Cripple. History Major. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSapphic polyrule
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    1 day ago

    An old joke

    Question: What does a lesbian bring on a second date?

    Answer: A U-Haul.

    It is considered a staple of lesbian humor.[5] It is often attributed to comic Lea DeLaria,[6][7] who claimed in her 1997 comedy album, Box Lunch, that she had written it in 1989 — in the album, she gets the audience to yell back the punchline, showing it was already well-known at the time of recording.[8]

    As there are numerous U-Hauls involved here, clearly it’s a polycule


























  • No, no, I enjoy discussing such things!

    Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations were not released during his lifetime - they were his, well, private meditations. It wasn’t a call for the citizens of the Empire to be obedient - there is a fascinating tradition of Emperors doing that, but it uses very different phrasing and is typically divorced from the Greek philosophical tradition that Aurelius drew upon when writing the Meditations. You find many other Emperors exhorting the citizenry to be dutiful and loyal to the Roman state, but Aurelius and Julian the Apostate are the only ones with serious philosophical inclinations that they express in their writings. I don’t think it’s too bizarre to think that, out of some 500 years of rulers, two were genuinely interested in and proficient with philosophy.