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[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve seen this memed so much I don’t even remember the real line from the film.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She says "Wolfie's just fine."

Incidentally a Canadian guy who made comedy videos under his real name Jon LaJoie put his serious music under the name Wolfie's Just Fine

https://youtu.be/yYHFAHldg_8

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did not know the show me your genitalia guy ever did anything else

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I like his song about starting as a baby

https://youtu.be/fAWvvE9w6Po

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Terminator asks John if he has pets, John says no, Terminator then asks John's mom about the dog, Wolfie. She says Wolfie is fine, blowing the T-1000's cover.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, the dog is barking in the background and he asks what’s the dog’s name. John responds β€œMax,” and then the terminator says he can hear wolfie barking and the foster mom responds that wolfie is fine.

https://youtu.be/MT_u9Rurrqg

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have a dog and the T800 asks the name and John says Max (iirc). Then the T800 asks what's wrong with Wolfie, using a fake name to trick the T1000

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Blackout@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone knows it was government inefficiency. If only they had an Elon Musk to ~~steal their money~~ fix everything.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

On one hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was legendary and that virtueless cretins like Musk probably would've had a field day.

On the other hand, I want to say that Roman corruption was so ill-defined, government and economics so intertwined, and politicking so cutthroat and capricious that incompetent cretins like Musk probably would've ended up exiled to some Gr*ekoid rock in the Aegean Sea.

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd argue it's was Heraclius, when he adopted the title of Basileus. \s

But then again, that's just where I am on my listen through of History of Byzantium

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’d argue it’s was Heraclius, when he adopted the title of Basileus. \s

~~This but unironically~~

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice one!

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

The Romans

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Overextension of empire then?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

More like an internal decay. Like a tooth rotting from the inside out. Bigger or smaller makes little difference - it's the internal dysfunction which drives it until a crushing, agonizing collapse.

A lot of issues are involved. Government instability and lack of legitimacy. Economic decline and irrational economic behavior. Hardening of a corrupt plutocracy into an intransigent aristocracy with independent power bases. Detachment of the population from the core civic identity of the state. Immense incompetence and nepotism in a period of increasingly centralized and bureaucratic control over society. It goes on and on.

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Victor Pelevin, a Russian postmodern writer, explained the dissolution of USSR a very zen way: "USSR became so perfect that it stopped existing". Same could be said about the Roman Empire.