I think it boils down to you need a lot of kids to run a farm due to the manual labor demands. You don’t need a lot of kids to work in a factory or office.

Piracy by definition is stealing.

And interest rates were a lot higher back then. No one had it “easy”

Contrary to the perception of the US public China and India are still developing nations.

0-255 was good enough for me an my grandpappy.

Tell them it is a tax haven

I’m guessing they expect to sell power

While I’m pronuclear we really need to invest in better nuke power tech. Spending billions, mainly due to the risks with current water cooled reactors, is handicapping it. Systems that minimize waste, use passive failsafe systems, etc are needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

Fellow Xer here. My optometrist fitted me for my first pair of glasses for reading and said “welcome to your 40s”. I keep a cheap pair in every room and the nice prescription ones in my home/work offices.

Not sure what this has to do with boomers. I’ve heard people of all ages grumble about having to wear glasses.

Caffeine? No, the science says otherwise

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363846/

Al Qaeda and Daesh/ISIS anyone?

“I must destroy anything that preceded by religious obsession”. So ISIS aren’t the only barbarians.

So instead of reducing a clearly destructive habit now we should wait for a major social change that likely won’t happen. I don’t see how that is more altruistic for the “poor and disaffected”.

Vaping is a joke, they stuck the addictive chemical (nicotine) in it and now they are hooked on vaping. Let them sell vaping goods but they shouldn’t be allowed to add nicotine to them.

Hmmm, where have I heard this proposal before?

Rishi is just jealous that they aren’t one of the cool kids

https://www.theonion.com/secondhand-smoke-linked-to-secondhand-coolness-1819564071

I go on Wikipedia to look up a region in central Europe and an hour later find myself reading about obscure events in the 30 years war.

You need to arm 100 guys? 100 spears is a lot cheaper and easier to train than 100 swords.

Your brain deliberately forgets trivial stuff. Do you really need to remember every lunch you had? Same goes for all the mundane stuff in history.

On the other hand so little of the mundane stuff was recorded that when we do see it it can be a window into how people actually lived, like Samuel Pepys diary. The daily stuff was so accepted as boring and common knowledge that it wasn’t considered worth recording.