Sabertooth767
Sabertooth767 t1_j6afgkt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL of the Medieval candle time clock, before electricity, a nail was placed at certain places on the lengths of the candle and people would hear the nail hit the ground when lit, letting them know a certain amount of time had passed. by FlashyBehind
It takes hundreds of candles to provide the same lighting as a single common lightbulb. So even if you had just one or two rooms in your house and lived mostly in the dark, you still needed lots and lots of candles.
Sabertooth767 t1_j6890oc wrote
Reply to comment by LetDuncanDie in TIL cholera was reintroduced to Haiti after a century by UN peacekeepers responding to the 2010 earthquake. The resulting outbreak was the worst on record, killing 10,000 and infecting 820,000. by theworkinglad
Cholera is not hard to prevent with basic sanitation, but flair-ups can be absolutely devastating. A key reason for it's effectiveness is that it turns the cure into poison: contaminated water causes diarrhea, which causes dehydration so the sick drink more contaminated water, repeat until death. In a situation like Haiti where there simply isn't enough safe water, the disease runs rampant.
Sabertooth767 t1_j4xh9pd wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] US Opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2018 by hcrx
Crack users are actually significantly more likely die to homicide or AIDS than overdose. Meth, on the other hand, has a large amount of overdose deaths.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17063219/ https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20210923/us-meth-overdose-deaths-tripled-in-recent-years
Sabertooth767 t1_iyfameb wrote
Reply to comment by pegothejerk in DHS warns of terror threats to LGBTQ, Jewish, migrant communities by CQU617
>And adjacent groups and figureheads, like libertarians
The Libertarian Party has endorsed same-sex marriage since the year it was created, over 40 years before Obergefell and a mere two years after Stonewall when the LGBT rights movement began. The libertarians are the oldest political allies the LGBT community has, why on earth would you blame them of all people?
Sabertooth767 t1_j6l1a8d wrote
Reply to comment by Sreg32 in Putin prepares for another offensive to conquer Ukraine, NATO’s Stoltenberg warns by imaginationdragon1
That's the exact opposite of playing the long game, Russia has one of the worst population growth rates on Earth. They need every young man they can get. If Western estimates are accurate, they're going to feel this war bad in 20 years.