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ⰎⰅ ⰀⰍⰨⰒⰎⰫ@genmaicha@stereophonic.space (2026-09-21 02:27:23)
@lain I think he sells the historical upper classes short, a lot of the women he mentioned were actually quite beautiful especially among europeans. and the quantitative stuff at the end seems totally specious.

but it was shocking to learn how horribly the lower classes aged... maybe people got married so young in part because nobody would want to marry a 30-year-old who resembles a moldy tangerine.  it's wild that for essentially all of human history, the vast majority of people - almost everyone's ancestors - were dirt-poor, until just a couple generations ago.
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lain@lain@lain.com (2026-09-21 05:35:08)
@genmaicha yeah, the near-universal abundance that people live in still very new, and it does seem like nobody really knows how to deal with it (even though they think it’s just the way things are)

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-09-21 05:59:46)
@lain @genmaicha even with all the problems now just about every day lately I stop and think about how good it still is