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  • dp@thebrainbin.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•There's enough people on the planet
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    3 hours ago

    I’d say both are involved, but of the two, far more the latter than the former.

    My observation is that generally speaking, poor countries tend to be conservative politically; and where the country is richer than the statistically poorer countries, the conservative group within tend to be poorer per capita.

    My guess (and that’s all it really is), is that procreation factors very heavily into the conservative religious ethos, and in that it appears that religion will be heavily rooted in poorer nations/socioeconmic areas, having(or making) (as many) children (as possible) is a god-given mandate.

    Doesn’t matter the conditions into which children are born because they will follow the will of god and live in eternal happiness after death. The misery they endure here on earth will be forever forgotten in the joys of their afterlives.

    This is, at least, how it seems to me, and is just my opinion.

  • dp@thebrainbin.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Rule Br*tania
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    1 day ago

    Shitterton wiki

    The unusual name of the hamlet dates back at least 1,000 years to Anglo-Saxon times. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Scatera or Scetra, a Norman French rendering of an Old English name derived from the word scite, meaning dung. This word became schitte in Middle English and shit in modern English.[4] The name alludes to the stream that bisects the hamlet, which appears to have been called the Shiter or Shitter, or “brook used as a privy”.[5] The place-name therefore means something along the lines of “farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer”.

    Bonus:

    Penistone wiki

    The place-name Penistone is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Pengeston(e) and Pangeston; later sources record it as Peningston.[2] It may mean “the farmstead at the hill called Penning”, in reference to the high ridge immediately south of the town. This combines the Brittonic word penn (meaning a head, end, or height) with the Old English suffix ing and the word tun (meaning a farmstead or village).[3]

    Penistone has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place-names because it contains the letter sequence “penis”;[4][5] however, those initial five letters are not pronounced like the name of the body part.