#$100000 Pyramid reference

[askseriousrainbow]

$150 for me. XD

-SR

[thahxa]

there is something profoundly depressing about the russo-ukraine war. here are two dying countries (demographic pyramids for both look awful, both have TFR <= 1.5) just grinding their last together and. for what?

average age in both armies is over 30. (ukraine's is over 40). ukraine is not even thinking about conscripting people under the age of 25. the median age of the people russia did conscript was 35 (for reference: in ww2 the average age of the american solider was 22-24). this is an old man's war - neither can afford to send their young, they're too precious, and even then, there aren't many of them left.

ukraine has a gdp per capita of around 5k. russia of 12k. it's likely neither of their countries will see their economies grow substantially after this, if at all. both remain highly corrupt. ukraines infrastructure has been shattered.

we've had 2 years of war now. 2 years. 100000 people have died. in the last year the front has barely moved. the war is expected to last at least another year. russia sells wheat to north korea for artillery shells while we try to scrape together political support for the latest equipment of the 1990s to send to ukraine.

even if ukraine wins, so what? its best and brightest will leave as soon as they can, presumably the rest will be stuck doing reconstruction work and defending the now heavily militarized border in case of another invasion as the country slowly dies due to emmigration and fertility collapse.

even if russia wins, so what? its best and brightest will leave as soon as they can, presumably the rest will be stuck building occupation governments and selling natural resources to china while its country slowly dies due to economic sanction and alcoholism.

if the war ended tomorrow, maybe we'd all come to our senses about how senseless it was - two dying nations throwing the remnants of the former soviet army into battle with each other, an orgy of senseless violence, the final hurrah before slowly fading into an endless stream of pension payments and economic dependency, neither side given enough ability to do anything.

just old men dying, dying, dying, until the guns go silent.

[twofacedm1lkshake]

stupid sleepy monster high (g1) rant

ok so i decided for funzies to try to design what period accurate monster high dolls would look like (like draculara as how she would have been when she first became a vampire, etc.) and it just hit me just how loose Mattel seems to play with history because this is ridiculous

ok so first with draculara, her wiki states that she is approximately 1600 years old (idk if she counts human years or not, so i’ll be kinda loosey goosey with that)

that sets her birth year approximately at 410 ad aka the fall of the roman empire. ok that's kinda weird since her dad is a roman soldier and dracula is a roman soldier in G1lore. kinda neat that they do acknowledge the fact that she and her mother got ill, as that was one of the factors to why, along with that at the time Romania would be a colony (or possibly ex colony). That’s cool, i love how they included that for kids learning more about history as a way to kinda connect the story with real life historical events! One thing though,

WHY THE FUCK IS CLEO 5800 PLUS YEARS OLD??!!!

This puts her birth year at about 3800 BCE if my (admitedly poor) search skills are correct the stone age ended about 5000 years ago, bitch is older than the bronze age, older than the first dynasty of eygpt!! She was born smack dab in the middle of the indus valley civilization!

she is approximatly 1000 years older than the pyramids themselves!

the most annoying thing is that she is based off of Cleopatra,  who was around closer to draculara’s time than Cleo’s! its not like the Ptolomys are low on cleopatras to base her on, just shove her in there. It makes no sense to have her be that old, its insane!

I get that its for kids and its 100000% not actually that deep but when trying to find a reference for that shit? Awful do not recommend.