Industrialists have just countered work efficiency improvements with…more work.

Yes, exactly. Before industrialisation people worked on average less hours than we do now.

The modern hats look like a satirical version of the original.

I think that’s a disingenious estimate to say that food is far cheaper now than it was previously in human history. Before industrialization, growing food did take up a large portion of people’s time but their yearly work hours were much smaller.

It has improved massively, at least in the west. Saying “somewhat” is a massive underestimation and undermindes the fight of women for hundreds of years.

Any miltary strategist will say that you can’t bomb your way to a victory.

Yeah, people often forget that most regents were at least to some extent elected. If the nobility/rich landowners didn’t want a specific regent then they were thrown out and a new one was found. Usually within the same line, though. A regent rarely had absolute power. For example Denmark has had a monarchy for over 1000 years but less than 200 of those were an actual absolute monarchy. Most of the time the regent was put in check by the nobility/landowners and the church etc.

Not necessarily. Plenty of kings were elected by the nobility.

Nail on the head

I’ve always considered agnostics to be atheists who just don’t wanna debate. At least that’s why I used to call myself an agnostic when I was younger.

What’s the selling point on CachyOS? I use Pop os right now but I’m looking to swap to something new and I was never all that fond of Pop os. Before that I used Fedora which had an awful time running stable on my machine. Mostly I’m considering Debian

Lmao. In Europe Mac is mainstream and most people think I have MacOS installed when it’s in fact gnome

There have been talks in Europe about how we are dependent on American tech for our digital infrastructure. Some politicians even pushing for an alternative to Apple and Google. I hope everyone else wakes up before it’s too late.

My native language is not English and saying “sequel” in this language is extremely forced and just not the norm. This bleeds over into English for me.

I will always judge people who say “sequel”

Linux users aren’t known for their impulse control.

98% of the time I wanted to do something, or had a problem I wanted to fix, the cause was Gnome. I hate Gnome. And coincidentally also feet.