Comment on Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?Comments−quickthrowman26dNot even close. I’d rather be alive now than in the eastern Mediterranean circa 530-550 AD, to name but one awful period in human history.Riots over chariot races burned or destroyed half of Constantinople in 532: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riotsA volcanic winter started in 536: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536Plague of Justinian began in 541 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_JustinianI’d also rather live now than in China during the Taiping Rebellion.
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Not even close. I’d rather be alive now than in the eastern Mediterranean circa 530-550 AD, to name but one awful period in human history.
Riots over chariot races burned or destroyed half of Constantinople in 532: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
A volcanic winter started in 536: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
Plague of Justinian began in 541 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
I’d also rather live now than in China during the Taiping Rebellion.