(These are, of course, interpretations of the archeological and ethnohistorical records. But the "fuck that!" and "do something different" parts are pretty clear and agreed upon, while the reasons for saying "fuck that!" aren't.)
They fed citizens of the city of Rome and later Constantinople by turning Africa and Egypt and Sicily into slave plantations.
What if we all just declared the random ass way we’d prefer things as the “Gold Standard”?
“Behold my Gold Standard toast! All other toast is illicit, illadvised, immoral and incorrect from now on.”
will look for something but bottom line is heating your home takes more energy per day
> need energy to change home’s inside temp to be different from outside
> bigger difference in temps requires more energy in per hour
> takes more energy to go from e.g. 25° F to 65° than from 95° to 65°
Hydrology Paper of the Day @afernandezr.bsky.social on the mass balance and processes of the Sollipulli glacier situated in a volcanic caldera: how the glacier will transition to become a lake; satellite altimetry, DEMs, surface elevation transects, LiDAR and ablation stakes; and management impacts.
Brandon Bishop
There are also instances (ex.: Hohokam) where people, by the simplest interpretation of their somewhat later mythology/folklore, had an emerging state then rebelled, burned it down and broke up into mixed hunter-gather/agriculturalist groups.
There are instances (ex.: Chaco Canyon) where people seem to have looked at an emerging state, said "fuck that!" and gone off to try something a bit different (still agricultural and still "urban", as far as "emerging states" are urban).
