This is what it looks like when society collapses

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Full article at Business Insider

Before society collapses, it slows down.

That's the conclusion of a study published on Monday in the journal PNAS. A team of researchers examined the archaeological record that Neolithic European — that is, between 3,000 and 10,000 years — societies left in the years before several different collapses.

They found that "critical slowing down" is a reliable early warning signal of a society on the edge of going bust. A society that can't bounce back from a bad winter, a war, or a crop failure, for instance, faces such a slow down.

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1. Some of the comments at the link are stunningly idiotic.

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4. I like this one:

HA on Aug 30, 5:50 AM said:
When society collapses it looks a lot like Detroit. Or pretty much every other city that has been under one-party Democrat rule for the last half century.

There's a guy who doesn't get out much.

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5. Oy, n/t

[Binkie The Clown]

6. I never read the comments in new articles.

Nor do I read letters to the editor in the newspaper. Who cares what some idiot I don't even know thinks? Certainly not me.

Hmmm. It just hit me. Why, then, do I read DU?

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2. Binkie, is that you scaring the kids in SC?

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3. Binkie...GET OFF MY LAWN !!!!!!nt