That is certainly a theory in modern poli sci that seems to have some truth to it (if for no other reason than making war more expensive makes it less appealing), but that theory is talking about between states. The roman empire was characterized much more by internal rather than international trade.   

This is a great piece of writing.

I think you might be getting the causality flipped there. Not so much a case of “trade makes peace” as “massive state investment in infrastructure and the army makes trade.”  

TIL “Sod Poodles”

Can I enter on behalf of a hungry polar bear?

Also rhubarb leaves.

Look what you’ve started, we’ll never scape the puns.

I had a liquid nitrogen sorbet thing done table side once that was both entertaining and delicious.

Bettman enjoys playing the villain I think.

Give any other omnivore the psychical and mental tools to run a dairy and they would too. Hell, put some milk in a bowl in front of a dog, most of them will drink it.

Setting aside the whole natural/unnatural false dichotomy, I also don’t get the vegan/vegetarian foods that are trying to imitate normal food. They’re pretty uniformly terrible.

Kind of sounds like it doesn’t it?

Agriculture has caused lots of health problems, it doesn’t mean we should give it up.  

Which is too bad. I’d really like to go back to the west. It’s probably just a result of playing too much Fallout 2 as a kid, but I like the western settings better. 

Yeah, anyone who thinks that people and groups like this are going to stop with their current targets has been living under a rock.

To (probably) misquote George Carlin “think about how stupid the average person is. Half of them are dumber.”

Also, if you live in Texas, learn some damn Spanish.

They died how they lived...

“cheese”

Taxis and Uber/Lyft etc. are the same industry. The fact that they aren’t regulated as such is a major problem.