leader is the one that improves the lives of his people and country the most. Like that one European country that one time the movie "12 years NOT a slave"

[@sunnyclimes4884]

I'm surprised she didn't go on about Elagabelus. His antics would fit in perfectly today.

[@Kingsized_Kevin]

That was my immediate thiught😂😂😂

[@noxplay4906]

We have a lot of Elagabalus's running around nowadays.

[@christianlenik5307]

​@@noxplay4906sadly ...

[@rustydavid5212]

>put an arab in charge of Rome >expect good things

[@John-i7o]

​@@rustydavid5212he was 14 when he became Emperor

[@KnightsofElementium]

"Romans had a very healthy sex life. Romans had sex inside and outside the institution of marriage" lol, okay

[@stalhandske9649]

Contradiction in terms right there.

[@BernardoMLala]

​@@stalhandske9649 what does having a healthy sex life have to do with cheating?

[@snapper7568]

There was very little that can be described as healthy (or correct) in anything she described. Maybe we got a glimpse of her personal behaviour...

[@javiermendez9880]

@@snapper7568you yourself are inserting your modern views by saying this though. Back then everyone did it, it was standard and healthy for the time among the elites especially

[@snapper7568]

@@javiermendez9880 there's nothing modern about criticising promiscuity and sex outside of marriage. Ancient Roman views in general certainly did not look favourably on that kind of behaviour. The instances we find in the sources are almost always framed as harsh judgements, indicating what the expectations and views were of the educated, upper-class readership of those sources. Likewise comitted, virtuous relationships are highly praised.

[@sandywinter4]

Yes! I was hoping we would get this video, I'm so ready!

[@metatronyt]

Hope you like it

[@sandywinter4]

@@metatronyt Halfway through and it's great, thank you for not giving up on it!

[@NicoBellisarioMusic]

@metatron yes, I read that the concrete required water to self heal. It is not clear though if they were aware of this feature or if it was just the consequence of making concrete in a specific place (I think it had something to do with creating concrete in a specific place in Italy that has a peculiar geological makeup). I am not sure if concrete made in other places of the empire had the same characteristics, or if even in Rome the cncrete is always of the same fashion. That would be interesting to check.

[@FENomadtrooper]

For a Roman, you can't deploy an unpainted statue. It isn't battle ready! Paint your minis, I mean statues!

[@stormveil]

Wait, are statues maxis?

[@Blox117]

did romans make the statues with accurately sized breasts

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

The Emperor protects.

[@NIDOKING]

You have 14 slots available to deploy units at Chapter 17.

[@Jebu911]

Yeah those colorless statues are just their pile of shame

[@craigbob7734]

15:55 she forgot to mention animals and children 25:50 Roman women could own slaves in their own name, inherent slaves, have their own slave trader business. 43:40 Romans had about 100 holidays, but not weekends. Every 8th day was a market day which wasn't necessarily a day off but it was a break from the monotony of regular work. In modern times we have 20 to 30 additional days off, unless someone works on Saturdays which would mean they had many fewer days off than an ancient Roman. Ancient Romans didn't have family leave, sick days, or paid vacation, or even vacation. Note that rest can be measured in days off but also work hours

[@viperstriker4728]

She won't mention women owning slaves because in feminism only men can do bad things.

[@xBox360BENUTZER]

Children by our or ancient roman definition? She did say woman could own property so I would assume that includes slaves.

[@Nomadtherapist]

I'm also a professor. I can't prove it but I'm personally almost certain that the first 8 minutes as you said basically was a way to make us trust them, and then they can easily inject us with all that political and moral crap.

[@keeferChiefer]

It’s kinda wild to see history being rewritten right before your eyes.

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

Has been happening since 1945 you just woke up? 😂

[@glytchd]

It's sad cuz being on the internet in the 90s.. Academia was Incredible!! I learned SO MUCH about history.. it blindsided me 15yrs ago when suddenly history was literally being changed from what i studied as a kid in collage in the 90s.. like wtf

[@glytchd]

​@@HeliodromusScorpio is easy 4rdqave fwmminiam when it was ursurped by the communists in the 60s/70s. Academia was severely infiltrated during that time with literal racists professors and the 1st herbal of ppl that wanted to socially engineer the world. We seen this genealogy grow up and take over the 90s during the Clinton dynasty. When ppl were told to pretend communism went away with the fall of the wall. But even a cold in the 90s could see it merely moved to China and came to the us. This is when free trade was 9lives. all those backroom deals with Hillary and NAFTA. plus biden scraped the f14d super tomcat due to shadey connections. Srsly we now face China with an INFERIOR AND MORE EXPENSIVE WEAPONS PLATFORM THANKS TO BIDEN IN THE 90s. All this free trade was designed to export or wealth and industry in the name of ENVIROMENTALism .. which has caused a massive increase in co2 cuz of curse China would create so much coal power and slav labor that it literally INVENTED THE SEASONAL BROWN CLOUD IN 2004. Funny how the ENVIROMENTAL neve talked about that. We literally need to roll back out EPA regulations to early 2000s standards

[@keeferChiefer]

@@HeliodromusScorpio your reading comprehension is that of a toddlers. I’ve fully known about history being rewritten, but watching it happen with your own eyes through a video is very different than just seeing it happen on paper.

