#Tribalism
Do you think demographic crises can be beneficial.
Black death is an ancient example but was potentially the reason workers have a lot of rights in Western Europe. Because a lot of workers were kill. But it seems not many people write about other examples of demographic crises.
Maybe this will force workers to become more productive and promote automatization? I'd love to work in automatization.
I'd research it myself but I have stuffs to do.
I just want to find silver linings in things.
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>Do you think demographic crises can be beneficial.
Yes.
Consider it like pruning grapes. You cut back, you inflict stress to cause growth. This is how living systems work.
>India counterweights Chinese influence in Asia,
Indeed.
>I'd rather keep them alive if anything.
If we build this new shiny multipolar world, the more poles the better.
>Do you think demographic crises can be beneficial
It is literally a sign a development in the modern world, I don’t like it when people complain about how “we’re not making babies”. It’s a good thing there are less of them and it cost a lot of money to rise one. I will not have kids to continue this trend because I am a man of the develop world.
What was social mobility like in European and maybe some other countries?
I didn't research it quite thoroughly yet, but in Russian Empire there was something called Table of Ranks. If a commoner spent enough time at the 14th rank and higher they could gain something called "personal nobility". This does not get passed down to your descendants. 8th rank and higher could grant you "hereditary nobility".
Here's an example of social mobility in Russian Empire. Lenin's father (born Ilya Ulyanin) was the son of a former serf based in Volga region. He received hereditary nobility in 1882 for his work as an educator. He started and managed a lot of schools for Volgan ethnic minorities and was likely some minority himself, but nobody is quite sure which one. Especially because this information was strongly suppressed by the Soviet leaders, as they feared this information could be used in adversarial propaganda.
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<They payed the tax for a landlord in one sum in forward, then they were allowed to collect the tax from the serfs to get their money back. Since noone supervised them doing it, they could beat the money out of the serfs with profit.
How strange that the powers that be assumed that someone would do that job for free, without extorting extra money from serfs
They did not assume that. That was the price to get the money.
Essentially it was like loaning. Land could not be pawned away or used as collateral. There were laws that forbid the alienation of the feudal land. But the noble had no money himself, only what the serfs gave or what he got from the sale of the produce from his lands and his serfs. So they give the right to collect the tax.
Just occurred to me that I might have missed what you really meant and my explanation is unnecessary.
the way you phrased it, it sounds as if it was (officially, if not sincerely) assumed that these tax gollectors would only collect the amount owed to the lord of the land and anything beyond that was corruption enabled by lack of supervision
>Since noone supervised them doing it, they could beat the money out of the serfs with profit.
I don't know how the arrangement was, but my impression is that their activities were frowned upon, not just by those who suffered by them but by Christian morals went against them. And those matters no matter how some wants to tell us that everyone was a hypocrite sinner just like us today. I do believe they at least had some expectation that they collect the amount that they could have collected themselves (which was regulated by laws).
But since people weren't saints either I think nobles and kings could see them as practical tools at best if they had pressing needs for funds. They looked away, and if things allowed they served justice.
Serving justice might not had been so straightforward. Because tax collectors could have powerful friends, other employers who needed their service.
Just like bankers who financed rival feudal lords, kings and emperors, and used them against each other so they can't get rid of bankers.
3 citizens of Russia and Ukraine were bombed on the Monaco. An unknown individual left a backpack with explosives near the entrance of some building and ran away.
Allegedly, the target of the attack was the family of a Ukrainian scam call network.
Makes me wonder a bit on the hows and whys of this operation.
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Ok so this was done by Ukrainian woman who was found buried in a ditch near Kiev, according to Ukrainian Pravda, a news outlet. She was shot. After the crime, she escaped into a French commune called Bosolei and then to Italy.
Two suspects have been arrested. One the commander of Defense Intelligence in Ukraine and another a former employee in law enforcement.
Nobody died, only heavily injured at most. Vadim Ermolaev, Anna Nasobina and their 13yo son.
Considering how many ideas for drawings I have yet no time or effort to extend for learning art, I think I am starting to become more accepting of AI art. But I would still prefer actual videogames to be done by artists mostly manually for example.
Also I would still draw the original thing but try to "enhance" it with ai or have it fix my anatomy and then redraw it. Maybe ai will also learn to fix lineart in a way you need without touching other things.
Yeah from what I've noticed AI is best when you actually have the skill. The notion that this will enable people without skills to do cool shit is a bit of a meme.
I do draw and try to get better but it frustrates me. I don't like just prooompting because it doesn't end up exactly how I imagine it usually so some skill will be required anyway.
Are Russian Bernds ok? I hear you're having troubles with gas and so on.
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