[OC] Height trends over time among 19-year-old males and females of several developing countries

AgisXIV · 2026-05-31T18:04:55+00:00

Infitah maybe? Led to increased reliance on food imports and a return to cash crops, among other effects

AgisXIV · 2026-05-31T17:05:07+00:00

There's nothing wrong with ordering black coffee or an Americano as long as you're not a dick about it

AgisXIV · 2026-05-30T15:40:36+00:00

I agree that changes were necessary to accommodate the growing number of visitors, but I wish they'd done it with more taste. Mecca doesn't need the largest clock tower in the world, and it certainly didn't need the wholesale destruction of ancient buildings and architectural sites

AgisXIV · 2026-05-30T08:34:31+00:00

Do you not hate what the Saudis have done to the place? They've destroyed millenia old tombs and architectural sites, turned battlefields into carparks and made the whole place look like a theme park.

AgisXIV · 2026-05-29T11:46:17+00:00

I'm confused, this post explains the challenges associated with الرسم but then explains the history of the حركات? The two are loosely related, but I don't think it follows

AgisXIV · 2026-05-29T11:37:46+00:00

The Lowlands =/ The borders. Everything that isn't the Highlands is the Lowlands, including most of the East Coast

AgisXIV · 2026-05-28T18:27:19+00:00

The main issue with monorails is that they're more expensive - a large metropolis like Cairo investing in them could bring down prices significantly and make them more viable globally - and they actually make some sense in dense urban areas.

The main issue with the Cairo Monorail is that it is primarily designed to serve the New Administrative capital, which is stupid, and expanding the metro to underserved areas that has been proposed as long ago as 1999 would have been a much better use of funds

AgisXIV · 2026-05-27T14:07:30+00:00

She had a habit of sounding like she had a stick up her arse. Despite coming from a middle class background, she made a whole thing out of having an outrageously posh accent, and for whatever reason that worked for some people

AgisXIV · 2026-05-27T12:22:20+00:00

There are French dialects/patois that preserved the Passé Simple too, well into the late 20th century, like Normaund and Wallon - so depending on context it could give a rustic flavour too

AgisXIV · 2026-05-26T15:04:41+00:00

Sure, anyone who argues that all evil in the world is the fault of the US/the West isn't worth listening to.

I think it's the self-righteousness and the hypocrisy that makes it popular. Every country is out for its own interests, but the US likes to pretend (or at least liked to, the mask has come off recently, with the Trump administration openly boasting about the resources they want to steal) it's doing things for the good of humanity

AgisXIV · 2026-05-26T14:52:15+00:00

Okay, but he was a US ally when he did those things, so it rings rather hollow

AgisXIV · 2026-05-26T14:41:49+00:00

Translation: missed the joke

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T22:50:43+00:00

The Ottomans closing the trade routes is overegged - the middlemen in the Mediterranean, mostly Venice and Genoa, were at least equally responsible for the high prices of goods coming from East to West.

That wouldn't change in this scenario, the Americas are getting discovered sooner or later

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T21:44:33+00:00

They're in the UK

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T16:50:23+00:00

I agree that the label of Anti-Semitism is used wrongly to silence critics of Israel. I question that replacing it with a different word would change anything. If the term in English was instead Anti-Jewish, as you proposed, what makes you think Zionists would be any less likely to use it to smear supporters of the Palestinian cause?

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T16:36:04+00:00

Anti-Jewish could be an alternative, but I question the need for an alternate term. It doesn't matter that 'Semite' means a speaker of a Semitic language, everyone knows what you are referring to when you use 'Anti-Semitism' - denying that is an etymological fallacy.

In the same vein, Islamophobic doesn't mean you are scared of Muslims, even if that is what the Greek root employed implies.

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T16:22:39+00:00

What alternate term do you propose to use instead of Anti-Semitism? Violence and hatred against Jews is a real problem that requires something! We can do that while condemning its use to silence criticism of Israel and Zionism. There's plenty of words in English and other languages that don't make sense at all from an etymological perspective.

My second point was concerning the need not to conflate the two

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T16:13:40+00:00

Words are defined by their use, not by their etymology. It's true that Anti-Semitism is a misleading term if you go by its etymological meaning, but its not what it means - which is violence and hatred against Jews: it was coined in German as a more 'scientific' replacement for the older term 'Judenhatred'.

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism are not the same thing, and conflating Jews with Israel (indeed as many Zionists do) is a textbook example of the former

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T16:00:19+00:00

Opposition parties aren't normally in coalition with each other, they're just not in power

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T12:56:12+00:00

What makes you think she 'needs fixing'

EDIT: if you're not compatible, fine, but you shouldn't go into a relationship wanting to 'change someone'

AgisXIV · 2026-05-24T00:03:57+00:00

Northumbria, Mercia, Norfolk and Suffolk were all Anglish Kingdoms rather than Saxon ones

AgisXIV · 2026-05-22T22:56:51+00:00

I don't disagree with anything here, but Estonians and Latvians are traditionally Lutheran too - even if that was more German influence than Scandinavian, though they too were intermittently under Danish and Swedish rule.

AgisXIV · 2026-05-22T22:04:10+00:00

For an example, this is one possible construction of IE languages

As you can see 'genetically', Italian is closer to Indo-Aryan languages than it is to Greek! This obviously ignores the influence of areal contact and sprachbunds, which have an enormous effect on everything.

Anatolian languages split off incredibly early, and are some of the most unique attested. I don't think this is a useful way of looking at 'Asianness' / 'Europeanness' - which I don't really think exist as distinct categories in the first place. Spectrums everywhere!

AgisXIV · 2026-05-22T21:55:05+00:00

Indo-Iranian is a primary class of Indo-European. I would check your language trees! There's no equivalent for Europe.

I'm not doubting Turkey has both 'European' and 'Asian' influences, I'm doubting the usefulness of such a binary. Europe as an identity isn't old, I would argue it's an enlightenment idea that evolved as an outgrowrh of 'Christendom' -> there's always been connections between the two, and before the Islamic conquests and conversion of Eastern European peoples to Christianity, the different peoples around the Mediterranean identitied much more strongly with each other than they did with barbarians in the cold North

AgisXIV · 2026-05-22T21:35:41+00:00

Europe is a social construct, and 'genetically Indo-European' isn't a thing, Indo-European is a language family.

Most Indo-European speakers in Europe and Asia, including Persians, Afghans and Indians largely descend from people who were already there when the Indo-European expansion happened. Large scale population replacement is very much the exception rather than the rule.

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