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- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 2 hours ago:
Ahh, my bad. I am remembering from old American text books from my college days that utilized Aboriginals and Aborigine, both of which i am discovering are incorrect, outdated, and offensive.
My college days were a long time ago and I don’t get many opportunities to speak about aboriginal people, so I’m not surprised I’m behind the times. Thanks for the update!
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 3 hours ago:
Well, cultures that heavily relied on oral traditions developed systems that prevented a telephone type scenario from happening. Aboriginals combine oral traditions with ceremony, song, dance, and different medias of physical art. They also had respected leaders whose whole position was telling the right stories during specific times, at specific places, and to specific people in the tribe.
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 3 hours ago:
That’s not how we classically define prehistory though. Technically pre-history is defined as the period of time beginning when the first humans started using stone tools and ending when different cultures developed writing systems.
My criticism is that western scholars put too much importance on the written word.
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 9 hours ago:
Yeah, some of the stuff that has been able to be confirmed via geological studies is just insane. It’s crazy to me how they aren’t more widely known for disrupting the idea of prehistory.
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 10 hours ago:
While the aboriginals underwent and still endure settler colonialism it hasn’t been as long or quite as thorough as the Roman occupation and then christianization that the celts went through. Australia is also so much bigger than the UK, so it would be hard to complete a very effective act of genocide against spiritual or tribal leaders as they did to the druids.
Even so some Celtic oral traditions were still going on strong up till the 19th century, often being little changed over thousands of years.
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 11 hours ago:
100% of all history from before writing was invented is lost
Not entirely true. Some aboriginal oral traditions have accurately described the Budj Bim and Tower Hill Eruptions that happened 37k years ago, and the dramatic rise in sea levels 7-10k years ago.
The oral traditions of aboriginal tribes is kinda crazy. During the European colonization of australia there are times where you get to see encounters from written documents by Europeans and the history recalled by oral and dance traditions recorded by aboriginals. They tend to match in everything but perspective and often the aboriginal depictions are often more detailed.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
i understand you don’t get it, but you are the idiot in this conversation. i do admire your confidence though
Says the bigot.
you need to read that sentence till its end. don’t hesitate to repeat as many times as needed, you will eventually get there.
The modifications do not affect the stated claim.
anatomy, you are thinking of biology.
Lol, has more to do with physiology and anatomy than biology. But good attempt I guess.
having unprotected sex when you are ovulating teen with two different people is just stupid.
She doesn’t seem to be very upset at the prospect of being a mother, who are you to judge?
It’s obvious you are just taking any opportunity to slut shame you can grasp at.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
I’m just having fun poking fun at a bigoted idiot. If you haven’t figured by now, sperm can remain active for up to five days after sex. So your claim that she would have had sex with two people at the same time doesn’t hold up.
So you are either ignorant of basic human anatomy, or you’re such an incel prude that you think having sex with two different people within 5 days is somehow outrageous.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Just trying to get you to utilize an iota of deductive reasoning…
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Wanna guess how long sperm can survive in a fallopian tube?
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Lol… Wanna guess why you’re being an idiot, or would you prefer ignorance?
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Someone didn’t get an adequate sex ed class…
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Could be even more quiet please.
It’s always a lose lose situation for women. Don’t fuck the men and you’re somehow blamed for a “male loneliness epidemic”. Fuck the men …get called a whore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits.
There’s a couple assumptions being made here that allow for this hypothesis to be possible. We do not know if the universe is actually infinite, it’s just a possibility based on what we can currently observe (around 93 billion light years). Even if something is incalculably large, it’s still miniscule compared to the infinite that this hypothesis requires.
Secondly the universe is only homogeneous at a very large scale. The universe at a local scale is very diverse in its make-up, it’s only homogeneous at a scale of hundreds of millions of light years.
If we disregard these assumptions is it possible that there are near copies of our perceived realities in other places in the universe, maybe…but is it likely?
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 6 days ago:
Might be a way to get around the intentional blocking of your plate. If you installed a bright enough IR light bar on the roof of your car pointing down the front and back… You would probably just show up as a moving block of light, might not even be recognized as a car by the AI.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 6 days ago:
You would need a mix of IR absorbing material and IR reflective material like what they use in Zenni ID guard glasses.
An easier way to go about it would just be to install a bright IR light pointed at your plate, it would create a glare that would make it impossible for the camera to read.
I have an IR scope for one of my rifles and thought it would be a bright idea to install a IR flashlight to help boost the field of vision… The flashlight I got was so bright that it just tuned the whole image white.
