Replying to @UpdatingOnRome
And thus was born the Dutch language
Neolithic HVAC Technician
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Neolithic HVAC Technician
@AccurateCaption
Not actually an HVAC professional. Heritage American with a touch of Campania. Longing for Constantinople since age 8.
Joined March 2015
- Replying to @CityBureaucrat"I know it don't look like much, pardner, but it gits me where I need to go, and without doing much harm to this here climate of ours."
- Wait, the final US birth data for 2020 was released just a week ago? Why didn't anyone tell me? Looking through it, major point is that the TFR declined to 1.64, the lowest level ever recorded. Birth rates for all races and age groups declined.
- This is a fascinating insight for fertility in pre-modern times, and casts ancient/Biblical debates over sexuality in a somewhat different light. A libertine society would have been a less fertile one, and patriarchy was a reproductive technology.Better map of the African sterility belt. In the 19th and 20th centuries, much of central Africa had incredibly high sterility rates because of STDs. The low birth rate this caused (net of mortality) motivated (successful) pronatal programs in French and Belgian colonies.
- Changes in total number of US births, by race of mother, since 1990: White: -43% Black: -25% Native Am: -47% Asian: +35% Hispanic: +31%
- TIL that the Dominican Republic pulled out of the human rights court, amended its constitution in 2010 to limit birthright citizenship, then had a newly-created constitutional court retroactively strip citizenship from many people whose ancestors arrived in the country since 1929
- Replying to @umairhAre the white people in the room with us right now?
- Sure, but after 400 years of continuous family residence, I'm calling myself indigenous now.
- Forget statehood, what's the process for applying to be an unorganized territory?
- Replying to @Blair_A_NathanThose who would give up essential liberty for a little guacamole, deserve neither liberty nor guacamole
- "Here in Romania, we speak a Romance language called Romanian. And our last president was named Trajan. Any questions?"
