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It was reckless. The flight was widely popularized by her huckster husband who was motivated to have his wife win him fame and fortune. She wasn’t ready, and in that sense, the att…

I mean, with Carlsen facing this sort of aggregate, large number of ‘opponents,’ yeah, I imagine quite a lot of them are cheaters.

I believe it was legal obligation on the weekends- so in that way it was semi formalized. I think the results of the English bowmen speak for themselves, but I don’t think volley f…

Henry the 3rd’s decree about practicing archery drills regularly across the peasant population really worked out well for the English during the 100 Years War- they were able to fi…

If you consider bar restrooms, that is probably skewing the average higher…

Have you consumed any recent media in the last 5 decades? Fathers are depicted as staggering oafs or well-meaning clowns, to be suffered by their wives and insulted by their childr…

We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.

I don’t really think it is ‘wrong,’ or even really unexpected. In the winter, fish may not a viable food option for the eagles due to ice or fish lifecycle. Birds of prey have to k…

Many of the bullying stories on here involve either a do-nothing response by authorities or both sides being punished. I do not see how constant monitoring ensures any kind of prot…

Humans can exhibit some mild torpor like behavior in extreme winter conditions. We are not ‘exclusively’ cold adapted lifeforms. Even if the Neanderthals had more adaptations for s…

Well, yeah. Everyone knows you aren’t pulling in millions in grant money or making millions off of patentable discoveries, you aren’t a real scientist.

I think a charitable read would be a ‘one time extreme exposure.’ Passive exposure is bad, of course, but getting poison dumped on you by a crop duster has to be terrible.

Doesn’t seem that hard to measure. It isn’t like the subject will become a mysterious P zombie, they will probably just become increasingly incoherent and then non verbal and then …

I see what you mean- but consider that the gut does seem to play a significant role in mood and mental health. The enteric nervous system may not hold memories, but it seems to hav…

Implying that everyone in the future will be incapable of sustaining a thought beyond 15 seconds; it’s not just the study apps, but yeah.

American TikTok is literally a hyper addictive platform purpose built by the CCP to devour attention, waste time and sow division. It is not the same as television. Its widespread …

The American Dream curdled into misplaced entitlement and overbearing arrogance.

I read Crime and Punishment as a teenager and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Raskolnikov’s misadventures are not ‘fun’ but as a psychological exploration of guilt (or lack thereof), it …

Interesting that the penalty was a fine… seems like the Bergen officials responsible should have been demoted or fired for acting like petty tyrants.

A lot of what Americans consume is really crappy carbs and sugar, unfortunately. Even fatty meats would be better than that.

Seems like goofy credentialism. Large amounts of this stuff don’t just appear; someone put it there. Why do we need an expert in ‘clandestine dumping’ to tell us that?

Somebody’s grant money getting thrown down a hole…

Right? Turns out having a spine is really annoying and inconvenient for the ruling class who now find themselves actually having to fend off interlopers.