There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.
ain’t wholesome
Not if you count Taylor Swift.
LOL
Yeah and I dropped more shits yesterday than there are stars in the entire solar system.
Because I shit twice yesterday.
This is all that’s necessary.
There’s fewer people in poverty now than at any point in history.
The world has always been getting better in global measures of health, food and education if you consider all of humanity.
I don’t think that’s actually true. Have the metrics for what we consider poverty changed and adapted with inflation and the perfecting of corporate wealth hoarding? “Poverty” is an ambiguous term, and relative poverty is real. That doesn’t show in a standard-line “poverty” metric. What was considered “extreme poverty” is the lowest, but that’s people living on under $1.90/day. I couldn’t even find information on that metric being updated to reflect the current high inflation and profit-explosion landscape.
Also: if you technically pull people out of poverty by outsourcing to the lowest paying, least labor regulated parts of the world, is the fact that extreme poverty went away in those areas even a good thing?
Check out Factfulness by Hans Rosling
if you technically pull people out of poverty by outsourcing to the lowest paying, least labor regulated parts of the world, is the fact that extreme poverty went away in those areas even a good thing?
Yes. Your prospects of a healthy life increase when going from not being able to provide for yourself to being barely able to provide for yourself by working in fantastically poor conditions.
If a sweatshop didn’t provide more worker value than extreme poverty, people just wouldn’t work there.
The bare minimum of improvements is still an improvement, and that we should strive for better than the bare minimum doesn’t make the bare minimum worthless to the people who got it.
Even during the Dark Ages?
Yup.
They were geographically limited and not as dark as reported
Any recommended reading?
In general or about the dark ages?
Yes
Fiction: If you’re in for a multi-book series, I recommend the Amber chronicles by Roger Zelazny.
Dark Ages related: The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751 or The Long Morning of Medieval Europe
Spiritual/Philosophical: Audiobook of The Art of Mindful Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
I’ve read the Amber Chronicles, although it’s on my re-read list. Is the Dark Ages non-fiction?
Porcupines make adorable sounds: https://youtu.be/NMeuwYvlBI0
It’s like an exhausted minion!
Kemasabe! I love that channel!
That “hoy tu, mañana mi” reddit story.
Pass it forward is a good English phrase we don’t have in my language
Margaret Thatcher is still dead.
So is reagan!
but her grave is still hidden from the public to prevent people from defiling it; so this is neutral at best. lol
Ok, so something more local but brightening my days since thursday when it happened: Leszek Moczulski finally croaked, a really ghoulish fascist antisemite that was consistently at the wrong side of history. Also in context of pissing on graves, his name means “of the piss” (core word “mocz” - urine)
I wonder how Reagan’s is doing
All our 4 cats always sleep on our bed. When I wake up, the oldest one always comes to my head and starts rubbing her head against my head/beard. Our youngest boy just purs like a freighter and walks from nightstand to nightstand, youngest girl almost always climbs under the covers to snuggle. Last lady just keeps sleeping and snores.
All makes me pretty happy.
There is a very skittish mare that I leave alone because of said skittishness. Today while browsing my phone I was leaning on the stall wall right by her not paying attention when suddenly she came up and put her head next to mine in a “what are we looking at” kind of gesture. She stayed there for a bit while I was trying my best to stay still and not let my excitement show too much. It made me feel special.
I like hugging my dogs
Geese can be trained to be your mates
Just feed them dandelion leaves every day when you’re passing them and eventually you can pet them. Takes a month or so
Still cunts though and they peck your shoes sometimes
If you were born near the turn of the century, you will likely see fusion power, peopled-mars missions, an end to colonialism, a shared global peace, and the beginning of a star trek future within your lifetime, thanks to the PRC and many other countries.
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