… Ok, fair. 11,000 years was the wrong cut-off date. 12 - 13,000 years would have illustrated my point better.

Not even anywhere near that long. There have been humans for probably more than 200,000 years. Probably more. It gets confusing when you go back that far. But our written history only accounts for maybe 10,000 of those years. So 5% of total human history, if we take the minimum estimate of what it takes for us to be human. We have no evidence to support the fact that human advancement even lasts as long as written history. I mean, shit… the Romans had central heating and cement, and then they died out and we forgot how to do those things for 1,000 years. Our knowledge, and the acquisition of same is not exactly linear. Lots of fits and starts over the course of the various human civilizations that have occurred.

What happened 11,000 years ago? I mean, we’ve got some pottery fragments. Other than that, ???

Depends on your definition of “long-term”. The biggest accomplishments of Man have been acknowledged for maybe 10,000 years at the very extreme limits. 10,000 years is not even a drop in the bucket of geological or celestial time. So it very much depends on your perspective.

'Cause I’m drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I’ve lost control of my life.

MLA format would be something like this:

Maneuver, The Picard. The Delusion. Picard, 2023.

Then, in your paper, to reference it, just write “(Maneuver 2023)”.

… Or you could just read a history book that wasn’t written by a Mao fanboi.

First time on the internet?

My bad! Another classic. Mel Brooks just does not miss.

Is it fair to say that Mel Brooks movies are uncommon now? Have they gotten old enough that people today are generally ignorant of them? If so, “Blazing Saddles”, “History of the World: Part 1”, “Young Frankenstein”, and “Spaceballs” are incredibly worthy of a watch.

Gender is a lie made up by Big Bathroom to sell more bathrooms.

It’s a fool’s errand to try to make sense of the US justice system. One of the main problems is that there are so many laws, each with their own individual sentencing guidelines or suggested financial penalties for breaking them. The police are in charge of enforcing the laws (and ruining random people’s lives as a little treat), the courts are occasionally in charge of making sure that the laws comport with the constitution, and the legislators in a given area make laws for their area. But nobody is in charge of sorting everything and making sure that all of the laws on the books make sense with each other. Or that the sentencing guidelines are sane and reflect a certain set of values. It’s a fucking mess.

So, when you have a case like serial rapist Danny Masterson, you can’t really compare it with a case for anti-masturbation, brown white supremacist Enrique Tarrio. Different sets of people with different goals and beliefs wrote the laws against rape and sedition, and nobody has ever taken the time to make sure they are in the right places on the punishment scale.

WTF is up with all the NSFW tags, and the massive ChatGPT-like spam?

You have a very limited set of data available to you to come to that conclusion. It is possible that I believe that everybody who doesn’t share my beliefs is a terrible person. But it is also possible that you are a special case. You have one data point to go on. It’s telling that you choose to believe the former rather than do the tiniest bit of introspection. Probably why you’re a TERF piece of shit, and everybody in your life should be disappointed in you.

Well, if they aren’t disappointed in you, I’m sorry to say that everybody you’ve ever met in your life including your parents, teachers, religious authorities (if you swing that way), etc, are all awful people. It’s pretty sad, really. You never had a chance to be a good person, given the terrible role models around you.

Well, I’m glad that you’re happy being a disappointment to every major influential figure in your life. That’s nice, at least.

Yeah. You’re a terrible excuse for a person. I wish your parents did a better job. Unfortunately, they made you.

So are you just reposting your shitty memes to both Reddit and Lemmy, then?

Except you kind of have to be stupid and cruel to think that the mere existence of people is a joke.

Y’all really only have the one joke, huh?