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The YouTube Channel Kurzgesagt has proposed a calendar based on the 'Human Era' (HE) instead of before/after christ format.
It's based on the first monument of large-scale human cooperation (building a temple in modern-day turkey) and is quite elegant in my opinion. It 'simply' adds 10.000 years to the calendar we're all already used to. :)
There are alternatives like ..not sure what it's called in english. Mastika? Mastiha? It's a tree resin from the mediterranean that's been used for that weird greek rezina wine. It's an acquired taste, but I personally really like it.
Memo: the publishers Wiley, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Hachette sued the Internet Archive for over $600m.
This (today's) article by Cory Doctorow explains it quite nicely:
It's really fucking tiring to see you americans singing along to the tune of the 'us vs them' rhethoric.
I don't know what he has planned, but in my book he's the most likely candidate to break the 2-party system.
I've read Suicide Island a while back until I was up-to-date at the time, that fits the bill. It's by Kouji Mori, who was a close friend of Kentaro Miura and is now involved with the continuation of Berserk as far as I know.
Besides that, I probably don't need to tell you that Vagabond and Vinland Saga are excellent. Lone Wolf and Cub is also really good in my opinion, albeit pretty old by now.
'Just pull yerself up by yer own bootstraps, lad!
While I do agree (or at least hope) that we all have the agency to positively influence our own lives and those around us, the main point there in my opinion is that different people have different resources in life. Someone that's experienced systemic racism, or someone who's brain is a wee bit non-standard just has it harder than someone not experiencing these issues.
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