So there are things that would work, but it would probably get you in more trouble than anything. It’s illegal in every state to attempt to obscure your tags from being tracked in any way.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Nope, it was illegal to have more than $100 worth of gold.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
And thus effectively imaginary, proving the point in my original post. And like all imaginary things, it only holds power over us if we believe in it.
Yes, but you went on to make claims that gold is somehow inherently different. Which it is not. Gold is only valuable valuable because you believe it is as well.
As to gold vs. fiat, if I offer you a currency backed by gold or the same amount in a fiat currency back by the faith in a nation-state, which would you choose
Fiat… The nation is less likely to have a massive depression and more able to recover from one of it does happen. I don’t think you understand that it doesn’t matter if a currency is backed by gold or not. You are still trusting the country to pay you that gold, or to release the gold at the price you originally bargained for… That doesn’t happen in a recession.
Why do you think the US made people turn in their gold during the depression and then cease all redemptions?
Which is the more stable investment? Which will hold value after the nation-state collapses?
Stable… Again, fiat currency. Value after the collapse of a nation state? Who the hell knows? At this point if we experienced a complete collapse I would probably rather have the value in guns and ammo. However, i’m not betting on the world to end any time soon.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
You’re missing the point, and the unemployment stats are in the table at the end of the text from the link
Ahh I found the peak unemployment column, but they do not support your argument. Both the great depression and the recession in 37 are well above COVID. Plus we started recovering from COVID in like 2 months
tied to an arbitrary value
First, the value of currency is largely set on people trusting the American government to pay their bills via Treasury bonds.
Secondly, gold itself is more arbitrarily valued than the dollar and is much more subject to inflation. Just look at the volatility in the gold market.
to the chronology it goes like this:
And what was the reason we abandoned the gold standard…
Gold won’t. It will always be used as a measure of wealth, regardless of a particular currency’s collapse.
Gold can and will eventually become devalued if it ever becomes the standard once again. There has only been little over 200k tons in circulation throughout history. There is about half that of proven and currently economically minable gold known right now, there’s about an additional 100k tons of unknown or currently uneconomically recoverable gold in the earths crust. There’s also millions of tons suspended in the ocean, more than that in the core, and lords knows how much in space.
If gold becomes the end all be all standard of value then someone will find a way to increase supply. Money has always been about trust, value is completely subjective.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I mean, they typically save the food stuff for when you’re really close to dying anyways, but I’ve personally never judged an older patient on opiates. Shit hurts when you get old, respect your elders.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Sorry, you’re flat out wrong here. While the value of gold is heavily inflated due to its association with currency, it absolutely does hold inherent value, particularly in electronics
Okay, so it should have an inherent value somewhere between copper and aluminum. That does not help your argument, why not just hoard aluminum, it’s lighter anyways.
Nope, they’re not. A central bank can make more fiat currency to make up for the reduction in liquidity. You can’t make more gold. Once you’ve spent it all it, its gone.
The value of gold is able to be regulated…which is what we did in the past. I’ve already explained this.
Yes, but only gold has inherent value. Yes, inflated, but it still has worth beyond its use as currency. That’s the point that you’re missing.
It’s inherent value is not any more meaningful than any other conductive metal. Meaning that your claim is that we should use any material to back a currency. It also means that your argument doesn’t apply to the vast majority of time we backed currency with gold before the advent of complicated electronics.
As someone who lived through it, no, that’s not what happened, although it was a result.
What are you talking about? You specified the crisis that happened during the Carter administration, so that would be the 1979 oil crisis. That was the result of the Iranian revolution that started in 78, which makes it impossible to be the result of the 79 crisis.
OPEC saw a weakness in the dollar as a result of the decoupling from gold, and used the embargo to artificially drive up the price of oil to where it became a commodity with the strength of gold
Okay, so you are talking about the oil crisis in 73…6 years before Carter was in office.
Again… The reason we decoupled from gold was because it was a shitty way to back a currency.
