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If society were to fall completly and we had to restart, would we even be able to considering all of the resourses we have already exausted, like how would we fuel a third industrial revolution when we have already exausted most of our coal
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>>2197448
Fossil fuels are not the only type of fuel out there, they are simply the most efficient.
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But >>2197454
But would we be able to do it again with a less efficient fuel if all technical knowledge of it was lost for a time
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lmao wtf am I reading our current industrial base and coal consumption is many hundreds of times larger than it was at the beginning of the industrial revolution
us manufacturing output continues to grow it's the number of people employed by it that is dropping
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What was the most rapey empire in existence?
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>>2197363
Nice pic
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>>2197363
All of them
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Middle East of today.
>women are punished for being raped
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Give it to me straight /his/; wuz they really NASA an shiet?
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what do you mean wuz they really? the movie is based on historical account, with your standard hollywood dramatization
go back to the_donald please
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>>2197185
Not really, no. They were employed - along with hundreds of other women - to basically just sit at a desk and crunch basic math all day.
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this is katherin johnson btw
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do you think that persons "value" and "worth" is pretty shallow in todays society?
what are people judged by and who exactly sets a persons "value"?
do flashier skills and jobs have a higher value in society then real down to earth skills and jobs?
how would it effect society in the long run?
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Yes.
The jobs with the most exposure, whether creative or athletic, will naturally appeal to people more because it is their nature to exist through and for the public.
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>>2197047
I think shallow is perfect word for it, how your describing it leads to popularity which is shallow by nature.
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>>2197047
>do you think that persons "value" and "worth" is pretty shallow in todays society?
I think its meaningless. We are cogs for the machine to generate capital.
>what are people judged by and who exactly sets a persons "value"?
Two things. How much money you make = your worth. How much money you can make for someone else = your worth.
>do flashier skills and jobs have a higher value in society then real down to earth skills and jobs?
Yes
>how would it effect society in the long run?
We'll revolt against it or be replaced by a people who will.
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>ywn live in late 15th century Florence
>ywn live in 18th century London
>ywn live in 1820s Vienna
>ywn live in turn-of-the-century Paris
>ywn live in Weimar Berlin
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>Weimar Berlin
but why tho
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>>2196846
> yw live in a corner of 4chan
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>>2196846
And thank god for that
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Hey guys,
We are two illustration students studying at the Willem de Kooning college in Rotterdam.
We are doing a project about taboos, and the taboo we would like to flesh out a bit more is Pedophilia.
What if you find out you're attracted to kids? What would you do? What should you do?
Is it something inherently evil?
Any comments will be appreciated!
Thanks in advance
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Hi
>What would you do if you found out you are attracted to kids
I would suppress it, given that my sex drive wouldn't be any bigger than it is now.
I survived the horny years of puberty without having sex, and still I didn't feel like raping anybody or even taking advantage of others.
I wouldn't tell anybody, though. I would be terribly afraid of what people would be thinking of me and afraid of losing my closest friends. My family would probably be supportive, but I know they would be disappointed.
>What should you do?
Tell at least my family, certainly.
>Is it something inherently evil?
No, it's not your fault for having a certain sexual orientation
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>>2196669
P I Z Z A G A T E
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>>2197171
>pedo
>sexual orientation
Pick one
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Is the bar really getting higher in philosophy and natural sciences? Like, to achieve prominence today you gotta be much smarter than your field predecessors. If so, are these fields doomed to stagnation or a combined brainpower is gonna keep them going?
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>>2196202
For the first part of your question, yes. Consider mathematics. Middle and high school students learn what was at the front of the field hundreds/thousands of years ago. What's actually being researched in mathematics is of course far more complex.
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>>2196202
There is no such thing as a good philosopher, even Wittgenstein admitted he couldn't understand his most famous work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
He's just adored for his eccentricity and personal qualities. Philosophy is just intellectual wanking and sophistry.
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The guy you posted ended Philosophy. It's done.
Will humanity ever make it /his/?
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>>2196161
What game is this?
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>xenophile
How progressive! Let's see how open they are to foreign species when they come across the genocidal M'arC'Ha, the hive mind insectoid species that considers mammalian hearts a delicacy!
