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Worth pointing out that the original media itself is compromised as an accurate historical representation.

IDK. Personally I think it's silly to romanticise and wax lyrical about what are - when it comes down to it - errors in the data; artefacts of the crudeness of the technology that was available when the material was created. Do we routinely add errors of this type to modern footage? No. Why not? Because they detract from the material.

The material is already hugely compromised as a historical document of the reality on the day the events were captured. Let's not put it on a pedestal. For example, if we remove the effect of hand-cranking on film to make it more watchable, are we destroying or enhancing? I would argue the latter. The hand-cranking adds little of value.

Humans left Africa and began dispersing throughout the world at least 120,000 years ago

Haven't recent discoveries undermined this theory?

happiness actually derives from having cats

Not if you're part of the massive destruction of wildlife wrought by these biodiversity annihilators masquerading as cute pets.

'As an invasive species[1] and superpredator,[2] they do considerable ecological damage.[2] In Australia, hunting by cats helped to drive at least 20 native mammals to extinction,[3] and continues to threaten at least 124 more.[3] Their introduction has caused the extinction of at least 33 endemic species on islands throughout the world.[2] Feral and domestic cats kill billions of birds in the United States every year, where songbird populations continue to decline.[4]'

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

Some areas are pretty much unaffected by earthquakes, like the UK.

Perhaps they are using contraception because there are disincentives, and they are working.

I think there is vast potential for moving all kinds of activities underground. Upfront cost is huge, but once it's done as long as it's maintained it's there for good.

source?

I don't understand why Western countries are not incentivising people to have children.

Japan in general is about 10 years behind the western world and in some places even more

Sounds good to me

Edit: because the West is such a utopia in 2020? Please...

Indeed, it's the first 'popular revolution' I've ever seen that's been pushed hard as a full-spectrum propaganda war by virtually the entirety of the establishment and elite; this 'diversity' they bore on about ad-nauseam does not seem to extend to diversity of thought. Object to it and you get cancelled (or worse) by the SJW footsoldiers.

I really don't think it added the smiles etc.

'“The problem with colourisation is it leads people to just think about photographs as a kind of uncomplicated window onto the past, and that's not what photographs are,” says Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Associate Professor at University College Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy.'

Why do these academics always want to complicate things and dictate how we feel? Nobody put them in charge!

'“There's something that's gained, but there's also something that's lost,” says Mark-FitzGerald. “And I think we need to have a conversation about what both of those things are.”'

I'm guessing that would be a pretty one-way 'conversation'.

Edit: looking at the Leeds video it's clear to me the processed version adds a great deal - you can even see clearly how much fun they are having by the smiles on their faces, which is pretty hard to spot on the raw footage. It's charming to think of them fooling around in the garden with new technology, 132 years ago this month.

Dick Shelby

I sometimes wonder if someone at the top is trying to drive people away from TV/film/video. Yes there's more content than ever before but as regards drama etc. the writing is generally dreadful and the stories lack originality, on YouTube the adverts are becoming obnoxious and if extremely one-sided political messaging isn't to your taste, well, good luck finding a single programme that isn't stuffed to the gills with it.

and with higher stakes!

How lovely. Is this affordable anywhere other than a petrostate?

There's zero wilderness left in the UK, the less populated areas have virtually zero jobs, and the government is intent on increasing the population and destroying the countryside as a consequence. There is (deliberately?) no escape.

You're completely mistaking me. Of course it's a symbiotic relationship. But if men choose not to be competitive, those men will just exclude themselves from procreation. The power is in women's hands to change it by being less avaricious. For example plenty of women have been conned by De Beers into thinking they need a diamond engagement ring worth x times monthly salary, else the prospective spouse isn't worth it. And plenty of them couldn't care less about the horrible circumstances behind their diamond. Let's not put either sex on a pedestal here.

Oh and thanks for your concern, but I'm doing just fine with my current cognitive path thanks. Mortgage, marriage, kids etc. all in hand.

If men choose not to be competitive and women don't change, those men just exclude their genes from the gene pool.

The story I heard about these was that during WW2 American GIs stationed in Australia were tricked by the locals into using the leaves as a replacement for toilet paper, with predictably unfortunate results.

The UK negotiators couldn't get that there are ideas the EU isn't willing to sacrifice on the altars of commerce and capital.

Well that's a very Brussels-centric picture that you paint, i.e., the glorious, righteous warriors of the EU leadership bravely defending Europe's morality against the terrible, beastly greed of perfidious Albion. However, from where I'm sitting it looks more like a demented quest for vengeance from an EU political leadership driven insane by the personal humiliation of losing one of the biggest members of the EU despite their best efforts and the stunning repudiation to their megalomaniacal globalist wet dream.

GDP only tells a very particular story - there's still vast wealth within Europe/EU. If you disagree, please travel around the swankier parts of the continent and then come back and tell me how poverty-stricken it is. It's also worth pointing out that a good part of US GDP is down to its reserve currency status, and there's evidence that this will not remain unchallenged over time.

Well, there's a pretty good debate to be had about the worth of GDP. It's perfectly possible to have huge GDP and a miserable majority, and vice versa.

Like a number of other posters I think this probably is mostly motivated by protectionism, but unlike them my response is: so what? So European consumers miss out on the tax-evading, anti-democratic, addiction-pushing, misery-spreading, dystopia-creating big-brother tactics of US big tech. Oh no, what a terrible tragic loss, how will this still enormously wealthy and advanced continent with thousands of years of civilisation behind it ever cope etc. etc. etc...

I feel similarly about Brexit.

Can't agree more.

The EU do it all the time. But I guess that doesn't count for some reason or other...

inarguable example of a portion of the right that are promoting and presumably investing in theories that are utterly bonkers.

I've given you an example of something that was labelled a 'conspiracy theory' by the left that turned out to be absolutely true, and in fact even worse than suspected when the truth came out. Furthermore, it was in fact the left that was engaging in conspiracy! Apart from that it's blindingly obvious that the author is using the beliefs of a minority as a vehicle to attack the (non-wingnut) majority of the right, and to delegitimise criticism of leftism.

You just don't like what I'm saying.