Notices by ArchaeoIain (archaeoiain@archaeo.social)

@mrundkvist one of the first amusements after I came here 52 years ago was that the lecturer in Italian had obtained a research grant to investigate the ingredients in pizzas with the same names in different restaurants in Sydney. He and his eventual research student had a lovely time sampling them all. I imagine that the variation would be much greater nowadays for the reasons you outline. The first pizza I had was in Italy in 1970 and was a bit of pizza base, a sardine and a smear of tomato

@mrundkvist Ah, yes. Then there is the famous controversy over whether pizza can ever contain pineapple. Those who eat pizza say it is an Australian peculiarity. One of Australia's greatest rugby union players, David Campese, was of Italian heritage and used to play there in the off season. He loved that pizza. So he persuaded the local pizza shop to make it with pineapple. They sold it with a suitable Italian name: Pizza Campese.

@jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva it is one reason why we should not encourage people to have children, and should not discourage contraception.

@jwcph @benroyce @GhostOnTheHalfShell @blogdiva That is not what I said. It is the logic of your statement though. It is clear that government policies or even evil religions which encourage population growth and ban contraception are aiming in the opposite direction partly because the dominant economic models are derived from agrarian societies where more people could produce more so growth arose from growing population. Simple really.

@RickiTarr I really applaud using Mastodon for photographs. Here are a couple of mine.

@johncarlosbaez I suspect this is terrifying

A paper in Nature Climate Change (vol15, 627-633) shows that the rich really do contribute disproportionately to bad emissions than the poor. Reduce their wealth and consumption. Do not just increase the wealth of the poor (though that would be good).

@georgetakei I just hope that none of the books were traded through Amazon.

@davidaugust the problem here is the institution of pardoning, not the people doing it or the people it is done to. Presidential pardons should be abolished.

@davidaugust but we all know the US Constitution is idiotic. Trouble is that if you get to the stage of amending it, under the next President, you could end up truly unbearble.
It is irrelevant how many other countries have pardon provisions. Many other countries had fascist governments, and probably all were racist. That does not justify them.
Miscarriages of justice can be dealt with by the courts. Does not apply to Kushner or Biden.

@QasimRashid let's be clear about this. The ICC consists of a group of highly experienced lawyers with no particular axe to grind. The Washington Post ... is a propaganda sheet run by a man who makes billions by stealing from the poor whose best interests are in opposing ... well, you finish it off.

@Thumper1964 @benroyce @drahardja @rodhilton well really everyone who is not a MAG-HAT should see it coming. This will be a terrible 4 years and the US may be unrecognisable when the MAG-HATs are finished.

@Remittancegirl terrible story. I grew up with the fear of polio (and other diseases we now prevent with vaccines). Then, along came the vaccine, and it was simple. I noted that polio emerged relatively early in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, and despite the wretched destruction of infrastructure by the IDF, the good people of Palestine came out in their hundreds of thousands to be vaccinated. Good people know that vaccines work and do no harm. Evil people want to stop them

@br00t4c this is appalling. This is a time to stop supplying Israel and to reduce military support of Israel. Disgraceful.

@georgetakei today's belly laugh