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My bad. I skipped the US native part. John is out in Fruit & Nut land where places like the Chumash Casino are raking in dough. He should take a summer vacation in Montana and visit scenic Lame Deer, Browning, Rocky Boy's, Fort Peck, Fort Belknap, or Crow Agency. For extra credit he can go down to South Dakota and visit Pine Ridge.

The Flathead res is doing okay but that's because they were screwed by the Great White Father and the cowboys outnumber the Indians by 2 to 1.

The 'Indian' thing is a sensitive topic. The preferred label is the tribal designation like Kootenai or Blackfeet but there's a split over Indian versus Native American. The Indian faction feels Native American is just more white man's bullshit.

I claimed nothing of the sort. Read what I said.

Sometimes it did.

Right. 70 million is a drop in the bucket. That's only a few million more than the current population of the United Kingdom. I suppose it wasn't as bad as the Thirty Years War.

Here is what you said, again.

Even you should be able to see the word TYPICALLY there.

Not TYPICALLY it didnt.

Yep, the world population was about 2 billion at the time.

And lets not forget the baby boom that followed.

We had the decimal system before we had zero. It's kind of baked in to our anatomy. Roman numerals are a base-10 system.

Fireworks are not a great cultural contribution, except that they gave us cannons.

Sushi is a blip on the radar of history. From carpaccio to xató, nobody was waiting around for the Japanese to serve them raw fish.

The Marco Polo thing is a canard. They had pasta in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East. Boiling a paste of flour and water is an obvious move for people who relied on community ovens to bake bread.

"There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China which originated with the Macaroni Journal, published by an association of food industries with the goal of promoting pasta in the United States."

They made polenta from other stuff, like chestnuts or barley. You don't need cornmeal to make mush. I'm about to sit down to a bowl of oat mush.

The raw milk and unpasteurized cheese fads here did typically die out when deaths got publicity. I've seen that happen a couple of times.

In the All Creatures Great and Small series, entire herds were killed to eliminate TB. That's in the Herriot books and the PBS series.

Of course. Its highly embarrassing for them to admit that, but it is in fact true. Juts look at what happened when Hindus and Muslims started mixing it it to create the Pakistans.

The US certainly would.

The US still has England in charge.

Argentina was never a British colony, In fcat Britain helped it gain independence from Spain. "Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata,[15] a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The declaration and fight for independence (1810–1818) was followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1861, culminating in the country's reorganization as a federation"

I do like your technique of, unlike the usual 'appeal to authority', of the 'appeal to bleeding ignorance'

We trend to not favour racists policies.

Oh dear. I would explain, but I fear you are simply too stupid to understand

Yeah.

It's all part of the Romantic myth of the 'noble savage'

My time in South Africa was interesting. The Black townships - Soweto chiefly - wanted drink, discotheques, electric lights and refrigerators. They couldn't wait to abandon rural shacks and move to the place.

The other great myth is that you can have a western lifestyle and bring your bronze age culture with you.

Oh c'mon. Take that tongue of of that cheek. There was considerable cultural intermingling in the late bronze age and early iron age. The druids are said to have taught the Greek philopshers. But the Greeks *wrote it down*

Bronze age people were intelligent and sophisticated and thought deeply on many issues, once they had a culture that gave them the time.

This partisan nonsense about 'it all started here' or 'we invented that' is simply nonsense. Good ideas spread eventually because they are useful ideas. Science may be decried as 'white and male' but it f****ng works, dude...

Thats not what the word typically was referring too.

Irrelevant to whether the use of raw mild from your own cow TYPICALLY killed those do use the milk from their own cow.

F16s are essentially obsolescent. They would have been mothballed or scrapped as newer kit is rolled out.

People are delighted that they have a 'pre loved' value.

I've done the grand tour of the USA but pefer to stay closer to home these days. I hate airports and long road trips. The sierras are a three hour drive and there's plenty of stuff to explore on both ends and in between.

The fruits and nuts _are_ good here. The cheese too.

It wasnt as bad as the black death anyway. Russia need to get rid of its young men, and Germany wanted to get rid of anyone who wasn't blond, blue eyed, and in the case of the feminine gender, buxom. Of cars US casualties in the European theatre were minimal compared to the European and commonwealth participants

Its fairly clear that affluent Romans lived on fruit fish and meats, mainly. No carbs at all. And not many vegetables, either. Beans maybe.

Carbs have always been the last resort of the lowest echelons of society, to be eaten when nothing else was available, along with insects.

They had olive oil, and wine.

The massive wheat growing farms, across the Empire farmed by slaves, went to the plebs as 'bread, and circuses'. Today it's 'Pizza, and reality TV'

I don't think the Romans were great on cattle (if you go to Italy, only the Northern plains are really suitable to graze cattle), but Cleopatra allegedly liked a bath of asses milk.

In reality sheep and goats were the herd animals of choice. And possible pigs. I think the Romans had rice, as well.