“Under the Tehran Price Agreement of 1971, signed on 14 February, the posted price of oil was increased and, due to a decline in the value of the US dollar relative to gold, certain anti-inflationary measures were enacted. A severe drain on US gold reserves lead to higher inflation and lack of confidence in the strength of the dollar, President Nixon issued Executive Order 11615 on August 15, 1971, which closed the gold window. This action made the dollar inconvertible to gold directly, except on the open market, and was soon dubbed the Nixon Shock, leading eventually to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1976”
There are 48 official recessions in the US, and if you look though the statistics on the link above
Did the United States Confederate in 1854…? The reasons I did not date before then is because the “NBER does not date recessions before 1857, economists customarily extrapolate dates of U.S. recessions back to 1790 from business annals”
if you look though the statistics on the link above, the recessions after 1971 occur more frequently, last for longer, and have higher unemployment rates when you compare to the 50 years previous with the exception being the Great Depression
Lol, that’s quite the window youve carved out…
Okay so we’re looking at 1921-1971, I’ll play ball.
So we are starting in the depression of 1920-1921(-33%), which started just 10 months after the post war depression(-14%), but we won’t count that one.
1923-1924 (-23%) recession 1926–1927 recession (-12%) 1929-1933 the great depression (-27%) 1937–1938 recession (-19%) 1945 recession (-13%) 1949 recession -(8%) 1953 recession (-6%) 1958 recession (-8%) 1960–1961 Recession (-7%) 1969–1970 Recession (-6%)
Now we have 1971-2021
1973–1975 recession (-9%) 1980 recession (-8%) 1981–1982 recession (-10%) 1990 recession (-8%) 2000 recession (-6%) 2008-2009 recession (-10%) 2020 recession (-14%)
So yeah, no they were notore frequent, worse for the economy, or lasted longer. The longest after 71 was for 2 years, and the worse only lasted 2 months…
The link that you utilized did not mention employment statistics for each recession, but I’d like to know how you dreamed that up. I guess you could be using a total instead of per capita, like yeah… There are more people with jobs now compared to the 30s…
Until the de facto currency represents true value capitalism will continue to grow like a cancer.
There is no such thing as true value… That’s the whole point of capitalism. The market determines value.
This is why I say money is imaginary - we believe it holds true value, when in fact the only value it holds is what we give it.
How is that different from the value of gold? According to you it’s true value is just as a conductor, so gold should be priced slightly by its conductivity relative to aluminum? What are you talking about?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I’m saying in America, there are literal lynchings right now of black folks. There are lots of white on minority violence… Today.
Yes… But bad things happening here and now does not mitigate the crimes of the past that happened elsewhere. Both should be examples of things that we should be critical of. Being critical of one does not affect your ability to be critical of another, in fact they should serve as supporting examples of why all those behaviors are evil.
Saying one is an overreaction is ignoring the history of Japanese oppression even if that wasn’t your intention. A better route would be to claim that racism in America is not as well discussed as it should be.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
you’re incorrect in your last sentence, because the value of gold is not determined by a single government. It’s value is arbitrary and certainly subject to inflation, but only when supply outpaces demand, which happens rarely (Spanish conquest of the Americas being one notable exception) but not to the same extent a non-physical fiat currency can be distorted.
When it’s treated as a commodity… When it’s backing a currency the government sets the value of gold. Under the Gold Standard (Bretton Woods system) the value of gold was set at 35 USD for one troy ounce.
And gold is not imaginary. It is a physical object. It’s not currency (although it can be used as such), it’s wealth. And it’s a more reliable store of wealth than money in a bank account, although considerably less liquid. If all money disappeared tomorrow, gold would still hold value (probably more)… but only to those who have need of gold as a store of wealth.
The value of the gold is imaginary… You cannot eat it, you cannot drink it, it is not a tool of production. There is no inherent value of gold other than it is a shiny malleable metal that does not tarnish. None of that helps when you are starving.
There are plenty of examples throughout history where gold became as worthless, a notable example is Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to mecca causing a decade long depression in Cairo, medina, and mecca because he spent so much gold. It was severe enough that gold was not worth its weight in food or clothes.
But here’s the thing, if someone manages to get all the gold in the world, the rest of us still get to eat. If someone gets all the money and buys all the means of production - we only get to eat if we give them our labor.
Those scenarios are the same. How would we eat if we didn’t have gold to pay for it? Well, another object of value would arise as a currency and gold would lose its value. Why couldn’t the person also use the gold to purchase the means of production? Because buying the means of production would distribute the gold. The same way buying the means of production would disperes fiat currency if you purchased the means of production.
other words, when we attached the dollar (imaginary value) to gold (real value) the value of gold declined because the inflationary pressure inherent in the (imaginary) dollar artificially decreased its value
They both have a subjective value… The subjective value of the gold surpassed the subjective value of the dollar. This imbalance in subjectivity created a monetary enticement to people not subject to the US government’s ability to regulate price fixing.
