Long before the Sumerians, there lived a civilisation on the northern shores of the Black Sea that we call the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture.
We have no written records from this neolithic race, but we know that they lived in large settlements of tens-of-thousands.
They worked copper, and tended to livestock and grain 7,000 years ago. In this age, we also see mass burials and battles at sites like Scheltz Asparn, Hesse, Talheim, and the infamous Tollense valley later.
The presence hundreds of skeletons exhumed at some of these sites hint at large scale, organised battle.
They were not the only sedentary and sprawling peoples to inhabit Europe in this deeply archaic part of human prehistory. While most people will say that Sumerians of 5,500 years ago built the first civilisation, there were other cultures in parts of the world that supported large and organised populations on their agriculture that are far more ancient.
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Funnily enough, if Ukraine was to win the war and accede to the EU, its MEPs would be heavily politically indebted to the Poles. This would help shift the centre of mass in Parliament towards the Three Seas Initiative participants and help to balance out the socialist currents from Western Europe. The ECR Party might be the main beneficiary.
There’s very little daylight between the political Left and social constructionists. Claims that gender is a societal fabrication, that dissidents of that perspective are only furthering their own arbitrary power, the belief that compliance with dictats from identity groups is mandatory etc — these are all postmodern ideas that have entirely consumed Classical Liberalism as the philosophical foundation of the Left.
You say you’re not on the Left but it’s a moot point in a way since your belligerent constructionist ideas are effectively synonymous with the Left.
Agreed.
Bad manners bring bad reactions. I believe him when he says he gets a lot of ‘hate’ — if you have a chip on your shoulder, everyone you speak to frowns.
he might be, but I’m not completely sure. I skimmed through his profile and he seems to talk about a few different topics and really lobbies for DEI culture. I know people who are very much sincere and behave in the same way online.
Hmu when you get to Mars, let’s startup a phosphorus mining town together.
I think it’s temperamental. In the mind of the bleeding heart activist type — high in trait neuroticism and agreeableness but low in industriousness — social compliance is the highest order bit. Curiosity or experimentation, ‘truth’, is subordinated to conformity. That’s faux compassion. Faux compassionate positions that sound enlightened, but utterly antisocial behaviour. The great irony of the Progressives. Wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Tenzi called you a fascist but Tenzi is a petty reincarnation of Gleichschaltung.
Correction: the Yi Peng 3 severed two undersea comma cables; one running between Finland and Germany, the other between Sweden and Lithuania.
Last year, a different ship, called the NewNew Polar Bear, severed the Balticonnector gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia.
#defence #PLA #war
Orbital infrastructure has at least one overwhelming advantage over terrestrial infrastructure:
A globally-deployed asset can be upgraded continually and uniformly with more launches. Its operator does not need to replace existing components piecemeal, region-by-region. Every 5 years, the old equipment de-orbits and fresh replacements are launched.
Like a body continuously recycling old cells.
Between nostr and X, I’m getting the picture that Bluesky is an activist’s sandbox. I want to see it for myself
I think it’s the perception that this evocative topic is being leveraged to promote disarmament. It’s mistrust
So it was the catch tower, not Booster 13, that caused today’s launch abort.
The Danish Navy has boarded the Chinese vessel, Yi Peng 3, after the ship dragged its anchor along the seabed and destroyed undersea communications and gas lines. 
Forward flap 90% happy 
No booster catch attempt on IFT-6 but a good orbital insertion for Starship. Let’s see re-entry 😈
Hoping this administration will bisect the FAA into the Federal Space Administration, as was done with the Air Force and Space Force. Based on SpaceX’s regulatory hurdles in 2024, it looks like the U.S. space sector needs a dedicated agency with a mandate to support rapid reuse. For the benefit of Stoke and BO as much as SpaceX.
An architecture to settle another planet. Really something to look at 👌
I wonder how much she would enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean