Has it been shown that we’re smellin’ for incest, so to speak? We definitely seem to have a smell test but has it been shown to include that?

I don’t think it was because of the arranged marriage - just that experienced matchmakers knew they had to account for that.

So one of the fun things about generations of endogamous marriage (marrying within your group) is that it leads to a “background” level of relatedness with people you don’t know.

So in Ashkenazi communities that still do arranged marriage, they often do genetic testing first - because even without knowing each other, a bride and groom could possibly have a genetic closeness equivilant to maybe cousins.

A lot of communities in India show this phenomenon too.

The whole island has less than 10k people. They’re not cities, they’re villages with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comment is comedic hyperbole, alas.

Ok, firstly, those aren’t cities. That’s an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we’ve got the scale right.

Specifically, that’s christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced “kirismas”. So that’s probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation (“kiribas”) underneath that.

A musician i know with a french name often publishes under QTN so anglos pronunce it properly rather than say que-teen.

Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That’s the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.

For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we’d expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.

Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Just drink stovetop espresso made from decent beans.

It’s not true though, so it doesn’t need an explination

There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don’t. It was just nonsense.

His behaviour is televised daily and has been for over a decade. Most of the world has seen his mental decline. It’s obvious in his speech and actions.

My girlfriend slept with a guy at a university camp and then got angry at him and cut one of his dreds off. She told me about it as soon as she got back. I’d met the guy and thought him a douchy child, but i mostly felt sorry for him. I was a bit disappointed in her choice but i wasn’t hurt or anything. A few weeks later i drunkenly kinda went to bed with a housemate who i then realised i’d been crushing on, and my girlfriend and i admitted there wasn’t really anything there and broke up. When i first told her that me and elizabeth made out she was like, “Aww, go you!”

That was a real “no harm no foul” situation. Years later i went on a 3 month holiday and never came back. Everyone but me and my then girlfriend realised i was just moving overseas. She was way more into the relationship and I was too cowardly to break up. We carried on long distance until i found someone else. I broke up with her before anything happened, but she was hurt and it felt like cheating in a way that the more technical cheating above had not.

People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn’t think they would but 🤷

I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today’s brands.

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Maybe you were having a bad day in the above linked convo, but fyi you come across as needlessly argumentative and more than a little misogynist. Tbh i didn’t even see the comment where you talk about being accused of rape because your others were too off-putting for me to continue reading.

Your comments make you seem angry at women. That doesn’t make you a rapist, but it goes a long way to explaining why all your friends would believe an allegation.

Yeah there’s a big difference between 70 and 80 for sure.

80+ is still is a ‘sometimes and small amounts’ thing for me, but many 70s and anything <60 taste just as sweet as milk chocolate to me

Maybe 2 years ago my partner had to explain to me that most people actually prefer milk chocolate, so when i buy dark chocolate as presents it’s not actually appreciated.

I’ve always preferred dark chocolate because it’s just so obviously better, and presumed everyone else did too. Finding out that most people like worse chocolate was quite a surprise🤷

Tally systems and icons. It’s from these icons that writing emerges.

China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.

Shhhhhh!

I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like “eco-fascist” are.

Anyone sane understands that “be gay do crime” is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.

Similarly “killing people makes nature alive” obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).

That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman’s mind.