Nearly seven in 10 NYC jobs lost in 2020 were held by people of color, according to a study released Friday by the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs.
People of color accounted for 68% of the estimated 750,000 jobs lost, economist James Parrott found.
He arrived at the jaw-dropping figure by comparing official unemployment rates by sector and the percentage of people of color in those businesses.
While Wall Street, tech and other high-paying sectors largely survived 2020 unscathed, lower-paying fields like retail, nail salons, barbershops, hotels and restaurants were devastated.
That left New Yorkers of color in the lurch, Parrott found.
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating “the sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt” which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.
I do not… Have the SPOONS to explain why this is wrong, damnit. But I want to so badly.
Long story short: there IS some factual stuff up there. Like Santorini. There was TOTALLY a Volcano, and it DEFINITELY eliminated Santorini, which may have spawned the Atlantis Myth. But. My guys, my dudes, my dudettes, and my non binary peeps, the timeline is WRONG. So wrong.
I can’t remember whether it was @rudjedet or @thatlittleegyptologist, or even @somecunttookmyurl, but ONE OF THESE THREE. Has a post. Which explains better. GO. READ IT. SEE THE FRUSTRATION OF AN EGYPTOLOGIST.
Ok, so I’m an Egyptologist and I’m goddamn sick of seeing this post. It’s wrong. They haven’t been proven. It’s been hypothesisedbadly that this is what caused them, if they did in fact happen, which again there is no proof for.
So I got anon asking about this a while back, and explaining it all took some kind of massive collaborative attempt by @rudjedet, @ikchen, @somecunttookmyurl, @23-tiny-wishes, @shatar-aethelwynn, @bubobubosibericus and myself, to properly go through it (i.e. several Egyptologists, someone familiar with biblical archaeology/theology, and a Geologist). Sadly we forgot about it for a long time and I never responded to the ask, but I do still have the google doc we worked on, so I’ve posted part of it here and the rest under a cut. I’ve bolded all the links to external articles to make them easier to find.
So the post claims the Thera/Santorini eruption was at the root of the 10 plagues of Egypt, and the alleged scientific proof for it. The OP sources a Time article and a Telegraph article, which are both based on the 2010 NatGeo documentary ‘The Ten Plagues of the Bible’. In this documentary, scientists look for potential scientific explanations for the ten plagues as described in the Bible book Exodus. Since I’m an Egyptologist, and not qualified to talk about Biblical events or geology, I asked several people for their professional opinion. Please be advised that this will be a very long post, because the topic is more on the level of a MA thesis than a Tumblr post. We can’t address it in three paragraphs.
Two points before we dive into the contents of the post and documentary:
Anyone who claims they proved massive events described in any religious text (in this case the Bible), should be regarded as suspicious. This goes double if they don’t take the local historical record into account.
Documentaries are under no obligation to tell the truth. They can, and often will, skew facts in order to make for a more compelling story.
Anyone who claims they proved massive events described in any religious text (in this case the Bible), should be regarded as suspicious. This goes double if they don’t take the local historical record into account.
Documentaries are under no obligation to tell the truth. They can, and often will, skew facts in order to make for a more compelling story.
Viewers have misinterpreted this particular documentary’s intention and reported its hypotheses as fact. The documentary doesn’t try to prove the 10 plagues actually happening, it’s looking for possible scientific/natural explanations for the plagues if they had happened. And although the scientists are legitimate, with solid publishing histories in their respective fields, none of them are active within Egyptology, and they do not take Egyptian history and chronology into account. Even if their hypotheses make sense in theory, this is reason to doubt their conclusions as they pertain to Egypt.
So that other post saying no one knows where Punt was because no one bothered to write it down, because it was common knowledge is also a big fat lie?
No, that one is true. We don’t know the specific location of the settlement of Punt, though we do know the area it was in. This is because it either was known too well so no one wrote it down, or, and this is more likely, we simply haven’t the extant evidence/knowledge (like a map or someone telling us of their specific journey there) yet to locate it. We may never discover that evidence. This post above, before the explanation, is just factually wrong on so many levels, it’s sort of painful, whereas the post you’re referring to isn’t wrong, just a little unclear.
31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN → DAY TWELVE “I just can’t take no pleasure in killing. There’s just some things you gotta do. Don’t mean you have to like it.” THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974), dir. Tobe Hooper
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