Julius Caesar’s memoir of war in Gaul makes use of VIIII, for instance. You’re right that it’s much rarer, but was still used contemporarily and in modern times.

Because “metronome” means regular measure, not regular metre.

VIIII is a valid way to write 9, though antiquated. If you look at very old clocks, you’ll see they all use this notation.

Read it as 120TB at first and my eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets.

ML = Marxist-Leninist

That’s a straight lie. ML will quickly ban you for pointing out Russian astroturfing and Russian propaganda, but they barely give a shit about anything else.

Depends on whether the person saying it is a fellow leftie or a rightwinger brainlet. To the first, it’s what you described - an anti-Marxist communist. To the second group, anyone left of Nixon.

Fuck with portals at your own peril, you never know when it’ll close.

It doesn’t, but go ahead and delude yourself.

Ok, boomer.

The trick is that you don’t actually need to do it, as we already have the functional equivalent analogue – the development of countless different religions in the past, in different regions of the globe – as evidence. If at least one of these religions were right, you would’ve expected it to show up in at least more than one region in the past, but we can clearly trace all similar religions to patterns of human migration, which strongly suggests humans created all of them out of their cultural beliefs at the time

While the quote presents a correct conclusion, it’s also problematic in that it makes a slip of logic and paints a target for fallacious rebuttal.

1. The slip of logic: one cannot conclude that no gods exist because all religions are clearly wrong – all that tells us is that none of the specific gods depicted by these religions exist. The path to disprove the existence of ALL gods must go through philosophy instead;
2. Painted target: by juxtaposing science and religion, he invites the religious nuts to perceive and treat both things as belonging to the same class of intellectual activity, i.e. the “you have your opinion and I have mine” crowd.

When you call a marxist a liberal, we know your brain is soup.

“Hurr durr, It’s bad when the US do it but it’s fine if Russia does it”

Which is a horrible choice that instead communicates lack of intelligence.

I’m a communist, you slug - of course I agree that conservatism is a cancer. The problem is that it’s written like she just learned what letters are.

We’re not in the era of blocky flip phones anymore, please don’t ever write like this woman.

Their point, obviously, is that average Joe can’t just post a picture of their feet on instagram and get money for that.

Which shows how poor your public education is. The monarchy was disbanded in Brazil in the year 1889; We still learn about it in grade school history.

It’s a fairly common title, so you should know what it is if you were born West of Turkey.