daily reminder that peak literacy in the Roman Empire was around 30-40% in urban areas, dropped to below 5% in the West after 476, and did not regain those levels for a little over a thousand years
— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) June 24, 2020
But there was no Dark Ages, yada yada…*makes bullshit academia noises*
Talking a lot lately with someone who uses Celsius and doesn’t know a thing about Fahrenheit, it has become more habit for me to use it again.
However, I still hate that scale. So inhuman.
Comparatively, the below hardly matters, though.
We are entering the first real phase of the Pandemic Depression. What’s happened in the last few months is just a mild preview.
Lots of men are genuinely abusive. This is indisputable. However, the “progressives” channel this into the idea that anything that any man has done that was in some context abusive is by some weird transitive property abusive in every context. It’s HR-like in its lack of nuance and lack of comprehension of very diverse circumstances and situations.
But — and I hope I don’t need to say this but I guess I do — dating someone of a different race could be an abusive relationship or not. There is no way to tell from looking and it’s also none of your damn business. And I think that dating someone much younger (especially if they are under 22 or so) is somewhat more likely to be abusive, but again, it’s impossible to tell and also none of your business. (No one above the age of majority should be dating minors, near-age peers excepted.)
I strongly, strongly resist a world where HR hive-minds are in control of every interaction, destroying all nuance and possibility of something interesting and remarkable. That is what I am fighting against.
Was just thinking how when I was 19, I dated a 25-year-old half-Pakistani woman.
So not only was I being groomed and grooming her (somehow,) I was also a racist and a colonizer! The trifecta! Go me.
If words were as powerful as most of the left thinks they are, magical spells would actually work.
Pre internet and definitely pre cloud, multiple years of uptime was not unusual. I remember having to shut down a server over 4 years uptime for Y2K and being worried it might not come back.
I see long uptime now, all I see is an unpatched opportunity for bad actors.
— Adam Hall 🇳🇿🇺🇸 (@adhall_msft) June 21, 2020
This is true. I have in the past worked on more than a few systems with 5+ years of uptime. Was not unusual in the threat environment from 1995-2010 or so.
World has changed a lot since then.
How old were you when you began seeing your parents as people and not as a “parental entity”? But as a person with needs, flaws, fears, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, dreams etc.
I was in my 20’s.
— MrsBundrige (@MrsBundrige) June 22, 2020
Five years old.
That was when I had to get myself up for kindergarten, dress myself, and try to find breakfast and money for lunch (often none) by myself. My dad left for work at 5AM and my mom was incapable of getting up due to what I learned later was most likely depression, but at the time I just thought she was too tired to help me.
As the official COVID-19 death toll creeps past 120,000 in the USA, there is another important comparison to make.
In a normal year, the combined impact of all infectious diseases in the USA will only kill about 120,000.
COVID-19 alone has killed that many in 4 months. pic.twitter.com/fxihJXGHgp
— Robert Rohde (@RARohde) June 23, 2020
But the flu is worse, and you are racist if you say anything else.
That really aged well, yeah?