claman wrote:vtsnowedin , I wonder what EWS means ?
Early Warning Signs, I believe.
claman wrote:vtsnowedin , I wonder what EWS means ?
frankthetank wrote:I think the signs are everywhere. I just have no idea how long we can keep riding this plateau..could be days, could be years, could be decades... it isn't going to take much for it all to crumble.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
but our culture has disassociated itself from the fundamental skills to do very much of anything.
Newfie wrote:"Fundamental skills". Hell, from what I see most people can't make pancakes without premix batter. Forget fundamental, many people today are nearly clueless. Sure, they may knock the heck out of income tax forms or be a wiz at gaming code but it stops there. I'll go further, many folks have not the slightest idea of how to think, deductive reasoning, logic. Nearly 100% straight up emotion.
dohboi wrote:Usually it's both baking powder and baking soda.
This reminds me of a cook book I once saw from the 1800s where they said that they wouldn't bother to include a recipe for bread, since every housewife in the country makes it every day.
The researchers used what they termed a Human And Nature DYnamical (HANDY) formula to reach their conclusions. The formula uses factors such as birth rates, resources, and income classes to create a mathematical equation to project outcomes.
The study was sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and headed by the National Science Foundation’s Safa Motesharrei.
For those who think modern society is immune from the problems that brought down ancient civilizations, a “brief overview of collapses demonstrates not only the ubiquity of the phenomenon, but also the extent to which advanced, complex and powerful societies are susceptible to collapse,” the study said.
Subjectivist wrote:dohboi wrote:Usually it's both baking powder and baking soda.
This reminds me of a cook book I once saw from the 1800s where they said that they wouldn't bother to include a recipe for bread, since every housewife in the country makes it every day.
Aha! It's Cream of Tartar! Cream of Tartar activates baking soda, the combination was the original formula for Baking Powder.
He can only come up with a couple instances in all of history where a society managed to avoid it.
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