ZippyDan
ZippyDan t1_j72i0ge wrote
Reply to comment by FallenFamilyTree in Battle site of 'Great Revolt' recorded on Rosetta Stone unearthed in Egypt by AugustWolf22
>The native Egyptians in Thebaid ("Upper Egypt", ironically now in the south of modern Egypt)
Isn't it Upper Egypt because the Nile flows "backwards" and this is upriver? Rivers generally flow "downward" based on elevation, so upper Egypt was the "higher" ground.
ZippyDan t1_j6x2fg4 wrote
Reply to comment by Orngog in Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead by Magister_Xehanort
Time is a flat circle?
ZippyDan t1_j6waey9 wrote
Reply to comment by Orngog in Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead by Magister_Xehanort
So how is that "ancient global trade"?
ZippyDan t1_j6w0ks4 wrote
Reply to comment by myownbattles in Discovery of embalming workshop reveals how ancient Egyptians mummified the dead by Magister_Xehanort
Since 1400 BCE or CE?
ZippyDan t1_j2dlzuo wrote
Reply to comment by kgro in Kazakhstan Deports Russian FSB Officer Who Fled To Avoid Being Sent To Fight In Ukraine by Zhukov-74
It's not about feeling sorry. It's about the message it sends. My point is that he serves as an example to others who might want to flee. The more failures there are, the more these low-level cogs will feel trapped, and therefore desperate to see the regime pull off a win.
ZippyDan t1_j2de55p wrote
Reply to comment by FiendishHawk in A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison by icedpickles
But she didn't know that at the time.
What would you have done?
ZippyDan t1_j2ddjxx wrote
Reply to comment by kgro in Kazakhstan Deports Russian FSB Officer Who Fled To Avoid Being Sent To Fight In Ukraine by Zhukov-74
I think you're not thinking big enough.
Don't we want people to be abandoning the system? If enough people defect, hide, and rebel, this whole mess can be over sooner.
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. In any evil system there is a range of leaders, supporters, and cogs: true evils, true believers, sycophants, opportunists, weak-minded and weak-willed sheep, uninformed and uneducated, etc.
It's not possible to ensure that all of those people get the justice they deserve, nor is it clear what justice the lower rungs of the system deserve. Think of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan: many culpable people escaped punishment, but it was more important that the leadership face the music and that the system fall rather than hunting down every last pencil pusher that was indirectly responsible for the abuses of the system.
Trying to hold every last person accountable no matter how peripheral their involvement just encourages the system to linger longer, because every last beauraucrat and janitor becomes invested in the continued delay of accountability. Leaders have power and the ultimate responsibility, but they are nothing if the individual cogs of their empire melt away.
ZippyDan t1_j2d7n7x wrote
Reply to comment by kgro in Kazakhstan Deports Russian FSB Officer Who Fled To Avoid Being Sent To Fight In Ukraine by Zhukov-74
But he is not FSB
ZippyDan t1_ixibziq wrote
Reply to comment by nathanfay in Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by filosoful
Stick it down into your alveoli and use it like a toilet brush.
ZippyDan t1_ixibw8e wrote
Reply to comment by Funktastic34 in Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by filosoful
That isn't getting in our lungs though. Not directly anyway.
ZippyDan t1_ixibt7v wrote
Reply to comment by asdaaaaaaaa in Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by filosoful
I don't know why you would think that "natural" burned stuff is somehow "better" than "artificial" burned stuff. I mean, it could be, and certainly some artificial stuff is really nasty, but it's all really bad to be breathing in. It's not like we were "designed" to breathe in "organic" smoke. It's all bad.
ZippyDan t1_iquzxlb wrote
Reply to comment by lostinsoup in Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action by Picture-unrelated
We can see a very small sliver of radiation. Actually, radiation is the only thing we see.
ZippyDan t1_j75gviq wrote
Reply to comment by Ferengi_Earwax in Battle site of 'Great Revolt' recorded on Rosetta Stone unearthed in Egypt by AugustWolf22
You just confirmed what I said...