Interesting how experiences shape us. Glad it sounds like you have mainly positives with respect to your parents.
Interesting how experiences shape us. Glad it sounds like you have mainly positives with respect to your parents.
I altered my wording. Thank you. I meant it as perspective. 10% today would equate to more than all of Europe.
Both and a spectrum mix in-between. There are no simple answers to things.
I don’t believe this is something easily tracked and updated annually. The point is in terms of amount of population as a percentage. People in the 21st century largely have more food, shelter, and general security worldwide than in all of known human history.
Don’t let anecdotal news about wars worldwide override the fact that much larger scale (as percent of world population) have occurred and occurred consistently in past history. Wars, famines, plagues, and other things have wiped out far more of the population overall historically. While the wars you see today are horrible, and in specific regions they might be decimating, they still pale in comparison to the level of death in human history and the scope of death of past wars.
The Black Death in the 1300s itself killed 30-50% of all of Europe. Ghengis Khan is estimated to have been responsible for killing 10% of the world population (10% today would be more than the entire population of Europe, for perspective). There’s a lot of less than documented Chinese history that also suggests massive deaths from famines and plagues and stuff that seem to have amounted to a large percentage of the world population at the time.
Another thing I have seen a lot of in the last decade, mostly relating the the US, is that while large scale violent crime may be up (like mass killings) overall murder and crime is lower than it has been in past decades. Again, in a macro scope of things. You’ll always have pockets of geography and/or time that are bad.
In terms of total war and death worldwide, this is the most peaceful time in known human history.
You know those surveys that ask if you Agree, Strongly Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree? That kind of crap? Yeah, those don’t work. They’re idiotic, because your average person doesn’t really know which accurately reflects them and they gravitate towards what’s easier for them personally to respond with.
This will have a similar effect. Lots of people won’t give the accurate reason. They’ll give a comfortable reason.
I like that they are trying something new though. Critique certainly doesn’t mean don’t try it or don’t play with it.
I would watch this movie with so much popcorn.
Oh this is a great one.
As a bonus, I remember watching Walker Texas Ranger with my father in law, amd the amount of times people had their sights on him and didn’t shoot him was ridiculous. He’d have died so fast.
Crap, you’re right. My original question is some fantasy that people aren’t idiots.
Nope, quite a few years after, actually.
Favorite is difficult and changes over time. But it’s gonna be one of these:
Now I think The Pianist is the best movie of all time, which is a different thing, but that newer movie 1917 sure competes.
Parents.
Every person who ever participated in the conception and eventual birth of a human is also responsible for their eventual death.
If nobody is born, then nobody dies. Pretty obvious crime here.
To be fair, the OP did not ask them to read the article, they asked a yes or no question.
You poop in the bathroom?
It’s not a formality. Continuing Resolutions (CR’s) and especially shutdowns can really affect people’s lives and society at large. People who require critical resources might wind up going without.
It also winds up costing the government more overall to go through this every year.
This appears to have decent information on why shutdowns are bad:
https://www.crfb.org/papers/government-shutdowns-qa-everything-you-should-know
They still have not passed a budget.
I personally believe I have zero right to hold any viewpoint or opinion aside from feeling like the western lines drawn for the middle east after WWII were bullshit.
Let that part of the world run itself and leave them all the fuck alone.
People save Google places? Who the hell needs to save 3000 of them? Wtf
Most research papers are likely ad valid as an average reddit point.
Getting published is a circlejerk, and rarely are they properly tested, or does anyone actually read them.