Also, they have excellent music.

Apart from Denmark. I know only one band from there.

Nice. In what year(s) did you have your first computer?

So it’s fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?

To me, that’s cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.

As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don’t like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don’t like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).

Sméagol is from a race that was closely related to hobbits, but not exactly hobbits.

I reread the post replacing “pelican” with “politician”. I haven’t laughed this much in weeks. Thank you.

Doesn’t “men and boys” have exactly the same meaning though?

I don’t feel deshumanized for being called a male.

Disclaimer: I don’t use the noun “female” because I know some find it offensive.

To clarify, Native Americans are not humans.

(Joking)

I don’t know, I don’t think of sex as chilling. Just like I don’t see sport as chilling. Chilling should be more calm and less purpose-driven.

Zero State in my Ass

Eggs shells don’t work unless they’re ground into a very fine powder.

I don’t know the answer to this question. You may be right. And yea, I can see limestone in the right doses working.

And we could always extract the nutrients from our waste. Close the cycle: what goes in, goes out. We’re already using biosolids in agriculture.

This thread is weird. It seems like you all never heard of compost.

They are.

The common ancestor of all dinosaurs was certainly terrestrial, so logically that means birds are the descendants of terrestrial dinosaurs. That was in the Trias. By the Jurassic, small tree-climbing theropods with feathers were gliding and soon starting to fly.

Good to know. And that’s worrying.

This is a common question in economics.

It’s called technological unemploymemt and it’s a type of structural unemployment.

Economists generally believe that this is temporary. Workers will take new jobs that are now available or learn new skills to do so.

An example is how most of the population were farmers, before the agricultural revolution ans the industrial revolution. Efficiency improvements to agriculture happened, and now there’s like only about 1% of the population in agriculture. Yet, most people are not unemployed.

There was also a time in England when a large part of the population were coal miners. Same story.

Each economic and technological improvement expands the economy, which creates new jobs.

There’s been an argument by some, Ray Kurzweil if I remember correctly, but others as well, that we will eventually reach a point where humans are obsolete. There was a time when we used horses as the main mode of land transportation. Now, this is very marginal, and we use horses for a few other things, but really there’s not that much use for them. Not as much as before. The same might happen to humans. Machines might become better than humans, for everything.

Another problem that might be happening is that the rate of technological change might be too fast for society to adapt, leaving us with an ever larger structural unemployment.

One of the solution that has been suggested is providing a basic income to everyone, so that losing your job isn’t as much of a big problem, and would leave you time to find another job or learn a new skill to do so.

Would you like to expand on resource extraction? This is of particular interest to me.

What I would change in my case:

• Engage with people, even if it’s awkward or you have something more fun and that takes less effort right now
• Get a basic understanding of personal finance (read a book or two)
• Don’t be content with the bare minimum. You’ll spend a lot of time working. Try to get as much as possible for yourself for every hour working.

But I think each person’s realities will vary a lot. For example, regarding the first bullet point, maybe you’re extraverted and already a social butterfly, in which case the advice doesn’t apply.

Doesn’t that encourage urban sprawl?

And get out only for winter? No thanks. I wait for spring and summer half of the year.

Thank you. I think anyone who spends a lot of time reading about history comes to these conclusions.