• Skua
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    6211 days ago

    I know that this isn’t really the point of the post, but the 250 years number is complete cherry picked nonsense in the paper it’s from (John Glubb’s “the Fate of Empires”)

    • @NOT_RICK
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      1311 days ago

      Even if it wasn’t, an average is merely that, an average. Outliers are a thing