[@soulknife20]

​@@keeferChieferWhat is being rewritten? You do understand that as more gets discovered, it gets updated, right?

[@Riccardo_Mori]

I don't know if you still officially teach in a specific institution, but I for one am glad that someone like you is on KZbin, teaching *this well* to the whole world (or at least to those willing to listen). I'd say "Keep up the good work", but it's redundant because I already know you will. Cheers!

[@PhilosoShysGameChannel]

Gal went after our main man, Marcus Aurelius.... Even by MODERN standards Marcus Aurelius was probably one of the.. More chill of the emperors. The guy ACTUALLY just wanted to live a simple life of Academia... This gal lost HARD respect from us!

[@bansenpy5553]

By modern standards he is a genocidal freak just like the other emperors 😂,I don't get why y'all are so obsessed with these pagans ,they would throw u to a lion to be eaten for their pleasure ,they hated anything that wasn't roman, especially anything remotely christian or Jewish.

[@theimmortalgrenadier3851]

The video is out at last, finally!

[@maratkaidauloff3585]

Noble One, greet u!

[@user-darkodbd]

probably not all of it. KZbin is censoring again.

[@jamesgordley5000]

Thanks for calling this one out, Metatron. I saw this video months ago, and she annoyed the shit out of me for exactly the reasons you just covered. 😂

[@hyperbomb02]

Roman concrete: The way Roman's used concrete is not the same as we do. Concrete was their primary building block, modern times we do not use concrete this way, we have a frame and rebar that concrete goes over. Roman's would have wanted the concrete as strong as possible, modern applications will vary, but it's not the main load bearing structural item. You also have to take into consideration the other side of building, it would be much harder for the Roman's to tear down a structure, and a fundamental flaw would ruin a whole building because it would be very difficult to fix it after construction. Romans would have wanted the strongest concrete possible, modernly we just don't need that.

[@collinlampkins]

To add to your comment about concrete, modern concrete often contains long strips of metal called rebar, as the concrete sets and hardens after a while the rebar may rust. The rust causes the concrete to expand and eventually crack BUT the rebar adds a lot more tensile strength to the concrete. I hope that provides more insight into the question.

[@lakevna]

This is the key, Roman concrete is really hard, stronger against compressive forces but not in tension. Modern concrete is comparatively flexible (comparatively), which helps it to avoid separating under torsion and tension forces. As you mentioned, combining it with rebar makes a composite material which gains much more strength in tension from the steel. This allows us to build structures differently, consider the difference in structure between modern bridges and historical ones.

[@markbernard8312]

However the rebar itself can shorten the life of the concrete

[@GRMLS5]

The professor subscribes to the philosophy of many KZbinrs I have come across...interested in Vintage..fashion etc...." but not Vintage Values"... so they state...that is why she got material things right, then makes a judgment of men & women in the past, from 2024.

[@Danko_Sekulic]

This is also a disease among reeanctors, especially Americans and Brits. I guess it is partly due to the overabundance of SS reenactment which is, hopefully, as far removed ftom the "values" of the actual SS as possible. I don't do WW2 reenactments at all, but if I did, I'd openly say that I DO relate to the values of a conservative British WW2 officer !

[@die1mayer]

@@Danko_Sekulic A Wehrmacht officer would have similar values as a British officer, the Wehrmacht was considered a grey block of Conservatism. It was different with the SS, a organization within the NSDAP. Waffen-SS officers were frowned upon by the Wehrmacht for their reckless nature and brutality, this can partially be explained by their inexperience as a fighting force but they were also fanatically loyal to the ideology and did not try to be chivalrous.

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

It's absolutely fair to judge people from the past like we judge people from the present. Evil is present at all ages. Read : "politic ponerology"

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

Just don't repeat what he said like a parrot. He's not more wise than anyone.

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

It's fair to judge criminal people from the past because philosophers from the past were judging these bad behaviors as well. A Christian or a philosopher from that ancient period would have made the same judgments that people make today.

[@DaveLivesInACave]

I love how in almost every video you make you say at least once that you’ll have to make an entire separate video for a certain subject you’re talking about. The content for accurate history is overflowing!

[@NookaNifty]

Regarding the child mortality, I think the estimate is that up to 50% died before reaching the age of ten. That would include the infants, not that up to 50% those who survived infancy, would die later before reaching the age of 10.

