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The copper merchant in Ur was actually a con artist that sold crappy copper or fake copper and managed to get away with it. It's an entire freaking show.
Thats hilarious
Yeah dude I remember buying his copper bro he scammed me man😢
It is? Where
@@seandorama5932 I meant to say it was wild. Like entertainingly wild
@@seandorama5932 75% sure they were using that as figure of speech (if thats the right phrase lol)
0:00 The basic and somewhat obvious advice like "make sure to feed your army" makes sense when you know he was writing to spoiled rich people trying to command without any common sense whatsoever
The China of the time was also predominantly having "wars" that could charitably be called performance arts wherein said rich boys basically playfight each other for prestige. Sun Tzu was trying to tell amateurs how to _actually fight_ real warfare.
It's also kind of impressive just how many of those foundational principles are still surprisingly relevant to remember to this day. Sometimes remembering the basics helps a lot more than you'd think.
@@shingshongshamalamasadly the other half are war crimes XD
Upper-class twits were exactly the same in every culture and time period? ...I'm depressed by how believable that is.
_The Art of War_ is still required reading for US Military officers in school. Thousands of years later, the man's writing is still doing the same exact thing lmao
@@TheNeoVidaristocracy is aristocracy regardless of what region, culture or time period. even with all the knowledge in the world at their fingers, they will always be horridly out of touch with reality
Pirates were like the first true mafia. Very well organized and relatively polite in their dealings until you don't do what they say and then they commit acts that would make Ivan the Terrible and Vlad the Impaler puke.
Yep if you surrendered peacefully the pirates would generally leave you alone
I have what I believe is a genuine copy of Captain Black Bart’s rules for his men. It’s from Charleston SC. Charles Towne Landing specifically. There are some pretty understandable rules: no gambling, don’t hit each other, share loot with ranks getting certain amounts of shares, no boys or women- though apparently if someone snuck a woman aboard dressed as a man that was a death sentence. Also apparently pirates had an 8pm curfew and musicians got the sabbath off.
You know, i rlly hate peoples idea of organized crime being completely evil. A lot of these organizations IMO are morally gray. Dark gray maybe. But not fully evil. Not by a long shot. In places with many natural disasters these organizations are often the first to respond and provide aid to civillians - like the yakuza during the 2011 situation - even before the actual government. In fact, most of that "evil" bs is done by younger members of the organization who think theyre cool, get reckless, and try to impress their leadership, and often end up getting punished for doing so - *especially* if any harm comes to civillians.
just off the top of my head here, thinking critical you can say, the price of a ship would be Enoooormous even considering pirates back in the day were usually hired by or conscripted by the crown of one state or another (British, Spain, Dutch, etc..) to either harass or plunder some ports in a way to say make their neighbour states wealth go down or just make them lose resources so they have to ask them for said resources, a ship battle would be kind of out of the question even between say Pirates and the the Royal Navy, usually those kind of things are kept for actual wars. so yeah they rather prefer to play nice on both sides. although a bit of night time sabotage to ships might not have been unheard of. Also some might have been aflicted with Scurvy from lack of Vitamin C and that could deter a lot of physical activity. I am going by what I am trying to remember from High School HIstory (well we called it Social Studies here) so some facts might be mistaken but just saying Media likes their big boomy boomy and not their truths, except for Master and Commander which from what I have seen and heard was really close to historical. sorry for the long post.
TL;DR Pirates weren't as violent as movies showed because they had to take care of an expensive ship, were usually paid by a crown (head of state) to do their work, added to that lack of Vitamin C from being on the open Sea for months if not years of time you get people that just want to do their shit and get paid.
@@ShyDigidepends. Some organized crime groups can actually be pretty violent; like ms13.
Usually the good that comes from organized crime helps by “controlling” the crime to keep the public and law enforcement from getting too upset and cracking down on them.
Basically organized crime has two choices. Either use extreme violence to scare the public and government to not get in their way or be nice to the public and keep crime in check to make the law enforcement not feel the need to break them
the thing is there is a ton of evidence suggesting that the workers who constructed the pyramids were really valued by the Pharoh and there were pretty much company towns created near the pyramids for the workers to rest in. It makes sense since the people who constructed the pyramids would be close to the pharaoh since they are constructing his tomb
they were even buried in them.
especially because... you know... they were the ones to put the treasures and all the sheez inside of the piramid at the end. So if you mistreat them, you'd be prety sure to be put in the piramid with less stuff then a hungry poor peasant, or get it all stolen weeks after the piramid was (allegedly, but not really) sealed.
One of the main reasons Tut got famous, even though he was (in the great scheme) a minor pharaoh compared to lots of others is because they found his tumb with treasure still inside and most of the original seals on the doors still there. Most of the more important pharaohs we got the tumbs for, all treasure had been pillaged before the archeologists could photograph stuff.
