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Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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One reason whites live at low altitude in mountainous South America is that they don't suffer so many difficulties carrying pregnancies to term. The natives are better adapted to local conditions.

Doesn't really apply here, as the lake side to homes a bit higher up is maybe <100m. IIRC 1600 - 1700. That difference is not effecting anyone.

Fair enough.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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You also don't need to worry about 90% of the web, either. ;)

Good thing the 10% that actually matters doesn't require JS. If your content is actually important, it'll be accessible without JS.

You guys dont use Google Docs, Netflix, or Youtube?

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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They'd probably call it Über-See over there.

I realize you’re joking, but Übersee is a german word that denotes everything across the ocean. (Der See => the lake. Die See => the ocean)

Ah yes, I'm a native German speaker, but it hadn't occurred to me that "Übersee" does indeed mean "Overseas". It's a different meaning for both "über" and "see" than I had in mind.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Good thing the 10% that actually matters doesn't require JS. If your content is actually important, it'll be accessible without JS.

Yup, Basically the only website I have JS enabled on is my Bank. All other stuff I have no need to enable it.

Be honest with yourself -- are you a representative sample of most people?

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Good thing the 10% that actually matters doesn't require JS. If your content is actually important, it'll be accessible without JS.

You guys dont use Google Docs, Netflix, or Youtube?

Not surprisingly, I don't use 2 of those things. I find YouTube to be too much of a distraction so I've gotten rid of it. I don't use google docs because it's too slow (in comparison with native word processors.) and I don't have a google account. Netflix, I watch on my Amazon fire. :)

Edit: oops the rest of my comment contradicted my first part.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Yup, Basically the only website I have JS enabled on is my Bank. All other stuff I have no need to enable it.

Be honest with yourself -- are you a representative sample of most people?

Honestly, I'm probably not. But what does that matter? I save bandwidth and don't have to be annoyed by a lot of ads.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

#67

Pedantic quibbling: is "ancient societies" a proper designation for 15th century Europe?

I have heard people discuss 19th century America as an "ancient society". Personally I'm all for calling anything between the Sumerians and the last Pharaoh of Egypt ancient but then the Denisovans and Neanderthals feel left out.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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Our ancestors were not dumb people. This is terrifying as it didn't happen just once, but multiple times. We have a working model here. "If you see me, you will weep. So low was the water in 2018."

I get the feeling that droughts have happened before, are happening now, and will happen again; and we are just not able as humans to control the climate. In fact I found this study that proves that history does repeat. https://www.clim-past.net/9/1985/2013/cp-9-1985-2013.pdf Thankfully, due to technological advancement though - it is nowhere near as damaging as it once was - in fact now these are barely a blip on th…

I get the feeling that droughts have happened before, are happening now, and will happen again; and we are just not able as humans to control the climate.

Great! Hope you're not wrong. The vast majority of people who are in the best positions to know think you are.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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> "Neplac holka, nenarikej, kdyz je sucho, pole strikej." (Don't cry, girl, don't fret. When it's dry, just spray your field wet.) Is this some weird Czech euphemism?

Nope. Native Czech speaker here. The style is akin to a nursery rhyme or an old folk song. It doesn't carry any hidden meanings. A better English translation might be "..spray the field wet". The pronoun "your" is not present in the Czech phrase.

Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop

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You guys dont use Google Docs, Netflix, or Youtube?

Not surprisingly, I don't use 2 of those things. I find YouTube to be too much of a distraction so I've gotten rid of it. I don't use google docs because it's too slow (in comparison with native word processors.) and I don't have a google account. Netflix, I watch on my Amazon fire. :) Edit: oops the rest of my comment contradicted my first part.

Same, on my laptop I run OpenBSD. Like you, I don't care for Youtube but if I do find myself wanting to watch a video there, I use youtube-dl. I also don't do Google, and instead of a word processor I use a text editor for just about any text manipulation; if I need "pretty printing" I use Markdown and send the output to a PDF. Netflix I get through my TV's Netflix app, or my Fire tablet.
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