Interesting choice making Gaza so prominent and not including Jerusalem
Roman Roads (2017)
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No! Got a book or essay recommendation in particular? I'd definitely be interested. I've been thinking a lot about how the idea of "American Empire" gets dismissed as "hippie crap," but it's an extremely helpful lens for understanding what global superpowers do in the modern era, as long as you have a more flexible definition of empire than "Exactly like Rome."
I just edited my comment with a brief overview, but I also recommend checking out this lecture series, here is the one on War Machines: https://youtu.be/M7fqHn3ydzM?si=FPdw8kLA9KgKbdp9 Just a warning: Deleuze and Guattari are notoriously hard to understand and/or wordy and unclear with their writing. Some people think that makes it not worthwhile, but I think it’s absolutely full of interesting ideas.
Hmm interesting stuff. I'll give it a listen.
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#153Interesting choice making Gaza so prominent and not including Jerusalem
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Wow, cool. Thanks for sharing! I hope someone builds a web version of Mini Metro with this on top of OSM.
An example of Tokyo can be found here: https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global#subway-lightrail/octi... Schematization took around 2 minutes according to the statistics, it really doesn't look that bad.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Mini Metro is a game that has the player connecting metro stations together by routing them however they see fit. It's a minimalist network/graph game that's both relaxing and challenging. It uses loose approximations/abstractions of real world cities.https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-metro/ (highly recommended!)
I'd love to see a web map version of it based on real geography.
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#155Interesting choice making Gaza so prominent and not including Jerusalem
it's there. Aelia Capitolina.
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I wonder how long can a horse sustain that pace vs a human. Those who hike the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail), which takes 4-5 months, might do ~20 miles per day with a “zero” (rest) day every ~10 days.
The average PCT thruhike in 2012 was 152 days, or over 5 months ( https://www.pcta.org/2013/how-long-does-a-pct-thru-hike-take... ). Only skilled and experienced thruhikers are able to complete it, so there is serious selection bias in that figure as well. It's only with advancements in backpacking and outdoors tech that anyone is able to do that. I don't know why everyone in this thread seems to think titanium tent…
I was comparing hikers with horses not Romans
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#157Pretty cool. My parents grew up in small villages that are adjacent to one of these ancient roads (via Tiburtina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Tiburtina ) and the road basically still exists as a modern road. I remember driving near Pescara with my parents in the 1990s--they had not been back to Italy in 35+ years and they were trying to find their way back to their home towns. We stopped the car on the side of…
via Aemilia, now Emilia, is alive and well all the way from Milano to Rimini. It changes name a few times, mostly with additions (e.g. "Emilia Levante" to the East of Bologna, "Emilia Ponente" to the West, etc), but it's still the same road going through a billion towns and cities...
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Have you read Deleuze? from your comment here I think you would enjoy his thoughts on empires and what he called “war machines” and “the state apparatus.” Here’s a good comment on it: The TL:DR is: for D&G 'war machines' are the specific constitution, form and alignment of a state that refuses to be a state (a nomad state). It is the tools by which a state refuses to be a state. The state as we think of it relies upo…
No! Got a book or essay recommendation in particular? I'd definitely be interested. I've been thinking a lot about how the idea of "American Empire" gets dismissed as "hippie crap," but it's an extremely helpful lens for understanding what global superpowers do in the modern era, as long as you have a more flexible definition of empire than "Exactly like Rome."
> understanding what global superpowers do in the modern era, as long as you have a more flexible definition
Yeah, absolutely. I remember a certain sense of enlightenment as undergraduate when a professor laid out the way the US projects military power - not through direct land occupation and control, but through deployment of a network of semi-permanent bases from which force can be rapidly unleashed on flexible terms, as well as through "advisors" that can co-opt local armies to carry out US objectives.
Coupling that with direct and indirect shaping of cultural and economic consensus across allied nations, it's hard to define the role of northamerican states with a word different from "empire".
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#159We have a very good expert in Spain
He have this old web : https://viasromanas.net/ with very good maps and this one https://www.traianvs.net/
[Traslate to english from wikipedia] Isaac Moreno Gallo (1958- )1 is a Spanish engineer, historian and communicator.
Isaac Moreno is a Public Works technical engineer and graduate in Geography and History. He works in the Spanish Ministry of Development. He has carried out various projects to identify and study Roman infrastructure, especially Roman roads and hydraulic infrastructure. He has worked for various public administrations as a specialist in Roman engineering and carried out research on ancient technique, ancient topographical instruments and other facets related to this engineering.2
He has written several specialized books and participated, as a presenter, in television programs on Roman engineering. He maintains a YouTube channel where he publishes informative videos of his research.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Moreno_Gallo
https://www.youtube.com/@IsaacMorenoGallo
If you want to see more he have this documentary serie in full english. Called "Roman enginering"
https://youtu.be/MNU40dq5B0U?si=wbpfZa5MVG5O0oMQ
For me he is one of the greatest experts in Roman engineering in the world.
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#160Me myself maybe the only one here who used Roman Roads for effective travel. I bicycled from Finland to Yugoslavia in 1971. Roads were often just mud for tanks and lorries. But sometimes I found small roads with flat stones. Especially I remember the road between Ljubjana and Udine. There was quite wide road sections in the middle of nowhere completely paved with stones. This was the Main Roman Highway between EMONA and AQUILEIA says the map (https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/index.php?id=10717). I truly wondered who the hell has built this road, because I did not know shit about any Romans.