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by growlist 6y ago
Worth pointing out that the original media itself is compromised as an accurate historical representation.
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by growlist 6y ago
IDK. Personally I think it's silly to romanticise and wax lyrical about what are - when it comes down to it - errors in the data; artefacts of the crudeness of the technology that was available when the material was created. Do we rout
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by growlist 6y ago
> Humans left Africa and began dispersing throughout the world at least 120,000 years ago Haven't recent discoveries undermined this theory?
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by growlist 6y ago
> happiness actually derives from having cats Not if you're part of the massive destruction of wildlife wrought by these biodiversity annihilators masquerading as cute pets. 'As an invasive species[1] and superpredator,[2] they
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by growlist 6y ago
Some areas are pretty much unaffected by earthquakes, like the UK.
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by growlist 6y ago
Perhaps they are using contraception because there are disincentives, and they are working.
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by growlist 6y ago
I think there is vast potential for moving all kinds of activities underground. Upfront cost is huge, but once it's done as long as it's maintained it's there for good.
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by growlist 6y ago
source?
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by growlist 6y ago
I don't understand why Western countries are not incentivising people to have children.
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by growlist 6y ago
> Japan in general is about 10 years behind the western world and in some places even more Sounds good to me Edit: because the West is such a utopia in 2020? Please...
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by growlist 6y ago
Indeed, it's the first 'popular revolution' I've ever seen that's been pushed hard as a full-spectrum propaganda war by virtually the entirety of the establishment and elite; this 'diversity' they bore on
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by growlist 6y ago
I really don't think it added the smiles etc.
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by growlist 6y ago
'“The problem with colourisation is it leads people to just think about photographs as a kind of uncomplicated window onto the past, and that's not what photographs are,” says Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Associate Professor at Universi
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by growlist 6y ago
Dick Shelby
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by growlist 6y ago
I sometimes wonder if someone at the top is trying to drive people away from TV/film/video. Yes there's more content than ever before but as regards drama etc. the writing is generally dreadful and the stories lack originalit
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by growlist 6y ago
and with higher stakes!
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by growlist 6y ago
How lovely. Is this affordable anywhere other than a petrostate?
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by growlist 6y ago
There's zero wilderness left in the UK, the less populated areas have virtually zero jobs, and the government is intent on increasing the population and destroying the countryside as a consequence. There is (deliberately?) no escape.
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by growlist 6y ago
You're completely mistaking me. Of course it's a symbiotic relationship. But if men choose not to be competitive, those men will just exclude themselves from procreation. The power is in women's hands to change it by being le
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by growlist 6y ago
If men choose not to be competitive and women don't change, those men just exclude their genes from the gene pool.
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by growlist 6y ago
The story I heard about these was that during WW2 American GIs stationed in Australia were tricked by the locals into using the leaves as a replacement for toilet paper, with predictably unfortunate results.
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by growlist 6y ago
> The UK negotiators couldn't get that there are ideas the EU isn't willing to sacrifice on the altars of commerce and capital. Well that's a very Brussels-centric picture that you paint, i.e., the glorious, righteous warr
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by growlist 6y ago
GDP only tells a very particular story - there's still vast wealth within Europe/EU. If you disagree, please travel around the swankier parts of the continent and then come back and tell me how poverty-stricken it is. It's al
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by growlist 6y ago
Well, there's a pretty good debate to be had about the worth of GDP. It's perfectly possible to have huge GDP and a miserable majority, and vice versa.
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by growlist 6y ago
Like a number of other posters I think this probably is mostly motivated by protectionism, but unlike them my response is: so what? So European consumers miss out on the tax-evading, anti-democratic, addiction-pushing, misery-spreading, dys
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by growlist 6y ago
I feel similarly about Brexit.
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by growlist 6y ago
Can't agree more.
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by growlist 6y ago
The EU do it all the time. But I guess that doesn't count for some reason or other...
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by growlist 6y ago
> inarguable example of a portion of the right that are promoting and presumably investing in theories that are utterly bonkers. I've given you an example of something that was labelled a 'conspiracy theory' by the left th
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by growlist 6y ago
You just don't like what I'm saying.

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