Carter years and the oil crisis? In fact, look at our economic stability and inequality pre and post 1971 - economics effectively became a constant boom/bust cycle for most of our lifetimes, and now nearly 60% of the county is underwater.
Lol, first of all the oil crisis happened because Iran had a revolution and stopped producing oil. Secondly, there has been more economic stability post 1971 than there ever was in the pre war era. The cycle of boom and bust is just inherent to capitalism. The US has experienced 34 recessions since 1854, all but 7 of them happened while on the gold standard.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Positive engagement with the material that drives impulsive behaviour in people with mental disorders is not an effective treatment. That would be like saying to an alcoholic “you shouldn’t be drinking a handle of vodka every morning, try having a glass of wine in the evening instead.”
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
access to non harmful animated CP with all consenting adult voice actors or AI. In out current society they are akin to trans people in the 1950s
No, that goes against just about everything that we know about the psychiatry of people sexually attracted to children. Pedophillia is a mental disorder, it’s not anything like being trans or any version of the LGBTQ community. Quite honestly conflating the two in any way is not only dangerous, but insulting.
You do not get better from a mental disorder by positive engagement with the impulses that triggers your illness. That would be like saying an arsonist should just buy a bunch of candles. Or an alcoholic should just sip on a little bit of wine before bed to manage their craving.
You can in fact get help with the way you feel, and that help is distributed by a therapist who will give you treatment rather than persecution. Long term cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be an effective treatment for pedophillic disorder.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I’ve already seen a bunch of scare stories about doctors in Canada trying to force it onto patients who don’t want it.
Most of that is being pushed by religious organizations that have been fighting against it for decades now. In reality the medical community were estimating a lot more requests than what they ended up experiencing.
It ends up they did not account for the fact that medical providers in hospice care have been “euthanizing” patients the whole time. Not in the “Doctor death” way, but it’s pretty standard for providers to be a little extra loose with the administration of morphine when caring for patients that are terminally ill and on their last few days or hours.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Now, if Musk actually had to keep his wealth in the form of physical gold, he’d never be able to use it or leverage it the way he can with money. The logistics and expense of handling that amount of gold would be insurmountable.
That’s not really how the gold standard worked. The value of gold is also imaginary, so it’s not immune from inflationary forces. If the government wanted to print more money" they would just adjust the value of the gold.
The reason we moved away from this is because the value of gold in foreign markets was difficult to standardize to the value of the USD. Meaning that while we may want to hold the value of gold to a certain USD mark to help control domestic inflation, the value of the gold was lower than it could fetch in foreign markets. When that happened foreign governments would buy up as much gold as they could and begin to deplete our reserves.
Rich people did not have vast vaults of gold, the reserves and banks would just hold onto the gold and keep track of the “ownership” of it on paper, just as we do today. Fiat currency was just an acknowledgement that currency in general has always been a human construct based on trust.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Social media treats Asian racism as highly offensive. All because a restaurant puts a sign that says they can’t come in.
As an Asian person, if you think that’s the extent of ethnic bigotry in East Asia then you have some history to read up on.
It’s offensive because it hearkens back to recent history of extreme levels of ethnic conflict that include cultural genocide, industrialized rape, mass murders, and slavery.
Your mistake is that you have assumed that sign is meant to exclude westerners, when the west only makes up a small minority of tourism in Japan. Just South Korea and China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) make up 75% of tourism in Japan. Both of those ethnic groups were victims to some of the worst war crimes in living memory at the hands of Imperial Japan.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I feel like this is like saying “there’s nothing wrong with skydiving without a parachute, it’s hitting the ground that’s the problem”.
The very nature of how capital is designed to accumulate under capitalism makes avoiding late stage capitalism impossible. The ownership class will always accumulate enough capital to exert more and more control over the government meant to regulate its greed. Eventually creating a cascading effect that destabilizes the markets ability to distribute resources in a way that can support a civil society.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
Sounds like you might be buying into the black pill Incel propaganda they were talking about. Pretty much all my smart friends who ended up being fairly successful (at least middle class) ended up being snatched out of the dating pool fairly quickly, before they ended up making anything of themselves.
I think ambitious and emotionally intelligent people often end up pairing in long term relationships and removing themselves from the dating scene fairly early in life. So people who are less emotionally developed/available are left thinking the other sex is to blame.
Plus, I think if we are going to be judging the sexes for being shallow, I would say a lot more women are okay with being with men less attractive to themselves than vice versa.