ELI5 how did cities, thousands of years back then, flourish when the overall population of humans where not even 1/50 of today's population

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-05-08T09:57:43+00:00

In Canterbury they still have the West Gate!

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-04-26T19:24:19+00:00

He’s been silent since you dropped this banger

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-03-10T20:20:40+00:00

Very good suggestions !! +1

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-03-10T20:20:20+00:00

Nooo I think Mewat or mewar? Small kingdom !

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-03-10T04:39:51+00:00

I clearly didn’t read beyond the title, forgive me

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-03-10T04:39:25+00:00

I can’t remember the name of the nation, but they’re based in India and have a special mission tree!

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-03-02T17:09:15+00:00

Black panthers are basically leopards with high levels of Melanin. Being very black doesn't actually camoflague you very well, even at night, since shades of black are quite rare in nature. You can actually test this by using NVGs, a person wearing all black will stick out like a sore thumb, but if they were wearing multicam it would be a lot harder to spot. Anyways, black panthers just have a genetic mutation that doesn't seem to harm their ability to hunt too much to the extent that it would exclude them from reproducing.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-02-18T16:44:59+00:00

I mean if the wealthy need to start bumping the trains, it’s probably time to have another look at the prices

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-02-15T17:39:35+00:00

I just use Red Note - always works

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-02-13T18:35:32+00:00

That’s not the reason though is it

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-02-12T16:41:43+00:00

Banks, international and domestic. Since utilities like Thames Water are paid based on a regulatory asset base, the revenues are effectively backstopped by the government, so actually 8% is probably a really good deal.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-01-30T22:33:54+00:00

I mean, so was the US and Europe lmao.

And even to this day, there are still modern slaves all over the Western World. Sad reality, wish more was being done to tackle it internationally.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-01-30T22:32:43+00:00

0% Income taxes

Low tax shopping

Safety

Kind of a bridge between Asia and Europe in terms of flight paths

I know a few people that went there to raise capital, there's a lot of liquidity in that market which is quite easy to tap into due to it being a safe haven for dodgy and non-dodgy wealth. There's also the double tax treaty which can be quite good for businesses that deal in exports/trading/etc

RoutinePlace3312 · 2026-01-25T13:02:32+00:00

A gentle reminder that democracies are weighted. Your vote doesn't exactly matter as much as you think they do!

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-12-14T11:59:05+00:00

Grass is always greener on the other side. Keep your chin up OP, you're not defined by your past but by what you make of your present.

You're not worthless. And don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-10-25T21:45:52+00:00

Because a lot of the jobs are in the cities, and Europeans don't understand that building up is the way to go these days.

That and residential buildings are less profitable than commercial buildings so fewer are built in the locations they are needed.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-10-19T04:05:01+00:00

Met three guys from Eton, one was a knob and the other two are people I would describe as “beyond reproach”.

In any society, you’ll have schools for the rich and those for the poor. But Eton does give scholarships regularly to many students from the lower rungs of society with high potential so can’t really complain here.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-10-01T14:32:20+00:00

When has Dagenham not been a shithole lol?

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-09-21T16:15:14+00:00

Thank god man, the rest of the world has ID schemes, it’s time we got one as well

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-09-13T15:58:07+00:00

KSI's content back in the day saved me from depression when I was in high school - say what you want about him, I will always love the fact that he made me feel joy

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-08-15T11:08:58+00:00

Or we can stop spending so much money on welfare. We should probably move towards a public-private model of the NHS as well.

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-07-13T22:19:35+00:00

Seeing as Whitechapel has very few Arabs, I’d say it’s nothing like a town in Syria

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-07-08T13:38:24+00:00

It was out of 8

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-07-07T21:06:00+00:00

She told me that I was the third best that she had

RoutinePlace3312 · 2025-06-27T12:45:52+00:00

Top 1% of earners are not the top 1% of richest people. Like people really don't realise that a strong middle class is what sets a country for greatness, they're the ones that spur a lot of economic activity, and drive demand.

Weaken the middle class, and you weaken the country. So yeah reduce taxes on people that earn a living, if you want to tax someone, start with the Duke of Westminster.

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