TBF it’s early days, they still haven’t fully legislated it in.

Housing prices are coming down in most places now, but more due to paused immigration than anything else, as far as I can tell.

Either it will work, or it won’t and it will get removed.

I’m not really sure what’s interesting about this.

Yes, vastly.

There’s literally no country where it’s de jure legal now, and fairly few where it’s legal in practice. Compare this to any number of historical societies where they were the majority.

Cool.

Sure, they knew drinking something gross was likely to make you sick. If your nice clear river is downstream from a public lavatory, would they see a problem with that, though? Probably, they’d only worry if it was close. Bad smells and weird sounds (like got Bach in trouble) are similarly mentioned as sources of disease.

As for alcohol, I should point out it has the effect of alcohol, and getting drunk is popular. If it was about safety, making a nice herbal tea (or actual tea if available) is easier and faster and much more effective at killing bugs.

Amount of work would also vary by season, region and status. There’s bones that get dug up of people who physically fell apart from overwork, basically, if they were slaves or it was just a really rough period. It is true it could be light some times and places, though.

One thing they didn’t have were schedules. Tardiness to meetings was measured in days, and IIRC a Greek philosopher is on record listing them as a form of aestheticism, like flagellation or starving yourself. Hunter gatherers also benefited from doing work we naturally find appealing, and not necessarily having to deal with coercive authority of any kind.

[Laughs in Greco-Roman]

Funny enough, back in the days before the queer rights movements, an education in the classics was important. Lots of people would have known about Sappho, and the one emperor that got made fun of for being straight, even if they didn’t approve. It’s a very recent myth.

And how big it is, and how big and far away the moon is, and wrote a decent guess at the distance and size of the sun (although they made a measurement error with that one).

Before that, the competing theory was that it’s a cylinder with the ends to the east and west. Anyone with eyes for stargazing can see they’ve obviously rotated when they move a significant distance north-south, and that means anyone with a long distance trade network.

I mean they did not have germ theory but over time people would realize alcohol is safer.

I mean, that would just lead to germ theory (which was kicking around as a minority theory before the microscope). In reality, people will ascribe their problems to all kinds of crazy things, spirits and demons being the most popular. If something is actually poisonous and kills or maims 100% of the time, they’d catch on, but health correlations that are a crapshoot went unnoticed for centuries, because a lot of people were just violently ill from a lot of things.

No, people have generally always known how to find clean drinking water and understood its importance.

Citation very needed. People thought some water to be better than others, and the Romans went as far as building out aqueducts to their favourite springs, but an understanding it can cause water borne disease, and that it can look and smell fine but be bad, is decidedly modern. Health effects weren’t necessarily thought to be confined to drinking either - holy water and baptisms being an example where just contact was thought to confer something.

The spices thing is legit, though. How long would you last eating no spices whatsoever? Trading gold for an equal mass of pepper suddenly doesn’t seem so dumb.

So common as in literally half of kids died.

I mean, apparently they’re willing to go against the US on Cuba, per this article. It’s not specified which things Cuba needs they’ll be sending, but it’s something.

During winter, having them open for any significant time would risk plumbing freezing. During summer, it’s usually a matter of opening them at night so the coolness lasts through the day.

This is about downvote spamming. Like, going through someones post history and downvoting harmless things they’ve said, not just using the arrow as intended.

A conspiracy theory is a specific sociological phenomenon, though, not just a theory about a conspiracy.

Like, I could say Hitler had something to do with the Reichstag fire, and that’s a conspiracy that’s not confirmed, but it was never subject to a conspiracy theory movement.

They’re both autocratic. Iran actually has more democratic features.

In the Iran case, there’s a concern about what happens after the US blows stuff up and then leaves.

This doesn’t say they aren’t sending fuel.

Yup. Welcome to the regulation problem that developers complain about. You can physically build all kinds of things, but it can get really hard legally to build anything that’s not a mcmansion.

Usually it’s death by a thousand cuts like this. Sometimes there’s one big factor too, like Vancouver’s 100k/unit utility hookup fee.

Now that they’re done bringing back single-family zoning, NIMBYs have to look for another target.

“By framing it as a war, we are moving the conversation to a negative place where it assumes how people live. It’s not our job to assume how people live, it’s our job to give them the opportunity to live how they want to live.”

Yes, but I’m pretty sure bringing the debate to a negative place and assuming how people should live is the point.