Did you read the article? It's very short. It's about a study that indicates human neanderthal intermixing and breeding being more common and widespread than previously thought.

>The researchers found that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors, with one individual having a Neanderthal ancestor as recently as just four to six generations back. This finding is surprising because it was previously thought that interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals was relatively rare, with most modern humans having only trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA.

Seems to reference a paper published in 2021 though, not sure why the article was only published now, and the link doesn't seem to work. edit: Atually I think that link was just a link to another website, New Scientist. Still seems odd.

Why would e-mails be wrong?

Unless you're talking about a single e-mail. I guess the plural of mail isn't mails but e-mail would be a different word. For example we say "I got an e-mail" rather than "I got a piece of e-mail", like we would for physical mail.

Weird discrepancy I suppose, but considering every other way we use the word e-mail, "e-mails" makes the most sense.

It's more of an editing thing but my favourite is the "gun noise" they sometimes put in when someone holds up a gun. Not reloading or cocking a hammer or anything, just holding up a gun.

I love Doctor Who but this is pretty egregious. Movies do it too, though I can't think of any as bad as this example. It's a revolver and I'm guessing it's an automatic cycling noise? I don't know it makes no sense.

Honestly it seems like quite a lot if you sit and count out 20 seconds. Obviously up there in the heat of battle I'd imagine it didn't feel quite so generous, but I'd guess even a second or two of gunfire would do a lot of damage to anything in its way.

>A three-second burst from eight .303s produced 13 pounds of projectiles downrange while the 109’s combined cannon/MG battery yielded 18 pounds. But undoubtedly far less than 10 percent of all rounds fired connected with a target, which is why so few pilots became aces.

I guess you have to keep in mind the distances they would be firing from, and in a dog-fight the movement necessitating the huge amount of ammunition to increase the chances of a single hit.

I'm trying to find out how many rounds per second they'd put out, but still, 20 seconds of something that can put out nearly 5 pounds (2.2 kilos) of metal at supersonic speeds per second... I'm seeing about 20 rounds per second from each .303 gun, with eight guns on a Spitfire, so 160 rounds per second. Though there's a lot of variation across different types of aircraft and model.

I'd be morbidly curious about how much damage you could do if you could line up a Spitfire (or any WWII fighter) and unload all 20 seconds of ammunition onto a test target, if the guns could sustain 20 seconds. Even if not you could fire in burst rounds and see a similar effect.

My main point was that 20 seconds seems like a long time given just how much these guns put out but I ended up rambling. 20 seconds of watching a sunset is a lot different to 20 seconds of noise and fury.

Someone mentioning Conflict on reddit, don't think I've ever seen them mentioned before.

Slaughter of Innocence was my top listened to song last year on Spotify. Message to Who was third.

Not even that into anarcho punk or punk itself these days, just learned of them a few years ago and was hooked.

My Nan got me once when I was walking into a funeral with my hands in my pockets.

I think in some situations it's just seen as rude, as though you don't care.

Ignore the downvotes people are babies on reddit.

>But of course if you look at it with 2023 goggles which you should never do.

It's important to understand the context of actions taken by historic figures. Beyond that it's up to individuals to choose how they judge the actions of people in the past. Context is very important, and I have no love for people who feel a need to criticise others for their own gain or virtue signal, whether in a historical discussion or not.

That said I'm reading the book here https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9104/pg9104-images.html

And I can only find references to things like "Spaniards", "Indians" or "The French" similar terms in the preface and chapter 1. Any reference to race seems to be of a group of people.

>The American armies, on the contrary, were composed of the armed settlers of Kentucky and Ohio, native Americans, of English speech and blood, who were battling for lands that were to form the heritage of their children. In the West the war was only the closing act of the struggle that for many years had been waged by the hardy and restless pioneers of our race, as with rifle and axe they carved out the mighty empire that we their children inherit; it was but the final effort with which they wrested from the Indian lords of the soil the wide and fair domain that now forms the heart of our great Republic.

So I got to Chapter 2

>The first point to be remembered in order to write a fair account of this war is that the difference in fighting skill, which certainly existed between the two parties, was due mainly to training, and not to the nature of the men. It seems certain that the American had in the beginning somewhat the advantage, because his surroundings, partly physical and partly social and political, had forced him into habits of greater self-reliance. Therefore, on the average, he offered rather the best material to start with; but the difference was very slight, and totally disappeared under good training. The combatants were men of the same race, differing but little from one another. On the New England coast the English blood was as pure as in any part of Britain; in New York and New Jersey it was mixed with that of the Dutch settlers—and the Dutch are by race nearer to the true old English of Alfred and Harold than are, for example, the thoroughly anglicized Welsh of Cornwall. Otherwise, the infusion of new blood into the English race on this side of the Atlantic has been chiefly from three sources—German, Irish, and Norse; and these three sources represent the elemental parts of the composite English stock in about the same proportions in which they were originally combined,—mainly Teutonic, largely Celtic, and with a Scandinavian admixture

I think /u/historycat95 might have meant chapter 2. Roosevelt does seem to talk a fair bit about the nationalities of the servicemen in both navies, though it does seem like he uses "race" as something other than nationality, what we might call ethnicity these days.

I'm mostly just skimming though, it's entirely possible I'm just missing the part being referenced.

Yeah this is what came to mind. The whole song is a diss track against Dre and Snoop, there's a few lines in there.

>"All of a sudden Dr. Dre is a G thing,
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>But on his old album covers he was a she thing"

I remember googling it a while ago and seeing the image in OPs link. Doesn't even look that feminine, he's not crossdressing or anything...

I bet you're the type that sucks all the light out of someone's life.

