Random thoughts/comments

[Zinjanthropos]

CC....I thought the video guy said slave was derived from Slav seeing how they lead the enslaved people’s league by a wide margin.

[Syne]

BTW... What a duh idiot I've been for years, not realizing that there's a transcript link under the menu dots of those videos. Sure speeds things up if you can read one lickety-split ahead of watching it.

Holy crap. I would have clued you in early had I known. It's a huge quality of life improvement, IMO.

[Secular Sanity]

CC....I thought the video guy said slave was derived from Slav seeing how they lead the enslaved people’s league by a wide margin.

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. Not sure if it's correct or not but either way, I didn’t know that. Very interesting, Zinman.

Thank you!

I have read the stories about slaves using herbal remedies to exercise agency over their bodies though. Nobody wants their womb to be used as a manufacturing company, right? However, with the low birth rates, some countries are now paying you to have children.

(...)"Contraception was an act of rebellion because it shifted the power and control from enslaver to the enslaved. Since enslaved women were expected to maintain the enslaved populations, enslaved women used various methods to undermine this expectation. Abortions and contraceptives were also seen as a means for enslaved women to exercise agency over their bodies by allowing the women to control their ability to be impregnated."

(...)"Infanticide was an act of rebellion because it allowed enslaved women to prevent the enslavement of their children." Source

Herbal remedies to induce miscarriage were equally well known to enslaved women. Slaves often grew herbs and mixed their own medicine, derisively referred to as "negro remedies" by Southern whites. A common concern among slave-owners was that slave women were using cotton root as an abortifacient. Historian Sharla Fett writes that white doctors worried that enslaved women were using those old emmenagogues pennyroyal, tansy and rue to end pregnancies. Just as with white women, doctors were eager to control the use of slaves’ herbal remedies, particularly those used to regulate menstruation. Source

[C C]

CC....I thought the video guy said slave was derived from Slav seeing how they lead the enslaved people’s league by a wide margin.

The article takes the association of the two into account either way: If one looks at the BBC’s webpage about the roots of slavery, there’s a statement that “the term `slave’ has its origins in the word `Slav.’”. The opposite (which it primarily focuses on) by its very nature negates that one.

But maybe it is considered Russian revisionism today. There's a disadvantage to remembering skeptical trends from years ago that actually faded away in between, except in this or that country that has cultural sensitivities to the suggested or popular origin.

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BTW... What a duh idiot I've been for years, not realizing that there's a transcript link under the menu dots of those videos. Sure speeds things up if you can read one lickety-split ahead of watching it.

Holy crap. I would have clued you in early had I known. It's a huge quality of life improvement, IMO.

People in forums occasionally complain about watching long videos (longer than 5 minutes?),  so better to project the "duh" directly on me with regard to mentioning transcripts than suggestively in between the lines on them. (Or maybe they don't like reading or can't speed-read, either. Perhaps they actually are complaining about or dismissing both options as appealing. Can't say I'm overly thrilled, either, when they get up to two hours.)

[Leigha]

I’m on the west coast of Florida and it’s been raining heavily for hours, now.  Eta is supposed to get worse around 1 am. Hoping it’s not much of a wind event.

[Syne]

Holy crap. I would have clued you in early had I known. It's a huge quality of life improvement, IMO.

People in forums occasionally complain about watching long videos (longer than 5 minutes?),  so better to project the "duh" directly on me with regard to mentioning transcripts than suggestively in between the lines on them. (Or maybe they don't like reading or can't speed-read, either. Perhaps they actually are complaining about or dismissing both options as appealing. Can't say I'm overly thrilled, either, when they get up to two hours.)

Even when a longish video has a transcript, often the poster doesn't even give enough info for a word search to find the relevant bit. I don't usually have time to play "read my mind".

[Leigha]

Funny how the markets drive things.

https://www.predictit.org/markets/13/Prez-Election

[Syne]

Funny how the markets drive things.

https://www.predictit.org/markets/13/Prez-Election

Markets react, they don't drive.

[C C]

[...] But maybe it is considered Russian revisionism today. There's a disadvantage to remembering skeptical trends from years ago that actually faded away in between, except in this or that country that has cultural sensitivities to the suggested or popular origin.

Which is to say, I can return to historically and currently viewing them like that. They don't need full-out slave status to still have been serfs/peasants, comrades/proles, and kleptocrat-zombies almost constantly in thralldom to Tsars, Marxists, oligarchs, a strongman/dictator and whatever else lurks on the horizon that they'll obligingly allow to press a boot against their throats.

[Leigha]

Looks like most of Biden’s “plans” are little more than reversing what Trump did. He sounds like he wants to slow everything down and go back to a lock down. The Repubs get in, they do one thing...Democrats get in, they do the opposite. No progress lasts.

It’s just funny to me that Biden’s big plan is to reverse everything Trump did. 

He has to be the greatest panderer of all time. Pandering isn’t just about pleasing others though, it’s about pleasing others because you have ulterior motives.