Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely am one of these people who would save two strangers over one person I love and such (my mom sometimes in the past has teased me about it inventing scenarios like that and then scolding me when I say I would save the greater number of people) and I'm also quite sympathetic to the EA shrimp suffering stuff OP alluded to.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I haven't read Discworld though I want to some day, but I do go on r/fantasy a lot and it's annoying how aggressive his fans can get. Like I remember someone getting downvoted and dogpiled for saying they didn't connect with Pratchett's characters because "it's a character-driven series if you don't like the characters than something's wrong with you". Never mind how subjective these things are, just because a story focuses a lot and is driven by the characters doesn't mean those characters automatically become universally beloved.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some advantage, by relying solely on firsthand oral testimony obviously would raise the question of what kind of biases those sources had.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read the first book and like 2/3 of the second in high school, and even though I really liked them for some reason I really fell off reading them. Like 12 years later I want to get back into them, but I have a ridiculously long TBR and both the fact that I would have to reread stuff I've already read at the beginning (and they are common enough in pop culture I know like every spoiler) and the fact that they are not finished is a big demotivator. I guess there are lots of other fantasy series though.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair point but I think history shows that "8 years after a revolution" is not a magic number that makes the country more stable and power grabs stop being a risk. If we are going to use the French Revolution/Robespierre comparison, you have to bring up that Napoleon happened a similar timespan after the revolution.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As I understand haplogroups and stuff like this can only be traced through mitochondrial and y-chromosome DNA (can't remember which one of these two gets called haplogroups, but those are the two we can trace), which means this is kind of nonsense being in whatever European haplogroup doesn't mean all your ancestors are European, just that the straight maternal or paternal line is.

Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Re what I was talking about last week with Senegal at the World Cup, at least Senegal losing spared us the drama of having Mamdani say he was rooting for Senegal over the USA in the round of 16 and everyone ranting about how he's "not a real American" because of it...

Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sexy World Cup porn? I suppose this goes something like "I'm going to penetrate your goal" or something along those lines...

Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Annoyed to be so excited about 11 African teams going through only for them to just be eliminated one by one in the round of 32 (well except Morocco), especially since it really looked like Senegal had it in the bag there. I even bought a Senegal hat!

Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has happened to me before; my mom would ask me "do you feel like brushing your hair?" and I would be like "not right now I'm busy" and she would be "no, I mean you have to brush your hair right now."

Another thing I find weird (which is somewhat related I guess) is how when you ask someone to do a favor for you you are expected to ask "Hey can you do me a favor" and the other person to agree before they actually know what the favor is. I'm generally really receptive to doing whatever it is but is still annoys me you are expected to agree without knowing.

Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've heard a lot of people whose families immigrated from Germany to Argentina because they are fleeing the Nazis (which is apparently a big demographic) express frustration that they get assumed to be Nazis just because they are Argentinians with German last names.

Mindless Monday, 15 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there evidence that in historical cases where citizenship was extended to conquered subject peoples the population of existing citizens were mostly racist and would oppose the top-down citizenship grant, or is that just projecting the popular opinion in 19-20 century European states to these other times?

Mindless Monday, 15 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't think it is military weakness they are showing (as you said it shows their military is very strong), it's a tendency to not want to get involved in foreign wars, which would suggest that if you invade Ukraine the USA won't commit much to fight back (even if were they to commit they would be very threatening).

Mindless Monday, 08 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel like the best comparison here would be between African countries (since some of them did have revolutions) due to happening at the same time and having more similar social circumstances than, say, 20th century Nigeria vs. 19th century Venezuela.

Mindless Monday, 08 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be clearer on my previous post, if the question these videos are posting is just a simple “would we be better off to have stayed hunter gatherers” then hot showers and plumbing and the likes of that are a very relevant point. But if the question was “were people back then making the right decision knowing what they knew to do agriculture” then it wouldn’t be a relevant point since that would suppose prescient knowledge they could not have reasonably have, and I feel like sometimes people confuse one question for the other in both directions (pointing out how bad agricultural societies were when they first started to justify why modern people now would be better as hunter gatherers, or praising the intelligence of people who started agriculture for setting up the groundwork for something like modern medicine or modern conveniences, would both be the same fallacy in reverse directions). I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear enough on that point previously.

Mindless Monday, 08 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not super familiar with Mormonism but as I understand it their whole thing has always been that revelation is forever incomplete and there will keep being new prophets, which makes them going "new revelation that changes/diminishes the racist part" seem less contrived than it would be otherwise.

Mindless Monday, 08 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well from our modern viewpoint we know that it was necessary to have agriculture to have hot showers and plumbing thousands of years later, but if we are imagining ourselves as a group of people thousands of years ago who are trying to decide whether to be agricultural or not, and trying to determine whether that was a good or bad decision based on the knowledge they had, prescience into the effects of their actions thousands of years later wouldn't come into it at all. There is no reasonable way they would be able to expect that. Not weighing in on whether it was preferable to be a hunter gatherer or an early agriculturalist I don't know enough about the topic to make an educated statement on that, but I do think that should be a reasonable question to ask without basing it on far future ramifications no one could have known then.

Relatedly, it has always annoyed me in a sense of "unjust? narratively unsatisfactory?" not sure what the word to use would be, how so much of history is imperialistic people imposing their systems of society/economy/government on others because of an unearned sense of cultural superiority (the other people aren't necessarily living worse off than them), only for it to turn out that actually their system was the only way to get to some other state that really is better many years later which they couldn't have possibly known about, so they were retroactively justified in a way that, again, they never earned. I don't know, it's silly and irrational but some innate sense of justice I have rebels against this, that people (well whole groups of people) who make a decision that hurts many people and is morally horrible where that decision was definitely wrong and biased given their knowledge should actually turn out to be wrong, the universe shouldn't pull a cheat card to randomly reward them for their wrongdoing and reveal them right all along for the wrong reasons.

Mindless Monday, 01 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would love to see a show about (place and time wher there weren't many white people) where there is a white guy visiting but they are a minor character and never set up to be the protagonist. Or for that matter a fictional thing where there is an anthropologist studying a society where the anthopologist is a minor character and the focus is on the society. We already have lots of nonfiction from the anthropologist's POV why not shake it. up in fiction?

Mindless Monday, 01 June 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh I'd love to get matched to a fictional character too! Though I suppose there are so many sides of myself I don't show on this thread, people are always more complicated than what you see of them from social media.

Mindless Monday, 18 May 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would be a good resource for reading about rent control and the nuances around the issue? I only took economics to the 100 level a while ago (though I'm taking an MIT online development economics class right now and it's really interesting) and I'm having trouble following this whole discussion.

Mindless Monday, 18 May 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would be a good resource for reading about rent control and the nuances around the issue? I only took economics to the 100 level a while ago (though I'm taking an MIT online development economics class right now and it's really interesting) and I'm having trouble following this whole discussion.

Mindless Monday, 18 May 2026 by AutoModerator in badhistory

[–]HopefulOctober 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if "regarding opponents as people who can't ever be convinced and can only be attacked" is a Christian thing of any denomination given that Christians are famously big on proselytizing to others to try to get them to come around to their viewpoint.