Okay then, who did the Egyptians fight during the Battle of the Delta during the reign of Ramesses III?

Obviously nobody knows. Whoever wrote those inscriptions apparently didn’t either. Even taking them at face value, however, the evidence that these “Sea People” systematically attacked all of civilization is extremely tenuous. There probably never was a power capable of kicking over all of the anthills and destroying civilization without leaving any other archeological evidence of their existence.

I've never heard that the Sea People were a cohesive force, attacking all of Bronze civilization in anything like a coordinated attack.

Waves of invaders can take many generations to wear down the native forces. They don't need to be allied in any formal sense, either. See for example: Saxons turning Britain Anglo-Saxon.

There’s no evidence of that either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923712

Well they were a people, who came from somewhere! Are you really saying that these battles didn't happen?

I am saying that even if these battles did take place, there is no evidence that “the Sea Peoples” fought any other battles anywhere else at all. The story of a wave of violence sweeping around the entire Mediterranean and ending all of the civilizations there is largely fabricated.

Furthermore, just because these inscriptions didn’t give the raiders a specific name doesn’t mean that they were from an unknown civilization.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923712

The US has materially supported terrorist groups in the Middle East and South America.

I'm confused because it sounds like you're describing social anxiety, but then saying it's not social anxiety. I have social anxiety so I can't really imagine why somebody would act like that if they didn't.

brexit proved that the UK would rather stab itself than show accord with anyone

That doesn't explain the declines before that. It requires a lot of domestic skills and time to host a good party.

It really doesn’t take massive skill to invite your friends over. It doesn’t have to be this huge production.

And as for time, the average person finds time for hours of short form video and other useless tasks. Which is actually the real problem, social media has sucked up everyone’s time and attention to the point people don’t socialise anymore.

People don't get bored anymore. In the past, staying at home alone usually meant being so bored you'd do anything. Sometimes that would mean "doing anything" results in you going through all the effort to start some sort of club because at least failing at that wouldn't be boring

Um, I take after my mother, Gigachad, so yes it does have to be a huge production. Just yesterday I finished the leftovers from a party a week ago.

I know what you mean, but the real issue for most people is time, money, and social connections. Dinner parties were way down before TikTok. Most people I know cannot host at all, either they live with their parents or their apartment is in such rough shape that it would take days of cleaning to be able to invite people over.

yeah the time is a big one, in a double career household who is doing all the prep work?

and energy which a lot of people in my social groups always seem too exhausted for

Or they don't have options and have to put up with it.

From the candidates point of view, that's definitely the case.

That's unusual. Most applicants are sending out dozens or hundreds of applications for a sub-20% response rate.

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you can't call it juice if there's no juice