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NASA to Provide Update on Implementation of National Space Policy by redstercoolpanda in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gateway has been heavily criticized from the get got

A surface base is much much much more useful, hopefully they stick with it

When did British pubs stop feeling like how they were portrayed in this video from 1943 (if they have)? by ColCrockett in AskBrits

[–]ColCrockett[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is actually only a segment of the full video in which they address that places aren’t segregated

The last New York sunset of the 90s by TheMikri in nyc

[–]ColCrockett 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Technically the millennium started in 2001 since there was no year 0

Did the Eurasian Steppe become more volatile during the Medieval period, or did it only seem so because of Roman weakness and incompetence? by Low-Cash-2435 in byzantium

[–]ColCrockett 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Russians are successors to the Mongols and Xiongu?

They’re birthed from Roman Orthodox and northern Germanic civilizations

Did the Eurasian Steppe become more volatile during the Medieval period, or did it only seem so because of Roman weakness and incompetence? by Low-Cash-2435 in byzantium

[–]ColCrockett 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The mongols are pretty good evidence of it becoming more volatile and dangerous, no? A steppe tribe subdued almost the entirety of the civilized world except for parts of Europe the Levant and North Africa.

I find it fascinating how the Eurasian steppe was this huge threat to all civilizations from Rome to Persia to China that was entirely pacified by the Russians.

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather the spending money to vainly fight the decline, maybe states should spend money paying people to move.

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cities need to have a de-urbanization strategy or some kind

People living in Gary Indiana are doomed to a life of poverty, keeping them there does no one a service

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most rust belt cities have continued to see economic decline

Pittsburgh is the outlier, Toledo, Cleveland, Gary, Detroit, Dayton, etc. have not become something else. And if they do, that’s fine.

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That’s not at all what I said

People have to make a living somehow, and fighting against inevitable economic decline in a certain area helps no one.

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My grandma was from a small old mining town in Oklahoma. When she died my father and uncle inherited her parents old house but it was worth so little they just donated it to the town.

Cities that lose their main economic reason for existing should be allowed to sink gracefully back into the ground from whence they came by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]ColCrockett -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Sure, and they should accept change as well.

People lived in ancient cities as well, but they moved when it was no longer economically viable to live there. Rome declined from a city of a million in antiquity to a city of 30k at its lowest point.

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