arrow74

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Here's your gun and passport welcome to America

Healthcare is not included

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That was maybe one of the most brutal scenes I ever saw

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Not cheaper than a used washer though.

Plus you have to take into account the wear on the rest of the machine. It only take a couple of expensive repairs and then you paid for you to have paid the cost of a new washer and now you have created a money pit of an appliance. Same thing with cars, yes you can repair it forever, but eventually it's not worth it

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

It's the internet

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So Catholics are the major Christian group based on that.

Protestants are broken up among several dozen sects and don't often form a single block on issues. Catholics are one group that do often form a voting block.

It's well past time we stop breaking up Christianity into Catholic and Protestant. It's not a useful metric anymore. A Lutheran and a Baptist are just as different as a Quaker and a Catholic. Like come on the reformation was like 4 centuries ago, let's categorize better

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm an archaeologist and I'm totally cool with them having a few bars. As long as everything removed from collections is weighed, recorded, and ideally photographed it's okay. Of course we should keep a representative sample of lead bars, but there's a lot of material and we can't curate every ingot or every brick. So it's a balance for sure.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't let evil take root

Willing to kill 1 million people

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It is, the right position is he should have never started it the first place. Now he'll scream victory and leave. Only costed millions, if not billions, of dollars and thousands of lives. Such success

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 35 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Do you remember why the strait was closed in the first place.

This is like knocking over someone's sand castle, getting your ass beat for it, they agree to stop if you rebuild the sand castle, you do and declare victory

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Radiation typically spreads through weather as its lifted into the atmosphere. Mountains notably break-up and can contain weather fronts. It will also inhibit the aresolization of radioactive dust.

Look into how mountains impact weather and the movement of air. I'm not claiming it will 100% contain radiation spread but it will help limit it.

Remember it is a function of time as radiation naturally decays over time. This isn't Chernobyl, nukes are designed around isotopes that degrade faster.

But yeah Pakistan and Russia would likely feel the effects to some degree. Is Saudi Arabia a nuclear state? They would feel it too.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on your definition of society- they wouldn’t have a functioning government for a while, but the people surviving would still be Iranian and depending on whether they’re Kurdish, Persian, or other, might still have loyalty to the idea of an Iranian state.

Okay this one is fun and much more my area of expertise. You're getting at the core because it is something that is very difficult to determine. The Roman Empire is a great example, we can talk about just the west for now. Roman Britain was abandoned by the Roman's, and yet archaeological evidence shows that they still tried to live like Romans or at least the elites did. Historical records show a clear point at which the Roman Empire left, but when did the elites and people stop considering themselves Roman? They did eventually stop, and that was due to being cut-off from the empire.

Then you can look at the Bronze age collapse where whole civilizations just ceased to exist. Certainly the people persisted, but few states survived in tact. People still lived their but their civilizations ceased. They spoke the same languages still, but many cities across the Mediterranean region stop inhabited. By the time written record returned new states had formed and material culture changed. We know logically the people themselves existed in continuity but their societies ceased.

Maybe this is getting to into the weeds and not appropriate here, but this is my field and I've dedicated a lot of time to it. So the short answer is it is nearly impossible to draw a line, but societies do collapse even when the people persist

 

It's equally possible that there was more than one or even a day where only people were born and no one died.

There was a low point where only about 2,000 humans were estimated to be alive. Certainly you couldn't have had someone dying everyday then

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