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Cake day: April 23rd, 2024

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  • I always thought the British got a slightly worse rap than they deserved there. When the Ottoman empire collapsed, things were chaotic to say the least. Rising nationalism in an area where ethnicities are all over the place. A pocket here, a few villages there. Political systems that had been in place for a thousand years disintegrating. Large groups of nomads who are notoriously difficult to fit into ordered nation states.

    Huge demographic shifts underway. People tend to overlook just how much more crowded the world is now than it was in 1920. What worked in 1890 was a nonstarter in 1990.

    I don’t think any line on that map would have substantially changed things one way or another.






  • Depends on where they were and what they were eating. Humans are really amazing in that we can eat almost anything that’s not a straight up tree, and we’ve existed across the planet in just about every ecological niche. I remember reading somewhere they could estimate the age of desert burial/skeleton remains on how worn the teeth are due to the sand getting in the food. But I’m sure no processed sugar is pretty beneficial tho



  • Honestly dealing with tankies is far easier than having capitalism shoved down your throat in the form of paid posts and ai “engagement” comments. I never get the feeling anyone is trying to sell useless shit or running some half-assed psyop on me.

    I even got a new polish gf named Nichole!