@CartoonsHateHer @StephenSilver They remained in contact after the documentary. Theroux said himself that he'd "come to see him as something of a friend".
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@StephenSilver They also think he's "friends" with Jimmy Saville because he did a documentary about him.
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Watching manosphere influencers call Louis Theroux Jewish which actually exposes that they aren't really that good at scientific racism. They don't even know about the Roman/Anglo-Saxon nose phenotype. Sad!
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@frontierindica Heavy metal pollution in urban Mongolia is worse than in most of the West.
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Correlation isn't causation. Mongolian herders also do backbreaking manual labor in -40C weather, eat zero processed food, and have minimal exposure to endocrine disruptors. Pinning their T levels on meat consumption alone while ignoring the rest of the lifestyle is textbook cherry-picking. And their diet is 300g+ of red meat daily because that's what pastoral nomadism produces, not because they're optimizing macros.
Lennart🇩🇪@lennartprimal
Mongols are eating around 140kg of meat per person annually - this makes them one of the countries with the highest meat consumption in the world. They also have some of the highest Testosterone levels in the world. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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@PalmyrPar Surely this was added to the video after the fact right? Show me a copy of this posted before 2011
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“Inspired” - you mean copied wholesale? Not that there’s anything wrong with that after so much time, but seriously it’s essentially 1:1
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@hanksabunch @uncle_deluge MyHeritage discontinued DNA uploading a few months ago
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@uncle_deluge Can I transfer my 23andme stats or do I gotta spit in another glass tube?
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MyHeritageDNA is almost certainly less accurate than the others but I prefer it because it turned nearly all the French into Breton and gets rid of the little trace African/Injun stuff 23andme puts in there
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@dissproportion "she gave me her lackeys"? any australians want to explain that?
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He did also say he thought of somebody else the whole time…
Sachin Jose@Sachinettiyil
"I don't think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, 'I'll get baptized.'" Austin Appelbee, a 13-year-old boy from Perth, Western Australia, heroically swam about 4 km through rough seas for four hours to get help after his family was swept far offshore, ultimately saving his mother and siblings. He openly credited God for giving him the strength, saying he prayed constantly, sang Christian songs in his mind, and promised to get baptized if he survived
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@Empty_America The average age at first marriage in England in 1900 was 25 for women and 27 for men. Marrying at 12 was unheard of even if it was technically legal.
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That might be the strongest "Past was a Foreign Country" list I've seen.
I might add that the legal marriage age for females in England in 1900 was 12.
In may ways, the West of 1900 was more like Yemen or Afghanistan than our reality.
Mitochondrial Eve@tardwife4life
@Empty_America The changes made to the English marriage contract in the past 108 years are mind boggling.
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@n00rdung @OrbiOther pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… claims that Lagenaria Siceraria arrived in the Americas from Africa independently of humans, seems plausible.
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@OrbiOther There are some vegetable species which crossed over to Americas with the first peopling, e.g. Lagenaria siceraria, which has been cultivated in Africa, Asia, and Americas since "forever"
Horticulture was practiced for way longer than agriculture.
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There's many wrong explanations in the replies as to why humanity "failed" to discover agriculture for so long, remaining hunters and gatherers for hundreds of thousand years. Humans didn't *fail* to discover agriculture, it is that up until recently, agriculture was *irrational*
Edaphosaurus@Edaphosaurus
Damn, I wonder what could have been holding back human civilisation for the first 190 thousand years
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@ZyMazza @eternalism_4eva Speed is length/time. Both length and time change between reference frames, one increasing when the other decreases, such that c is constant.
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@eternalism_4eva Okay here’s a question. A speed is a rate over time right? So in what sense can a speed be absolute if time is relative?
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@loosenedspirit @selentelechia Ancient Greece? It's written in Latin and there's a picture of a menorah.
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This is unironically a good idea. The public has proven itself to be unable to deal with an abundance of cheap calories.
Pop Base@PopBase
A new British law prevents restaurants from offering full-sugar drinks as bottomless refills. Chains such as Nando’s now have signs on their refill stations stating that customers can only have one glass of Coca-Cola.
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@Gracie1168787 @ChrisDem35 @DrewPavlou The Moriori were descendants of Maori who settled on the Chatham Islands. They were not a separate group who the Maori replaced on New Zealand proper.
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Fun fact: the Māori have been in New Zealand for less time than the English have been in England.
Gaye Ess@gaye_ess
Oriini Kaipara said in her maiden speech today in parliament: “When I stand in this House, I do so not as a survivor of colonisation who made it in a Pākehā system, but as the product of Māori resistance." Wait Oriini, you forgot you also stand there as a benificiary of colonisation, which gave you the Pakeha system to learn to read and write, and study, and have a career, and earn money, and pursue your ambiitions, and enter parliament. Learn some bloody respect and gratitude FFS. #nzpol
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@abcdentminded Herodotus writes of a battle between the Medes and the Lydians in Anatolia that was stopped by an eclipse. If we assume it took place near the Halys river, we can say it would have ended at ~15:55 UTC on the 28th of May 585 BC.
(hrcak.srce.hr/file/264738)
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@AUSTRALFrog Any genetic test that could reveal an extramarital affair is illegal in France
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@methnostate @Peter_Nimitz Someone who didn't get enough food growing up may well have stunted growth, but 5'6 is not short for a woman; it's entirely consistent with those parental heights.
I don't know how many women gain height in their 20s or 30s. It's obviously not the norm.
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Sardinians - the last EEFs - are notably short
S. Lant@Shiftant
Polygenic scores for height among modern populations, from Davide Piffer's substack. In sub-Sahara and in the subcontinent especially, phenotypic height lags far behind genotypic height. From these scores, you should expect Tamils to be taller than Chinese and (South) Italians.
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I came across this screenshot in a Magic subreddit recently. Assumed it was a joke, but no, the user actually believes that ChatGPT asked itself 100 trillion questions.
Only the most extreme cases of chatbot psychosis go viral, but milder cases surely vastly outnumber them.
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@IsaacKing314 @thewreathwright Your explanation of the dynamic was good. You should have emphasised that "chatbot psychosis" isn't literal psychosis, it can effect perfectly sane people like him - maybe lean more on the drug analogy. Don't mention schizophrenia.
No one wants to hear they're going crazy.
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@CCDorner @thewreathwright They were already told by others than it was getting answers wrong, so I don't think my reiterating that would help all that much? I'm trying to make them aware of a harmful dynamic with chatbots, similar to how we warn people away from drug use or gambling.
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@IsaacKing314 @thewreathwright I'd have explained that they were being misled without the diagnosis
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@CCDorner @thewreathwright I think it's better to try than not.
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@IsaacKing314 @thewreathwright Whether they're crazy or just ignorant, that person is unlikely to respond well to a complete stranger comparing them to his schizophrenic friend.
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