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If I had been named Triniteigh I would have legally changed my name as soon as I was old enough. That's an atrocity of a name. Some are so funny they circle back around to something that would at least be interesting to have as a name (Raddix Zephyr is dumb but in more of a fun way, and I would genuinely not mind being named Leviathan), but Triniteigh is just so, so bad.

We need change period, we can't afford to be picky about what kind.

Uteran immigrant.

You would think that conservatives would realize that this is a boulder that they can't keep trying to roll uphill forever, but I suppose they're not exactly known for their forward thinking.

When you're poor enough you often don't have the luxury of working around shitty transportation and even people too poor to afford a car often end up suffering for it because of how much it can help to have reliable transportation when poor. Many jobs require having reliable transportation for example and don't count public transportation as "reliable". You need all the extra time you can get, and you need to be able to travel places on time reliably, you often can't afford to just "leave early" to make up for the possibility of your bus coming too late, or early, or not coming at all, and many poor people are poor because they suffer from chronic health complications which can limit their ability to bike or walk. In some places public transportation can also bring with it an element of danger depending on the person travelling and the place they're travelling in. On top of that if someone is so poor that they risk being homeless then a car may be their only remaining option for shelter. And having a commute that is only ~40 minutes via public transportation and bike is actually quite lucky. Not everyone manages to have that luck and it may take them hours to get to work that way when driving would only take 30 minutes, and if you work 3 jobs and have 3 kids to take care of you aren't going to want to give up that extra time. Being poor costs more than just money, it costs time and energy and mental/physical health.

It sucks that society is shaped to force many people to rely on cars but it is absolutely not a luxury for everyone.

I'm glad your living situation allows you the option to choose but my car is a necessity for me and the same goes for a LOT of people, unfortunately in today's society it's not always a "luxury" for everyone.

If you're going to say something that out of pocket in an article you have to follow up more thoroughly than that with an explanation and sources, what a fucking stupid thing to include in an article like this with so little info.

If you can get away with dropping a couple of classes and still have enough credits then try to do that to lessen your workload. You can also potentially reduce it further if you request accommodations.

It is waaay faster and easier to use than an oven.

That depends on the culture and the method of distribution, many cultures that practice oral history did have widespread interest and access to it and an understanding of how their culture fit into the broader scope of the world to some degree, though the way they understood or related to it might differ from culture to culture (some cultures tie their history to places, or names, or events, or people or seasons, etc). As another example, the Romans are well known for their prolific historiography and many of their surviving texts are still referenced to this day. Look up Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, who were just as well known and respected as historians at the time as they are now. While written works such as the Encyclopedia Natural History (written by Pliny the Elder and believed to be the first encyclopedia) would often be released to the public to be copied and spread, they would also often recite written works orally so illiteracy wasn't as much of a barrier as you'd think. Oral history is a lot more important in providing a record of a culture's history as well as making that history accessible to others than a lot of people think. It was important in ancient Greece as well, and is a huge part of many other cultures around the world including many indigenous ones. It's also not as inaccurate or unreliable as some people might think, as there were many methods these cultures used and still use to preserve the accuracy of their oral history as it was passed down from generation to generation.

Now in terms of awareness, obviously there was propaganda and rewritten history going on back then just as there is now, but it's not as if none of the citizens would have been aware of that. One of the papers I wrote for a class about the importance of comparing primary sources featured 3 different accounts of what Athens was like and the views people there held at a certain point in history from 3 different people of varying social and financial status, and there was absolutely awareness of that sort of dissonance between what their government claimed and what the reality was even among the more common folk. So I would say they did certainly have a significant understanding of how their culture fit into the broader scope of human history.

At this point that's the equivalent of complaining about people calling gun violence a problem because "guns don't kill people, people kill people". If you hand the public easy access to a dangerous tool then of course they're going to use it to do dangerous things. It's important to recognize the inherent danger of said tool.

As someone with an academic background in history, historical record keeping both written and oral existed long before the printing press.