About the pyramid memes: they are mostly true. Egypt and pharaohs absolutely has slaves. But a pyramid was not only the pharaoh's litteral tomb, it's also a very complex thing to build. Using slaves would've only made it longer and more complicated. They needed the best of the best of what their country could offer: stone masons, architects, engineers etc. To make sure they worked hard they were really well payed and their necessities accounted for. That way they didn't have to leave and wouldn't stop working to protest against their conditions
Nope. Egypt never took slaves. They captured the fallen warriors of their enemies, but they never had slaves. That is a myth perpetuated by those very enemies. The myth was then written down and passed down through time.
@@protoborg Yes, slavery wasn't as important as in other regions at the time. But those captured warriors were used as slaves, or at least forced labor for life with mothers giving their status to their children. If not slavery that is at least very similar
@@protoborg That's a bit too broad a statement. The slavery in the Old Kingdom was a fair bit different than what we're used to thinking, but they definitely had slaves. Essentially, the slaves were almost exclusively prisoners of war, they all belonged to the King (the Old Kingdom rulers weren't called Pharaohs), and their duties tended more towards ceremonial duties or forced military service than menial labour.
But by the time of the New Kingdom all of this was gone and slavery worked pretty much the same as in the other Mediterranean nations.
@protoborg What are you talking about? They literally used slaves as part of the process to melt metal. The people all blowing pipes? Those were slaves. Slaves taken from war. They used them for long boring monotonous tasks that no peasant wanted, and no Smith would be able to do due to, you know, shaping the metal.
No pyramid was a tomb, and no body of a Pharaoh was ever found in one. They were ancient electricity generators.
Fun Fact: Actual pirates were just criminals. The pirates we see in movies and shows today are based off privateers which were like ocean mercenaries not criminals or outlaws and often worked for a specific European nation.
I've Heard in other comments that actual pirates were like the sea mafia, cordial until you oppose them in any way. Then they were brutal
@@lampylightbulb Pirates were not organized in any manner. They were outlaws who often stole and raided for self gain and nothing else.
Pirates where privateers who went out of Business after the war that keept them at work ended
Don't forget the parrots. They had cool talking parrots named Polly too.
@@lordjakob7052 Far from every pirate was a privateer. A privateer is just a pirate with a letter of marque. And the pirates themselves could be pretty much all over the place: some were of noble descent, most were just regular folks. Some of them would kill the whole crew of a ship they captured, torture and the like, and when they attacked towns it could be worse - I've heard a story of one, I think it was blackbeard but I'm not sure, who captured a town but the town got an advance warning and the people fled with their valuables, so the pirates went looking for the people, found one and tortured him for the information of where the others were, and those people may have been better off just staying in their homes waiting for the pirates - or at least leaving their valuables behind. And of course when pirates attack towns instead of other ships, then you have to add rape to the murder and torture... because back in the day, ships didn't generally have women on them.
*However* it is also well-documented that while at sea, in a lot of cases both the pirates and the ships they robbed just didn't want to incur unnecessary casualties. You had to get unlucky to get one of the pirate captains who would torture you to death if you didn't fight back, basically.
4:33 He blessed it beacuse to him the games didn't have "any harmeful moral side effects" and also were based on what he called "ties of intense friendship". Pretty based if you ask me
Yeah, something tells me he at least understood that multiplayer was fairly important to the games, even during John Paul II’s lifetime (pretty sure he died well before multiplayer got more intricate than just battling and trading with a cable between Game Boys)
Partial correction to my previous comment: Pope John Paul II passed away well into Pokemon Gen 3, not long after the NA release of FireRed/LeafGreen.
honestly the fact that pokemon is now the most successful franchise in history is better evidence of god being real than anything the church has ever said
Oh, I was gonna say something about Bible thumpers seeing pokemon as heretical because "evolutions", and the pope decided "yall just stupid."
He blessed it because it was Poke a man. A little boy is a young man. He was also a big fan of "Peek at you."
Im learning about that syphilis study in my psychology class as an example of unethical studies. The participants were promised Healthcare, the people running the experiment knew some of the participants had syphilis but they didn't tell them. An effective cure was found while the study was ongoing but none of the participants received the cure. Over 100 of the participants died from syphilis or syphilis related health issues
At least we learned that the power of placebo does not fight syphilis.
Tuskegee was fucking brutal, but it wasn't the only instance of people who were considered lesser and expendable being used for unethical experiments. The Quaker Oats Company and MIT fed a whole bunch of disabled children radioactive cereal to see what the effects would be while they were making the bomb, to give another example.
And the Tuskegee experiment is still impacting the black community to this day. Whenever you ask someone why they're refusing medical treatment or vaccines, they'll say this almost word for word - " Don't like quacks. They don't know what they're doing when it comes to us anyway. They'll just end up experimenting on me. Remember Tuskegee?" and this from people born decades after the scandal was revealed.
Them memories is long. There was some other unethical study with a native american tribe, I think more recently, and to this day its cited as the main reason many of them refuse to participate in ANY genetic or medical studies.
3:50 As long as you cooperate, give up your treasure, and dont try to hide anything you wont be brutally tortured to death in front of your fellow crewmen
you all hate the captain anyway
And as a reward we'll let you keep your personal stuff ,coin and needed supplies we just want the big businesses stuff
Remember when the Jews were not European pawns. Yeah, a lot of barbary coast pirates were Jews exiled from Spain by christians.
