Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Trained For Coding Career ? FORGET IT ! "AI" Will Do It All Date: 15 Aug 2025 19:34:44 GMT Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <107hpb2$3pna1$17@dont-email.me> <0a-cnWtH4stA9AD1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <107lb52$lshe$1@dont-email.me> <107nd2m$14lqn$8@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net nEuRrwHhKWqtWnC+tu7LXwT1FhYxU/Tz2TxOyZr2Huv/y28pCf Cancel-Lock: sha1:GAsu2tRHdVCOCRX5SYeagUjUu5Q= sha256:8hHHG96wImpgPmj+zNFIGtney39NHq0ke6N9qCo+2Zk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71250 On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:35:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > I went to the Yucatan. I saw the Mayan ruins. spectacular., Where are > the people who built them? > > Driving back through the Quintana Roo I saw them,. In little thatched > shacks by the roads, with a patch of corn, beans and peppers and a pig > and ten chickens. > > The priests all died, The civilisation collapsed, But the poor dumb > fucks carried on as if nothing had happened. Because in their world, it > hadn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park That's one site of many. In the US southwest the cultures used stone since there isn't much else to work with. In the eastern US wood and other material more susceptible to decay was used although they build massive earth structures that have survived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound Most are artificial hills and not that elaborate. I spent a week at Chaco exploring and after the park rangers determine you're truly interested and won't destroy artifacts they would tell you off the record "You shouldn't hike out to this area but if you happen to..." One ranger was a Navajo (Dine). The Navajo themselves had migrated into the area only shortly before the Spanish arrived and weren't descendants of the builders. He said it caused controversy in his family when he took the assignment. They had no more idea about the earlier culture than anyone else but considered the area a very bad place to be. The Pueblo tribes may have been the descendants but they knew little too. There are several explanations for the extinction of the cultures both in the east and west. Spengler may have had the best explanation. The culture turned into a civilization and went into decline. For him 'civilization' was not a good thing. The culture lost its vigor as it passed into a civilization, a late state that had lost its youthful vigor and was riding on momentum.