Atomic Silver Away!

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

We also have seen several societies collapse in the past couple centuries, and none have resulted in a higher quality of life.

Take human height, which archaeologists often turn to as a biophysical indicator of general health. “We can look at things like did they have cavities in their teeth, did they have bone lesions,” Kemp explained. “Skeletal remains are a good indicator of how much exercise people were getting, how good their diet was, whether there was lots of disease.” “Societal collapse, though invariably catastrophic for elites, has often proved to be a boon for the population at large.” Facebook Twitter Email Prior to the rise of Rome, for example, average heights in regions that would subsequently fall under its yoke were increasing. As the empire expanded, those gains stalled. By the end of the Western Empire, people were eight centimeters shorter than they would have been if the preceding trends had continued. “The old trope of the muscle-bound Germanic barbarian is somewhat true. To an Italian soldier, they would have seemed very large,” Kemp said. People in the Mediterranean only started to get taller again following Rome’s decline. (In a striking parenthesis, Kemp points out that the average male height today remains two centimeters shorter than that of our Paleolithic forebears.)

Population Estimates (in millions) at specified times 500-1450 AREA 500 650 1000 1340 1450 Greece/Balkans 5 3 5 6 4.5 Italy 4 2.5 5 10 7.3 Spain/Portugal 4 3.5 7 9 7 Total - South 13 9 17 25 19 France/Low countries 5 3 6 19 12 British Isles 0.5 0.5 2 5 3 Germany/Scandinavia 3.5 2 4 11.5 7.3 Total - West/Central 9 5.5 12 35.5 22.5 Slavia. 5 3 ---Russia 6 8 6 ---Poland/Lithuania 2 3 2 Hungary 0.5 0.5 1.5 2 1.5 Total -East 5.5 3.5 9.5 13 9.3

maybe people grew bigger because they had more to eat because the population of Europe fell by on the order of 30-40 percent sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/pop-i...

gaddamn that was some razor thin margins. Turns out our votes do matter in this town.

Fuckin' hell this was a close one. Let's see what we can do!

Smart money's on it.

Ok, I mean if you ask them they will tell you that Wolverine isn't real, but they still engage with media without any understanding that fiction is created for a purpose.

Curiosity is not the defacto base, it needs to be reinforced and rewarded by the local and familial culture. Sure, a small percentage of nerds always exist. But how long do you stay a nerd if you are never taught to read?

Be cooler if we weren't fighting a war on two fronts, though.

I'm a middle age man and I'm still about 23% sure I'm just one good training montage away from being Batman.

Same with any screenplay. The character that's in your head isn't going to be the character the actor sees, it's a collaboration. The friction makes the fire.

We have to get rid of billionaires, one way or another. We can't have a normal society with people like this with the kind of power they have.

That has to be related to the fact that you encounter people on a daily basis who cannot distinguish fiction from reality.

They watch movies and they treat what they're viewing as a documentary of events that happened to a guy they've never met.
They also treat the news the same way.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

"Are you looking at my angel wife, heretic?"

AI is the nuclear arms of the information age. Until a city gets vaporized, no one in charge will take warnings seriously.

Starting to think the media illiteracy crisis has gotten to the point where a significant portion of the population no longer understands what fiction is

I was literally just thinking about S2. It really felt like they needed another 6 months of rewrites and they'd get there.

It's because their whole ideology is based on hierarchy. By making them look like dorks, you diminish their status.

We never properly dealt with the fact there are two radically incompatible moral systems with power in the US. Just a 150 year long truce.

Yep, it's inevitable in first past the post voting.

I've given DSA shit in the past, but now I realize their only failing is not existing 20 years earlier.

I wanted a Harris win just because we needed more time to shore up our defenses. But here we are now.

My expectations were in the gutter for Schumer, and he still failed.

I hace nothing hopeful to follow that up with, and I tried.

Weak.

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Do not sell our blood and hunger for nothing.

Yeah, read that again. They are effectively immune of they are conducting 'reasonably' within their orders.

Read up on how courts define 'reasonable conduct' for every other law enforcement.

"But I'm sad all the time."
Yes, your ancestors were sadder, they just called it 'accidents ' when they killed themselves.

Anti-intellectuals, but with terminally online leftist flavors.

one of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4

www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...

Anarchist theory stays completely devoid of power and incapable of siezing it.

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

They are wise to hide in their fortresses.