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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok I keep seeing that used everywhere what does based mean?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It means that have opinions or ideals that are just that good and worth looking up to.

So basically what "Woke" used to mean before it became a Right Wing buzzword

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What a lovely website. Welcoming colors, simple navigation, no ad infestation. Has all the early internet charm but without the hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Including the table layout we don't do anymore since the 2000's, because it doesn't scale at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is utter cancer on my phone and I can't read the white on yellow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have some sort of dark mode/reader on which is making the text white.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Took me a minute to find it, but thanks. However, I still can't seem to change the text size and I feel like it isn't very accessible. I couldn't get the text size buttons to work on the webpage either. At least I could zoom in and scroll everywhere. I am using Vivaldi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Conversely, Mussolini reportedly said that war is to men what childbirth is to women

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds very Klingon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well it is a battle because our stupid ass species evolved huge ass heads without changing the size of the birth canal...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, or because we became bipods and made the birth canal smaller

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Jesus, they needed soap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Spartans were very similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Didn't Sparta have a similar belief as far as honoring women who died in childbirth equally to men who died in battle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, child mortality rate was really high before modern medicine. No wonder many cultures exalt the process of birth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maternal mortality wasn't quite a Holocaust until they started having women give birth in hospitals without germ theory so nobody was washing their fucking hands and the doctors were reaching up there to check on the placenta and killing loads of women with puerperal sepsis. 18 percent maternal mortality rate at the time, when 300 years in the past (based on church records of births and deaths) it was closer to 3 percent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Still true that birth is more dangerous in humans.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I guess this community is a one-person show now. Bye.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well was told by admins and the side bar to make a community active you need to post. Also I am very much a wikihead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for doing so! I've been reading about Mesoamerican history lately and love additional facts.

It's amazing how cultures separated by 10,000+ years can be so incredibly similar in general, yet distinct in the fine details!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am not a bot or spamming . Why don't you like what I post?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Keep up the good work op. We just need more people posting too. You can't control that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I can only suggest actually looking at the titles you post, then, since most of them get cropped off due to character limit. Seems a bit automated given how frequently I've seen it happen to your posts in particular.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ok, so I learnt something and checks calendar, yeap, it's definitely Today! Seems like everything is to code around here. Keep up the good work!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You can make it your show