CharonsLittleHelper
CharonsLittleHelper t1_j9sfcu1 wrote
Reply to comment by LoreChano in Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago by Yazan_Research
To be pedantic - it wasn't the wheel which had to be invented. That IS obvious. It's the axel which was the big invention. Civilizations without the axel still used log rollers etc. to move big heavy things.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_j1q53vi wrote
Reply to comment by Roy4Pris in [OC] State by State Housing Price Growth since 1975 by fred_fotch
Plus in the 70s DC was a scary place to live. So very low baseline.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_iyedt5a wrote
Reply to comment by Libertas-Vel-Mors in TIL that in 1979, a charity special episode of the academic student quiz show "It's Academic" was held between a team of three Democratic U.S. Senators, three Republican U.S. Senators, and three members of the press. The special was handily won by the press team. by FranklinDRoosevelt32
I don't think that the politicians would do better, but the journalists would likely do worse.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ixd2wxd wrote
Reply to comment by slater_san in U.S. regulators approved a plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath River and open hundreds of miles of salmon habitat in the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in the world. by doginasweater39
A dam saves up water to be used as needed. That's why the hydroelectric plants are on dams instead of on the river itself like historical water wheels.
I don't need sources to point out super obvious things. Water is wet. The sky is up. Dams accumulate water.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ixd1m2m wrote
Reply to comment by slater_san in U.S. regulators approved a plan to demolish four dams on the lower Klamath River and open hundreds of miles of salmon habitat in the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in the world. by doginasweater39
Except that solar/wind aren't reliable. Hydro is.
This sort of thing shows that most hardcore environmentalists are Malthusians.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_iwcbd0e wrote
Reply to comment by kromem in Slaves were brutally branded in ancient Egypt, research shows by Rear-gunner
To be fair though - ancient Egypt is known for expunging their histories of things that made them look bad.
So a lack of historical records itself isn't super surprising.
This isn't evidence that it DID happen either though.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ittfeg9 wrote
Reply to comment by WaratayaMonobop in The philosophy of Martin Heidegger who argued that the Technological mindset has destroyed our relationship to the world so that Nature is seen as so many resources to exploit. He presents an alternative: a poetic relationship to the world by thelivingphilosophy
It wasn't some high moral choice. It was being a stone/bronze age culture.
And the Native Americans wiped out several large species that we know of shortly after their arrival to the Americas. Hunted to extinction due to being big/slow and therefore easy food.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_itqmne9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in The philosophy of Martin Heidegger who argued that the Technological mindset has destroyed our relationship to the world so that Nature is seen as so many resources to exploit. He presents an alternative: a poetic relationship to the world by thelivingphilosophy
>but really what we want is a more romantic relationship with nature again
When did that ever exist on a large scale?
It's always feels like that's part of the "noble savage" mythos which didn't actually ever happen.
Poets/writers talking about it? Sure. But not at large.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir6qaap wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
Yes - all of the world's farmers are dumb and wrong. If only you were in charge of the world...
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir6og5o wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
Right - so you need a ton of labor. Which makes it basically a horribly paid job/hobby - not economically beneficial. Which was my initial point you tried to dispute.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir6mm86 wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
In the sense of land use and labor. Monocultures are used because it's MORE efficient. Avoiding them will make it worse.
Are there drawbacks to monocultures? Sure. But they're efficient.
Are you an anti-GMO activist too?
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir6gtp2 wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
I didn't say that it wasn't possible. I said it's inefficient.
If you want to grow vegetables as a hobby - go for it. Have fun. The return on your labor is terrible. You're lucky to get min wage relative to just buying the same vegetables at the grocery.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir5rhn0 wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
Because subsistence farming means being super inefficient and poor. Civilian is based upon specialized labor.
CharonsLittleHelper t1_ir3wak1 wrote
Reply to comment by signmeupnot in Global Agricultural Land Use v. Agricultural Production [OC] by rosetechnology
>and everyone with land should grow most of their own food.
Your vision for the future is subsistence farming? lol
CharonsLittleHelper t1_j9w18rv wrote
Reply to comment by Shank6ter in TIL about the 1938 Gettysburg Reunion, where veterans of The American Civil War met, they were on average 94 years old. by VengefulMight
And trenches. Tail end of The Civil War they used trenches.
Not WW1 scale. But still trenches.