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Ban amazon IP range on your server.

In fact, we need a list of scrapers (like an ad block list) so people can be up to date with that crap.

Right, I should have known better than to use “always” there. “Often” would have been safer. The point was that the number of senses you have don’t matter much, as the brain is plenty capable of building a full hallucinated experience with whatever senses you’re used to using.

One of the haircuts of all time.

Degredados is better translated banished. Like the British criminals sent to Australia. The rest is accurate.

Sometimes I use English to grasp at unknown German and Dutch words, but there’s often drift in meaning. It’s still a useful tool.

Oh, nice! It’s good to see progress. So this line from OP:

there is no easy opt-out

Is outdated? All 3k+ addresses can be removed from this interface?

Generalizations rarely pan out 😉

But I’m judging solely on the effects of the general native population. If the non xenophobes can’t push the needle in their direction, they didn’t matter that much.

There’s a lot of strong evidence that agriculture reduced variety in human diet considerably. But you’re right that the variety we have nowadays is hard to beat (though scurvy is making a comeback).

I’ve got it from a book, which does have sources listed, but I don’t have the book anymore. Its title was “Náufragos, traficantes e degredados”, I don’t think there’s an English translation.

This wasn’t because the Portuguese were nice, mind you. But the crown knew they did not have the population to control the vast overseas territories they intended to keep.

The Portuguese were about the first to sail South of the Equator, and that was fueled entirely on African slave trade into Europe. They weren’t good guys by any measure. But they were pragmatic, and racism doesn’t make any sense so it had to go.

Bet they were. But the “clock” only went “2 minutes to midnight” (or something) when their missiles went to Cuba, not when they got to Turkey.

The sighted schizophrenics don’t know their hallucinations aren’t real. It’s always an external diagnosis.

Spinal support butt plug.

Yes. There’s empty wall right there.

Andy Weir has a question he likes to ask people: “you have to go back in time with no recourse to return, and you must do so in multiples of 100 years. Which year do you choose?”

He then goes on to note that people usually pick the closest date, and draws from that that we are progressing and getting better as time goes by.

I would pick a time before the advent of agriculture and animal husbandry. 15000 years ago, just to be on the safe side. Most infections haven’t crossed over from other animals. A diverse diet. Sure, I’d have to find and befriend a nomadic group, and escape predators. But I’d rather take my chances there than in any other “civilized” period of history.

Another option is, if I can pick the place, I’d go to one of several points in the western shore of the Americas that were not inhabited by cannibals in 1426, try and befriend as many locals and convince them to KOS any European. Which has the added bonus of creating a time paradox.

The Portuguese had an explicit miscegenation policy in their age of sail conquests, with the stated goal of leaving their mixed race offspring in charge of the colonies. The Spanish were ultra-xenophobes, but mostly because of religion. The British and Dutch were so ultra-racist they convinced themselves they were superior to other whites.

Generalizations rarely pan out.

Putting nukes in Cuba? IDK, I’m really asking.

Dude’s taller than a horse.

Old leafs use ChaDeMo chargers, which are rare. Other than that, you’re just looking for a car with 100 mile autonomy, which isn’t asking for much. New vehicles easily reach twice that even in their most basic offerings. The price point you’re asking though… Not sure you’ll be able to find anything.

Smells like cellphone to me. 😉