I know it really pissed off social anthropologist back in the day.
But I found the part about animal and plant domestication the most interesting. Domestication of animals created slaves you could eat.
bitteroldcoot
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Oh god yes!!! it takes an hour of smearing gels and snorting powders just to go to bed. Then I have to do it again next morning.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Not as tough as read as the title sounds. Just the introduction will blow your mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind
Guns, Germs, and Steel:
Don't do the abridged version or watch the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs%2C_and_Steel
Amateur! Wait till you hit 65. I'm slowly becoming Darth Vader. Machines to make me breathe, eyes that can't see, ears that can't hear and teeth that shatter on the softest food. Luckily they haven't started replacing any of the inside bits.... yet.
PS: this is just the short list of stuff.
Try the Yellowstone brand, they are really great. Walmart carries them around here. Best can bean I ever had. https://www.eatyellowstone.com/products/baked-beans/baked-beans-with-bacon/
I agree. A can of baked beans, at room temperature, is great comfort food during times of stress.
Having been in a survival situation, I can tell you that none of than happened. Mostly just selfishness and nightly gun fire. Better advice: Canned food, bottled water, battery powered lanterns, radio and good book. if you can afford it, some way to solar charge the lantern and radio and cellphone. Generators are really noisy and attract attention. I didn't have power for 2 weeks and the roads were blocked with fallen trees.
So you didn't even look at the link I provided?
It lets you select the warhead size and whether it is an air burst or ground burst. Also since the Cold War ended, most countries, except china, have opted for smaller warheads and better precision. Most rogue states can only manage a fission bomb not a fusion devices, the same goes for India and Pakistan. And a fission device is what is used as a tactical nuke by the major powers. It is what Russia is threatening Ukraine with.
So the most likely device to go off now, is about the same yield of one of the original ones used on Japan.
The doomsday scenario you describe will only happen if every nuclear armed power everywhere unloads their entire arsenal all at once. If that were to happen you still will not need to worry, because you will be dead. But I put that as a very low probability event. Putin doesn't want to die, Trump doesn't want to die, Xi doesn't want to die. Nobody is going to go there.
I suggest playing around with this.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
it's a nuclear weapons detonation simulator.
You need to understand that it's profitable for the media to overly dramatize what nukes can do. Modern media profits from fear. In reality the destruction is very localized. Think of an area you are knowledgeable. Does the media portray anything you do correctly? As long as you are not in major target city or military base you will be fine. I had a 20 minute commute to the base I worked on. Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked. It wouldn't even break the windows.
FYI: I use to work for the army, I was on the peripheral of their prep for nuclear war. When you actually dig into the effects, it just a big boom. Meanwhile you have trucks and rail cars full of toxic material and poisonous gas driving through your town every day and for the most part nothing ever happens.
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