[@dunedainmom]

Wow. I always wondered about this. Could you point me to where you found this? I have trouble finding sources

[@danieljohnston9723]

And if they survived to adulthood they'd die in the army

[@exosproudmamabear558]

%50 is quite good actually for medieval times it was %80 until 5 yeaes old if I know right

[@jimmythe-gent]

“That form of government doesn’t lead to people doing good things”… She said about arguably the greatest empire the world has ever known..

[@Mistmantle88]

I’m surprised she didn’t immediately point out that PaTrIaRcHy BaD mkay

[@dorugoramon0518]

These false academics think being a massive reprobate is the highest form of human achievement and that libertinism is true freedom (its not, its the exact opposite). Their opinions are worth less than the dirt on the sole of my boot.

[@MerkavaVsRocks]

I'm glad to finally see the video out. Hopefully it doesn't get taken down before I finish watching it.

[@muzgash]

If this woman managed to rile up Metatron I wonder what he'd think of Mary Beard's ramblings and looking at Ancient Rome through modern "morality".

[@noxplay4906]

I love how you put morality in quotes because modern morality is just the absence of morality.

[@makara80]

Ah Mary Beard, that peerless bastion of critical thinking who, lest we forget, once imperiously lectured a local woman about how the rapid decline of her town was in fact wondrous cultural enrichment during an edition of BBC current affairs programme Question Time! Admittedly Beard did not and had never resided in said town herself but being an academic she would naturally be better informed about it than a mere local who had only lived there all her life… Next Up: Mary Beard educates a former soldier on the ravages of war. 🙂

[@gregorde]

@@makara80she’s admitted she’s not even really fluent in Latin….

[@JesusisliterallyHim]

@@makara80oh dear 😮

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

21:50 No, I don't agree that Nero was the worst of the worst emperors. In a military sense he was successful, even though he was the first emperor who wasn't directly involved in any military action (but he relied on competent generals), in his first five years of power he was actually well-liked by the population, was a fair judge, who barely handed out the death penalty (he'd rather exile criminals or sentence them to forced labour) and managed to fix his relationships to the senate. When Rome burned he immediately rushed back (he wasn't in Rome at the time of the fire, and it also wasn't the first time large parts of Rome burned), opened his houses for the homeless and lowered the food prices. After the fire he passed laws for broader streets, the max height for buildings and that those buildings had to have stone base walls, to prevent further widespread fires. He was seemingly also still well-liked in the general population after the fire, but his relationships to the nobility and the senate degraded pretty fast, which then led to them rebelling against him. And because they were basically ursuping the throne, they also had to destroy his image for future generations. This and the early church saw him as the representation of the devil, which meant even later Christians demonized him as the worst of the worst. He is probably one of the most unfairly judged emperors in Rome's history.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

I think it says a lot that Otho or Galba tried to imitate Nero in order to garner popularity.

[@ÆRTAJN]

Glad you got the video out Metatron!

[@prdalien0]

The other meaning of professor is often overlooked, 'a person who affirms a faith in or allegiance to something' it applies more to these types than the usual meaning.

[@tooitchy]

100%

[@GeneralProfessor]

Yep.

[@klontjespap]

neo-marxist bullshitters showing clearly how appeal to authority is a fallacy lol putting it back on the map for everyone to see

[@M0butu]

I do not profess.

[@DonnaCPunk]

The lady doth profess too much, methinks.

[@sterlingwilkes3240]

>ginsburg >not a historian >problem glasses >overwieght Im shocked

[@Kommiekiller]

Oy vey!

[@Tirana-qg1ft]

Shabbat Shalom

[@JustStop19]

Pattern recognition.

[@GiantGunt_EthanRalph]

I'm glad to see that people are catching on. It's almost like these people hold a grudge against the Roman Empire, you know, OUR ANCESTORS? The descendants of their people haven't forgotten, so why have we? 110?

[@seanwattles9264]

I always enjoyed debunking my professors in class. Being a Californian I have been fighting this fight... for 30.. no 40... no since I first walked into a classroom. nearly 50 years ago. :/ Keep on being you Metatron.

[@metatronyt]

Right on

[@aselliofacchio]

Respect man

[@kevingalligan2846]

Hell yeah, someones gotta give the principal company and keep their parents on their toes at work awaiting the call. 😂

[@aelix56]

Good man integrity in academia is important

[@daviddavies3637]

Define debunking. Metatron didn't "debunk" the professor here as such. He corrected the way in which she presented the information. And he was right in that she was letting her politics rule her brain. If you were constantly "debunking" your professors in class, it suggests that you thought you knew better? That sounds problematic and arrogant. I've been to University here in the UK several times. I'm now in my 50s. The UK is far more liberal than even California. And I can say that I've only ever encountered politics in the classroom once. Just a law lecturer recounting a time that she refused to defend someone on a rape charge because she thought he was guilty and she dug her heels in when her law firm insisted. Turned out he was acquitted but she blamed stereotyping because he was from a well-off family and arrived at court in a nice suit, while she was from a poorer family and arrived at court in a low-cut top and a mini skirt. Teaching should be neutral, but the fact that you say that you've been "fighting this fight" suggests your own politics to me and what you're actually angry about is the fact that you don't feel you were taught things from the perspective of your own political beliefs today.