Sounds fair
"Whoever can move this big ass rock gets to rule the islands."
That was a minor feat of King Kamehameha, believe or not. He was born under a white rainbow, his mother ate tigershark eyes when pregnant with him, Hailey's comet predicted his birth, he trained for years to become strong as hell, killed the chiefs of other islands, helped build many haious (Hawaiian churches basically, so sorry if i misspelled it), and still has people today who are almost directly related to him. I was friends with a few of them, actually. Also, they kinda didn't have swords in Hawaii at the time, lol.
(BTW, if I get anything wrong or if you want to add something, I'm open to criticism)
This guys life should be an anime good god
sounds fitting for a king with a dragon ball attack named after him
He was also a fucking myth! Anyone who claims heritage to him is full of shit as he didn't actually exist because none of that shit is real!
When he did all that but people only know his last name cuz anime
@@beanman9936 Kamehameha was actually his first name, fun fact
16:05 The pharohs actually did treat the guys building the pyramids pretty well because those guys weren't slaves. It was considered an honor to construct the pyramids so they had plenty of workers who did the labor and where treated well in return for it.
Yeah, because everyone knows how well construction employees are treated by management.
@@smramos1979 considering that management doesn't consider the finished product to be an honour of the gods in any way shape or form, that fully checks out
There was no hauling of heavy stones though. We found the long lost ancient method of constructing artificial stone. Everything was assembled on site. There was a video about this on a channel called Observation Deck. The channel is now just a lame British law channel, but he used to make good videos 4 or 5 years ago.
@@smramos1979 Not really the same. The Egyptian King's goal was to have the pyramid built, not to make money, hence paying the workers wasn't really an issue, since it didn't touch any bottom line.
Construction companies nowdays are mostly there to turn a profit, so they need to cut down on costs, like wages.
The goal is completely different hence the treatment of them also was.
@@witthyhumpleton3514 No, it wasn't. The goal of the pyramid is ego--look how great I am. Not the actions of someone who gives a care about others. I mean, read the inscriptions, they are all I statements. I did this, I did that. They don't mention anybody else unless it's a god, and even then it's "The gods have blessed me." He would have not have cared about his workers, his servants, or his slaves because only he mattered. The goal may not have been profit, but the treatment was the same.
15:41 not quite dairy queen but in WW 2 the US Navy had an entire barge dedicated to being an ice cream parlor
Amazing
Three of them for the pacific theater. They were massive.
They made the ship because they expected they'd need extreme amounts of concrete, so they made a bunch of concrete mixing ships.
They didn't need them as much, so they used one of them to increase the morale by using it to make ice cream.
One of my favorite historical anecdotes is the 1866 Battle of Lissa. An Austrian fleet defeated a larger Italian one not so much because the Austrians were especially skilled, which they were not, but because the Italians were pants-on-head incompetent. In the words of author/historian David Drake, "in fiction you couldn't make one side as incompetent as [the Italian side] was. As one example, the gun crews of the [Italian] flagship forgot to load shells and therefore fought the battle firing blank charges."
As much as we like to laugh and make fun of completely absurd military blunders, it helps humanize war in a strange way. Like, armies and soldiers aren't some magical artificial machination of the state. They're made of flesh and blood humans that are predictably fallible and are capable of both harrowing feats and relatable mistakes.
the assassination was an attempt by David Hinckley Jr. who wanted to impress Jodie Foster (Who is a lesbian) by attempting to kill Reagan if I remember correctly. He's in the musical Assassins by Sondheim
I wonder what Jodie Foster’s reaction was. I’m guessing she ignored Regean’s would-be assassin’s advances. Understandably.
@@joshuahunt3032 she tried to do as much as possible to distance herself from the whole thing
1:10 The guy sold such bad copper, that his customers sent him written complaints engraved in stone tablets
He was also a con artist
he also purposefully kept the tablets as a show of pride
He's also a tumblr celebrity
@@blak4831 if he didnt want his posts circulating in 2023 Tumblr, he should have sold better copper
For the Pope & Pokemon thing, if I had to guess the "blessing" constituted some papal declaration having a few lines saying "We've looked in to this, and it's the official position of the church that it's not Satanic in origin, stop being weird" in response some folks in early 00's trying to drum up a moral panic about the franchise, which I do remember being a thing that happened at the time.
My parents were one of those who thought Pokémon was satanic because it has evolution in it even though the evolution in Pokémon is just power ups and nor even close to the scientific theory of evolution. I made the argument that it's fiction, so if evolution wasn't real, then it should be absolutely fine in a work of fiction. Was lucky my parents didn't see that as talking back and actually used critical thinking and said that Pokémon wasn't satanic and thus was fine. However they didn't budge on their stance against Yugioh. And Harry potter took a bit for them to realize how stupid it was.
17:28 such a missed opportunity to say "Sure you can have some of our used cannonballs"
At least he asked
1:31 “Akkadia” was the empire that Ur was a part of. “Cuneiform” just means “wedge-shaped writing” (cuneus= wedge, formus= shape).
