Henry the 3rd’s decree about practicing archery drills regularly across the peasant population really worked out well for the English during the 100 Years War- they were able to field high numbers of dangerous and skilled ranged warriors and allowed for the massive victories like Crécy and (of course) Agincourt.

Yes but we should be careful with the word “drill” as I’m not sure how much formal and coordinated training occurred vs just being told to go to the archery range before or after work every day. A quick search didn’t tell me the details.

Not that I think you’re claiming this, but the Assize of Arms 1252 certainly didn’t mean archers were training in volley fire.

I believe it was legal obligation on the weekends- so in that way it was semi formalized. I think the results of the English bowmen speak for themselves, but I don’t think volley fire was necessary or present on the battlefields of the 100 years war.

If you consider bar restrooms, that is probably skewing the average higher…

Have you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades?

Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their children.

Classically ideal dads are so rare that this cartoon character is being lauded as one of the best examples of the ideal in recent memory.

We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.

But couldn't they be considered an investment? For possible support (emotional, financial and other) in old age.

In practice? Very much no.

I strongly disagree. Around me I see a huge difference in old people without kids vs. with kids in how they are being taken care of.

I don’t really think it is ‘wrong,’ or even really unexpected. In the winter, fish may not a viable food option for the eagles due to ice or fish lifecycle. Birds of prey have to keep their weight low, and they don’t have the option to gorge themselves on a kill like a wolf or a lion can. Most birds of prey are only a few missed meals away from death by starvation.

Winter’s scarcity is deadly for predators, and nature doesn’t care about maintaining nobility or the optics of a dead raccoon lunch.

Many of the bullying stories on here involve either a do-nothing response by authorities or both sides being punished. I do not see how constant monitoring ensures any kind of protection or justice.

Humans can exhibit some mild torpor like behavior in extreme winter conditions. We are not ‘exclusively’ cold adapted lifeforms. Even if the Neanderthals had more adaptations for surviving in northern climates that does not mean they are exclusive polar specialists like the arctic fox or the polar bear.

Well, yeah. Everyone knows you aren’t pulling in millions in grant money or making millions off of patentable discoveries, you aren’t a real scientist.

do you think that grad students doing research at a university are pulling in millions in grant money

I think they were being facetious

I think a charitable read would be a ‘one time extreme exposure.’ Passive exposure is bad, of course, but getting poison dumped on you by a crop duster has to be terrible.

Yes, one time extreme exposure. Enough to make him sick for weeks that I never saw before or after.

No doubt continuous exposure didn’t help at all or might have been the real cause… or all of it combined. Or none of it.

Doesn’t seem that hard to measure. It isn’t like the subject will become a mysterious P zombie, they will probably just become increasingly incoherent and then non verbal and then die.

Damage a brain enough and brain death occurs. By the same token, after a certain number of neurons are lost, there is no self. Whatever consciousness is, it can’t be sustained with a sufficiently compromised brain.

This is observable in late stage dementia patients, it gradually becomes difficult to think and in the final dire stages their sense of self degrades too.

> This is observable in late stage dementia patients, it gradually becomes difficult to think and in the final dire stages their sense of self degrades too.

At best, you can be an external observer. You can't truly understand what the person is experiencing.

A common thread I see among people with brain damage is that they don't recognize it. For example, with patients with hemispatial neglect [0], if you ask them to draw a clock, and then only draw the right-hand side of one with the numbers 12 through 6 and they don't draw 7-11, then try to ask them where the 9 is, they might insist it's there. If you ask them to point at the 9, they'll either point to the wrong number or not point at all. And if you tell them they're not pointing or are pointing to the wrong number, they'll insist they're right.

But even with all that knowledge, it's still hard to imagine what that person is actually experiencing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispatial_neglect

That is the common way of current understanding. But there is problem.

So called 'terminal lucidity' exists sometimes.

One theory is that is enabled by the immune systems shutdown, so inflammation ceases to interfere for a short time.

The problem with that is it still fails to explain the few cases, where shortly post-mortem it is found that there is not much healthy/able to function somewhat normally brain left to speak of.

Rather 'spooky'.