[@free_at_last8141]

The incredibly ethnocentric American Academician who honestly believes that they have a Worldly view of things because they're steeped in some variation of Marxism is so tiresome.

[@glytchd]

It's sad cuz being on the internet in the 90s.. Academia was Incredible!! I learned SO MUCH about history.. it blindsided me 15yrs ago when suddenly history was literally being changed from what i studied as a kid in collage in the 90s.. like wtf

[@cjohnson3836]

Mate, you're just as ignorant. Just like the structuralists drove out the culturalists from academia, so to was anyone remotely Marxist from any area outside of historical recognition of existence. There are zero Marxist educators in academia. The private endowment structure and how boards are determined has ensured that.

[@soulknife20]

European's do the same thing

[@free_at_last8141]

@@soulknife20 They're often just parroting American Academia because most of them went to "prestigious" American Universities and Colleges as part of their "education." It's even worse in their case because it makes even less sense.

[@soulknife20]

​@@free_at_last8141Well. No. They aren't.

[@tastesofhistory4560]

Minute 12:28 how would the jars (dolia) shown hold hot food? There are no signs of burning on the jars, the counter itself, or the floor to indicate the contents could be kept warm. Anything hot transfered to such dolia probably wouldn't stay warm for very long. Would the counter act as a good thermal insulator? I'm not convinced. It might be just this example but I think we're missing something when it comes to hot food served in any popina, caupona, thermopolium or taverna.

[@saruflan5441]

Faster than Netflix, documenting the Life of Caius Iulius Caesar Augustus (starring Will Smith)

[@gastongarraza7391]

Augustus was african and black, my granmother told me

[@Blox117]

@@gastongarraza7391 das da troof

[@lordodin5755]

DAS RIIIIIITE

[@Kommiekiller]

Ave my ni..

[@TruusvanEs]

@@gastongarraza7391 🤣🤣🤣

[@milanserfhos3413]

I am addicted to this series, I love history, I love you being so critical and protective of the objective truth, I want more!!!

[@johndugger1028]

so I'm very new to this channel, I'm an uneducated old guy who has read thousands of books in my life, always loved history, what I like about this channel is how he tries to keep it in the time period of the subject and doesn't compare it to modern ideology

[@OptimisticMisanthrope]

Apparently rain soaking the concrete was enough to initiate the quicklime's self repairing properties - but yes, it had to be wet.

[@josemariamartinezdeartolab9895]

In Spain we still call vomitorio to the vomitorium, at least in football (soccer) stadiums.

[@bradg.3306]

that’s really interesting. do you still say ‘vomitar’ in spain for to vomit? or is that a new world spanish word.?

[@albertwayne2323]

@@bradg.3306 We still say 'vomitar' for 'to vomit ' or 'to throw up' and the vomit itself is called 'vómito'.

[@ponponpunani]

First video of yours I have seen. Loved the just clean pure historical information you gave out. If you want to discuss politics study politics, if you want to discuss history study history. Good shit just subbed.

[@lando9238]

“Politics ruins everything”

[@thadtuiol1717]

Yeah, go ask a late Republican era Roman about that...

[@noxplay4906]

Evil politics designed to make people hedonistic, materialistic and overly debauched ruins everything but not all politics are bad.

[@christianlenik5307]

​@@thadtuiol1717Just ask every polititian in every era

[@fishstks9677]

@@christianlenik5307”politics are great as long as you think the same as me” every politician ever

[@ThePirate193]

It's not politics

[@gw7120]

Saying there was no good roman rulers is insane , because they were certainly bad ones , but from perspective there were very good leaders who did plenty for the people of the empire !!!

[@CKyIe]

Ginsberg. Every time.

[@davidkim2821]

Metatron is cooooooking recently. More metatron

[@drillbabydrill892]

She gets a gold star for being a youngish American historian and using the term “BC” instead of “BCE”.

[@YSLRD]

I think its starting to turn around. People are seeing how awkward and pretentious the new version is.

[@ExSpoonman]

​@@YSLRDNope. It's BCE. Not going back to BC, bucko. Cope.

[@finh6798]

⁠@@YSLRDno they absolutely are not😂 Academics use common era to avoid an unneeded an unwarranted religious element to dating. There’s nothing pretentious or awkward about it which is why it isn’t a problem for the majority of the world who aren’t christians

[@uncreativepanda]

​@@finh6798 Pretty irrelevant given the event it is still measuring things relative to. I'm not religious and I have no problem with it, seems ridiculous to me that anyone would.

