A whole fuckin' manifesto
edited probably imperfectly
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I wanted a reference for my politics because I don't feel like I fit in either the commie or anarchist squares but I feel like I'm too far left for anything else.
Highlights
- The common notion that extreme poverty is the “natural” condition of humanity and only declined with the rise of capitalism rests on income data that do not adequately capture access to essential goods.
- Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
- The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
- In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered.
- Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.
Sullivan, D., & Hickel, J. (2023). Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century. World development, 161, 106026.
For instance, historical national accounts suggest that GDP per capita in the Spanish-occupied Philippines increased by over 15% between 1820 and 1902 (Bolt & van Zanden, 2020). Yet parish records indicate this was a period of increasing mortality, due to “a general deterioration of peasant livelihoods… a consequence of the rapid commercialization of peasant agriculture” (Smith, 1978, pp. 51-52). Similarly, Indian GDP per capita increased by 27% from 1870 to 1921 (Bolt & van Zanden, 2020). Yet during that time, British colonial policy induced serial famines that killed tens of millions of people, with life expectancy collapsing by 20%, “a deterioration in human health probably without precedent in the subcontinent’s long history of war and invasion” (Davis, 2002, p. 312).
This is extremely important because what people think should be done about global poverty depends on what they think causes global poverty. When people believe that people’s lives get better when stock prices go up, they push development at all costs. When people think it’s a lack of money thing, and a lack of things that money can pay for like schools and hospitals, they try to give those things. When people think it’s a colonialism thing, that calls for a very different set of reactions.
whatever dude
please tell me how umbreon is between a dog and a mollusk
captain-price-officially
Ah yes, the ol “B-17 survivorship bias” lesson
Okay but this is a hilarious explanation
YOU FOOLS! YOU BUFFOONS! THE ZONAI ARE NOT GOAT PEOPLE. RAURU IS NOT A HOT GOAT MAN. HE’S A HOT LLAMA MAN. THIS IS THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: GANON’S NEW GROOVE. WRONG LEVER, LINK. A LLAMA’S ARM?! RAURU’S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!
LOOK AT THE BIG EARS. THE LONG TORSO. THE LONG NECK. THE HUGE MANE OF HAIR. THE PERUVIAN PONCHO. WE’RE IN THE ANDES MOUNTAINS. RAURU AND MINERU ARE LLAMAS 📣📣📣📣
The words vanilla and pencil stem from derivations of the Latin words vāgīna and pēnis. However, they've never had anything to do with the anatomical sense of these words. Click the image to see how the forms and meanings of vanilla and pencil came to be.
their species split only 400,000 years ago so you can see the larval traits on the one on the left (orange spiky hair) are very similar to ones that the one on the right developed, probably a kind of neoteny developed after domesticationThis post sucks sorry
Anonymous asked:
What happens if tarantula no longger need the frog?
great news! that just straight-up doesn’t happen.
tarantulas can live for well over a decade, and female tarantulas can expect to breed multiple times before they finally kick it! and since there’s always the expectation of there going to be a new clutch of eggs in the nest every year, there’s no benefit in getting rid of the frogs that will keep those eggs safe.
a female columbian lesserblack tarantula will treasure and protect her frogs until the day she dies, and then those frogs will go into the care of whichever of her daughters inherits her burrow! it’s an eternal cycle. a cycle of frog.
A low stakes Charlotte’s Web
(If you learned more than one, pick the one you learned the most or took for the longest time or enjoyed the most or whatever. Pick the one most meaningful to you.)
German, Latin, and Spanish about equally
Now that’s some effective altruism right there
plot of the horizon series (the sony one)
"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
There are also a few cases of the opposite. Poison ivy, for example, is harmless to most animals, but humans just have a weird reaction to it
Capsaicin is similar to menthol in this regard too! Plants developed capsaicin to determine mammalian predators but ohohohohohoho birds do not have capsaicin receptors!! You can buy pepper-spiced birdseed that the birds will eat no problem, but the squirrels won't touch!!
So, capsaicin basically has no effect at all on birds? Interesting!
CALLOUT POST ON TWITTER
CAT ARE ABUSERS
my cat gettin ready to beat me to a pulp
