markko @ markko @lemmy.world

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Of course, but your chances overall are better today regardless of class/status etc.

Even being the child of royalty had no guarantees. For example Henry VIII had 13 legitimate children. Only 3 lived past infancy, and 1 of those died age 15.

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

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. By 2021 this had more than doubled to 71 years.

in 1800, no region had a life expectancy higher than 40 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

What? I'm saying that if I was the kid being born I would rather be born today than in the 1500s.

It's not the profession that's the problem, but there is evidence that problem people gravitate to such professions where they have that position of power.

Edgy...

Despite having no desire to have kids, I'd much rather be born today than pretty much any time before the last few generations.

Via our blood

You can easily create a new account on a different instance. The only thing you lose is your post/comment history, but many apps allow multiple accounts in case you still want access to that.

No idea people were getting these messages lmao. Thanks!

Which one was that? Did I miss important Fediverse lore??

Tbf that is exactly what the Republicans want

Welcome!

Yeah but it's not exactly fair to compare the US to a developed country

As great as reinventing the English language sounds, it's not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way, and making small regional changes (like the differences in the spelling of some words) is just confusing and annoying to everyone who isn't familiar with it or with English in general.

With your example of the letter C, you'd need some alternative way to write the "ch" sound (which is sometimes pronounced as "sh", depending on it's usage) if you got rid of that letter.

It's an ugly, messy, and confusing language. Popularising arbitrary changes like the ones Webster included in his dictionary (centre vs center, for example) serves no benefit to anyone - it just creates yet another variant of an ugly, messy, and confusing language.

Do you know what impact this would have on extensions though? Would extensions developed for current Firefox versions work securely in Pale Moon?

Remind me again how you pronounce "herbs" or "aunt" over there

I also try not to judge people simply for being religious, but it's pretty damn hard when it's the direct cause of their affirmative stance on things like anti-vax, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-science etc.

Of course there are people with those stances who aren't religious at all too, but they do seem to be in the minority.

In addition to what others have said, cut back on the sugar.

That is literally what happens in US news when the subject involves a criminal offence or could be considered defamation.

From a legal point of view it hasn't been tried in a court of law, which is why words like "apparently" and "allegedly" are used.

What are some good scripts for grease monkey?

They really take the Hannibal directive seriously