[@finh6798]

@@uncreativepanda the difference is that by using BC and AD you are affirming Jesus as the son of god. This quite clearly is a huge theological statement that is not acceptable for the majority of the planet. In a world of globalised and multi cultural academia this simply is not adequate

[@marcospaulorosadejesuscost2964]

Valeu!

[@brut1ful828]

WE WUZ ROMANZ

[@realblackbetty2204]

Sheeeeit

[@il_gran_signore]

Europeans since the 700s:

[@Halo_Legend]

​@@il_gran_signoreamericanz since 700s: 💨

[@psychodoxie6987]

​@@Halo_LegendDo you mean 1700's ?

[@LalaDepala_00]

​@@il_gran_signoreNever met a non-Italian European who thought they were Roman.

[@jackcanox4015]

Which roman emperor was the best? OBVIOUSLY AURELIAN! The guy single handedly delayed the fall of the romane empire in just a couple of years!

[@psychodoxie6987]

I feel like that's a wide question like what do you mean best do you mean best general,best politician,best for the roman economy,best at saving Rome or just good at everything or maybe made alot of change in their time like Constantine(If I sound like an idiot for saying this please call me an idiot so that I don't make the same mistake)

[@christianlenik5307]

​@@psychodoxie6987No, you are Not an Idiot! This Woke literarist is!

[@Tallorian]

It's funny that almost always when someone asks about "the best Roman emperor", both the asking and the answering person don't even consider to hear of somebody like Justinian. Because they think they know history, while they only know a rendition thereof, warped by (relatively) modern ideologies and narratives. Hmmm, now does history repeat itself or what?

[@haroldcruz8550]

I love Aurelian but I cannot give credit to him delaying the fall of the Roman empire because he actually failed by the hands of one of his bodyguards. For me it's Constantine the Great for which the title delayed the fall of the Roman Empire belongs to

[@wifimichi]

Oh my god. Thanks for the quote at 6:25 :) Had to translate that from latin in school. Never thought I' d hear It again :)

[@jamesmurphy1095]

Good to see you finally got this video up and running. Keep up the good work! Love your content!

[@Rae0811]

Awesome! I’m glad they finally let the video go through. Absolutely ridiculous what you had to go through.

[@LudwigSpiegel]

Metatron, I just want to say thank you for everything you do! Glad you exist to educate.

[@sambun6394]

Metatron has spread his wings in this video!!! God had your back brother❤️

[@metatronyt]

Yes! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@willyb7353]

Anyone who is willing to fight the spirit of this age ( WOKE AGENDA ), is doing blessed work.

[@noxplay4906]

I'll add to this Godly thread. Amen, stand strong against evil principalities and spirits and represent God's righteousness to the world.

[@Mrcoolguy008]

The hard part about judging these experts is knowing their motivations. Most people aren’t aware of their personal biases. I would bet that the majority of the actual experts who have a glaring problem in just a few area are just unaware of their personal feelings influencing their perspectives. It doesn’t excuse it, because if you claim to be an expert you should not unfairly characterize ANY aspect, but I would argue that it’s not out of malice, but ignorance of their own biases.

[@mugiwara929]

yea right afterall we are just human nobody is perfect

[@leonardogregoratti386]

mosto fo the times motivation is struggling to get a job and getting morepower when u got it, so you have to tell what univeesity wanti or society or your employer (students who pay fees) or governement = what is popular nobody cares about history anymore. and that' also easy because to find new stuff to say about ancienti roman empire requires years and years of reading and studying the sources in original language something nobody wants to do. they want to write books quickly publishable by oxbridge

[@mikej3945]

Im glad there was someone to correct her and explain further, as for the concrete, the idea is that it was "self healing" in when the cracks formed, it opened up the... (fresh? Unused?) Limestone for when it would rain. It needed water, but not much in order to heal these cracks

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

We have some old Roman concrete here where i live in Spain. Its amazing to see how solid it still is 😊

[@stalhandske9649]

I'd really like to get my hands on some volcanic sand from Pozzuoli area and experiment a bit!

[@MultipleGrievance]

You know what I wish? That we had public forums where we could debate history with these modernists. The kind of people who watch videos from these professors aren't actual history buffs. They may have a small interest in it, but you can tell from the comments that it's just an average understanding.

[@glytchd]

Yes it used to be called the Internet. Before we allowed the Eastern/ African nations in. Just look what India did to our tech industry in the 2000s :( But back When libertarians and engineers ruled the net. We were allowed to have freedom. They couldn't steal our away with smart phones yet. The gate keeping failed in 2003 with the n00b invasion and the never ending 'forever September'. I forgot what ov was saying. in so tired. Poetically something about selling the internet. Should have stayed with the NSF . This forcing corrosive to build infrastructure FOR the internet rather than being able to pretend to be private corporations and then build walled gardens only they allow access to This KZbin instead of IRC. Research IRC and you'll understand why the internet is broken - aside from a billion uncivilized idiots from the middle east and China taking over all our corrosive. Free trade was never free. Remerber when the left told you free trade was good for everyone?

