And that almost makes it worse. The joke works without it, why add a Down Syndrome punchline at the end? If it's not about it, why bring it up in the first place?
Call me pedantic but "many" doesn't start before 3. It's less than 3 millennia so it's certainly not "many thousand years"
Antiquity wasn't very positively viewed in medieval Europe. It's only since the Renaissance that ancient philosophers are rediscovered, in part this was possible because they were translated into Arabic. Otherwise, a lot would be forgotten.
Democracy had a negative connotation throughout the ancient world and medieval times. It's only in modern times that this shifted and in great parts due to contact with indigenous people from North America. But the US for example is rather modeled after the Roman Republic than Athenian Democracy. The Founding Fathers didn't think well of democracy.
I recommend reading the author who's quoted in the post. There Never Was A West is a good starting point since it's not too long but id that doesn't matter for you, The Dawn Of Everything is great. I think you'll find all on theanarchistlibrary.org
Interesting! This sounds a lot like the experience of millennials (like me) but instead of coming to an internet that's as young as I was, you get there a decade or so later.
I checked the book again and she's like "of cause there are exceptions" so you're kind of seen as well
No worries, when I was new to the game, I used a lot of hints to get there. I think this game can help you get better at chess. If you train chess to get better at this game, you might want to check your priorities 😉
I wish we'd refer to early internet era as something other than the 1900s.
Oh feel you. Saying 1900s for the whole century feels wrong but why tho? We do it for other centuries as well so maybe it's time to get used to it.
WWW ostensibly started in 95.
That's already part of becoming mainstream. I use "internet" in the broader sense that includes other technology I'm not really familiar with. But some precursors of the internet were around in the 70s and maybe even earlier? Donno, I'm second wave myself. Sorry if my terminology is confusion and not correct.
When we start referring to the "turn of the century" as the early 2000s, I may just outright die.
I used the phrase "turn of the millennium". Sorry if old people thought I meant 1000 CE.
In Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch argues that there are three waves of "internet people". The first was "before it was cool", the second when it became mainstream (give or take the turn of the millennium) and the third when internet was already a thing. The third are young people, too young to remember the 1900s and therefore the time before internet, and old people who go online because it's unavoidable and also more intuitive and easy than ever before.
Despite the generation gap, they have things in common and in contrast to the first and second wave (which she also subdivides but that's beside the point). For example they never used mail as primary communication and they have smartphones as first device and most often second hand from a family member.
Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk and sorry if I took your shitpost too serious but there's truth and science behind it and I couldn't not share it.
No worries. With enough functioning gills, you don't need to be a decent swimmer to breath under water. You can sit at the ground all day and still get enough oxygen. You might still get hungry and swimming can help to get food, but there's also the option to filter feed so no worries there either.
Without gills, tho, it is highly advisable to be able to swim so you can reach the surface in time to breath.
Wir haben als Palästina-Block die Rede vom SPD-Oberbürgermeister niedergebrüllt, der all unsre Demos versucht hat zu verhindern und dann am 1. Mai von internationaler Solidarität redet
And the first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club