18:35 Syphilis. Literally, it was syphilis they were being given.
The entire experiment was just looking at the effects of syphilis on a person, under the rouse of being a treatment for the condition.
Oml
They were NOT given syphilis. Most already had it (but it wasn’t active AKA latent). They were given anything and everything EXCEPT medicine to treat/ cure the syphilis. Also, they were not told they had it, so they went on to infect their partners.
Addition: It was specifically tested on black people. It was basically a fucking eugenics experiment.
And not just any person
To be fair to Sun Tzu, his book for written for aristocrats who had been promoted to generals but never been in a battle.
On the dairy queen thing. The US had a support ship dedicated to just making ice cream in the pacific theater. It actually lead to one of the Japanese commanders realizing how screwed they were. Japan was having trouble getting enough raw material to keep their fleet running, and the US accidentally made an extra cement mixer barge and went "... yeah lets make ice cream" without any loss of military strength on something frivolous.
You know you're royally screwed when your enemy can waste a ship on making ice cream for their troops.
"We destroyed 3 ships, they dropped the sun on us. Twice"
14:53 he actually mailed someone a katana, saying "no cuts", one of the strongest threats i've ever even seen, he was a legend
6:08 The polyhedron is used for knitting certain shapes. It was originally a complete mystery, but was figured out a couple years ago.
11:53 Ironically the cartridge he made for his machine gun is so powerful its considered a sniper round.
actually It's powerful enough to be considered an anti-material round. And the only "sniper" rifle that uses this round is actually not a good sniper because the recoil and such messes with the whole rifle meaning that it is very inaccurate for shooting at people but it can hit a engine block and disable it.
There's no such thing as a "Sniper round" per se. There are rounds that are optimized for the purpose like a .300WM Mod.0, or the 7.62x54r 7n14, but there's a lot more to it than just the caliber. The .50 BMG works for sniping because of its range, accuracy, power, and penetrating capabilities. It's not the best against unarmored people targets in comparison to other rounds like a .338LM, .408 Chey, .308 (7.62x51) or a .300 Win Mag, but it is definitely more than good enough. Overkill even. But when it comes down to it bullets are not magic. It's not what you use, it's what you're using it for. And, iwish, the M82/M107 doesn't have recoil problems. Most .50's don't. They're designed to do exactly what they're intended to do. The Barrett is one of the easiest to fire on the market. It can also shoot 1/2 MOA which is more than enough accuracy for a sniper.
@@CircusJeanie2399 the barret m82 and m107 are snipers used by the american army
@@Roadiedave While 308 would be better for unarmoured targets, and 57. would be better against tanks, 50 bmg is still used for armoured targets.
@maxwell6881 .308 is also used against armor. Most NATO rounds are used for general purposes. We use what we have. If given the choice we can pick the platform best suited to the task. Again, it's not what you use it's what you're trying to do with it.
15:40 No foolin. Ice cream played a key role in keeping morale up durring WW2. TheHistoryGuy has an episode on it.
15:00 They left out the best part: he sent Disney A KATANA with 'no cuts' message.
History major here, and these memes are accurate.
wonderful. we need accurate memes
As a non-history major, I'll take your word for it
Also, nice pfp
Ah a fellow historian. Hopefully I'll get my Masters by the end of next semester.
Thank goodness I was concerned there for a sec😊
Can you explain the Japanese water one I am confused.
3:58 Yes, this is correct, the black flag synonymous pirates today, meant that if you surrender your life will be spared the red flag, however meant no quarter so no one will be spared at all.
13:36 As a spaniard I'm really sorry that my ancestors did that shit. And still more sorry that Spain hasn't apologised yet for what they did
Not like the British did anything better and feel apologetic
Living in Spain (as a non-Spanish person myself) I am surprised at how the Spanish often express a sentiment like the rest of the world hates them for the colonization, and will bring up the stuff other countries did in an extremely defensive manner - as if they sincerely believe that the whole world hates specifically Spain for what happened during the colonization era and everyone is just forgetting or ignoring all the stuff everyone else did. Like. Half of this very same subreddit is "British Museum" jokes, and it's common knowledge that the Brits went around the world stealing everything that wasn't nailed down and is refusing to give all that stuff back even today. The king of my own native country, Belgium, is still touted as an extremely cruel tyrant to the Republic of the Congo, with stories of boat loads of severed and smoked congolese hands pulling into the port in Antwerp - either as proof that spent bullets hadn't been wasted (the shot rebel's severed hand needed to be provided as proof that the bullets hadn't been spent shooting random stuff out of boredom - so the mercenaries spent their bullets out of boredom, then just cut some hands off people) or as punishment to the rubber plantation workers for not reaching inhuman quotas. The Dutch East-Indies were only slightly better off, and so was India under Britain.
