Cynic watching the world burn with popcorn and whisky. Living sci-fi is always going to be worse than reading it. Verified Wallet Inspector by Derierre Retrievere.
This is, perhaps, the most pervasive long-term impact of the whole "drown government in a bathtub" Reagan era. These government entities, regulations, and laws *only* ever existed in the first place because unregulated capitalism results in widespread suffering & often death 100% of the time.
Jon of The NorthTurns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
Long term UN studies have found no increase in cancer in the areas affected (besides the initial 1 time wave of Thyroid cancer which has a 99% cure rate). Chernobyl was a disaster, no doubt. But it is also very overblown in the public consciousness. Thankfully modern reactors can't fail that way.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxHonestly, a real problem with a lot of 'collapse' revisionism for both LBAC and the later Roman Empire. You get a lot of fancy academic rhetorical footwork and sure, there are things of value in the periods that followed, but, like, aggregate population declines are generally not fun.
a wide variety of world religions will likewise endorse something like the universal equality of humanity. and it nevertheless is centuries or millennia until we get anything approaching that implemented in practice. the problem isn't the ideal; the problem is the functional practical realization
so one thing i find extremely striking is that in REPUBLIC plato basically endorses the idea that qualified women should have the same rights as men--the same ability to be philosopher-kings. this is an *ancient* idea. the hard question of history is why it took so long to be even partially realized
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòone tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
Stalin could actually be charming when he wanted and really was as clever as he thought he was (which is why he also made extremely stupid decisions, too). Hirohito was affable and refined by Japanese standards. Hitler was a Redditor with absolute power.
Mom for GlibertyI've been listening to the Tom Hanks podcast about WWII, and Hitler comes off as the whiniest little bitch. Stalin and Hirohito were deeply evil, murderous men, but Hitler was such a little bitch on top of it.
