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|    Lucas McCain to 186282@ud0s4.net    |
|    Re: Worst Year EVER ? Try 535-AD    |
|    03 Jan 25 21:48:17    |
      XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.survival, alt.politics       XPost: alt.science       From: LM@tutanato.com              On 1/1/2025 8:12 PM, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:       > https://greekreporter.com/2025/01/01/worst-year-to-be-alive/       >       > Many historians and scientists argue that the worst year to       > be alive was 536 AD due to a series of devastating events       > that plunged much of the world into chaos.       >       > A massive volcanic eruption, or possibly a series of eruptions,       > shrouded the Northern Hemisphere in a veil of ash and dust.       > This blocked sunlight for an estimated 18 months, causing a       > dramatic drop in global temperatures. This phenomenon is       > known as the volcanic winter of 536.       >       > . . .       >       > The weakened populations then succumbed to various       > plagues and infections.       >       > Big volcanoes, likely well out in the Pacific,       > horribly polluted the air and cut off the sun       > for at least 18 months. Barely anything would       > grow and mass-starvation set in. No giant cargo       > ships full of flour back then ...       >       > Note this is right about the timeframe where the       > Roman Empire finally imploded. There were many       > other factors there (no, they didn't die of orgies),       > but mass-starvation across much of the occupied lands       > sure as hell would have been a major contributor.       >       > Hmmmm ... by looking for the ash layer, they OUGHT       > to be able to pin-down exactly which volcano       > were involved. If they did it once, well, something       > to keep an eye on !       >       > Oh, new eruptions, there'd be NO fix for it, all       > the crops would die AGAIN. We can't beat Nature       > at THAT kind of scale.       >              Subjectively speaking, perhaps the people who lived through the       Holodomor in Ukraine or in the Gulags of the USSR, or the Great       Depression in the U.S. Dust Bowl or the death camps in Poland or the       Killing Fields in Cambodia under Pol Pot would argue that the time they       lived in sucked as bad as 535 AD. That said, 535 AD was a very bad year.              --       "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to       aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic       transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring       unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to       enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and       abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits       bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States       in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection       1324(a)(3)."              “Western values mean three things: mass-migration, LGBTQ, and war."       Viktor Orban              You voted for student loan forgiveness. You got demographic replacement       and World War III.              https://www.globalgulag.us              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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