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They would be an oddity. That's often why one got reports of them. Because they were incredibly rare

Most of them like septimus severus you mention and the maurorum are north africans and then the historia augusta mentions a single black ethiopian. And it gets some weird amount of focus seemingly purely due to modern sensibilities in an anti racism drive and to create a sense of belonging. Same with how a lot of the story around the HMT windrush is wildly stretched or downright myth.

"It's not a stretch" .... "possibly manumitted later"....

Colonial era europe fairly certainly had many times more and outside of a few hotspots...they were still an oddity. They didn't just go back, didn't get selected out so that they didn't routinely show up in genepool research. They just aren't there in the demographic data. Fuck this is not that long ago. My great grandparents never saw one in the flesh.

Isn't the effect a bit overstated (ie european climate would still be somewhat similar to western canada) and wouldn't the UK specifically still benefit a lot from it's ocean climate moderation (less extremes including cold)

Isnt the issue that it happens quite a lot more since test levels on average dropped a ton? (in part due to various lifestyle choices which should be focused on first but arguably also due to various polutants)

If exhaust fumes get into the room too often you're doing it wrong. You shouldn't be able to smell it inside. I've at times made the fire go a little harder to get rid of fumes (kitchen oopsies). My air quality measurer found it remarkably effective.

As for neighbors. That is true but at the same time these things are rather sustainable and from a time when the population density was lower. I think they still have some place outside of cities untill heatpumps come down in price.

and America is already pretty damn strict about certain armaments, such as sub-machine guns.

Not one but you're really validating their slippery slope fears and claims there.

The class counsel's unreimbursed litigation expenses were $2.6m.

In what sane state does it even get that high?

Is there still any specific brand known for dumb tv's that features the quality and 'non smart' options of the smart variants?

edit: in fact, it is illustrated by the ridiculous recent Elon Musk fit about "the odyssey" cast, itself fueled by the misconceptions that "having black guys in a roman army is woke because everyone knows the romans are not black".

What roman army are you talking about ?

Also yeah the vast vast majority of the romans were not black just like how in some african kingdoms later one could see a very rare arab trader or slaver but they were for the vast vast majority black.

Rome was the centre of the empire so had every type of person just as London had as the centre of the British empire.

And yet the kind of diversity you're probably expecting was incredibly rare in both. There's enough demographic data to know that.

The same is said for why we don't build classical buildings anymore and trend towards more featureless stuff... and it's also mostly bullshit with plenty of counterexamples.

Truth is it's often just a bit cheaper so we trend that way under capitalism, we change styles faster and have come to subconsciously accept shorter lifespans and the kind of things you can build more practical for cars, large overhangs, etc

cold in winter in my region terribly humid

You need to actually reduce draft a bit (often old houses like mine tend to accumulate flaws that the elderly living there before didn't fix anymore.) and use a heating sources that matches.

Having a fireplace is fine. It could overheat the house whilst also keeping air dryer and it's essentially renewable (compared to the alternatives and houses made of more plastic insulation than anything else) if you don't mind air quality dip in winter.

That said i can see how that's no longer an option in places that have drastically increased their population

The point is that manufacturing is a relatively small part of both the economy and the job market

Yes because the UK is overfinancialised to a ridiculous degree. It has deindustralised in doing so.

This leads to stupid decisions like gutting the university sector, which is a major export industry.

I'd call it more of a major import industry. At the same time your doctors and such are leaving the country.

Besides, if these are so profitable why are they making the cuts you think? Is it that those degrees aren't exactly paying off in an economy that can't consist of HR departments and other PMC's?

But they chose a guy who would leave microsoft, accelerate the rot and set them on the windows phone path before that sale? I don't think it was the best value for those assets. They still were a big phone brand with a ton of consumer attachment prior to that even if on the decline. i wanted to buy their phones.

I think the ottomans typically catch much less flack than the english.

Only more recent stuff against greeks, armenians and kurds catches flack and those are around to amplify it.

eat less meat

Eat less and different meat with a smaller footprint. Mostly poultry, eggs, also more organ meats, etc. Also combat fertiliser runoff, etc.

The methane output of a field of cattle isn't that dramatically different from a forest with deer, decomposing wood, etc. Methane is also a potent but temporary actor and tackling it primarily just buys us very little time which will be used as an excuse to keep pumping co2.

However we grow a good bhunch of the feed for that cattle and for ourselves with fossil fuel based fertilisers. We need to quit that. If we get rid of both that 8% co2 output for fertilisers and get rid of the manure as well because we ditch meat too much...

Well we'll solve a lot of related problems by drastically reducing the world's population with a gigantic famine.

The thing is I'd still need my regular phone for various things and i can't cut the sim in half.

It's not even that some migration is need to save the economy. You'd need pronatalist policies or you're going to be doing that "some immigration" for ever and ever.

I presume hes using it as a shitty euphemism for pro mass migration. Conservative governments have kind of taken side on that front despite rethoric (see Boris wave of the conservatives, CDU and such)

If your argument is that people must choose between the devil and the deep blue sea as a repeated excuse for fielding a candidate that isn't all that popular or optimal.... Well then you're going to lose to the devil from time in the binary shitflinging that is the american political system.

...They have someone in charge of trans issues?

I was a big EU federalist but now it seems just a tool for liberal authoritarianism pushed by the established parties.

Europe is our home.

At the same time parts of my country feel less and less like home if at all and those politicians really hate adressing it.

Belgium can revoke citizenship of dual nationals on certain ground. What off it?

Is this purely because of their economic stances or did the financial times dive into social issues and idpol and maybe some of the stances where a part of the left clashes (migration and such)?

but they were also one of the biggest backers of Bush's invasion of Iraq which they were disastrously wrong about.

Were they wrong or were they insincere/dishonest?

farmers will sometimes place rusting iron equipment in the water ways to reduce metals accumulating in the topsoil.

Hoes does this work and related to the arsenic and acid rain?

Have you at least done a search on how much radioactive waste there is?

It's very little even for the US a country that at the behest of it's fossil fuel industry bans the reuse of it's nuclear fuel.

Also if I remember well only a small share of that waste (about 3%) is long lived and veryradioactive.

There hasn't been majority support for the current levels of migration in any western european country for a good while now. I think you live in a bubble.

Oh I know but disease is an abstract entity one can't directly address with scorn, to be held liable for direct action, etc. The government is and inaction draws less attention.

The other part of the story is that as long as Europe continues to vote radical rights + conservatives,

Which itself happened due to a democratic deficit regarding migration.

Everything else is weakly correlational for vitamin D.

All cause mortality is correlational for vitamin D. Various disease outbreaks (common cold, etc) and severity are correlational for vitamin D. etc We even know by which mechanisms so it's not like this is far fetched stuff where we're overlooking things.

This kind of stuff slaps you in the face if you live in the northern half of europe. To then think us now spending the majority of our waking hours indoors and the prevalence of those things and seasonal depression in winter when one leaves in the dark and comes home in the dark all has no effect....I think that's just hubris.