It was a forged Imperial Roman decree supposedly from Emperor Constantine the Great, which gave all temporal power over the Western Roman Empire to the Pope. Now, how is this important? This was how the papacy came into possession of the Lateran Palace, which was the Pope’s residence for much of history. It also served as the justification for the pope to break the formal convention of the five episcopal sees (i.e in the early church, Rome was just one of the important seats of power, the others were: Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch and all had equal authority) and declare itself supreme over the other centres. It also played an important role in the events of the Great Schism of 1054 (which formally separated the Western Latin church from the Eastern Greek church) and the investiture crisis in the 11th to 13th centuries.
If you subscribe to the right subs/magazines/communities/whatever, there is a ton to learn. History, science, archeology, sociology, psychology, medicine, marine biology, mycology, geography, foreign languages, programming.... On and on and on. Social media doesn't have to be utter crap.
I don't hate anything or anyone. But generally I have disdain for anyone who makes one aspect of their personality their WHOLE personality. Even that I can take, as long as it isn't then being forced upon me just for being in the same vicinity. I don't do that with my opinions / beliefs / whatever, so I just want that same treatment in public places.
Edit: For the record, I don't see the above-described as being true of most furries or even most people in general. There are annoying people in every group / subculture though.
I'm getting old enough now where this is true for multiple things, but the ones that come to mind would be my schools - 2 of the 3 schools I attended have since been demolished. My high school is still standing, but the elementary and Junior High schools are gone now.
"the availability and diversity of fresh produce would decline substantially, and human nutrition would likely suffer. Crops that would not be cost-effective to hand- or robot-pollinate would likely be lost or persist only with the dedication of human hobbyists."
"In Europe alone, 84% of the 264 crop species and 4,000 plant varieties exist thanks to pollination by bees. Some attribute the following quote to Albert Einstein: "If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.""
Bees are very important, you kill them off and Humans would die
Bats are responsible for a lot of pollination too.
Most of our essential crops are wind pollinated (e.g. rice, wheat, corn) or asexual (potatoes). Colony collapse disorder is a real problem of course and colony management/replacement really eats into profitability, but domesticated bees won't become extinct because we so intensively manage them - however other species may be in real trouble. In addition, if we remove the main human causes of colony collapse (neonicotinoids?), they can potentially recover quite quickly, so it's not a problem that takes hundreds or thousands of years to fix, like some others - if we have the will to do it.
Allowing the mass scale production and deployment of chemicals that kill bees really is the real life version of feeding crops with Brawno in Idiocracy.
Reminder that "bees" doesn't just mean honeybees.
Honeybees are actually bad for most place, they out compete native pollinators and fuck up ecosystems.
There's no grave marker for the old mall in my home town. Just a new, totally different mall.
An elementary school was torn down and a replacement built right next to it, on the same grounds. The old school I attended is now the new parking lot.
The church I attended as a child is gone. Luckily my belief was torn down years before that happened.
In essence my high school doesn't exist, at least not as it did. It was dramatically reconstructed and hardly resembles the school I went to.
Of course these were things that were old when I knew them, and only continued to age to the point they needed replacing. The oldest stuff in my home town though, will outlast me.
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