Uh, that was France. Or maybe I’m missing what you mean there.

Anyway, I’ll copy in what I replied with as well:

In some ways, this is worse, because they hit metaphorical stairs the whole way up as well, and where the “top” is is a matter of what you want to measure.

It’s very not-the-circlejerk, but maybe 13 should be “Rome never existed in the first place”.

Basically, you’d have to be more specific about what measure you’re using. If you go by population they peaked in the 100’s, and infrastructure construction peaked around the same time IIRC. Territorial expansion was actually slower in the Empire than the Republic from the start.

It’s not clear what caused Rome to decline, either, to complicate things.

From what I’ve heard, for every company doing back-to-the-office, there’s one expanding out work from home. So, it’s holding pretty steady. The only thing they mention here, unless I missed it on a skim, is what the big banks are doing.

It’s happened several times to me. If it were possible, it would be nice it self-deletes were to continue being accessible and commentable. (Moderator deletes are different, though, because of festering non-fruitful discussions)

I think a post runs through that user’s own instance, unfortunately, so it would be technically non-trivial.

Really, none? Is there a source for this OP?

Mostly no, because they should be on the same scale. Not that it matters here.

Unironically, it’s weird that crash safety standards don’t include pedestrians.

I stand corrected.

Alberta then. I’ll fix it. I guess it must be legal.

It was early Obama too; he hadn’t done much. They pretty much just gave the prize to a guy they liked the sound of.

It was. I do wonder how Gore would have approached the situation, although some degree of crazy was definitely going to happen.

Interestingly, Trump hasn’t actually taken advantage of 9/11 era policies much, even though he easily could.

Usually people point to Newt Gingrich in the 90’s as the start of modern anti-democratic conservatism in America. And yeah, elements go all the way back to Nixon, and from there in a form all the way back to the Puritans.

I mean, “the West” is itself a large group of allies. And the only other nation that actually has skin in the game is North Korea.

I ended up with an air fryer. It’s still just a convection oven, but I use it constantly.

I wonder why artists even bother at this point. Doesn’t LiveNation offer some way they can sell tickets at their actual value without people knowing? (It itself is kind of a monopoly, but that’s another issue)

The riding he’s running in would elect and aardvark if it was labeled “conservative”. Who’s on the ballot or what they stand for have little impact. The question is if it will be with 80 percent, or “just” 70.

Yeah, that’s crazy to me too. Never happens in Canada my area, unless somebody messed up when shelving things.

I think that would actually be illegal here, since price advertising is very regulated. For example, you must be given the price displayed even if it’s an error.

We don’t include the tax. You just expect what you pay at the till to be some percent more than the sum of shelf prices. It’s a known number, 5% where I live except on a few untaxed items (which I should mention isn’t the US, just nearby).

Yeah, none of that is true.

It’s not really a smoking gun, but if their analysis is correct it’s highly suggestive, especially when alternatives to LambdaCDM still consistent with measurements have proven really hard for the theorists to make.

Edit: Although what does this say about the cosmic distance ladder?

We’re still in a galaxy.

Ability to travel implies nanotechnology which allows metabolizing any resource which deterministically leads to expansion

Both of those aren’t really supported. Maybe all matter will be useful, or maybe rare elements will still be preferred, and what exactly nanotechnology will look like is up in the air (it could be that life has explored the space of possible nanomechanisms pretty well already). Similarly, it’s totally plausible an advanced species could stay in place. I actually worry we won’t have the attention span to fund slow interstellar expansion.

I’d agree there isn’t really a rational reason to cross interstellar space just to be a dick. Irrational reasons are possible, but seem unlikely. The only way dark forest makes sense is if competition is an issue, and the nature of space warfare leaves a strong pressure to strike early.