Well, we’re way, way over the overpopulation limit, with too much environmental destruction in our wake, so I guess it’s all pretty academic at this point.

Also, I certainly don’t find that a high-tech, capitalistic civilisation is required to maintain a society with high happiness & quality of life. We already know due to multiple encounters with existing primitive peoples around the world that people can be perfectly happy, content and occupied with far more primitive tech, without money.

That said, primitive societies can also be quite violent, stressful affairs, too.

i’m pretty sure a shared tradition and morality handled most of what we might call ‘law.’ as for taxes, that’s something that works with lucre. the vast majority of human history did not seem to function with lucre.

as for a threshold of 1000 individuals, i would tend to think most societies splintered in to smaller ones the larger they grew, as is natural.

a lot of that is speculative of course, but generally seems supported by the history and clues we do have. meanwhile, what i know for sure is that this mega-society is headed for a massive collapse, and is certainly not self-sustaining, nor at equilibrium with nature. cheers.

Not trying to quibble or be pedantic, but I see it as a complex subject. Laws & taxes are extremely recent practices, while societies were probably around long before modern man came along, ~300kya.

I would also think some of those societies functioned nicely indeed, and were arguably an improvement over what we have now.

Latish reply, but how do you make yours? Do you do the ‘restaurant’ steps of using water & freezing to get the starch out?

Me, I just slice up baking potatoes and pop them in my air fryer for a while, turning and re-basting with oil a few times. Not restaurant grade, but good enough.

Thanks for that. I was an idiot, fixating on the word “hide” for some reason.

Thanks; I understand. My problem with “New” is that it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s activity yet. Sometimes I really would like to stay with “Active” and just hide stuff I have no interest in.

There’s a setting in your Lemmy profile to hide read posts. It’s a server side setting so it’ll propagate to any apps.

Not totally sure I understand. I don’t use apps, but browser, and don’t see any such setting in my profile toggles.

That’s not quite what @Stillhart@lemm.ee is saying, though. They’re talking about, independently of one’s instance or the FV tracking a user’s karma for all to see, instead, a specific add-on tool (RES) allows individual users to track karmic interactions with other users.

Personally, I find it quite useful. RES also offered the ability to tag other users with notes, another helpful thing.

Sounds like a footlong (which is still pretty reasonable), but then they get you on the overinflated prices of chips, fruit slices, cookies, and bottled drinks.

i notice plenty of redditers routinely slam subway, but there’s two orders i regularly get that i find delicious, nutritious, low-cal, and reasonably-priced–

first is a six inch italian herb roll with ham, turkey, all veggies, and chipotle dressing on the side for six bucks. i bring it home, toast it two mins a side in my air fryer, then sprinkle on red pepper flakes and add the dressing.

second is a salad with bbq chicken on top for about 9 bucks. i bring it home, hit it with some ghost pepper dressing and some grated parm. perfect.

not totally sure, but i get the sense that people typically compare subway to deli-style sandwiches, and that’s just not their strength, especially for meat and cheese eaters. subway is really more like vegetarian-style food with a little ‘cheat meat’ on top, and you can pretty much have them add unlimited veggies if you want for no extra charge.

no idea why the Institute for the Study of War hasn’t been mentioned yet

they issue regular reports on the world’s hot spots, and in the case of the ukraine war, nightly summaries of all events during the previous 24hrs

https://www.understandingwar.org/