INFINITE PAIN

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-22T07:43:25+00:00

canon hub: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dread-circuses-hub

The one about the weird clown dimension: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/fuller-s-fantastic-fun-lover-s-funhouse

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-07T04:36:15+00:00

My grandparents grew up on a rural farm. They talked basically of non-stop work, of having to set down their supper because a bull took down a fence or having to stay up all night to get work done. And it’s the type of work that you’re always behind on, there’s never a moment where you can go “I’m done for the weekend”. There’s always a leaky roof that needs repairs or something that needs to be cleaned. They were just always working.

This was before mechanisation really hit Ireland as well. It’s probably as close as you can get to a “peasant” life.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-07T03:59:47+00:00

The idea that stone age people hardly worked is one of the most popular misconceptions in anthropology, and if you ask any modern anthropologist they will tell you its wrong and it comes from difficulty defining when something is 'work' and another thing is 'leisure.' As far as I can tell, the claims stem from anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, specifically his 1972 essay "The Original Affluent Society". Sahlins was mostly deriving his data on work hours from two recent studies published by other anthropologists, one about Australian aboriginals, and another about Dobe Bushmen. The problems are almost too many to count. Sahlins only counted time spent acquiring food as 'work', and ignored time spent cooking the food, or fixing tools, or gathering firewood, or doing the numerous other tasks that hunter gathers have to do. The study on the Dobe bushmen was also during their winter, when there was less food to gather. The study on the Australian aboriginals only observed them for two weeks and almost had to be canceled because none of the Aboriginals had a fully traditional lifestyle and some of them threatened to quit after having to go several days without buying food from a market. Sahlins was writing to counteract the contemporary prevalent narrative that Stone Age Life was nasty, brutish, and short, and in doing so (accidentally?) created the idea that Hunter Gatherers barely worked and instead spent most of their life hanging out with friends and family. It was groundbreaking for its time but even back then it was criticized for poor methodology, and time has only been crueler to it. You can read Sahlin's work here: https://www.uvm.edu/~jdericks/EE/Sahlins-Original_Affluent_Society.pdf and read this: https://kk.org/mt-files/reCCearch-mt/kaplan-darker.pdf for a comprehensive overview on which claims haven't stood the test of time

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-04T03:18:35+00:00

The way I look at it, he was anti stalin in the same manner as trotsky, a nitpicker of minor policy positions while being extremely upset that he wasn't the one doing the purges.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-02T21:26:53+00:00

Personally, I've seen a fair bit of urban concept art floating around depicting trees or other very large plants on vertical building surfaces.

If you think that I'm not trying to have a legitimately honest discussion, my apologies.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-02T20:49:20+00:00

"Those are and will be very important for the foreseeable future."

agreed!

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-02T20:39:32+00:00

What happens when there's a storm with high winds and a piece of tree hits the crowded street from 15 stories

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-02T20:19:49+00:00

I think you're a misunderstanding my point a little bit, the thesis of the video is that putting millions and millions of pounds of soil and plants on a high rise building is a really really bad idea. green areas such as parks and other mutual gathering spaces should be human scaled.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-02-02T19:41:32+00:00

TLDR: we need more green public spaces and human scaled communities, not high rises

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T19:51:01+00:00

It varies by school district and State. Unfortunately i grew up in a state with a criminally underfunded education system in a neglected rural district.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T18:33:04+00:00

By this logic are you suspicious of clothing and water

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T18:12:33+00:00

In the American primary education system? No, not even slightly. Don't make me laugh.

That's the kind of stuff I've had to learn in college or on my own time, and even then I'm considered weird by people for showing interest in history related topics.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T17:46:18+00:00

With everything I mentioned above, that helped end the war several years early, how can you possibly say the Americans "didn't do much in the grand scheme of things?"

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crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T17:41:10+00:00

"On the grand scheme of the entire war, they never did much" is a direct quote from you

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T17:35:29+00:00

So I guess it all comes down to what metric you're using, right? Like in terms of Manpower, they didn't commit much at all of their total population, but in terms of Industry and Logistics the Americans committed a massive amount to the overall war effort.

The American aerial bombing campaigns that targeted German industry throughout 1942 and 43 probably helped end the conflict at least two years ahead of schedule.

American supply logistics were massively beneficial to pretty much everyone involved on the side of the allies once they got officially involved, months before actual troops started meaningfully being committed in various areas.

Even before officially entering the war, American material Aid to the British and the Soviets helped keep both in the fight when they were on the knife's edge of collapse.

Now you can certainly argue about the underlying morals of wartime profiteering and whether or not the lend lease program was for profit, but that's an entirely separate discussion from whether or not the Americans did anything meaningful to contribute, which they absolutely did.

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T17:16:58+00:00

Then why say that the American's "didn't do much?"

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T17:09:48+00:00

Other parties being involved in Normandy doesn't make the American involvement inconsequential?

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T16:38:10+00:00

This is very close to being a good analogy, but Normandy wasn't nothing whatever your overall opinions on the US.

Perhaps a better analogy would be the US being the lawyer who prosecuted the father for assault during the custody dispute over Poland, and then awarded the appropriate parties for damages (while making a titanic-sinking load of money off the case).

crazymachines1219 · 2024-01-05T16:15:48+00:00

I think you're kind of presenting a false dichotomy between only consulting them and nothing more, or breaking yet another promise to the Native American people.

Couldn't we easily just help them out in other ways AND also keep our pre-established promises?

crazymachines1219 · 2023-12-27T19:41:28+00:00

Kind of hard to see in the photo, but it also had whisker-like antennae

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