Like, when I meet a person from Congo, my first reaction is often "Oh sorry" because I'm from Belgium, and I believe that is the correct sentiment to have. But it seems many Spanish people have internalized this idea that the whole world truly despises Spain because of the Inquisition etc. I've heard defenses such as "We saved the 'indians' from the Aztecs actually", "The Americans were worse, our queen prohibited slavery", and "They weren't a colony, they were a territory" - I've actually gone into that detail with one Spanish man, and he seemed utterly convinced that there is a difference between 'colony' and 'territory' - but if I understand correctly, that difference is the fact that Spanish people went to live in the Americas for the sake of living there - it wasn't *only* for the sake of exploitation. Which sounds to me like a really bad excuse, because that's the same thing that happened to the United States, which absolutely were a colony until they kicked the British out and declared independence. You still murdered and tortured a whole bunch of indigenous people... just like the Belgians, the Dutch, and the rest of our ancestors did.
So I'm really curious how exactly this part of your history is explained in your schools, as I've never gone to school here in Spain and I don't know any school-aged children here. Like, do your teachers tell you that the rest of the world hates you, or that you're worse than everyone else, for people to grow up so defensive about it? Or is that defensiveness rather a reaction of your families when you learn this stuff in school, in the same way my father says that King Leopold II "made Belgium better off because we were really poor before" and that what I was taught in school about the bad part of that was exaggerated?
@@trishapellis the people shitting on us is not the rest of the world, mainly LATAM people on the internet, which I've seen saying they would've been better off if the British took over the region, and usually when I bring the British colonization up is because I can't stand US citizens shitting on Spain even though they did far worse things (although in this case I think Robin is from Australia). Furthermore, we didn't really exterminate them, but we mostly used them so they killed themselves because the different civilizations living there were already hostile to each other (and there's also the diseases part, but that was an accident)
@@trishapellis hey, argentinian here! :)
I can't really speak about Spain's education with the colonization but what I understand is that the point of view depends on who you'd ask, because here you would be taught that they slaved and killed many indigenous persons. Sometimes they told them (in Spanish, a language they didn't know) that they should agree to be baptized or they would be slaved/killed with their families.
I don't really know how they are Taught this topic in Spain tho,but I'm sure they'll probably have a different view. Also a lot of the hate of LATAM persons is mostly in a humorous tone, could be based on stereotypes, or it's just to piss off some Spanish pricks. (Also English isn't my mother language so there's a lot of errors) Hope this helps ^^
@@darknessdragon270 Robin is American. Jack is the Aussie.
2:55 Alexander: Will I ever be able to not give a f*** as much as Diogenes
Diogenes: A little to the left, you're blocking the sun
I find it funny that this line of inspiration from Alexander to Hitler was all caused because some guy told Alexander to move out of the way.
@@IkeFanBoy64 Not just some guy, a freed slave living in a bathtub on the street that liked stray dogs more than people.
@@NamelessKing1597 true, but still. You get what I mean
@@IkeFanBoy64 Yeah, I just think that detail makes it even funnier, the one man that the most powerful man of his time looks up to is some homeless guy.
16:20 just wanna point out, 2 weeks vacation is generally considered a pretty low amount in a lot of the western developed world... those aren't great benefits! In fact the legal minimum in most European countries is 28 days, double that.
Maybe i should move to Europe :,)
So basically, the vast majority of the ancient Egyptian population were farmers and earnt their living during the harvesting season when the water of the Nile rises to fertilise the black land. Because they could only do their jobs for about 3 months a year, they needed to survive the other 9. Because of this the pharaoh would build villages as essentially company towns, feed the people and generally take care of them while they worked on the pyramids. They weren’t paid though (Egypt didn’t even have an economic system for the vast majority of the time aside from exchanging wheat or other agricultural products for something else), so they were technically considered slaves. In fact, the pharaoh really valued the builders and they would eventually be buried in tombs pretty much right next to the pyramids themselves which was considered a massive honour.
The one about jesters is fairly accurate, but they still had to be tactful and make sure what they said was actually FUNNY and didn't upset the king TOO much. But yeah, jesters could even get land to own if they did a really good job.
You know, part of me wonders how 0:31 would have panned out, given the time the plans were drafted.
As far as I've heard, my fellow Canadians are like different people in the theatre of war, and a Canadian in combat is something to be feared.
Also this one part of a plan for with the British empire of which Canada was apart, each sub plan was given a code of various shades of red except for war plan orange which was a war plan for Japan as Britain had been an ally of theirs for roughly 20 years at that point
Edit: Yes Canadians soldiers have a reputation for extreme actions in war, if something was outlawed under the Geneva Convention I’ll bet 20 buck a Canadian was the first to do it
Canadians are nice, but if you mess with them, they will fight back. They fought in kilts and still won their fights. In the cold.
They also burnt down the white House and apparently warned the president at the time before showing up. I think no one got hurt due to the warning, thankfully.
In both world wars, Canadian soldiers were known to be some of the most dangerous soldiers. If germans saw canadian crests, they’d throw down their weapons and surrender without even fighting. At one point a Canadian sergeant captured 20 german soldiers from a bunker, alone. Canadians really are a fearsome foe. Also, our landscape is rugged and difficult, with not many roads between major cities, and our winters, which last for upwards of 50% of the year, are brutal.
