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11 days agoActual techbros keep their own kids away from screens.
DagwoodIII
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Realistically, if you eat out of trash cans you’ll have the same experience, and if you’re quiet and neat, no one will report you.
No one is forcing you to brush your teeth.
Popular misconception.
There were a lot of people who never made it out of childhood, which skews the average down.
But if you made it to adulthood, you had a pretty good chance of making it to 65 or so.
Like the link points out, we were drinking before we had written language.
It’s a matter of dealing with life on life’s terms. The reality is that people like drinking. Sometimes people drink too much, and a few unlucky folks can’t drink anything without risking death.
I ocne read a story about a Vietnam era war correspondent. He was a pacifist before going to cover combat and seeing combat up close made him hate war even more.
At one point a publisher asks him to contribute an article that ‘deglamorizes war.’
He wrote back that deglamorizing war would be as easy as deglamorizing sex.
On the other hand, why do you think we gave up the hunter/gatherer life style?
Cultivating grapes for wine and grain for beer was the origin of civilization!
Low testoserone.
They saw they could live off the scraps the humans threw away, and were willing to risk getting close to the humans for an easy meal.
In my head it goes something like this.
“What the hell is going on with Zog and UUka? They’ve got a goddamn wolf living in their cave!! It’s unnatural!”
I’ve read plenty of articles about how wolves evolved into domesticated dogs, but has anyone ever considered that the humans who adopted the first dogs were more successful at reproduction? In other words, there was a specific genome that made some humans more likely to adopt dogs, and that genome spread so that by now the majority of humanity is dog friendly?
491·4 months ago2016 MAGA = “We have to elect Trump because the world is laughing at us!”
2026 MAGA = “Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?”
2·5 months agoIt’s 2026 and I’m still trying to figure out what happened…
We could go on for hours…
Don’t get me started on ‘skewed metrics.’
According to the official inflation counter, $1,500.00 in 1960 is about $15,000.00 in 2026.
You could buy a good, brand new car in 1960 for $1,500.00.
A cheap new car in 2026 is $20,000.00
American here.
I understand the impulse, and I hate Trump as much as anybody.
I just want to point out that BMW’s biggest plant is in the USA and America’s top beer is owned by a Belgian company.
When it comes to the 0.01% oligarchy, there’s no ‘Europe’ or ‘America’ it’s all about the money.
Where did I say that all diseases were curable by Western doctors?
I worked alongside doctors for years, and I have plenty of stories about how Western medicine failed.
I also have plenty more stories about people who didn’t listen to their doctors and ended up regretting it.
Xaviera Hollander’s take.
“A man is old when there aren’t any women his own age who excite him. A woman is old the first time she looks for something to make her look younger.”
Talk to people who were around for the 1980 election.
Back then, you’d be told that there was no difference between Carter and ronald reagan because Carter wasn’t strong against the racist South African leadership.
‘Good enough’ is never good enough for them.
You should consider buying a device with a ‘search engine.’
You can use a program like ‘Bing’ or ‘AskJeeves’ questions and learn things.
Really, think about it.
It’s like saying, ‘should I be worried because they are arresting tuba players?’
Trump is insane and will do what he wants, with no idea or the consequences