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> were colorful cloth wearers

Also coincidentally noblemen…

Unless you decided to impersonate a higher class person by wearing too colorful clothes made of an inappropriately fancy cloth…

I think these things work in tightly knit societies where everyone more or less knows each other and these “criminal” behaviors were found to be universally unacceptable.

In a modern society with a high degree of anonymity the after effects of having to wear a mask would be minimal. Unless you have some kind of a formal “social credit” system. But even these it would only affect certain stratums.

Yeah, I guess I should’ve added at least another 0

If you have <= 100 people actively posting on the forum than yes.

Still incredibly stupid even by human standards

We’re still will to dedicate large amounts of resources for building museums, concert halls and other public buildings that fundamentally don’t really have a more practical purpose than medieval churches.

Churches did serve a very practical purpose though. They were gathering places and centers of socio-political power. Unlike the pyramids ordinary people could enter churches at any time. And for most churches were the only places were they were exposed to art and “higher” culture (by medieval standards).

From that perspective they are not particularly less practical than modern museums or most other public buildings.

The Egyptian pyramids lacked all of this.

Deflationary money would be a pretty bad thing.

Good thing ETH is not money. It might potentially be a good asset to store value in, sure

Technically correct. They voted to not join so couldn’t leave.

Of course they are in Schengen and the free trade area so basically in the EU for the most part

In practice they are at economically if not politically.

They are in the free trade area so most EU regulations regarding goods apply there

Well IE was just better than the competition. IIRC Nobody prevented you from installing alternative browser back in the 90s or 2000s

Whether Chrome is better or not is moot if developers design to only support it or offer a subpar experience when using other browsers

Fees in the EU tend to be considerably lower than in the US

I’d still argue that the worst characters in mad men are still better human beings in almost every way than the best ones in Sopranos.

> Don does so few positive, admirable, or generous things

True, but he still seems to do these things quite a bit more often than almost every other character on the show. They are all pretty selfish

Well Wilson wasn’t a progressive.

But yeah allowing the Federal government to have more power is definitely a double-edged sword

Yes well the progressive era was truly terrible. Food safety, environmental protection, monopolies etc. are really not something the Federal government should have any right to intervene in. After all the states had no issues handling all the before.. obviously…

I’m not sure that’s the reason why it’s only worth campaigning in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona and some other states during presidential elections.

Also it is the system that was designed over 100-200 years ago. The problem is the lack of meaningful reform because the people in power are there only because of the current system.

That’s the reason why is it so hard to change electoral system without some external/internal shock. And “unfortunately” US has been way too stable politically during the 20th century compared to most other countries.

Slowing economic growth?

Extreme lockdowns?

Rapidly aging population in large part because of idiotic lunacy that was the one child policy?

The house of lords doesn’t actually have any meaningful role when actual decisions are being made.

And the supreme court justices have to be approved by the senate. Of course you do have a point about them serving for life.

AFAIK Ariane is also non military. Of course the program is government funded but it seems fairly ‘civilian’

More than 1 to 100 IIRC…

I guess you just have to be better than the competition. And Apple Music is even worse according to some

> Norway

A 70% tax on petrol cars will shift the scales somewhat. I really doubt 8/10 of new cars would be EVs if the VAT and purchase taxes were applied to them as for ICE cars.

There is no need for exaggeration. But.. Well clearly the last couple of years were not great for China compared to 10 or so prior to covid.

> overperformance

What do you mean?

> Romeo and Juliet is about 14

And Juliet was considered way to young to marry (we don’t really know how old exactly Romeo was).

While mid-teens was acceptable age in many cultures to marry and have children by the 17th century that wasn’t really the case. e.g. the average age at first marriage for women was 24 in England in the 1600s

The decade or so after the Napoleonic wars was that great for Britain.

Unemployment was rising and food prices were so high that many people were on the verge of starvation (almost entirely due to political reasons). According to some Britain was close a French style revolution and the authorities cracked down very harshly on anyone advocating reform (see the Peterloo massacre and its aftermath).

The Red Hat but was supposed to be sarcasm…

You seem to breaking multiple of those rules with your comment.