@SamAndrews1017@nrken19 I was intrigued by the faces, read up on them a little. Lots of researchers think they’re fake. The style is modern. There’s an elephant next to one of them. Those disappeared long before the supposed date of the pics.
@UBERSOY1 Back on Earth, the Russian Empire lost its parts of Poland during WWI, before the revolution. Stalin brought them back, Gorby pissed them away.
@Tsuranuan@FistedFoucault Large, real states were viable during the age of infantry. They became rare during the age of cavalry. They came back in force during the age of artillery.
@Tsuranuan@FistedFoucault Did Germany fail to create a centralized state at that time for the same reason? I don’t know. Interesting question. Italy? Maybe that was just local disorganization.
@ArtemisConsort The latest phase of fertility decline, since around 2015, is due to smart phones. Previous phases had different causes, secularism and the pill among them.
@FistedFoucault In America politicians present themselves as regular guys. In Britain and France pols are mostly upscale people who don’t hide that. I don’t know the political cultures of other Western Euro countries well, but I assume most are similar to UK and France.