[@tezz2698]

Please. People like you would get demolished in a real debate.

[@MultipleGrievance]

@@tezz2698 People like me? What kind of person am I?

[@MultipleGrievance]

@tezz2698 Let's see what you got........ My interests are early church history, antiquity, and where the two brush up against each other. What are your interests knucklehead?

[@sethfg]

@@MultipleGrievanceHa ha. Yeah. Probably just a troll, but good question. Debate doesn’t have be about “demolishing” someone. That’s debate club. Debate can also be a continuing discussion. It’s somewhat natural for our view of history to change over time. With new information or additional study. However there is a difference between that and something that seems to be more common recently which is an importance to view everything in regards to our current social concepts. Often academics will disagree based on available information. Which is great for pushing scholarship. Sometimes rivalries helping to move our understanding forward. This I like. The newer stuff where academics seem to get mired in conflict based on “improper” subject of instruction not based on the search for knowledge but what is socially acceptable. Which Is the whole “cancellation” business. Which I think makes for a diminished educational experience. I was in a museum recently with a friend of mine who has actually taught at well regarded NYC universities. He took the time to point out to me where a specific ancient South American empire was said to spread its culture through trade, art and agriculture. Whereas in reality this society had enslaved the surrounding cultures and subjugated them. While at every chance pointing out the nature of more modern western countries to colonize and usurp parts of that world to their own economic gain. My friend is pretty liberal as I suppose technically am I. Even he can see this creep that my whole rant is based on. Where history is being contaminated by modern biases. I think if you looked around you could find a place to have the debate you seek. Not everyone is as polarized as the internet seems to paint them. You could probably find some people interested in good faith discussion on whatever interests you.

[@Americanpride555]

We have know about Roman concrete “self repairing” for a long time. It does need water, but we use rebar in modern concrete structures. Water and metal creates rust, which would weaken our structure since concrete has great compressive, but terrible tensile strength. So we would do rompan concrete but it would be wildly more expensive, less strong, and couldn’t build as high (which means no one will do that.) I’m a civil engineer.

[@martin.m4306]

Loved your recent video on the viking expert, if you want to learn more about the vikings and specifically their beer i highly recommend a talk named "viking beer" by Lars Marius Garshol hosted on the channel "Huldrevatn". It was held at this years Kornølfestival, a festival where traditional brewers from Scandinavia serve and show ale that is made the traditional way with yeasts that have been in use atleast for a thousand years.

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

Is it Icelandic? Well ok I should just look it up 😄

[@baltasartranconywidemann5129]

Real vikings use only yeast from the inside of their boots!

[@mbalfour7]

Just FYI Metatron... do a quick audio check from about 38:00 onward, sometimes there is an echo. Great analysis as always!

[@DrozSmash]

That echo is very distracting unfortunately. With all the recent upload issues I imagine this won’t ever be resolved but it would be great to get a clean version.

[@knowthycell]

@@DrozSmashand what would you do with that clean version? Repeated watch/listens?

[@DrozSmash]

@@knowthycellI’d share it with more friends. It is easier to recommend / share videos that don’t have such issues.

[@knowthycell]

@@DrozSmash gotcha

[@jimnip265]

Love your work and so happy to see you finally got this one through the cracks! I don't know if it was just a misspeak but if not may I offer you one small English correction. The government or any authority figure will COME down on you in a big way if you screw up. Never GO down on you. That means.... The other thing

[@TruusvanEs]

🤣🤣🤣

[@karljohan3989]

Metatron: Historians should not push their political agenda and should not show selective bias. Ancient Roman historians: hehehehe

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

"Everyone worships the same gods as us. For example, Thor, as a thunder god, is actually just Zeus. Source: I made it up"

[@Alex_Fahey]

​@@vitriolicAmaranthEvidenced Research Fan vs "It came to me in a dream" Enjoyer

[@leonardocontin937]

@@vitriolicAmaranth Well tbf they would be onto something. Most indoeuropeans pantheons have similarities. "A thunder god killing a giant snake monster" Are we talking about Thor, Zeus or Indra?

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

@@leonardocontin937 That's a complex subject. First, comparative mythology is not strictly bounded by language groups and as such certain myths (including that one, artifact-based evidence of which suggests it may date to before humans left Africa (cave shrines with beheaded snakes), and which can also be found for example in the Japanese myth of Susanoo slaying Yamato no Orochi) can be throughout but also outside of indo-european culture. Second, while _deities_ and other mythological figures have been shown to have spread alongside language, the Romans were terrible at putting their finger on what these correlations actually were between cultures. For example, the Norse DID have a Jupiter equivalent with an etymologically derived name, but the Norse Zeus/Jupiter/Dyeut was not Thor, but Tyr/Tyrwaz. I'm not clowning on the concept of different cultures worshiping the same deities by slightly different names; I'm clowning on ancient Roman scholars for taking this as a foregone conclusion and, in their hunt for corroborating evidence, making connections that were tenuous at best.

