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  • I quickly translated the French word. It’s how some people can hate women and believe they’re inferior or crazy or whatever.

    What I’m saying in my comment is that the graphs seem much more about feminism vs the opposite than it is about conservatism vs whatever else. Now there is a link between thee two. But saying it’s conservative vs progress is abusive imo and missing the problem.






  • I believe that the language was transmitted with trade rather than conquest in the roman empire. At worse one would have a translator to receive orders and communicate with Rome. But with becoming part of the empire, trade develop, and all the people engaged in the trading will start to learn the language.

    For that England was not well placed. It was described as a poor land by the Romans, barely worth a conquest. So I expect Rome didn’t care enough to develop it.

    It should be noted that usually when we talk about languages of the past, we’re talking about the languages of the aristocracy. In rural areas, it vary wildly depending on the history of the place and the ties they had with the nearest city. No one cared about the language they talked as long as one guy there could translate for the others. They didn’t write book either. It’s only recently in history, with the idea of nation and the school for everyone, that people started to talk the same language on all of a country. You may have heard about the literacy of a population that was very low until the 60’s or 70’s. This is actually when people all started to actually talk the same language, even in remote places.








  • My attempt: ambiant temperature superconductor would be like when we went from lamps to semi-conductor. We were doing many things already with lamps, but semi-conductor allowed for incredible miniaturisation and efficiency. They allowed the invention of computers, Internet and smartphones.

    We already do many things with magnetic fields, but ambiant temperature superconductor would be a big technologic jump.

    Many things would rapidly become much more efficient, but we have no idea yet of the full potential of this technology. It could be helpful for quantum technologies and fusion reactors for example.