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Is moral decay to blame? Roman historians at the time blamed people not following the moral code "mos maiorum" where generally you are supposed to just do what's good for the republic/empire rather than focusing on advancing your own self-interest. Modern Historians instead focus on social...

Why we shouldn't allow national parliaments to make laws Allowing 27+ different parliaments to make laws will result in a very fragmented legal environment making it harder for business to operate among other issues. What's legal in one state/nation will be illegal in another and this will be...

The role of national parliaments/boards in unified Europe National parliaments (such as the Swedish Riksdag) will no longer be allowed to make any laws by themselves. Instead all laws will be made in a European level and this will include legislation regarding taxation. There will be a single...

Not enough lead in the pipes One issue with the roman empire is that unlike the north korea they failed to convince the public that their dysfunctional government was good. People were simply not dumb enough to keep believing in the system...

Why you shouldn't support Volt (European Party) They are socially progressive and wants to make EU stronger and more democratic https://assets.volteuropa.org/2021-08/Volt Mapping of Policy 8th Edition August 2021.pdf Besides for them promoting democracy and federalism (instead of a unified...

Why the senate becoming corrupt and weak wasn't surprising The senate was simply too large making it unworthwhile for an individual senator to actually make the right decision for the empire due to the low probability of his vote actually making any difference. The fact that senators had to...

Are crazy emperors to blame? Generally in the case of emperors discarded as crazy it was about them being in conflict with the corrupt and dysfunctional senate, it wasn't about them being bad rulers. https://www.thecollector.com/misjudged-roman-emperors/ Arguably the emperor system actually...

Government control over the economy The state had long since owned most quarries, salt deposits, and mines; now it forbade the export of salt, iron, gold, wine, grain, or oil from Italy, and strictly regulated the importation of these articles. It went on to control establishments producing for...

Rome started out very strong and expanded very rapidly but then the empire started getting more and more issues and the expansion slowed down and later west rome started falling apart. Increasingly the government became oppressive and dysfunctional to the point where people benefited from the...

About sex-segregation Most people seem to be against sex-segregation I have seen some TERFs push for that but i get the impression that most people do not like the idea of segregating people based on sex. Not sure if it would do much if any good when it comes to reducing sexual...

Pfizer vaccine trial update 1 more individual ended up dying in the placebo group (15 vs 14) this is not a statistically significant difference https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345/suppl_file/nejmoa2110345_appendix.pdf Vaccinated: 1 died out of 131 infected (covid-19)...

Me(F36) and my daughter were raped trough a whole weekend by four men and i can't forgive myself for how much i enjoyed. I have currently not been able to properly verify this story u/ResponsibilityNo8978 wrote: I just need to tell this to someone. I live with my daughter and husband. He's...

Properly controlling for placebo effects would be easy You can just ask people "do you think you got a placebo?" and then we can separate the ones who answer yes from the ones who answer no. We do not have to resort to overkill such as using active placebos (medicine with effects similar to the...

Refuting the "education drives progress" myth While it is often claimed that education is very important for society the reality is a bit different from that. Education can allow people to learn from what the past generations has already discovered but it does not necessarily allow people to go...

Wokeism While wokeism may seem to be left-wing at first it really isn't. It's basically neoliberalism plus some virtue signaling. While many people on the left are into identity politics there is little to nothing inheretly left with wokeism. The reason why this is replacing the traditional...

10-year survey: people did significantly better after 10-year follow up. https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1007/s10508-014-0453-5

The UK 'no lockdown' strategy They instead developed an app that was supposed to prevent a national lock-down, as you could probably guess that didn't work out too well.

Study: myocarditis may have 50% mortality after 5 years This is very alarming but it's not clear to me if this would actually apply to people who got myocarditis from the vaccines. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459259/ I have seen severa youtube doctors and others assure us that...

Study: Sars-CoV-2 aerosals last in the air for hours The half-life was estimated to be 1 hour in the air but of course many virus particles will remain in the air far longer than that. This means that social distancing in-doors will not provide much of a protection, you need an FFP3 mask...

A second look at the Israeli data Adverse event, number of people observed, in vaccinated group, in unvaccinated group: Acute kidney injury 912019 20 45 Anemia 709267 298 378 Appendicitis 900289 95 66 Arrhythmia 856152...