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- Comment on Beans 2 weeks ago:
apex predator
- Comment on Science knows no borders! 2 weeks ago:
Same, but I also have only really discussed moon landing lunacy with other Americans. It may be that there’s a different demographic attracted to the conspiracy theory outside of the USA.
- Comment on Science knows no borders! 2 weeks ago:
Yep, the article mentions as much. You’d have to trust public access to NASA telescopes, which no self-respecting conspiracy theorist would, of course.
- Comment on Science knows no borders! 2 weeks ago:
Explanation: During the Cold War, the USA and USSR competed in many areas to ‘prove’ whose system was superior. One such area was the so-called “Space Race”, wherein both sides competed for prestigious ‘first achievements’ in space. The USSR put up the first satellites and people into space, but the USA was the first to land people on the moon.
… for some reason, an enduring minority in the US has continued to believe that it was a ‘hoax’ and ‘faked’, for gods only know what reason. The USSR, by contrast, was watching the whole affair very closely - once it was apparent that the mission was a success, genuine congratulations were extended, and samples of moon rocks were shared with USSR when the mission touched down. After all, the competition was about the prestige - science knows no borders*!
*unless it has some military application, at which point it becomes classified
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 3 weeks ago:
Big Darwin mood
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
oraptrer
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- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 4 weeks ago:
Why would a person want to be trusted to not do drugs?
Remind me never to have you make any deliveries for me.
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- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 5 weeks ago:
Original meme maker probably had autocorrect on.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 5 weeks ago:
I considered that part of having a business agent on hand to make those deals and connections, but yes.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 5 weeks ago:
Explanation: Nikola Tesla was a prolific and wildly influential inventor of the early 20th century AD. He also was in constant dire financial straits despite not having any major expensive vices (other than inventing), because, unlike his contemporary Thomas Edison, Tesla was not adept at maneuvering business deals (and certainly not with the cutthroat ruthlessness that Edison displayed - several times at Tesla’s expense).
Capitalism is better than feudalism because it rewards a wider range of intellectual ability and success than feudalism does… but that range still does not include innovation. You wanna be paid for your innovation in a capitalist system? Better have a lawyer and a business agent on hand as soon as you get out of the patent office. :/
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 30 comments
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
At what temperature does a normal body boil
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Switching hard 😔
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
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- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 5 weeks ago:
Mood
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- Comment on 1 month ago:
My friends used to jokingly call me Narcissus, because of my Classical obsession and the fact that whenever we walked home from school, I would never pass up an opportunity to look at my handsome face in a good reflection 😎
- Ah, the halcyon days of 2011, when Spiderman's arachnads were brutally obliterated...media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 1 month ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Wage labor, usually.
Despite the widespread use of slave labor in Roman society, unskilled slaves were overwhelmingly used for tasks that were either considered ‘demeaning’ (like domestic servants), did not require any real precision (like mill grinding and monocrop farm labor) or needed a constant application of labor (like mines). The Romans recognized that people work better when offered carrots rather than sticks - some slave who only barely cares if he lives or dies isn’t going to put much effort into aligning the brick with the mortar properly unless you watch him like a hawk - which is more labor you have to put in. Manual labor for construction is not a task that requires a doctorate, but it is a task where you have to do it right the first time, or you waste everyone’s labor and effort.
Construction, furthermore, is only intermittent work in most places. If you own a bunch of slaves, you don’t stop paying for their food and shelter when they aren’t working - if you want them to be profitable, you’ll have to find other work for them to do the rest of the year. And at that point, it’s probably not less profitable to just have them do that year-round instead. You could, potentially, have your slaves as a traveling construction crew, but travel is not only uncertain and expensive, but offers opportunities for unmotivated workers (like slaves) to simply… slip away, and choose to no longer be one of your workers. Even if you try to hunt them down. Even just transporting building materials from Point A to Point B includes a lot of very dangerous unsupervised time - perhaps something you’d trust a household slave with, but not one of the faceless slave numbers on your business ledger!
Funny enough, it would be more likely, if anyone was a slave on the job, that it would be potentially a few of the skilled positions. Skilled slaves were often given more trust and responsibilities precisely because they were offered more ‘carrot’ than ‘stick’ - payment, privileges, and the possibility of freedom for a decade or two of labor were on the table. Skilled slaves were thus less likely to run away - and unlike free wage laborers, especially skilled ones, wouldn’t (or rather, couldn’t) demand more pay at the prospect of being dragged from one of the empire to another - very handy if you’re a small construction firm going from place to place, and hiring local labor for most tasks!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Interestingly enough, construction wasn’t a usual avenue for applying slave labor in Ancient Rome.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s fvcked up, man
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 59 comments
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 2 months ago:
This is why organizations are so damn important, and why the decline of unions has been so damaging to US political culture.
- Comment on From our family to yours, merry Christmas! 2 months ago:
If this was an imitation of a happy holiday… a perfect imitation… would you know? Would I?
- Comment on Thanks :) 2 months ago:
I thought he was fond of plentiful mangos
