Yes, there is scant evidence of most ancient people. Even kings and emperors. That doesn’t mean that anyone with credibility challenges the existence of Nebuchadnezzar, Jesus of Nazareth or Nefertiti. People who do are contrarian cranks (usually trying to sell sensationalist pulp to the uneducated masses). They are…

Both. Some societies are better organized, which generally helps them grow into empires (Rome). Others gain a bureaucracy just as a byproduct of managing an empire (Khanates) where there was none before. Others failed as states because they didn’t organize before falling apart (Alexandrian Macedonia).

Here’s the thing about historic records: it is STRONGLY biased by what the ancients wrote *ON*. Egypt spent a lot of time carving shit on stones and they pretty much covered the walls of their buildings in writing and art.

Well...it really is beyond debate these days. Mostly because our evidence for A LOT of ancient individuals is scant, so if you want to raise the bar to exclude Jesus (2 references (arguably a 3rd) by two different Roman historians), you toss out a lot of other people too.

Jesus got a couple of secular references , which is two more than just about any other commoner from a Roman backwater ever got. If you throw that out, there’s a lot of other ancient individuals we have to forget about too, because the record that far back isn’t that detailed. Often the first thing destroyed when a…

Mexico is a middle income country, actually.

Um...Everlast converted to Islam 20 years ago and wrote a song about the frustration of being a Palestinian child who has to face down Israeli tanks with nothing but rocks (not that he’d be my pick to tell that story, bit whatevs. He did it). So...yeah...im not shocked he isn’t a fan of trump.

Tyler should really be looking for a new career. Or at least stop calling himself a “defense analyst” because it wasn’t just his F-35 pieces which were problematic. It was ANYTHING he wrote on procurement. The man does not grasp how large projects (never mind the Byzantine art of government projects) work at all and…

Plenty of smart people run and get elected. You’re just too lazy to figure out who.

Hey, someone who didn’t RTFA and spouted off without knowing a damn thing. Amazing.

No, the politicians don’t come from nowhere. The problem is voters. If your politicians keep doing the same things, you should think about not reelecting them. You get the government you deserve not the one you want.

Nasal labial fold. That’s what its called.

Or even just better TV choices. Life is more Battlestar Galactica than Star Trek.

1) That’s not a battleship. You’re looking for the word “warship”. Warship != battleship.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call a B-1 an overgrown fighter. It can roll pretty well for a 400,000 pound plane, and it gets pretty fast on the deck (mostly due to the slick area ruled airframe and swing wings), but it can’t climb for shit.

We’d cause global warming just from the waste heat. But good work thinking without limits.

Yes, but fusion is vastly too efficient to produce usable amounts of helium. Too efficient? Yep. Fusion, like all nuclear power really, requires tiny amounts of fuel (for the power produced) and thus produces fairly tiny amouts of waste.

Huh? Giant fake tits? I have no idea what you mean. Gadot is very lean. Nothing giant (real or fake) about her.

KJV, like the Catholic Latin bible, might have been the single most important book in their respective regions, but they were far from the only book.

McCain sold his soul long before Palin showed up. He sold his soul 6 years before that when he buried the hatchet with Bush (who he Did.Not.Like after losing the primary) and got buddy-buddy with his group of perpetual campaigners.