What you're talking about is usually called predatory lending. Generally the term loan shark refers to people who operate outside of the law.

That's primarily why they're so dangerous, they're just like predatory lending companies but on top of that you have no legal recourse, nor does the loan shark have to obey any laws surrounding lending. Depending on what sort of loan shark they are they may even resort to intimidation and violence.

God bless Japan's weird sexual art.

For real though it's wild how you can find art from hundreds of years ago that are so similar to some of the hentai/doujins we have today. I've definitely seen hentai where people turn into dicks. And then there's the tentacle stuff. I mean I get that this sort of art isn't necessarily pornographic in nature but clearly it's a thing that's lived on to modern times and inspired some of their more pornographic media.

Weird but awesome.

Congrats on the marriage!

Any year in the 2000s ending in an even number would have had a bunch of all even dates. So would the 2020s, 2040s etc.

There's no odd counterpart to zero which is why I'm guessing dates with all odd numbers are more rare. Though once you get to 3111 you'll have a bunch.

>Not lying about one thing does not Change the fact that we should not trust them

That's... not a very useful way of looking at things. Whether or not you trust what someone says should be based on a number of factors, their trustworthiness, sure, but also their motivations and what they would gain by telling the truth or lying.

Coca Cola would probably have a lot to gain by pushing the idea they invented the image of Santa Claus. The fact that it would so easily disprovable if they were to claim that they did is also another reason to expect them to be telling the truth in this instance.

That said they do seem to push the idea that they somehow solidified his appearance from a number of other depictions, which isn't really true, or at least they're vague enough in their wording to imply it without stating it. The modern image of Santa existed before Coca Cola began advertising.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-claus-that-refreshes/

>There was a period of overlap during which the modern Santa Claus character coexisted with other Christmas figures and other versions of himself, as his now-standard appearance and persona jelled and his character grew in popularity to become the dominant (secular) Christmas figure in the western world. However, that period had ended before Coca-Cola began utilizing Santa for their holiday season advertisements. As noted in a New York Times article published in 1927, four years before the appearance of Sundblom's first Santa-based Coca-Cola ad, the Santa Claus figure rendered by Sundblom was based upon what had already become the standard image of Santa:
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>Coke's annual advertisements featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and enjoying Coca-Cola became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market). One might therefore fairly grant Coca-Cola some credit for cementing the modern image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness, as in an era before the advent of television, before color motion pictures became common, and before the widespread use of color in newspapers, Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays were for many Americans their primary exposure to the modern Santa Claus image. But at best what Coca-Cola popularized was an image they borrowed, not one they created.

There's actually some debate about the passage, one idea being that the needle was a gate in ancient Jerusalem (Damascus?), another that it was a mistranslation for some sort of rope, but a lot of alternate theories have been debunked. ReligionForBreakfast has a really good video on it on YouTube. Great channel.

I'm not a bird expert and I know next to nothing about bird law, but can't birds become.very attached to their owners? Like they see them as a sexual partner?

Or am I making that up? I might be making that up. I think maybe there was some sort of petting that humans did that turned out to be a sexual thing for birds so I'm probably confusing the two things.

Is this where they got the name/idea for the superhero? Kenny Lauderdale has a good video about him on Youtube, though the cigarette brand wasn't mentioned if I remember (which I probably don't).

edit: looks like wiki doesn't even have an article on the superhero, only the cigarette brand.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/GoldenBat

edit: The wiki page is under the japanese name of "Ogon bat".

Apparently he was named after the cigarette band, according to this one archived article.

In the UK SATs are more like final tests of a student's time in one of two "key stages" in primary school, and previously also in year 9 (age 13 or 14 or so, "key stage 3"). They're mandated by the curriculum and used to assess a student's progress.

Why they'd think we were discussing UK education I don't know, but I think what they said would be correct in regards to UK SATS. Maybe they saw "SAT", thought of the only SATs they knew of and jumped the gun a bit?

Dragonflies are rad. Seriously look them up they're rad as heck.

There are a few ideas. Anti-Semitism has been around for a long time.

One is that Judaism was one of the few religions that allowed money lending with interest. This was considered usury and prohibited in some other religions, namely Christianity and Islam. The idea being Jews would be money lenders, and would suffer the wrath of anyone who couldn't or didn't want to pay them back. In fact Jews sometimes played an important role in the economy of European powers, often they were prohibited from other trades. Leaders could tax/extort them or borrow money from them, bypassing rules on taxation or religious laws on lending. This could lead to persecution and expulsion, often without any real concern for their safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

Ultimately they were a people without a nation or homeland. Humans aren't always the most welcoming of creatures, or the most fair. It's historically been easy to use Jews and other minorities as a scapegoat. We still see it today.

Keep in mind it's not really like today where we have minorities but they're at least ostensibly citizens with rights. Jews were often forced to live in ghettos, Jewish quarters or areas, or have identifying marks. There was no pretence, they were the other. It's not easy to break that sort of ingrained social structure.

I'm sure any Christian you asked might have had their reasons, but I think the fundamental reason, as depressing as it is, is simple: The Jews were often treated so poorly because they could be treated poorly, like any minority group. It was just their misfortune to always be a minority group.

You Are the Universe - Brand New Heavies

I think they mean using software on a PC to send SMS. "Text message" was used as the standard term for SMS in a number of countries.

dicks

As a brit I have no idea where this idea that we drink beer at room temperature comes from. Pretty much any beer you buy in a pub will be colder than room temp.

Maybe it just took longer to catch on here?

> In a statement to the Women's Social and Political Union shortly afterwards, Richardson explained, "I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs. Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history."[63][65]