> The majority of Israelis don't want peace (more specifically, they don't want to make the concessions required for Palestinians to accept peace).

The only concession that the majority of Palestinians are willing to accept is an end to the Jewish state and to push the Jews into the sea. This is the position of Hamas and a popular position among the people, even in Fatah/PLO controlled areas. The Palestinians rejected peace during the Camp David accords in the 90's when they were being offered everything except control of Jerusalem. Now they can't even get that offer back because of 25 years of settlements.

It's common in older cities. For example in Arizona, in cities like Bisbee and Tombstone, you can find multiple section corners and property corners set in close proximity to each other by different surveyors. In one case I know of 6 different pins meant to be the same point all spread out over an 8sqft area. How do you resolve this? Well a surveyor has to dig through records and try to figure out which point to hold, OR in many cases you might have to go testify in court for it to get settled because property owners will sue each other. In many cases we had to spend a day collecting control data and then had to calculate the correct pin location and set our own more accurate pin with our survey data on it. It can get complicated!

Surveyor errors are actually common and have led to many a state/national border or property line dispute and ongoing design, infrastructure layout issues, etc. to this day all over the country!

This isn't' really true. In both survey systems the markings or pins or corners, etc only have meaning when combined with a legal document. In meets and bounds systems an 'x' carved into a fold of a tree, a burned wooden stake buried at a corner, an x on a rock are not warnings or visible signs of occupation. These are the exact opposite! These are pretty hidden and hard to see and only connect to each other when interpreted and found using a deed or legal document that describes them and their relationship to each other. It's no different in brand new developments today, the survey markers are buried and not meant to be seen. It's not a sign of occupation in any form, it's just a physical claim to land as described in a legal document.

You are just describing the differences between a meets and bounds system and system of townships and ranges (a projected grid). Meets and bounds are the european and british way of property marking and the township/range grid system is an American invention that is much more efficient! Thank you Mr. Jefferson.

Survey markers (the caps) are made of brass or aluminum these days, for the most part. Most are aluminum but the higher end ones, like USGS markers, are made of brass.

The ratio of energy in to energy out is an often ignored measure of energy production and it's eventual impact on our planet. Solar and wind might help lower CO2/CO emissions but at a great cost. The energy input to energy output ratio for wind and solar isn't good and it will unfortunately lead to massive habitat and wildlife loss as a result of needing to gobble up raw materials to produce or install enough to get the power we need. We will have to put in almost as much as we get out. With nuclear and natural gas we put in the same inputs and get 20x (or more) the return as solar or wind.

The sad thing is that solar and wind are not going to save us and will probably lead to an increase in habitat loss and destruction all over the planet. Natural gas should be used at utility scale as a bridge until we can build more nuclear power plants since they can be built so much faster.

I am a die hard environmentalist who was converted by having an open mind and just looking at the data.

Diplomacy can quickly become appeasement and the wars that result from appeasement have historically been far worse than the wars that were fought because diplomacy just didn't work in the first place.

The Israelis established an airbase and a close relationship with the Azerbaijanis over a decade ago. They can project force and hit Iran from multiple directions.

The language is not similar, it's just in the same tree. There is a common linguistic ancestor that they all share but that goes back THOUSANDS of years. Imagine a Spaniard claiming to be pure Roman because of the Latin influence on Spanish and just ignoring the rest of their history? Same thing except add a few thousand years! Additionally most archeologist in the field think that the Aztecs were a group of mercenaries that probably took their language from the tribe they married into or were hired into, took their religion and culture from and after 100 years or so left or were kicked out and then went on to form their own city-state and the rest is history. Point being, the language of the Aztecs is not necessarily the language of their own ancestors and even if it were, it's an ancestor that was not Aztec! It's like saying I am from Africa because all humans are from Africa. Or that all Americans are obviously from England because they speak English. It's silly. The Aztecs emerged from a dominant culture that they borrowed their language and religion from.

Edit: To sum it up: There is ZERO evidence of an Aztec 'homeland' in Arizona. Period. It takes blind faith to believe a story like this and it's insulting to the indigenous peoples whom we do have thousands and thousands of years of archeological evidence for having inhabited these areas in Northern Mexico and Arizona. They share common linguistic ancestors that spread throughout an incredible large geographic area but these people are not and never were Aztec. Stop the madness.

A lot of that is modern politics in the USA. The Aztecs are used as a totem by political orgs or groups with an agenda to try and unify a diverse group of Spanish speaking immigrants under a common fake ancestry to unify them and use them as a power base. I literally took public school classes where 'Mexican American Studies' teachers were using books that claimed Arizona was the ancestral home of the Aztecs, and if you are Mexican or Chicano the Aztecs are your ancestors, so you didn't really cross the border the border crossed you.

The Aztecs have been fetishized and turned into a totem that is used to organize people who immigrated from south of the border in the USA.

Are there any studies out there comparing papyrus to paper to see how they age, degrade, etc? Maybe the paper just doesn't last as long so finding examples that are contemporaneous with ancient papyrus would be more difficult. Just a theory!

Estevan was most definitely a Christian/catholic convert before arriving in the New World.

For the last 16 years, which country has the longest ongoing civil conflict and has been the worlds most dangerous country for journalists and civilians? Ukraine you say? Nope. Syria? Nope. It's Mexico!

Mexico has been going through a protracted and somewhat obfuscated civil war for 16 years now. It's wild. The military coup is incoming and inevitable. Things are going to get very interesting when AMLO decides to stay in office. Will the US intercede?

Gotta use your imagination and critical thinking skills on this one! Think about what happens when flood waters retreat.. the fetid rotting masses of plants and dead animals left behind among wet, festering pools of tepid water... the perfect breeding ground for disease and bacteria.

Most of the Pharos looked like the Eqyptian Copts of today,. These people are not Arabs and they are not black, they are not white either if that needed to be said lol. These people are the direct descendants of ancient Egyptian ruling class and the dominant culture during the dynastic and old kingdom periods. Today Egypt has more sub-saharan and north African DNA circulating than they did 2000 years ago when Cleopatra was around and more than they did 4000 or 5000 years ago during the dynastic and old kingdom.

> Christianity as an independent religion took several hundred years to evolve from a Messianic cult of Judaism.

I think this split clearly took place with Paul much sooner than you suggest.

Look at what Venice and Genoa were doing first. This became the template that the Dutch and English followed. It's corporations working in concert with the state. Venice and Genoa basically invented modern incorporated business and international trade.

It's a geographic phenomenon. Central America forms a physical bottle neck and as the region filled up with it's first group of linguistic arrivals there wasn't any room for new comers. They had to settle to the west and north where Mexico opens up. That's one theory!

I want to see what Nathan Fielder's guy would come up with.