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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I re-enrolled in Uni when i was 33. I was kinda worrying that I’d be ‘the old guy’ and shunned by the younger students.

    Totally not true. I never felt any exclusion. The only one calling me old would be myself, jokingly. If OP would just ask for tips/advice from the younger ones who beat his ass they would certainly help them.






  • It’s a bit of exceptionalist theory, that even ties in the death of the dinosaurs into how eventually western civilization ended up on top.

    The one think it does it’s turning around the rise and fall narrative (which no academic takes seriously) and proclaims that the incredible European progress was facilitated by the fall.

    Honestly it’s quite post hoc ergo propter hoc, ‘it has turned out this way, die it had to be this way’ kind of reasoning.

    It goes over great tracks of history, without even indulging any idea that history could’ve been different.

    It feels rather grandiose, but it’s mainly drivel.