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  • turdas@suppo.fitoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Generations
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    22 days ago

    I’m not talking about child marriage. Traditionally women were considered to be of marrying age at around 15 or 16 (note that this doesn’t mean they got married at exactly this age – it means the lower bound). The blog you link seems to be intentionally or unintentionally conflating child marriage (prepubescent girls) with marrying between 15 and 20. And indeed the sources it cites seem to largely support an average marrying age of around 20 for women until the 17th century.

    This is also of course only for the medieval period, which is relatively recent all things considered. That still leaves 8500 years unaccounted for until the advent of agriculture, and during those 8500 years it’s far more likely for women to have given birth to their first child younger rather than older than in the medieval period.


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    23 days ago

    The average mother having their average daughter at an average of 25 is historically probably quite an overestimate. 20 would be a much safer guess, but there’s a good chance it’s lower than that too.

    Doesn’t change the math that much though, easily less than a thousand generations since the advent of agriculture either way.



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    Pneumonic plague is the exact same bacteria, just infecting the lungs instead of lymph nodes. It’s less common because the bacteria doesn’t aerosolize very easily so it’s not easy to get it into your lungs.

    It’s also really not that big of a deal, because it’s still not particularly contagious. It’s not that uncommon either; there’s been several outbreaks just in the past 20-30 years. It is of course a very serious disease but it’s fairly easy to contain.






  • I think the Estonian one (“Osta euroopat”) is wrong and translates to “Buy parts of Europe”.

    I’m not fluent (just Finnish) so I don’t know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. “Osta Euroopast” might be close but would AFAIK translate to “Buy from Europe” rather than “Buy European”.





  • I don’t think I’ve ever faced a distro-specific problem when I really think about it. I’ve had headaches with SELinux on my Fedora Server machine, but those aren’t really a Fedora problem.

    Packaging might be the only thing that qualifies, so I guess the only thing would be the occasional package conflict I’d get when I used RPMFusion’s Mesa builds and they fell behind the main Fedora repo’s dependencies.