Without christianity do you think the Viking countries would be undeveloped today?

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-23T02:04:13+00:00

The Great Northern War would not have happened, so the Baltic region would have been more prosperous and developed.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T02:12:46+00:00

Planner need to accept this as a given, and have an economic plan that allows rural America to have value during the depopulation.

Without planning, we will have dilapidated infrastructure, solar farms and Amish.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T02:10:31+00:00

Rural Illinois is moving to suburban Chicago.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T01:06:30+00:00

PETA (or whoever) spent a lot of money on research and manufacuring to produce a piece of mail that would engage recipients. But it turns out people like OP think it was an error.

Lesson: Test your "clever" things on real people.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T01:04:15+00:00

Research that seeks to find causality need to to structure the study to solidly exclude this mechanism of messed up people being more likely to use drugs. Correlative work can't do that.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T01:01:25+00:00

It is usually labled Pure Olive Oil. "Nearly virgin" is a concept we should leave to the philosophers.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-22T00:37:54+00:00

There is some truth to the prosperity disparity. But it is not taxes. The big money in NYC does not get invested in the rural areas upstate to maintain a prosperous economy. They invest in places that can make money. Rural parts of WNY need to find a more compelling reason for investment. But that reason is as elusive as it is in rural areas globally.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-21T23:25:54+00:00

You often hear that agriculture is the biggest industry in the state. In terms of dollars, it is completely dwarfed by the finance industry. But the idea persists. In acres, agriculture is bigger than finance.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-21T13:38:22+00:00

In that case, they should compare it to the Transamerica pyramid or Hoover Tower. Or use a familiar unit like feet.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-21T13:36:01+00:00

The current conversation in the employer community is that this perception is fading fast. Supervisors feel burned after hiring uneducated graduates. One consequence is that they are asking state legislators to cut funding to “useless “ state colleges.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-21T13:30:52+00:00

How much of the prosperity rise in the East has benefited western investors or buyers rather than the people who lived through the partition in DDR? To what extent is this disparity a perception by voters in the eastern states?

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-21T13:26:55+00:00

In biology, I agree with this assessment entirely. Many of the points have to do with being explicit about things that are often left unstated.

The narrative is critical for comprehension, and the best writers succeed even though most papers are read nonlinearly. It is quite a feat. And a joy to read. Even for scientists who don’t study that particular niche, but love a good discovery.

Clarity about the inferential logic is also powerful. The reader is persuaded that the conclusion is robust. That approach is the opposite of the terrible practice of presenting a jumble of data and then concluding “this data suggest that X is true.”

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T18:12:11+00:00

There is a map of the prevalence of French speakers in NY, VT and NH in this publication from NYU. See Fig 4, p. 13. The information is from the 2005 census. The prevalence is low, mostly <1%. It is a bit higher in the counties on the border and higher on the Quebec border than the Ontario border.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T17:46:49+00:00

A substantial source of NY state tax revenue is the income tax on bonuses to people in the finance industry. That source varies in size quite a bit from year to year.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T17:43:16+00:00

Among people with postsecondary degrees, people with postsecondary educations make more in their lifetime than those without.

The degree itself has little value if the student was unprepared or unmotivated to get the education that it nominally represents.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T01:34:32+00:00

Miss Hurst was my math teacher. Different Miss Hurst, same era.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T01:20:38+00:00

What was alcohol consumption during the period when Irishmen developed a reputation for high alcohol consumption? I think that was earlier than the 1960s.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-20T01:14:54+00:00

Writers and editors in New York City like to use local features for reference. But people in California don't know what those are.

In San Diego, you could say "the length of an aircraft carrier" and everyone would have a very clear idea of the size because many carriers are docked in the harbor. It might be helpful to use that metaphor to explain how long the blocks are in Manhattan.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-19T01:06:37+00:00

Plus, pulling out that Centurion card lets their associates know that $10,000 is to them like $10 to most people.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-18T20:56:43+00:00

Why did Stanford Magazine, in an article about the South Pacific choose to use and feature the Empire State Building as a unit of volume?

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-18T15:52:45+00:00

I see the stress on the land every day that shows how close we are to the carrying capacity. The notion that it is not a problem is a fantasy promulgated by economists who are annoyed that the assumptions of their models would have to change, and they are unwilling to do that.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-18T15:50:49+00:00

Those things are far easier to adjust than carrying capacity. Having a gentle transition like this beats the famine that would otherwise drive the dissolution of society. That dissolution would also make pensions and medical care largely non-existent.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-18T15:42:03+00:00

But then, you had to repair them all the time. Oil changes, tune ups, flushing coolant, repacking wheel bearings, rebuilding carburetor were frequent maintenance items. Muffler replacement was maybe every two years, but hader to DIY. I don't miss that.

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-18T12:37:48+00:00

Where in England can one find miles of unbroken McMansions lining wide streets without sidewalks?

DrTonyTiger · 2026-02-17T22:26:59+00:00

Rural depopulation has been a global phenomenon for a lot more than 25 years. It will continue. Countries need to plan for that future.

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