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Wasn’t it mostly ice?
I wouldn’t, the same way I wouldn’t lump the two Americas together.
Europe is a bit more hazy. What to do of Russia or Turkey?

Hm, the concept of Afroeurasia opens some interesting possibilities in extending the EU.

Eurasia is a single continent, the distinction between the two is cultural.

Yes, but as I remember it, it’s not exclusive to that lake.

I don’t know much honestly, I know of them because of some friends living in Peru.

You can look up Uru (or Uro) people.
Basically it was their take on the castle and moat.
The islands are made of some sort of cane, and have to be maintained regularly, it’s very labor intensive.

It’s one of the many cultures there that are at a crossroads, since they have to choose a way between their traditional lifestyle and the comfort of modernity. Knowing that tourism can bring them an order of magnitude more money that what they can make locally, at the risk of becoming actors, maybe.

Some Peruvian indigenous people actually live on man made floating islands (on lakes, not at sea).

They can fingerprint your browser and (very) probably your hardware, along with ip, location, and other leaked data, allowing them to reliably identify you whether you’re logged in or not.
At this point, it’s more of a symbolic protest.

They’ll stop anything out of the ordinary.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

I have absolutely no idea, you could try asking the devs or look into webtorrent.

Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

The Antikythera mechanism. An almost anachronistic device meant (we think) to calculate astronomical cycles.

At this point I’m guessing they considered doing the whole industrial revolution thing then decided against it.

Reducing economical disparities will solve the so-called “racial” inequalities.
Affordable education, housing and care for all don’t necessitate discrimination, even positive.
When an university degree costs hundreds of thousands, the problem isn’t the ethnic makeup of the happy few who can afford it, it’s scarcity itself.
European state manage to fund a higher education for pretty much all of those that care to try it, it is not an impossible dream.

edit: to clarify, I don’t think ending affirmative action before making any general progress is a good idea or will do any good.
just to keep eyes on the prize and be aware of diversion tactics.

Feels like a spin to me to be honest.
They used to say the same things about lead before transitioning to the current “unsafe at any dosage” view.
Labeling everyday products as carcinogenic would work to muddy the waters after a few damaging papers on industry important products. I remember the ‘red meat is cancer’ craze breaking out suspiciously close to the first studies linking glyphosate to cancer.

My euristic will be to take popular belief into account. I see it as emergent intelligence by trial and error, not merely nonsense.
You do you of course.

In my mind, the main reason to avoid edulcorants (including stevia and acesulfame), is that they taste like shit.

Yesteryear’s conspiracies are today’s common truth. Getting slowly used to that one.

Former CEO at Online Manipulation warns us about online manipulation. Hm.

haven’t evolved
I’m not so sure. We’ve been eating like shit since way before mcdonalds, and natural selection gonna naturally select.

It may be coincidental, but there’s an abnormally high (higher than western population) prevalence of diabetes in people transitioning to a western lifestyle.

For a non meme answer. my bet would be on endocrine disruption of the thyroid, by pollutants.
Along with a change in feeding habits in former third world population (sudden access to an abundance of sugar when you’re not genetically ready for it).
And maybe compound it with unhealthy lifestyles (increasing sedentary lifestyles).