Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

So offending the state in China invokes the punishment of getting to experience the American reality?

but this site being populated mostly by different varieties of contrarians and malcontents

You can just say leftists/communists/socialists

This is anti-struggle-session thought

Help, I have an excess of yellow bile and a deficit of phlegm, can bloodletting really balance out those humours?

They have to roll really high on the table. Most of it is just stuff like stunned or bleeding. In previous editions they were more lethal.

Old fashioned pens need to be held at a downwards angle or they might not write. A lot of modern pens as well. Plus it looks nice and it's basically just a block of wood with a hole and some polish.

That's the one projectile he's proven he can dodge

$1 trillion

3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.

Unless it's the only thing you're doing, you're not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.

On a chemical level, children's brains work differently to adults when they're learning, it's not a question of effort.

Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.

Surely slate and tile have to balance out in price at some point? The slate on my home's roof is ~120 years old and only needs a little bit of maintenance every 5-10 years.

Imagine having the nerve to pretend you're the Roman empire when you directly border the real Roman empire.

There was also a huge plague that killed a quarter of the population and a mini-ice age which decreased agricultural yields enormously and forced migration from the Eurasian steppe.

I'd make a case for environmental factors being the biggest cause of collapse rather than economic contradictions.

I can get behind partying forever.

They'd almost certainly lose the referendum. The SNP is not a very popular party at the moment with the recent corruption scandals, and Brexit and the collapsing price of oil seems to have cooled opinions on how favourable independence would be as well.

Plus, Scotland is seeing huge immigration from England at the moment as living there is slightly less unaffordable, and the English transplants aren't going to vote very much for independence. (There's also no mechanism for determining if someone is actually Scottish, and that was never a requirement for any referenda.)

Polling doesn't matter when you have such a large majority. Labour could lose a Theresa May level of seats every year through by-elections and still not have to call an election until 2029.

Without Brexit as a dividing issue or an organisation like the ERG, we're not going to see a mirror of the Tory's leadership contests, and the mechanism for changing party leader is completely different as well.

A lot can happen in five years, but I'll buy a hat and subsequently eat it if Kier isn't PM in 2029.

There's not enough uranium at the ideal enrichment levels that's profitable to extract. If we aren't concerned with getting the most profit possible mining the stuff, we have a few hundred years of supply without needing to recycle (which is easy).

What would be the consequences of just banning air travel? Do people really need to do it?

Those aren't hugely energy intensive activities though. You'd save more energy by banning dryers and regulating air conditioning/heating down to normal levels for non-US countries. You could probably bring American energy consumption down to near the average just by limiting the size of cars.

We can do both. We are limited in input materials for solar and wind, and those materials don't overlap much with what nuclear power plants need.