Fuzzytheduck

However at the end of the day its just calling jews greedy. Like people whip it out about everything and anything that it literally is just the socially acceptable way to call jews greedy. Ya know, a stereotype shoved on us for decades.

But the Hobbit and the early chapters of Fellowship contain much more jarring and numerous anachronisms than post-Columbian-exchange plants. There are metaphors referring to gunpowder, guns, a train engine and express trains! There are commodities that are from the Old World, but were not widespread in Medieval Europe, such as coffee, tea and fireworks. Even silk might be a bit of a stretch. And then there are tons of things that could or technically did exist  in a medieval world, but we definitely associate them with later eras: top hats, public museums, clocks small enough to put on a mantelpiece, football, golf, mothballs, umbrellas, metal pens, water bottles instead of waterskins, Christmas crackers, and then there’s the entire question of the hobbits’ written culture. Paper appears widely available and cheap, not everyone is literate but there seems to be a large literate middle-class that owns multiple books, has long legal battles with paperwork involved, sends tons of letters, sends written party invitations, uses anachronistic pre-cut envelopes. Letters aren't carried by random servants, there's an official postal service and a post office: this all implies a level of literacy and written culture more typical of an Early Modern-ish setting. Or Regency? Or Victorian? But definitely super not Medieval.

Conclusion one: when Tolkien started writing The Hobbit he very much did not know where he would end up, which is thematically appropriate.

Conclusion two: Tolkien semi-intentionally wrote the Shire as low-tech but still very recognisably similar to modern England, so that the hobbits leaving its safety to enter an Actual Fantasy World would feel more relatable. (LOTR is a portal fantasy.)

Conclusion three: these are not the aspects of worldbuilding that actually matter, it is actually good that Tolkien is obsessed with mythology and linguistics and only sketches the rest of the worldbuilding out as far as it's necessary for the plot, no need to sweat the small stuff. You should only write about agriculture and taxation if you care about them as much as Tolkien cared about unhinged comparative linguistics.

If you were studying the human age from the vantage point of a distant posthuman future, you'd still be liable to find:

Artificially shaped bits of glass, terracotta, marble, gold, inox steel, etc. If exposed, these are going to be worn by erosion fairly quickly, but if buried soon enough they will endure pretty much forever. of course, this doesn't mean they're going to be excavated before the bit of crust that contains them is destroyed by tectonic events. Various plastics may survive, although they are close enough to organic matter that I expect eventually bacteria will evolve to eat it.

We're leaving behind a truly bizarre amount of skeletons, thanks to our habit to bury or embalm dead bodies. I'm not sure how much longer the burial itself will be recognizable -- perhaps we'll look just like the boom of Lystrosaurus just after the Permian Extinction. Cattle and chicken bones will also probably abund, and future paleontologists might wonder why these animals increased in size but shrunk their brains and horns/spurs. (Especially since the most abundant skeletons have massive braincases and dainty little jaws.)

Our epoch will be marked in the geological record by a thin layer full of all sorts of weird stuff -- jumbles of rare metals, exotic organic molecules. nuclear fission products -- that future chemists might still be able to recognize, even if any solid object is destroyed. The layer is global, like the iridium deposit left by the Chicxulub impact, so much of it should survive even if erosion and subduction destroy most of it.

It should also be possible to notice atmospheric carbon dioxide fuckery by checking leaf anatomy in plant fossils, composition of layers in ice sheets (if they have existed continuously!), and fossils of calcium carbonate-producing organisms such as bivalves and foraminifera, but it might not be obvious that it was an artificial event and not e.g. a supervolcanic eruption.

I see this rarely addressed in this sort of discussion, but we are absolutely wreaking havoc on biogeography. Paleontologists will see rabbits and camels suddenly appear in Australia, pigs and chicken in America, land mammals in New Zealand, and so on -- and that's not mentioning crop plants! The mysterious appearance of monkeys in South America 30 million years ago can be explained by rafting across a much narrower Atlantic, but this would be far too much all at once.

A couple relevant links:

Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al., 2011): properties of the geological layer of our times

If you can afford a box of pasta and a jar of sauce, you can fucking host a dinner party

It's about seeing your friends and sharing a meal and time together, not "fancy" food, what the fuck do you think people are serving at a dinner party, wagyu beef?

People regularly have to figure out how to feed entire families on a budget, if a working single mom can figure out how to feed multiple children every single night for years, you can learn how to cook for your friends once in a while

Maybe you're suffering because you choose to be miserable and decide to be alone and nobody wants to be around you, not because you don't have money

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.