FALGSConaut

What the fuck!? Cops in America play active shooter to "train" people? Like a school lockdown but with dudes waving guns around?

What happens if someone they're "training" or a bystander is armed, tries to be the "good guy with a gun", and starts blasting?

Thank you, that's the perfect term to describe this smooth, polished, cyberpunk-with-the-anti-capitalism-sanded-off genre

They all want to be Michael from The Office

Cyberpunk 2077 entirely lacks any of the "punk" aspect, except maybe the surface aesthetics. It's this image extrapolated into an entire game

Even when you are opposing the corpos, it's out of some juvenile anti-telling-me-what-to-do stance and no criticism of the systems that caused and enabled the rise of megacorps. More "we just need a good company instead of this bad company" and not "maybe private ownership of literally everything in your life including your own limbs and organs is not good"

Prog rock enters the chat

I just realized I have access to a few British newspaper archives through my uni, can't wait till I have more time to look through them. Side complaint, why are all newspaper digital archives absolute dogshit? They all have terrible user interfaces, they take forever to load and half the time you have to refresh it anyway!

Anyway I'm hoping after exams I can do a write up on how the press covered Gallipoli or the siege of Kut.

Lmao good luck getting electoral reform. In Canada a few years ago the libs were elected in part due to their claim they would commit to reforming the first-past-the-post system currently in place. Then once elected they funded studies into reform and in the end decided against it, since fair elections would harm their standing greatly and only serve to boost the ndp and other smaller parties. Of course they didn't frame it like that when they announced it, instead they went with "our studies show that people couldn't decide on exactly how to reform the electoral system so we just aren't going to do anything about it."

Anyone who benefits from the broken/working as intended electoral system has 0 motivation to fix it since that's what got them power in the first place. Q

And I hate to admit it but he did pull off the withdrawal from Afghanistan in the best possible way for himself. By that I mean he can claim to have negotiated "the perfect deal" with the Taliban and also blame Biden/Dems for botching the withdrawal itself

Retvrn to persistence hunting. If you can't/won't walk after an antelope for day or two until they exhaust themselves you should change your diet

That's actually true of pretty much all food, not just meat. The way the human digestive system is set up it's almost impossible to thrive on a raw food diet even with all the modern conveniences of selectivly bred high yield plants and intensive processing (chopping/blending). You can still survive eating nothing but raw food in a modern context, but historically it would have been extremely difficult. There's a really interesting book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by anthropologist Richard Wrangham that proposed it wasn't eating meat that kicked off the evolution of smaller guts and bigger brains that characterizes the rise of the Homo genus, but harnessing fire to cook food in general that allowed us to decrease the amount of energy investment in food digestion (which is one of the biggest investment of energy the human body makes, after the brain) and increase the amount of energy available to our brains. This is because cooking increases the amount of energy we are able to gain from food in multiple ways.

Take a potato as an example, starting with taking a bite and chewing it. It's going to take longer and more energy to break down that raw potato into something you can swallow vs the cooked one. Then when you actually start digesting it, the cooked potato has the advantage that a lot of the longer complex starches and other molecules have been already broken down by the cooking process, while the raw potato is going to take a lot more energy to break down, lowering the amount of energy you gain compared to the cooked potato. And due to our very short digestive tracts compared to animals adapted to raw food we won't absorb as many nutrients from the raw potato anyway, whereas the cooked potato can be taken up much faster.

Of course even with cooking food eating meat was a relative rarity, with the grand majority of calories consumed coming from foraging plants in most cases. There are some exceptions including arctic peoples that had much higher rates of meat eating due to the environments they lived in, but for most hunter-gathers and early agriculturalists meat was a luxury, not a staple.

There's also other interesting side bits like the increased amount of time spent socialising around cooking fires helped with the development/improvement of communication and the intelligence that comes with that, but I've infodumped enough for right now

I also love the little "about 3 servings" they slap on there so the nutritional info doesn't have to tell you one box is 250% of your recommended daily sugar intake