I was today years old when I realized this thing has a name and it is called “Hellmo”.

I edited my post to include metric units for those numbers.

And sure, it’s fine to say that is short from your own personal perspective but yes statistically the average height was less back then. Even so the average height today is only about 10 cm more.

You may just be taller than average if you are that incredulous about his height. I don’t consider 5’5" (1.68 m) to be that far off from the average height of men in most countries today. If he were under say 5’ (1.52 m) I would say that is significantly shorter.

1.68m is 5’5" which is yeah short but not too far from the (self-reported) average male height in France today which is 5’9" (1.75m) (Bayesian estimates actually say 5’7" (1.70m)). During Bonaparte’s time average male height in France was 5’4" (1.62m) so he was actually taller than average by a tiny bit.

Average height has increased over time.

Proof to support your claim? This seems like an outright lie to me.

Don’t get me wrong. The bedonked trucks rolling coal and driving like assholes should be penalized and car manufacturers should be limited in how big they keep making these things. But you’re not going to get rid of trucks. Especially not in America. Good luck with the crusade though.

My friend was killed by a bus while riding her bike. Should we ban public transit?

But they can’t do it better than trucks can. Can a motorcycle tow a 27’ travel trailer filled with all the things you need to live for an extended amount of time?

Vans and minivans do everything trucks and SUVs do, and they do it better.

Except tow things.

Depends on how you draw it.

My local FreeGeek was selling $5 e-readers in an e-reader bin this weekend.

You claim that each group fighting for their own unique needs and rights is some how splintering our unity. You do know intersectionality is a thing, right? Just because I’m for gay rights doesn’t mean I’m against black rights. Each group has their own unique needs and there is some interplay between them but there is absolutely no shame or downside to communicating those unique needs.

What you claim sounds very similar to an argument I often hear from right-wingers. “Gays and Lesbians already have equal rights. They have the right to marry someone of the opposite sex just like everyone else.”

There is a difference between equality and equity.

You claim that is the fault of minorities demanding equal rights that inequality in wealth has risen rather than put the blame squarely where it’s deserved: the right wing, and people who couldn’t be bothered to vote against the right wing (or worse, the people discouraging others from voting for the only opposition party to the right wing).

You claim that “leftists” are that different from tankies but judging by your own rhetoric which is incredibly hostile to minorities, I’d say they are quite the same.

You make it sound like discrimination is something that only happened recently and that it’s some kind of conspiracy invented by the rich instead of something that has literally been around since the dawn of humanity. Hell it’s not even a trait unique to humanity.

Everyone being equal sounds great and all. Show me a left wing country that’s achieved it.

Pretending everything can be magically solved by wealth equality is pure class reductionism and this fantasy has never been borne out by reality. Different groups experience different forms of discrimination and each has different needs. Not to mention the “left” isn’t without it’s share of abhorrent views. Check out the recent posts of !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works to see transphobia and queerphobia from leftists you claim desire equality on full display.

I mean it wouldn’t be a problem if people didn’t get angry about minorities having rights.

The reason the rich are pushing right-wing politics is that they know socially conservative people are ready to give the wealthy whatever they want so long as they can tread on the humanity of minorities. So a large part of the problem is there truly are a lot of deplorable people who have some truly abhorrent views and the rich are taking advantage of that. Is the rich taking advantage a problem? Sure, but the bigger problem is that these people with these views exist in the first place and are easily manipulated.

If the rich could get tax cuts from pushing for social rights for minorities they would do that instead, but social liberals are less gullible than the conservatives.

It’s pretty easy to explain too. Social media and traditional media are all owned by billionaires and they want to push a rightwing agenda because that means less taxes for them and fuck everyone else.

I have ADHD too. The trick is to trick your brain into thinking it’s urgent by training yourself to have anxiety anytime there is a looming deadline.

Worked great for me and I got a 4.0 in engineering. But now I have anxiety issues.

I just need to open my work laptop and watch it utterly fail at even the most basic tasks for me to be convinced our level of technology is no where near where it needs to be to start sticking electronics in people’s heads.

Even if you don’t talk to them they might break into your house and shoot you in the face anyway because they are incompetent at finding correct addresses.

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Half of the things they do in boot camp is just the drill instructor’s kink.