[@tuh774]

@@leonardocontin937 It sounds like they have too much similarities because you are analyzing them through the lens of english language. Those words would sound and feel completely different by the listener of an ancient language. When you analyze every culture using their own language you realize how different they actually are.

[@elingrome5853]

Fratello M, its the imfamous "The long march through the institutions" .... EVERYTHING WILL BE EXPLAINED BY THE IDEOLOGY

[@romualdaskuzborskis]

Ok, regarding concrete layman (non academy guy interestedn in material sciences) input here- roman concrete is "selfhealing" is also because of the sulfur since materials were often taken from volcanic activity places, this aling with quicklime helped with slowing (encasing) of hydration of calcium comounds. And yes - water IS needed for this because what lime slits do is "shed" outershell and become Ca(OH)2, which is in essence - limemortar.

[@vincentarcher5357]

It's WIRED. What did you expect?

[@Bunnidove]

To be fair, they have a handful of good ones, like the viking one.

[@NCR-Trooper2]

Youre pretty judgemental maybe you are biased on the other spectra

[@radicdenis]

24:44 Makes me wonder who she'd consider a fair contemporary ruler 🤔

[@Fenris86]

When I was ten or twelve I took part in an ancient Rome holiday workshop for kids at the city museum Münster. First day, we got to make our own tunica, which was exactly as you described. A very simple, sleeveless garment. I have really fond memories of it, and, from what I remember, historically, it was pretty much on point.

[@sythe77]

I work at concerts, in indoor arenas and yes, we call them "voms".

[@joed1950]

Caesar, Kaiser, and Czar are related words.

[@psychodoxie6987]

In afrikaans it's keiser.It's feels strange that alot of languages that sound completely different are related in some way

[@zhuyu9268]

​@@psychodoxie6987 objectively most Indo-European languages sound similar (compared to non-indoeuropean languages), especially the European ones (romance, germanic, slavic, and the more unique ones like greek)

[@psychodoxie6987]

@@zhuyu9268 Afrikaans isn't Indo-European it's 60% european languages(Dutch,English,French,etc) 20% African languages(Xhosa for example) and 20% Southern Asian languages because it did originate as a language between slaves and their masters but I understand what you are saying.

[@ChimpFromSpace]

They definitely have a certain "look" to them, don't they. You can instantly tell from their appearance that they're about to spew some post modern deconstructionist horse crap.

[@bensmith8682]

Even AI can spot these types

[@imean5399]

'Post modern' means 20th century philosophy. It does not mean '21st century hotep bs'

[@mawortz]

the best one is the dude that put the horse in the senate

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

The glasses say everything

[@giokun100]

They say she wants to speak to the manager

[@ShadowBaneling]

It's part of the starter kit. She wouldn't be whole without it.

[@mustplay7212]

not rly

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

I'm willing to bet her vision is fine, there's either no lenses or non prescription. It's part of the uniform.

[@CriticalEyeMMA]

I wish YT would let me post soy face memes.... xD

[@HeyItzMeDawg]

7:05 The answer to this is a lot more complex so I'm posting the explanation here. We use reinforced concrete, the romans used self-healing concrete. Concrete is cheap so it's a popular building material, but it's got a major weakness to tensile (pulling apart) stress; the weight of concrete above causes tensile stress on the concrete below, which creates a limit on how tall you can make concrete structures. Reinforced concrete embeds reinforcing bar, aka "rebar" into the concrete, which greatly improves its tensile strength (because a metal bar doesn't pull apart easily). The romans, on the other hand, designed lots of domes and arches into their structure (which is another way of overcoming the tensile strength), but that has the downside of making their buildings wide and long but not very tall (you can't make a skyscraper out of roman concrete, it would collapse before you'd even finished building it). So, modern concrete is much stronger and can hold up a larger building with less concrete thanks to rebar. On the other hand, the durability is the opposite. Concrete is porous and so small amounts of water can get inside of it, and that water expands in the winter time when it freezes, forming cracks in the concrete which weaken it over time. With roman concrete, the embedded chunks of quicklime reacts with the water to form more concrete, sealing the cracks automatically. With modern concrete, water (and especially salt) rusts the rebar, weakening it and reducing its tensile strength. The rust also worsens the cracks, making them larger, causing a chain reaction that produces more rust and more cracks until the structure has to be torn down for safety reasons. So while roman concrete heals itself in response to cracks, modern concrete destroys itself over time. It's especially bad in areas that rain or snow a lot, especially when salt is used to remove snow; salty slush is concrete's worst nightmare. Concrete that has to hold up in water, especially salty water, struggles to use much rebar and thus has to incorproate more arches (e.g. a bridge). It's not that we didn't understand that roman concrete was more durable or how to make it, as many different pop science websites and videos have claimed. We just didn't understand how it worked exactly so we had no way of incorporating it into modern (reinforced) concrete. The romans didn't know something we didn't; we know their concrete recipe and we know how to make arches, it's just not worth the money to do those things over using reinforced concrete. The simple reality is that concrete is one of the cheapest building materials you can come up with, if you want something stronger and more durable there's a point at which you stop investing in ways to make concrete work, and just use another material instead. But now that we understand the self-healing process in more detail, there have been attempts to incorporate the self healing process of roman concrete in modern concrete, but given that everything depends on the chemistry that takes place between concrete, rebar, and water, it's not as simple as just throwing quicklime chunks into modern concrete and expecting it to work fine.