@@PigborgAs a Canadian why was I never taught in school how intense Canadians were during war? >. >;;
@@lampylightbulbIf you were taught the Geneva convention you were. The general joking consensus is that half of said suggestion is simply things Canada can't do anymore. On a more serious note its probably for the some reason that us Americans among which I am sadly a part aren't really taught about the Japanese american concentration camps or the various prisons and detention centers in our wars in the Middle East. You don't talk about your warcrimes because otherwise you could be held accountable.
We live in a world where 'people may have treated workers better in the past' sounds like BS
16:58 In ancient Greece and Rome, “orgies” were just cultic festivals dedicated to a god or goddess. They got the sexual connotation because dome of Dionysis’ followers, the Maenads or Bacchantes, were thought to engage in lesbian sex during these rituals.
Damn, they really know how to party
In WWII the US actually was so hooked on ice cream in the Pacific we had literal ice cream barges. That's right, two concrete refrigerated barges the navy would tow along with it whose sole purpose was to make ice cream for the military.
Pirates were fairly docile. As long as you complied they left you alone. For example the most common pirate ship was a sloop because it was small and fast. Usually it was outfitted with a few small caliber cannons. The job was to scare a ship into surrendering so you could get the valuables. Destroying a ship and/or killing/injuring the crew was a no no because as word got around you would be seen as something another ship would have to fight for their survival, or worse, draw the wrath of whichever government force was nearest you. Thievery is one thing, murder is another
5:40 This is in reference to the guy who tried to assassinate Regan. He believed that killing him would get the actress's attention and would make her like him.
Somebody tried to assassinate Regan Paul Gascoigne? I'm a huge Dancing on Ice fan and I never heard of this? Shame on me, I guess.
Lol, I guess specifying the U.S. President Ronald Regan wouldn't hurt
Fun fact:- 7:37 the photograph who shot the photo actually lost an eyeball from this explosion.
16:13 Americans think 2 weeks paid vacation is "great" ? Jeez.
It's not?
@@cloudtaker633it's actually super not. French people are paid leave of 2.5 days off each month of actual work. Five full weeks, up to 30 days off, for the full year of work. That doesn't the include national holidays, 11 days.
They also tend to work more like 35 hours a week, not 40.
Germany is similar and I bet a lot of other countries are as well.
Americans are apparently known for working themselves to death for no reason.
@@cloudtaker633 Double that is the _minimum_ where I live.
Italian here. 30 paid days plus National holidays (i think we are around 10) and any sick day you Need. Plus a 36-40 hours week. It's not the best for workers rights as a country but still good.
18:34 - Nothing, they weren’t given medicine even though they were told they were. The experiment was to study the long term effects of Syphilis when untreated.
12:39 Not-so-fun fact: It almost wasn’t a teacher that was a guest on the Challenger.
Their first idea for a guest was Big Bird. From Sesame Street. Actor, costume, and all. Imagine how the timeline would’ve changed if Big Bird’s consume had actually fit on the shuttle, and the actor and prop had gone up in smoke with the shuttle. Imagine how Sesame Street’s story would’ve dealt with that!
I had a science teacher who was the second place runner up to go on the challenger space shuttle
I saw a good video about how if the big bird plans went through then they likely would've had enough time to fix the problem
Pharaohs were god kings so in a way everyone was their slave. That said, they were paid to build monuments during the flooding season (except sometimes they forced them to work through harvest and planting season too which I'm sure you can imagine how well that went). But they were essentially "forced" to build them ultimately.
Wrong. The people who built the monuments WORSHIPPED the pharaoh.
It was also a logical step to find employment for the people at times when little to no work was available (the flood season agriculture being highly seasonal), feed and pay the people to build giant monuments rather than have them revolt
1:51 I believe is in reference to The Station nightclub fire. One of the bouncers, despite a whole freaking burning building, would not let people escape out an exit since they weren’t band members (whose pyrotechnics were the direct cause of the fire when it lit noise insulation foam). 100 people were killed.
Edit: someone with a camera recorded the whole incident from start to finish and it really puts fire safety and the dangers of fires into perspective. It is harrowing so please watch at your own discretion.
Oh I've got a brand new shiny helmet, and a pair of kinky boots
I've got a lovely new flak jacket and a lovely kahki suit
And when we go on night patrol we hold each other's hands
We are the British army and we're here to take your land
-the chorus of Kinky Boots, an Irish rebel song by The Irish Brigade
That's pretty funny tho XD
11:23 I’m the guy that gets wrecked as soon as the door opens, like the moment that thing drops I am immediately getting owned
Same. Hence why you always throw down a smoke grenade as soon as the door opens so your squad doesn't get wiped.
I would have been on a boat that sank
4:03 Well, some of the pirates were pretty polite and well-behaved, as a lot of them were: innocently accused, immigrants, slaves, women, queer people - just outcasts of all kinds.
I think you can safely realize though that 'group of outlaws' would also brin in the worst filth of humanity, too.
