I’m all for giving people the benefit of doubt, but no. They don’t “really mean” that, otherwise they would have written “constitution” somewhere, and not wrote “has had” when they mean “currently active”.

It’s possible they misremembered someone who had a point, true, but they do not.

You probably can read middle English sooner than you can speak it. Like writing with a feather on parchment, I assume you don’t just die and have time to learn.

Should be noted though, even with the best plan, your frail body, weird language and no local knowledge will mean you probably still die in 2 - 72 hours.

This is something I often wonder about, what could one person even do with all of today’s common knowledge? You can’t very well just invent the printing press and have the same impact as Gutenberg - you need something what the few people who can read would, and most people can’t translate the bible from Latin into renaissance German and/or don’t know enough about the catholic church to write scathing remarks on it like Luther.

You can write and read - that’s something. Maybe more importantly, you can do math with arabic numerals - boom, easy accounting job. With a bit higher education, you may even just invent calculus once more. You know how long it took for people to figure out you can put pi on the number line? Proving all the formulas in your head is the hard stuff, but you have a head start just by knowing them. We all clown on the wormhole explanation with the paper, but it does prove Euclid wrong 400 years early.

Ah, and you can just become a medical genius by using soap and bandages - “do no harm” is better than most.

This is the new comic style being spammed everywhere. I think the most telling thing is that literally everything has this paper texture in a digital drawing, except the speech bubble, also this font is very specific to them.

It is getting harder spotting AI, but very doable yet.

Could you be more constructive when posting?

When linking such a video I would have expected your thoughts on the matter, when not as a separate response video then as a list of comments. Was there something you agreed with? What points were BS? The very least is mentioning the video title and by whom, instead of asking people to follow just some Youtube link.

If this community allows just linking random, disagreeing videos on the topic, you have an endless amount of spam you can post with this exact title. Give your own thoughts on something!

And if this was truly a genuine question, from what I’ve seen it’s nut picking: the examples in the first few minutes I watched had no upvotes at all, far from representing the community, they were just some random nut cases.

E-bikes are perhaps the most important evolution cycling has made since the invention of the mountain bike because e-bikes get more people on bikes. And more people on bikes is an amazing thing.

I have to assume that mountain bikes make the list for the same reason, in which case I disagree - more people on mountain bikes made biking as a whole seem more like exercise than the great form of active transportation it always was. Then again, I’m open to hear what’s supposed to be so great about them, I never rode one.

Don’t get me wrong, mountain biking as a sport is great. Just going out and enjoying cycling as leisure is great as well. But I wouldn’t call the invention of the mountain bike a great leap forward for cycling.