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Why isn't Georgism more popular than Marxism? 2017-01-08 04:37:26 Post No.2196013
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Why isn't Georgism more popular than Marxism?
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Georgism has never been refuted by anyone, while Marxism has proven to be a catastrophic failure. So why does no one today worship Henry George the way they worship Karl Marx?
>Georgists have observed that privately created wealth is socialized via the tax system (e.g., through income and sales tax), while socially created wealth in land values are privatized in the price of land titles and bank mortgages. The opposite would be the case if land rents replaced taxes on labor as the main source of public revenue; socially created wealth would become available for use by the community, while the fruits of labor would remain private.[20] According to Georgists, a land value tax can be considered a user fee instead of a tax, since it is related to the market value of socially created locational advantage, the privilege to exclude others from locations. Assets consisting of commodified privilege can be considered as wealth since they have exchange value, similar to taxi medallions.[21][not in citation given] A land value tax, charging fees for exclusive use of land, as a means of raising public revenue is also a progressive tax tending to reduce economic inequality,[8][9] since it applies entirely to ownership of valuable land, which is correlated with income,[22] and there is no means by which landlords can shift the tax burden onto tenants or laborers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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>>2196013
Because why should I use my hard sewn land to support bums?
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>>2196041
Because those bums are paying to use it.
Did you even read the OP?
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Post your local landmark 2017-01-08 12:16:11 Post No.2195359
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Mine is the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.
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El Escorial, Comunidad de Mdrid.Built in memory of the Battle of Saint Quentin, where crushed the french
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The assorted colleges of Oxford University, though the remains of Wallingford Castle are pretty damn cool. It just dawned on me how odd it must seem to Americans that I spent a lot of time as a teenager messing around with my mates in the remains of an honest to god castle.
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If you were forced to pick one of these two, who would you say was more integral to french history?
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>>2195213
i'll pick left
the right one is a caveman
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Did any warrior or warrior societies go into battle unarmed? By that I mean did anyone go into battle with weapons or armor that augmented their punches and kicks but they still essentially beat someone to death with their "bare hands"
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>>2193496
Yeah they all died and no one bothered to record them
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fucking idiot.....
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Combat Effectiveness of the Gladius 2017-01-07 01:41:09 Post No.2191413
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Combat Effectiveness of the Gladius
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I believe that most historians of the Roman Empire are in agreement that the gladius could be used for cutting but its primary use was was as a stabbing weapon. My question is why was it so thick? Wouldn't it make more sense for a primarily thrusting weapon to be thinner so as to more easily slip through gaps in the enemy armor? It's not as if it needed to be thick to withstand blows either as surely the large Roman shield could be used for that instead. What was the reasoning for the gladius' distinctive shape and long use?
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>>2191413
Wikipedia it.
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>>2191413
A large number of historians who didn't just read old texts but held it felt that it is a good cutting sword too. A glorified meat cleaver.
I reckon they use both cuts and thrusts extensive.
Otherwise the reason to make it beefy it to make sure it doesn't bend when you thrust.
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>>2191413
>My question is why was it so thick?
Because it was made of iron, which is a lot more fragile than steel. And if you don't want to break the tip of your gladius into every stinking barbarian you stab it into, you better make it thicc to prevent this disgraceful waste of good Roman resources.
The gladius was succesful because it is literally the pinnacle of short iron swords. Thouh this may sound like some cheap marketing, this is more or less the case. It was a really good worktool for killing people. It was short and sturdy with a simple shape so it was less likely to break than some longer and different celtic swords for example. It was kind of heavy if we compare it to later steel swords, hence the distinctive shape of the pommel and handle. All in all, it was effective and cheap to manufacture.
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If you had to choose to be in an army commanded by a historical general. Who would it be, and why?
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Patton's Third Army
no question
To do my bit.
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Sulla, without a doubt
>never lost a war
>oh wait lol scratch that, never lost a single battle
>encouragingly low casulaties for the winning side (his side) every time
>plunder/bonuses and promotions wherever I go
>monstrous efficiency and winning spirit
>get to fugg Italian, Greek, and Anatolian qts
>retire with a nice plump plot of land, maybe even a Senate seat after earning a corona
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>>2190629
Either Alexander or Charles XII.