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by neaden 4y ago
There is a tendency to look back on midevil punishments as barbaric, but it's worth noting that they probably would consider our practice of locking people up for years, sometimes alone for 23 hours a day, as bizarre and cruel.
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by neaden 4y ago
Well he has also been dead for 75 years, so people are less concerned with his personal beliefs and actions.
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by neaden 4y ago
Yeah Moscow sometimes referred to as Third Rome by people who view it as the continuation. The Holy Roman Empire would have of course differed as the Kaiser (also Caesar derived) similarly counted himself as the continuation of the Roman Em
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by neaden 4y ago
How much of a business profit comes from people getting drunk though? One serious drinker might spend as much a small group of people just enjoying a beer or two.
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by neaden 4y ago
Because the great eagles were proud and would have been tempted by the ring, and even if they weren't the Nazgul have their fellbeasts and Orcs have bows so they would have been attacked.
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by neaden 4y ago
Middle Earth doesn't have Christianity, and indeed the books really lack any real discussion of religion. God exists and so do angels, but there are no clergy or real religious rituals.
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by neaden 4y ago
You know we know exactly who killed JFK and it's not controversial by anyone who seriously looks into it right?
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by neaden 4y ago
At the end of the day basically all jobs little kids dream about (actor, doctor, astronaut, making video games) are either really hard to get into (like doctor) or pay very poorly for the majority of people (like actor and making video game
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by neaden 4y ago
This all depends on if you think a grade at school A should be directly comparable to school B.
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by neaden 4y ago
I think this goes to a question of what we mean when we say science. If someone has knowledge of where all the stars are and their movements, but thinks of those stars as gods and believes that their movements affect sickness on Earth, is t
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by neaden 4y ago
I work with healthcare data for a living, and the idea of the vast amount of suffering my data represents is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Each row represents what is often the worst day of someone's life, or their
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1M Deaths, 13 Last Mesaages(nytimes.com)
8 points by neaden 4y ago|1 comments
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by neaden 4y ago
Right but this is discussing ethically disturbing experiments, and volunteers freely doing dangerous things is not at all comparable.
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by neaden 4y ago
They were cousins.
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by neaden 5y ago
Chicago didn't defund the police. The current mayor Lightfoot is a former US Attorney who's previous position was chairing the Chicago Police Board and she has increased the police budget consistently.
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by neaden 5y ago
While I agree with you about Plato, I think you are underestimating our other sources on Socrates. The historian Xenephon was also one of his students and talked about him in his works, including Socrates' trial and death. The playwrig
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by neaden 5y ago
Humans actually have very little genetic diversity. Compared to Chimpanzees we are all closely related. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2012-03-02-chimps-show-much-greate... Or dogs which are all one species despite having m
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by neaden 5y ago
"We have no evidence that humans and chimps can have children, and it has probably been tried. " Indeed Ilya Ivanov spent a lot of time and money trying to do just that, with no success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by neaden 5y ago
The amount of Ergot tainted grain you would need to consume to have hallucinations would mean you would be very sick. It wouldn't be an otherwise healthy person hallucinating, but a very ill delirious person.
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by neaden 5y ago
Great flood maybe, but we don't have any actual proof that Atlantis was some ancient legend vs something Plato just made up and said he heard from someone else since there are no previous accounts of it before him.
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The Grief of 1M Covid Deaths Is Not Going Away(theatlantic.com)
7 points by neaden 5y ago|0 comments
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by neaden 5y ago
Yeah based on the article I think the racism was a feature, not a bug.
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by neaden 5y ago
People don't owe you free stuff in your preferred format. It's on Twitter presumably because the author likes to put stuff on Twitter.
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by neaden 5y ago
For refference, here is the opening of Beowulf written in English about a thousand years ago: "Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþ
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by neaden 5y ago
I think the danger here is that some bacteria can produce toxins that are dangerous to humans that won't be destroyed by a 10 minute boil.
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by neaden 5y ago
The chess thing was based on a misconception. Someone measured chess players heart rate and saw that it was increased, then compared that pulse rate to athletes training and basically said they must be burning as many calories since they ha
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by neaden 5y ago
The thing is it only takes one person to kill you.
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by neaden 5y ago
Well hope you don't need to be hospitalized for any other reason then because the beds might be full, there probably won't be enough providers because of burn out, and costs will be going up. We are nearing a collapse of our medic
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by neaden 5y ago
Middle class in England used to mean wealthy but without any actual title. Since the US lacks entitled people (meant in a literal way) there was no one for the term upper class to apply too, so I think everything else just had to move aroun
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by neaden 5y ago
Who is the you in this instance? The typical person in this time period lived in a small rural village, their water would have been fetched from a well, stream, or other source by themself or another family member. If you are dealing with a

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