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@BertramDitore @Hegar
Running water and indoor plumbing was relatively common in the ancient world.

really ?
In 1920, only *** 1% of US homes** had indoor plumbing

https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf

@teft

even if this were true, it is true only if you have time rest and rejuvenate, and in particular rest after an injury

tht option often not available to people working at lower wage jobs

right ?

@SteveKLord

1
yeah, I lie about my age

2
re the 1,000x
if you read the comments in the thread you posted, several people point out this is just ludicrouis

so I"m not quite sure what I should have said to you when you post something that is absurd
seriously, what am I to say ?

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@SteveKLord
I was born in 1953 and my image of people doing labor like this , based on how we perceived people in low income countries, is of a person whose body was worn out by age 30

to a large extent progress is humans not having to do heavy manual labor
sheesh

@MicroWave

this is probably not true

eg, read the best thing, IMO, written on 2016, then think about how often liberals talk about trump’s plan to cut taxes on working people [ “plan” of course being BS ]

don’t wanna read the link ?
Tl;dr
Trump supporters didn’t pay attn to the crazy stuff; they just hear him say: When I am POTUS there will be jobs
thats it, thats the mesagge

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/6/13853314/trump-speeches-lessons-democrats-economics-trade

@[email protected] so you quoted something that you yourself can’t verify

I understand that most people consider this std practice, but I find it odd, but then again look at my screen name

@[email protected]

I don’t think what you said is correct; indeed, almost all blanket statements on the internet are wrong

I know nothing about this subject, yet it took about a min to find this

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ373/pdf/PLAW-111publ373.pdf

https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm11/bm1106/bm110602.htm

@[email protected]

far as I can tell, your “report” is largely cribbed from the CREW page
and you don’t link to that page or to the brief

wtf PP, seriouslyu, wtf
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/legal-complaints/amicus-judge-aileen-cannon-must-be-reassigned-in-trump-case/

@benfulton @bloomington_in

If YIMBYs are in favor of turning parks into asphalt, then YIMBYs are bad

but terms and conditions apply; what I said is certainly true for NYC or Chicago, maybe not Bloomington

but in general the willingness of YIMBYs to pave over grass is IMO really bad IMO

@PanArab always good to be corrected !

@PanArab

I once read an explanation for why the Bedouin wear black robes:

the black gets hot, which causes a air current to rise between the outer and inner robes; this air current is cooling

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@iain
If Hamas released all the Hostages today, would that save some Palestinian babies ?
somehow, it is ok for Hamas to take hostages, but not ok for Israel to try and get them back ?
from my perspective, Hamas is using the population of gaza as human shields

@Deceptichum

https://jabberwocking.com/israel-says-hamas-center-was-hidden-directly-below-unrwa-headquarters/

@Deceptichum are these the strikes where hostages were rescued ?

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

Eugene Debs:
Even if I could lead people into paradise, I would not, because if I could lead them in, someone else could lead them out

@pluralistic

“Where are the Customer’s yachts”

in his novel Roughing It, Mark Twain spends a great deal of time talking about a hyper speculative bubble in mining stocks in Nevada/California in the 1860s

and how so many people lost their shirts on insanely over priced mining stock or claims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_mining_in_Nevada