I would like to see this again for people under 30. Or maybe just people who were single in the last 5 years. I feel like this doesn't actually give too much information without accounting for other factors. I do think the unsure category in this study is interesting though. South Korea's being tiny makes sense given their divisive situation. I wonder what situations lead to that number being bigger or smaller.
The population of the imperium is in the hundreds or thousands of trillions or even way more than that. Sacrificing 3000 people a day to make it so that demons don't attack every single spaceship, and to ensure the reliability of ftl travel, is considered grimdark.
In a country of 330 million 3000 people a day died during covid to protect 6 months of corporate profits. But its ok because those people died for the freedom to drive to mcdonalds
always important to remember that the military is a for profit enterprise. You can't separate the military from the people making the military's stuff. There is a collection of extremely powerful corporations that are constantly banging the war drums.
Hawaii was great until the haoles fucked it up. So was a lot of pre colombian america. And parts of pre colonization africa.
Just because Europe was shit doesn't mean it was shit everywhere. Europe is pretty unique in that it has been total warring itself for over 2000 years straight. The streak ended in world war 2, but goes back to the bronze age.
Could those places I listed be improved by modern medicine and trains? Sure. Doesnt mean they were terrible.
I've been lucky that many of the people around me were happy to learn. I haven't worked a white collar job yet so my work has been unrelated to the vocabulary. And people aren't insecure or defensive about education because they aren't payed to be educated. It was actually fun to teach the ones that wanted to learn. But I would also see lots of confused looks and so I lowered my vocab.
But I mean less terms like a-priori and more like flabbergasted or circumnavigate, pincer, dilapidated. Just higher reading level words that you might use in a description or as an adjective. nothing too jargony.
Terrifying. I was so stunned when I left college and realized how much I have to limit my vocabulary around most people. It made me feel distant from many of my peers.
This kind of oppression is so insidious and creates so much shame. Ive been following the tik tok of a ~35 year old man learning to read. Its been such a hard journey for him.
We live in a society based around the rule of law. People cant read the fucking laws. What the fuck.
Foucalt was right. If schools were anything other than prisons, the kids would be able to fucking read when they were done.
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Why do they do this? It doesn't make sense. They don't have to pay to keep it listed.