Silage, but I’ve just remembered there was no selection involved, just mountains were a good natural barrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_sosnowskyi

Until Soviet genial gigantic problem solvers did that again.

The document you’ve linked talks about common perceptions and not much else, it’s short.

Anyway, nutrition is not just about amount of calories, one can consume a lot of calories but get scurvy.

BTW, the reason Soviet scurvy stats were not atrocious is that “sea cabbage” older generations remember (and hate, but it was there) being present in stores despite any deficit, and that all salt sold for food was iodised.

So - first, I’m not talking about amount of calories, second, I’ve read American food is notoriously bad nutrition-wise. Comparing USSR to Finland might be a better one.

It was a turnip replacement, I think, in most cuisines

You can look at any system ever used and the point of failure is always someone tipping the scales intentionally to favor those near them.

A bandit kills a traveler, the former is to blame because he initiated the action, the latter is to blame for being unarmed.

Those “tipping the scales intentionally to favor those near them” succeed because others don’t help those closer to them first.

And you can tell worthy endeavor from unworthy one better when it’s someone close to you. Thus more often helping the good things and more rarely helping the bad things.

So no, it does. Those near to you are on the opposite side of the spectrum from states, ideas and -isms. They are also more like you, as opposed to things you don’t know. Your life is just your own life. Unique and only one.

That’s not so bad even

Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.

in this case, because that’s a local direct connection as opposed to centralized.

The world works better when people help those closer in the society to them first. That’s also how routing metrics work in computer networks. This might seem gibberish, but I had a less fuzzy explanation, just forgot it.

Ah. Evolution. Connections form dependency both ways. And there’s always evolution in the society. It’s in your interest that racists would mostly connect to other racists, while smarter people to other smarter people, and dumber people to other dumber people, for evolution to work. Except, of course, that should preserve some mobility between these groups so that smarter people born in not so smart environment could change it, again for social evolution.

It’s important, somehow mostly talking about evolution in present time is attributed to fascists, while it can be seen everywhere.

In some sense who you are, who the person giving a loan is, and how that affects getting a loan is a predictive mechanism. It should work or fail for evolution.

Credit scores are a path around that similarly to Soviet planned economy being a path around markets, see how it worked that USSR, rich with resources beyond belief, had mostly poor and even malnourished population.

While true, this can be done by Italians to other nations with Worcestershire sauce, baklava and principate though.

And borsch wasn’t red. It’s called because of the plant that was the main ingredient.

Which is mostly not used now because of its intentionally bred toxic relative being a really problematic invasive species in all of former USSR and around.

And another thing that “wasn’t introduced until westward exploration” is English-speaking Americans