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ancient greece

well possessed by a spirit of unquenchable murderous greed is not an unfair description of our society

it's almost like different cultural traditions are different. It's not a big ask that you when referencing a culture that has been the subject of sustained efforts to destroy it respect their terminology

I don't live in a country where it is a traditional funeral rite so my opinion there doesn't really matter

I definitely don't want commodity production of human meat

diseases often don't cross species very well. Consumption of animals that aren't genetically close to you is inherently safer than eating human

especially if they died by natural means as that normally means they were sick. A healthy killed animal is far safer to eat than a human that died of illness in many ways

i can't format an objection to that, besides the associated healthrisk---which modern medicine could probably prevent if applied to the problem

I think you would come up against real problems there. bottom line eating someone just carries the risk of catching any infectious diseases they have

the whaleship essex

The Aztecs practiced Cannibalism

Marx did write a lot.

We should have generative AI but they should all be trained on Marx

had an uncle working in Wales and he realised one workday that he was the only one on the worksite that didn't love Hitler. Bunch of nazis decided that Christianity was Jewish so they decided to retvrn to Celtic paganism

Boudica entirely makes sense as a British nationalist symbol a very old idea in British politics from the break from Rome and becoming protestant to brexit is that as we aren't on the continent we will never be respected in continental Europe and as such being part of any collective European identity means foreign rule. It's a strong throughline in ideas about the Norman Yoke, Roman Catholic clerical authority being resented, the English civil war and now the EU

Boudica being anti-Roman fits neatly into the political ideology of British meaning not European

The Scottish and Irish that fought the British weren't pagans. Irish nationalism by the time of the empire was explicitly Catholic as were the Jacobites who were as much fighting Scottish leadership as English and weren't fighting for independence they wanted to be British with a Catholic king.

The Scottish didn't fight the British empire they were partners in it especially in the colonisation of Ireland.

Boudica only became a famous historical figure during the british empire as a symbol of British strength

no the episode hero or hate crime where they debate whether calling someone a slur for a gay man which is also a type of sausage dish in the west of england is acceptable to save their life

also it was an episode of always sunny

no I agree I don't think it's racist to reference the fact that people from non industrial societies don't understand how our supply chains work. Why would they. That's not them being dumb it's them not having detailed knowledge without being taught. It's not reasonable to expect someone to deduce the existence of Bristol from a blue vase

I think you would call this transductive reasoning. Rather than using information to put together a theory and work off that theory you work directly off the evidence

for example hearing a bell and dinner being ready and coming to associate the bell with dinner without ever learning why the bell means dinner

found pie in the bush, there might be pie in that bush

trouble is people are only familiar with the old name

I'm not sure if some of them ever knew entirely possible that the people running the companies have no understanding of the technology involved

debt is a real problem for a country. They should cut back on the military and invest that money in the country which would increase income

the country has a debt problem but not a spending problem it has an income problem (also it does have a spending problem but with the military) in terms of household budgetting infrastructure and social programs are the bus fare to work and the military is an addiction to crack. Cutting back on the costs that result in income and larger savings is not the solution