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Open Thread - Thurs 20 Feb 2025 - Diocletian Sez!

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 5:07am

Diocletian Sez!

In 301 AD (1700 or so years ago), the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict in an attempt to control inflation in the price of just about everything sold in the Empire. I ran across a quote from the edict* and found it appropriate to our times too. Maybe our inflation isn't that high, and maybe the powers that be have learned, with repeated lessons over and over again through time, that they can't rob the common people of everything, but, I dunno, it still seems appropriate.

File:Edict on Maximum Prices Diocletian piece in Berlin.jpg
By User:MatthiasKabel - Photographed by myself in Pergamonmuseum Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Part of the Edict's list of maximum prices from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

And We Will Stroll The Merry Way, And Jump The Hedges First

Submitted by hecate on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 1:55am

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This is Victoria Amelina. Ukrainian writer. She was my friend. Putin killed her. In a pizza parlor. July 2023.

Today, the nazi populist dictator, Trumpolini, he, sneeringly, shit, on her grave.

He will burn. Forever. In all the Hells. That have. Ever. Been.

And.

Beyond.

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