[@I_am_Diogenes]

1:30 Professor of Ancient Rome at which University ? First time I have noticed someone use that title and not also mention which institution it is connected to . Claiming that title means she is getting professionally paid doesnt it ? EDIT : Sorry but IMO this gal is a revisionist not a historian .

[@willyb7353]

Wasted money, for sure. She's not fit to shine a pair of boots.

[@TheKinoCorner]

I'm in the thumbnail lmao

[@marcobonaventura578]

Regarding the Roman concrete characteristics, I think the below water mix benefits were likely a natural innovation progression for application to above ground mixes in building elements that had a finish appearance to account for natural settlement and post construction cracking. I think you are right about requiring water to activate the healing. This is similar to modern day mixes used for water/ swimming pools and basement/house foundation walls. It’s a brilliant invention

[@milo8425]

9:33 water is necessary but even humidity can do the trick for microcracks. Also when she says "modern concrete" that's a misnomer. Chunky quicklime concrete is still used, it's just softer and takes longer to set; which is why we use portland cement for most big projects. She does not understand why we use portland. It's not because it's "more expensive". It's not. It's just not appropriate for load bearing civil works and contractors hate waiting for concrete to set.

[@Chief_Hiccup]

The day @Metatronic quits being Pedantic is the day we all unsubscribe knowing he's been replaced with an alien look alike.

[@PC_Simo]

8:31 Also; a dome is hemispherical, in shape; and thus, very durable.

[@TheBitingBat]

Constantinus, son of Constantius and the Lady of Avalon, Emperor clad in Purple and Lord of Byzantium. Best emperor easily

[@3rdand105]

The discussion about emperors towards the end reminded me of a quote from none other than Monty Python: "If I went around, claiming I was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

[@PaulDekleva]

I agree with most of your observations regarding this ‘expert’s knowledge’. When it came to, who was the best Roman emperor, I was waiting for a in-depth discussion on the subject. Let down. There are some excellent Roman emperor rating videos that give a fair discussion on which of these men stood out from the others. I’ve found that the top ten is most often the same ten emperors (positions sometimes change).

[@BoomerZ.artist]

There is a couple of these presenters that I have had to turn off half way through. They put their modern politics into the video and then I'm out. This was one of them I was annoyed at.

[@willyb7353]

Yeah, it is genuinely frustrating...

[@Konoronn]

You can often tell these people's political opinions merely by their condescending, snide way of talking.

[@willkrueger3857]

@@Konoronn Or their last name ending in -berg

[@juliantheapostate8295]

@@willkrueger3857 Don't be so reductive. It could be Stein or Cohen

[@MartinFinnigan]

I low-key would love an HBO show about modern Tom and Mike navigating the world of ancient Rome, we can make it a comedy, it will be great 😂

[@ZealotOfSteal]

Another thing to mention about roman concrete thing it wasn't a runny concrete that you pour, it was the kind that you have to compress. There's a civil engineer on youtube that has quite a few videos on concrete. In one of them he explains that we do have similar concretes today, they just aren't used for most kinds of consideration due to physical and cost limitations. One example he gives where a compression concrete is used is in dam construction.

[@nachofilament294]

The condescending "the emperor who is really popular on the internet" is absolute nails on a chalkboard.

[@TheDrapetomanic]

Eh. she's not wrong. He's a great emperor, but many people cite him as the best without knowing many of the others, and that's what I think she was getting at. He was really a great emperor, one of the best, but the very best? I'm not sure about that.

[@glytchd]

Yeah academics have been injecting politics since the transhumanist nutjobs took over Academia in the 70s. All those 3rdwave feminists ursurped by the communist party to promote social engineering. Is it any wonder we had free trade in the 90s and laws that forced banks to give money to ppl who are high risk because 'racism'. Yet look what Kaleb to the Morgate systems

[@klontjespap]

@@TheDrapetomanic lol i couldn't help but read the last half of that comment in a donald trump voice ("He was really a great emperor, one of the best....") the mannerism in wording is kind of similar to how he says shit :')