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Empires all do end and when they do they often fracture because of a built up of social discontent, but they are predicted to be ending 1000x more often than th
by esens 5y ago
Empires all do end and when they do they often fracture because of a built up of social discontent, but they are predicted to be ending 1000x more often than they end. Eventually someone calls it correctly though, and generally you only know who in hindsight.
- Joker_vD 5y agoIt's like predicting someone's death: undoubtedly one day that person will die, it's just quite hard to predict it accurately. As devil in a certain book jested, "Yes, the man is mortal, but that's half the trouble; it's that he sometimes is abruptly mortal, that's the trick!"
- kube-system 5y ago720 broken clocks might have one with the correct time on it, but that doesn’t mean it was working properly.