11:35 if I was a soldier landing on normandy, I would of been one those poor bastards that stepped on a land mine in the water the second I get out of the boat, killing me and everyone else on the craft.
18:22 This is truly dark, they basically took an African American community told them that they will be treating them for syphillis, but give them nothing but placebos and document the affect it had on the body.
Jester only had reign to insult the monarchy and nobility if they were funny. If they weren't funny they'd likely be executed.
on the topic of pirates:
the East India Company hired a group of privateers (state sponsored pirates, basically) as part of their ship crew on their first journey to the East Indies (now Indonesia), except instead of landing, they found a Portuguese ship, robbed it, and took the spices they got from the Portuguese home and sold it for about £1000000
11:46 You really don’t understand that Browning is basically gun Jesus to gun fanatics.
He was literally the US equivalent to Kalashnikov (or vice versa, I dunno)
15:36 a battlecruiser is an actual type of warship that was basically an up-armed heavy cruiser that was larger than a normal heavy cruiser but had less armor than battleships which made them more maneuverable.
13:19
I am of Spanish descent, and the longer I live the more angry I am by how evil some of my ancestors were.
1:52 This is referencing The Station Nightclub Fire. A horrible fire that killed 100 and injured double that amount. There was a Rock band playing and the pyrotechnics set fire to the sound insulation that was extremely flammable. There were no sprinklers installed, accessible fire exits, etc. Crowd crush ensued.
Unfortunately this entire incident from start to finish was recorded and viewable online.
The meme is referencing that there was another exit door that the band was able to use, but survivors claimed the bouncer would not let anyone through BUT the band. If true it likely was responsible for numerous of these deaths.
TLDR: Gross Negligence and a Stupid Bouncer kill Many
8:37 They actually did make it, it’s a pretty amazing story. Shackleton’s voyage I believe, on the Endurance
Rusty Shackleton? I love that guy!
15:34 Morale is important for troops because it keeps them motivated enough to keep fighting & doing whatever other deplorable commands they’ve been given.
So of course a few were station just for ice cream!
Yeah, the only way I’d be making it to the beach on D-day is if my riddled corpse got washed up there by the waves after I got shot immediately after the doors opened and I had to be pushed into the water so as not to be in the way.
Fun fact: big bird was a real candidate suggested to go on this rocket 12:43
6:16 You wrap yarn around it to weave gloves. It was used primarily in Britain where they needed lots of woolen gloves.
5:50 Yeah, John Hinckley shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster
Pharaohs making sure that the builders building the Pyramids are well paid and accomodated mostly because even to this day if a builder died when building, the building can be haunted.
Imagine 500 Thousand Dead Slaves haunting the Pyramid you built, which is literally your grand Grave.
17:00 Context: During the D-day landings, the USS Texas was tasked with bombarding the enemy from offshore while the allies advanced. At a certain point in the battle, the allies had pushed the enemy so far inland that the Texas couldn't reach them, so they moved the ship as close to the shore as they could before flooding all the balast tanks on one side, causing the entire ship to list to one side to allow the guns to shoot higher. Yes, they gangster leaned a 32,000 ton battleship by sinking half of it in order for it's guns to have better range.
I love history!!!!! Its so wholesome and everybody got along!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone was always nice to each other!!!!
9:50 - And now you know where the phrase "white elephant" comes from!
We have a pretty big underground parking lot in Genova. And my dad told me that because of this law on preserving antique relics and buildings they had to stop building. And one part of the wall is an ancient Roman wall. You can't tear it down if it's historical. In some cases you have to hire professionals to restore the antique part to the best shape it can be. Then we have idiots carving their name in the colloseum because he didn't think it was that old. Like sure buddy. Enjoy your prison time and fine.
2:48 So that's how you beat that boss I've been struggling to beat that boss. Thanks for the tip, I will keep my eyes on it. 👍
7:33 this was a disaster because of the fact that they were steam locomotives. There's a lot in common between a boiler and a blockbuster fragmentation bomb. There's a lot of energy in a metal container that likes to rupture catastrophically... but blockbuster bombs do it intentionally.
Pirates generally relied on terror to get their way. If everyone shut up and did what they said it was all cool, but if you resisted they'd make sure the rest of the crew told horror stories to their great grand children about what happened next
5:13 Jesters are the world's oldest stand up comedians. Like the late great Gorge Carlin, they would use their platform to educate everyone. Even the leaders learned from them sometimes, back when them not listening, ended with 500 angry peasants storming your castle and decapitating you as all your 50 royal guards stand there NOT defending you. Because they're, I dunno, outnumbered 10 to 1 maybe.
18:35 It was pretty much, more syphilis...
18:40 syphilis, Robin. They were given syphilis.
I’m not exactly sure what happened with the “i want to impress this girls by assassinating the president” guy but i know that American Dad did a what if episode where Stan goes back in time and prevents that from happening.
David Hinckley Jr. tried to kill Reagan to impress Jodie Foster
Don't throw rocks at Robin, you wont get a second bird
Love this subreddit, because I get to pause every five seconds to learn something new!
