History of Yesterday

Shared it before in a past thread. Sounds relevant here, in the context of the comments on Steve Jobs personality and their relationship... "...This is what Steve Jobs did about the fact of how he tricked his best friend into working all night long for several days and then cheating him out of his paycheck. This proved to be only the first offense in a long litany of his penchant for pettiness and pointless cruelty. The friend that I am talking about is Steve Wozniak, him and Jobs were working at Atari, one of the first video game consoles which revolutionized the video game market. The owner of Atari at the time was its actual founder by the name of Nolan Bushnell. The first game that came out was “Pong,” a classic which many people remember. Due to its high success, Bushnell thought of making a sequel that would be only a single-player and call it “Breakout” in 1975. ...For this project, Bushnell was thinking of tasking Steve Jobs to be in charge and take care of the project. Jobs was considered (at the time) a low-level Atari technician with huge potential. As this game was expected to be much better than its predecessor, Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak, who was known on the market as the better engineer. .. Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for quite some time at that point. They both were working towards the Apple 1 which would follow to become the most iconic computer around the world for four long years so they got to spend a lot of time together. The way that…

lol isn’t that basically what happened with lobster? Used to be inhumane to give that to prisoners too often, and now it’s delicacy? https://historyofyesterday.com/lobster-used-to-be-a-poor-mans-food-and…

Gunung padang claimed older than giza and mayan pyramid by some archeologist. If this true, java culture by times are much more advanced than the middle east or latin area. Including music. [0] https://historyofyesterday.com/gunung-padang-the-oldest-pyramid-in-the…

One of the kings believed water spread diseases, and asked everyone in his court to avoid bathing - The Smelly History of French Royals at the Palace of Versailles - https://historyofyesterday.com/the-smelly-history-of-french-royals-at-… ... Marie Antoinette hit by ‘flying human poo’ at Palace of Versailles - https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1562426/marie-antoinette-human-po…

Let me guess you don't know how things were under the Shah. While the revolution obviously resulted in a much worse situation, the Shah was a dictator. https://historyofyesterday.com/the-shah-of-iran-was-not-a-saint-f8d788…

They froze their membership. They did not leave, but they did not participate either. > France quit the unified NATO military command structure, but not the organization. This means that France agreed to help a NATO member if it was attacked but on its own terms. https://historyofyesterday.com/why-did-france-leave-nato-at-the-height…

Playing an arbitrage like that is the ELI5 version of how George Soros made a billion dollars https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-…

Something interesting to note about pegs is that they can be quite exploitable. Some banks/countries have tried to defend their peg but in the end it can ruinous (or wildly profitable) depending on what side you are on. Some history: https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-…

Me neither: - https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Dubai-Herve-Jaubert/dp/0929915941 - https://historyofyesterday.com/5-disturbing-facts-about-princess-latif… - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/11/woman-arrested-with-da… - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/06/pegasus-dubai-pri… And on and on...

It wouldn't wipe out Europe but make uninhabitable due to nuclear fallout. Same as the exclusion zone near Pripyat. https://historyofyesterday.com/the-real-life-suicide-squad-who-saved-e…

Some were stiff. https://historyofyesterday.com/the-unsettling-victorian-tradition-of-p…

NSFW link of the story showing Byers with his jaw fallen off. https://historyofyesterday.com/eben-byers-the-man-who-drank-radioactiv…

Only 200 years? Think bigger. In 2014, the UK paid back a debt that was originally issued in 1720, and that's not even the oldest government debt out there. https://historyofyesterday.com/the-oldest-debts-in-history-2aec42cdb20…

Particle accelerators aside, the quote at the end is a bit of an overstatement: "And as frightening and awesome as the inside of a particle accelerator might be, humanity has thus far survived the nuclear age." I'm not sure if Ouchi would agree... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-kept-alive-against-his-will-647…

Even though that gets brought up as a reason very often it is not true. Firstly the US (like many other democracies) has a two house system. The senate is designed to counter balance the power of high population states. Even if the US went to a popular vote system now it would not be governed by california and NY, because the senate gives disproportionate power to smaller states. If you read historians opinions there are several reasons, the "big States get all the power" is typically not cited [1], however one important reason which does get cited is slavery. The southern states wanted a way to count slaves as population without actually letting them vote. The three fifth rule was the compromise [2 - 4] [1] https://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/electcollege_histo… [2] https://historyofyesterday.com/the-racist-origins-of-americas-electora… [3] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/30/929609038/how-electoral-college-came-to… [4] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-ra…

Hmm, various websites disagree. I would guess some were given to Russia and some were destroyed with the uranium being kept for other purposes. Gave to Russia: > Ukraine handed all its nuclear weapons to Russia https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-nuclear-lesson-with-russia-wr… > Ukraine have acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear states and are now transferring Soviet missiles and warheads to Russia for dismantlement on a strict schedule. https://www.stimson.org/1995/politics-nuclear-renunciation-cases-belar… >The former Soviet Republics where nuclear weapons had been based, namely Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, transferred those weapons to Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nucle… > effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assuranc… > In May 1996, Ukraine saw the last of its nuclear arms transported back to Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/science/ukraine-nuclear-weapons.htm… > Ukraine transferred its last 40 nuclear warheads to Russia > Most tactical nuclear weapons were transferred from Ukraine to Russia. https://www.rferl.org/a/the-destruction-of-ukraines-nuclear-arsenal/29… > All nuclear weapons were removed to Russia https://www.nti.org/countries/ukraine/ Destroyed: > Ukraine gave up a huge arsenal of nuclear…

We're in a Utopia. Utopias destroy purpose. Without purpose intelligence can not exist, so the rate of apoptosis surpasses the rate of reproduction. Obesity is a symptom of this, not the cause. This is Universe 25: > According to Calhoun, the extinction consisted of two stages: the “first death” — characterized by the loss of purpose in life beyond mere existence (including the loss of desire to mate, raise young, or establish a role within society) — and “second death” marked by the literal end of life and the extinction of Universe 25. > "Males who failed withdrew physically and psychologically; they became very inactive and aggregated in large pools near the center of the floor of the universe. From this point on they no longer initiated interaction with their established associates, nor did their behavior elicit attack by territorial males," read the paper. "Even so, they became characterized by many wounds and much scar tissue as a result of attacks by other withdrawn males." https://historyofyesterday.com/the-horrifying-study-that-predicted-hum…