CyberEgg
@CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Meanwhile Macedonia quietly plotting world domination 1 day ago:
I’m a simple german leftist. I see Das Känguru, I upvote.
- Comment on Oh, no you didn't 4 weeks ago:
No need for downvotes, I’m just curious.
This is the detail I’m interesting detail:
After 14th century miniature, published on Magasin Pittoresque, Paris, 1845
Now I have to find that miniature.
- Comment on Oh, no you didn't 4 weeks ago:
I can’t look up the historical context of your group chat.
If you could find information about the historic context of the template (where was the picture published, when was it published, what is depicted, what timeframe is depicted, etc (or simply the name and original source)), that would be great.
- Comment on Oh, no you didn't 4 weeks ago:
Is there more information on that picture? Like where and when is it from?
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 months ago:
The article you provide states that the religious dimensions of the given example are unknown.
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 months ago:
Please provide evidence of pre-christian european religious practices around human sacrifice or pack up your constructed BS.
Honestly, your way of reaching a conclusion is so far from scientific, it reaches astrology levels.
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 months ago:
But Kali is not european paganism, nor are the 90s and 2000s quite considered historical in that sense yet.
- Comment on its a jarring realization that deserts, mountains, and worse climates are mroe hospitable to human civilization than Lush/Green looking northern forests 3 months ago:
With respect to at least Egypt bear in mind that the areas frequently photographed are the dramatic desert parts
Definitely not only Egypt. The Fertile Crescent from the Levante along the north end of the Syrian Desert all the way through Mesopotamia to the shores of the Persian Gulf was generally very, well, fertile land (as the name suggests).
Unfortunately, Euphrates and Tigris nowadays contain much less water due to climate change and dams built in Turkey, and farming cannot be done reliable in the lower regions anymore.
- Comment on its a jarring realization that deserts, mountains, and worse climates are mroe hospitable to human civilization than Lush/Green looking northern forests 3 months ago:
First, the Levante, Egypt and Mesopotamia are not the cradle of humanity but the cradle of civilisation. The Cradle of Humankind is a but further south in South Africa with significant findings for three early genera of homo.
Second, if one talked about the Cradle of Humankind that wouldn’t be history but prehistory.
Third, Siberia and most parts of Canada nowadays are frozen, uninhabitable wastelands during winter.
Fourth, if we talked the cradle of civilisation (what this meme is most likely about) we would also need to talk about the different climatic conditions 5000-6000 years ago and also where exactly these civilisations developed: on relatively narrow strips of fertile land around the rivers of Euphrates, Tigris and Nile.
- Comment on It really do be like that 3 months ago:
Qwant it is.
- Comment on I am begging the mods to make this into a rule 4 months ago:
Doesn’t need to be a comment, could be just post text.
- Comment on I am begging the mods to make this into a rule 4 months ago:
Oh the irony.
No one is forcing you not to add context. Just do it FFS.