Amezarak

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by Amezarak 1y ago
Most of the dozens of towns in the scandals have the same perpetrators. It is a qualitatively different issue: we’re talking about organized gangs of foreign-origin perpetrators raping thousands of girls in each of these towns. This is clea
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by Amezarak 1y ago
> A small town in england had a serious problem, a group of men where grooming and hurting little girls. The exact same thing happened in dozens of English towns. It wasn't just Rotherham. This is trivially provable by simply going
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by Amezarak 1y ago
There's also no evidence for your belief that this represents unbroken oral tradition from eyewitnesses who actually saw the eruption. I also imagine you are cherry-picking what parts of the story you're taking as proof of this: a
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Oral transmission of historical events is obviously real. That doesn't mean oral transmission of this particular event for 7700 years is real. Do you also think that two men stopped the eruption by leaping into the volcano? Or that it
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by Amezarak 2y ago
There doesn't appear to be any evidence the story was passed down from the time it occurred. It's more likely the they, like other peoples throughout the world, were able to see that clearly some time in the past a major geologica
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by Amezarak 2y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/schools-drop-kill-mockingbird-requi... > The Mukilteo School Board voted unanimously to remove the book from the required reading list on Monday evening, The Everett Herald reported. > Michael
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by Amezarak 2y ago
A lot of those books received a complaint by some parents or were maybe even possibly removed from a school library in one of the thousands of schools in the US. That's what they mean by "banned." It's just a way to
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I've yet to see a "banned book" week display that wasn't almost entirely books that were required reading in high school.
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The books don't get put in storage in most places, they get thrown away. > but a classmate of mine in high school used it as effectively free pass to university libraries that you can't borrow books from when you're not s
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yet these same local libraries used to be filled with the sorts of books I'm talking about. They threw them away to replace them with DVDs of Marvel movies, the worst dreck imaginable in the children's section, and shelves and s
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Well, you don't need to think too hard about this when sites like archive.org are in legal danger, and the dream of Google Books is dead. I had not considered the "everything on the Internet is AI/SEO slop now" - that&#x
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That’s because librarians have been making a concerted effort to “deaccession” (throw them into the dumpster or send them for pulping) old books, no matter how valuable. Often this teeters into ideological territory - old books might contai
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The formal canonicalization happened later, but most people were using the almost the compilation for centuries beforehand.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Yeah, usual dates for the new Testament are all first century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible#Table_IV:_New... I think it's important to note the primary argument for even that "later" da
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This is a common theory but it's almost certainly wrong. https://www.bartehrman.com/why-is-christmas-on-december-25th... > However, upon closer examination, this theory encounters several historical and contextual c
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Maybe. That’s clearly the likely case for Norfolk. Do you know if tariffs are assessed based on the country of origin in the bill of lading? The Guardian article doesn’t answer that question. I’d suspect so since that’s how everyone is coun
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I don’t think anyone is claiming there’s secret industry on the islands. But a “data error” is probably understating it, that is what did actually appear on the bills of lading. Whether it was a bizarre innocent mistake or sort of some kind
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The Heard and McDonald Islands debacle was poorly reported on. It does have its own customs zone, it doesn’t fall under Australia. Some years, the World Bank has reported imports from the island: https://wits.worldbank.org/C
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by Amezarak 2y ago
We can agree unions should be stronger, but union jobs in America cannot compete with nonunion much cheaper labor in other countries. If you have free trade and zero Republicans the same thing happens. If the jobs go away the union doesn’t
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Manufacturing employment plummeted in the US after the 90s. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/manemp Lots of people remember the 80s and 90s being better times with quality manufacturing employment without romanticizi
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Sure, but the point is that a wide spectrum of people, particularly on the left, believed so strongly that WTO was such a net negative for the average American they were willing to violently riot over it. So when we talk about “a useful too
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by Amezarak 2y ago
A lot of Americans thought the WTO was a disaster for America. There were violent protests over it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests I think this is the root of the disconnect. A lot of people sa
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by Amezarak 2y ago
It’s not about empathy, it’s about stopping the spread of disease and parasites. This was a hard-fought battle we won decades ago, but apparently we’re re-litigating, no different than vaccines or pasteurization.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Even if we pretend the quote is real (it was invented in the 1900s), then as you suggest, Socrates might have had a point: Athens was pretty much done for as a meaningful political or even cultural entity within a couple generations of Socr
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Where are you getting ice from in 1500s Italy? The Romans had ice available even for common people. They harvested it from the mountains. Ice can be stored a surprisingly long time if kept out of sunlight and packed correctly. I know l
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I don't think anyone in 2014, let alone 2013, predicted Trump would be the leader of the Republican party in 2016. It seems a little early to make the call that nobody will fill the vacuum between now and 2028.
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The Rush letter is from 1812, not early on, and also cites many of Washington's "friends" saying the same things. It was actually fairly widely held among his contemporaries that he was a poor military leader.
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I agree that we need to break up large conglomerates and corporations, but I don’t think this is what caused the decline in media trust. The media breathlessly reporting fake stories and denying true ones did.
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> to pay for new tax cut on land ownership. There is no federal tax on land.
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The letters I linked in this thread are an interesting place to get started: Benjamin Rush to John Adams: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5755 Thomas Paine to George Washington: https:&#x2F

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