TheRaven

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[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 53 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Violence has been going down for centuries. We’re hearing about it more, but it’s declining. It peaked around 1993, and it’s been trending downward ever since.

If you zoom out and look at super long term trends, it’s been declining for centuries.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I was hoping this teaser would show the wolf man and it would be way different than what we saw before. That, mixed with the fact that it’s being released in January, makes me think it’s going to be bad.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve been excited about this movie since The Invisible man. I see one image, and suddenly I’m not excited at all.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

This is how I feel too. Studies show that 30% of gym goers are on steroids as well. So keep at it and don’t feel bad that you’re not at the top.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When you short a stock, you borrow a stock, then sell it, then you buy it back at a (ideally) lower price. Then, you have to give back the stock plus interest. This person can’t sell the stock because they have to give it back. It wasn’t theirs to begin with. They were just borrowing it.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Before germ theory and the 1918 pandemic, this was a common thing.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 86 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

fawning celebration of its subject

That’s all I needed to hear to know that it’s bad.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 64 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You don’t choose from where you get your oil. There’s one oil market. You can choose to ban imports of oil from certain countries (like Russia).

The better move is just to migrate further away from oil usage altogether.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I’m confused. What is this proving? I think the original comment was joking that any clothing that humans wear can be considered an ape costume since humans are apes.

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