@pzmyers Good roads.

@pzmyers All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

@pzmyers hey @noelle , you made pharyngula! :P

@pzmyers by getting too big to fail quickly, so that when the inevitable rot set in it took hundreds of years for everything to fall apart

@pzmyers heh, always nice to see content from mastodon being shared widely.

@pzmyers that's a fantastic comment by cartonmancer, who clearly explains the difference between the Greeks and the Romans of antiquity, and their way of living by distinguishing how they kept their time.