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[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'd like to opt out of lemvotes

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Soap was invented a long time ago - 2800 BC and the Romans made quite a bit of it. However it used lye so you wouldn't want to use it often.

The sanitation of Roman cities should have been pretty good by historical standards. Batthouses were common in the empire and people frequently visited them. Romans also had toilets with running water below them to take the waste away so in that regard they would have done much better than other societies.

The sewer system or lack thereof was the biggest sanitation issue for most historical cities. Back in the day it was difficult to create a sewer system since you need to minimize the slope at which the waste flows or else you have to do too much digging. Until Newton and Leibniz came around in the 1700s we didn't have calculus so you couldn't optimize a function mathematically and instead had to experimentally test it out. But, people didn't test things the way we do today - the scientific method was only formalized relatively recently as well. So this was more difficult to invent that you might think, and the invention has been lost several times over history.

Then once you figure out the minimum angle you have to discover a technique to dig at that angle. The simplest is to take two sticks and insert them into the ground, then tie a string between them that lies right on the ground. Then you can put the sticks this anywhere to see how deep you need to dig.

Since you mentioned 1500-1800, I'll mention that medieval London did NOT have a sewer system so people dumped their waste in the River Thames. Which is also where they got their drinking water.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

It says in the article that it's over 11 years

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lmao I saw the android portion and thought that was just how much you had on your phone. Was worried about how many tb somebody like that would have on a nas

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

According to the article, the over 200 Venezuelans sent to CECOT (252 total prisoners - you can find other articles that state all are Venezuelan) were transferred to Venezuela and some people incarcerated in Venezuela - 10 Americans and an unspecified number of political prisoners - were exchanged.

According to NILC, there were at least 280 people sent from the US to CECOT so not all people have been released.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's your spirit that is transported to another world, not your physical body. There are a lot of stories where the character is reincarnated as a different species and even some where the mc is reincarnated as an object like a vending machine.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

How are women archers in this analogy?

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

A long time ago Elon promised that full self-driving would be coming to existing cars that had their self-driving package installed which was cameras only. Elon is probably sticking with cameras only to avoid a lawsuit.

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Franco-Prussian war had 2 million on French side and 1.5 million on Prussian side and resulted in an overwhelming Prussian victory per Wikipedia

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The CIA reported no wmds before the invasion of Iraq too

[–] cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Robespierre was nicknamed the incorruptible (prior to the reign of terror) for his strong moral convictions including his opposition to the death penalty.

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