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I'm not arguing, there are a lot of things at play, clearly.

Did they have phones back then?

Taking the UK as an example, legislation restricting the use of children under 14 in employment was only adopted in 1933. Previously it looked more like this: https://en.wikipedia.…

Your great great grandparents didn't effectively get fined for having each child. It was quite the opposite. You make some really good points, but I feel they are a result of a gre…

Also bear in mind that the industrial revolution in the UK occurred under the British Empire, which extracted a lot of wealth and resources from its territories, usually under less…

In the short-term. Thanks for proving my point on perspective.

We're also facing a climate and pollutant crisis as a species so we seem only capable of thinking in the short term. We're not doing that well right now after only a brief period o…

It's a metaphor for a process. Calling people names like "maxxers" is unhelpful and probably against the rules here.

You might want to update yourself on what's happening in the USA too - 'Zine publisher sentenced to 50 years in prison for "material support to terrorists"': https://www.theguardia…

You need to start using LLMs a lot and then you will know how we know. Edit: You know how you can recognise someone just from their gait while they walk towards you? I would strugg…

It's called lobbying.

We weren't meant to have windows made of glass. Such items are entirely unnatural. According to pg, we must be wary of them.

Another view is that theatre is local, low-infrastructure storytelling. It's been so important to us as a species, we don't want to forget it in preference of only following storyt…

I guess I am talking about analysing the written works more than the final acted piece (e.g. a book of Sam Shepard plays vs their performance). That would be good enough, I think. …

This is a very interesting concept. I see in your replies to other comments that you are looking at movies from different cultures, which would be a great test of your idea. Once y…

Was that ever an issue for you?

Minsky, the noted Epstein associate, accused of sex with minors according to court documents, didn’t really care for self examination? Yeah that tracks.

A large part of accounting is intellectual work that rewards diligence and intelligence, but not creativity so much. A lot of QA/certification jobs are like this too. It's importan…

How is that different from "Compact Discs weren't invented, they arrived"?

There is obvious survivorship bias in the analysis throughout this article. You could reframe it as startups that succeed done have these problems - well, duh! Edit: actually the m…

Also noteworthy in Algeria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad (I think I read somewhere that Algeria has the most Roman ruins outside of Italy, although I could be mistaken)