Not only is the M2 browning still in service and probably will be for another 50-100 years but it has done every single job a gun can do.
The „the sun could talk back then“ really got me good
Loving the new subreddits lately
Didn't know Sun Tzu was a epic gamer
06:15
That there is SCP-184, a Euclid-class anomaly that, ironically enough, is capable of transforming the interior of any structure into a complex non-Euclidean labyrinth.
10:06 has to do with Japan’s Unit 731 who committed notorious wars crimes while conducting experiments on the Chinese, Korean, Mongolian and allied prisoners. Any of the prisoners who were still alive toward the end of WW2 were executed. Despite this, the unit was pardoned by America and Japan hasn’t apologized for what they did during the war. They didn’t even acknowledge it until the late 80s.
I won’t get into all they did, but this in particular is a reference to their tests on dehydration to see how much water was in the human body. There was a video claiming they dehydrated them in convection ovens and essentially made jerky to feed to other prisoners. Not sure about that, but wouldn’t be surprised all things considered.
What war crime did Japan not commit during WW2?
Canada wasn’t looking at the USA like that, Canada has similar plans
plenty of military leaders throughout history have made all kinds of blunders so what Sun Tzu said actually makes perfect sense, you might think taking the high ground is common sense, but some people think their opponents underestimate their power
18:35 IS THAT A JOJO REFECRENCE
2:50 "...I need a new dress AND NO MERCHANT HAS PASSED BY FOR YEARS!"
XD
10:19 Adams, however, did sign into the Butler Acts, a series of highly restrictive laws that pretty much defied the First Amendment
The Naha stone weighs about 7000 pounds. If I were a native Hawaiian in the 1700s and I saw someone flip a 7000 pound rock I would immediately switch to his side because no way in hell am I gonna fight someone who can flip me and my extended family and a car at the same time.
Cowboy Bebop - We're gonna make some changes. - Worst. Adaptation. Ever.
One Piece - Same studio - We're gonna make some changes - Creator "NO!! Leave it alone!" - Awesomeness ensues.
18:17 This is common myth, the red army almost always had enough guns for it's soldiers, that gun might be older than you are, but you'd get something. It is true that civilian militia members in Stalingrad often didn't have guns, so there's a small grain of truth to the story, but not on any meaningful scale during the war. They would also arm entire infantry companies with ppsh 41s which had 71 round magazines and fired at close to 900 rpm. Must of felt like it was raining bullets sideways to be on the receiving end of that.
it's not even like the old guns were substantially worse or anything, the mosin nagant is still used today. the "only half the soviets got guns" myth is just that- nothing more than surface level cold war propaganda
18:35 They were given aspirin for their syphillis, despite penicillin being recommended and available.
John Moses Browning was a firearms genius. He patented 128 firearms and worked on firearm design to his last day. Literally; he passed away from heart failure at 77 while working on what would eventually become the modern Browning Hi-Power pistol.
The people who built the pyramids were very much the exception, not the norm. They were respected members of society, and were paid in beer. On the other hand, slaves built the cities commoners lived in.
18:54 and then you got Adrian Carton de Wiart and his book happy odyssey about how he got shot to shit and still wanted to fight in WW1, he was called the unkillable soldier and by the end of WW1 he had lost his middle and ring fingers on his left hand, later losing his entire left hand, before WW1 losing his eye in the boer wars, so he wore an eye patch throughout WW1, oh and did I mention that his superiors didn't want him to do this because he was an officer and they "didn't want the fritz to think they were sending out blind officers" so he was forced to wear a glass eye but as soon as he got on the train to go to the western front, he tossed it out the side of the train, he also went on to fight in and survive WW2 making me think there could be a possibility of adrian carton de wiart could have met or knew mad jack churchill
Same guy also was quoted saying he enjoyed the war. That guy was definitely born to be a soldier.
Can't wait for Robin to make a new Merch vid to persuade us to buy more merch, cuz the first time I saw it I had to buy something for the laughs 😂
Regarding imperial Japan, I seem to remember that the reason we know that the body is 70% water is because of the unit 731
I had a quick google of why
and holy shit unspeakable horrors did Japan do.
3:10 Oh Christ I know that song. My grandfather on my mother's side used to sing it. They're Barbadian but Barbados used to be a British colony. I only remember 2 lines:
Goering, has only got one ball
Himmler, has two but very small
Something like that. It's funnier the drunker you are.
I was under the impression it was hitler who had one ball
_Hitler, has only got one ball_
_Goering, has two but very small_
_Himmler, is rather similar,_
_But poor old Goebbels, has no balls, at all!_
no way, my fav reddit post reader reading history memes? dude, this amazing.
18:35
YOU DID NOT JUST REFERENCE EMMESIS BLUE OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE THAT!
BASED!!!
Never heard of Storm of Steel. But I have seen the original movie for All Quiet on the Western Front. I learned that many who worked on the movie were real WWI vets.
USS Texas: To Angle their guns higher than designed, they intentionally flooded the torpedo blisters on the opposite side of the ship! Cajones...