loaExMachina

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[–] loaExMachina 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I might be missing something here, but how would a genetic study prove where he was born? I see how it could prove Spanish and Jewish ancestry, but how does it show that he was the immigrant and not his parents? Beside, they even say he was born in Valencia... Awfully precise. And they're quoting a documentary rather than a research paper...

[–] loaExMachina 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

^ Found the Prison School watcher

[–] loaExMachina 55 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And not any violence, but domestic violence! Certainly one of the right's top 3 favourite flavours of violence.

[–] loaExMachina 3 points 1 month ago

Waking up in a dream is something that happened to me a few times. First time when I must've been about 7. I just remembered standing up and exiting the room to go get breakfast, then actually waking up. Realistic and all. This dream was probably inspired by some smell of breakfast that I smelled while asleep. Nothing scary there, but I was startled enough that I still remember it.

Then around 14-15, I started experiencing sleep paralysis and nightmares for a while, and then I had similar experiences, but scary this time.

Once I had a sleep paralysis episode wherein I saw a black cat-monkey-goat creature sitting on a chair in my room. Then it jumped at me and I woke up. Or did I? There was a whole moment about me talking to it in my family, I thought it wasn't the first time it happened and I was afraid to go to sleep the same night because it might happen again. But then I actually woke up. The whole thing about me not wanting to go back to sleep had also been a part of the dream. Also, I then only remembered seen the creature once even though within the dream I remered having seen it several nights, so it's a dream of which the narrative spanned several days.

Another time, it was more regular sleep paralysis, no hallucinations, but I felt very uncomfortable and was eager to wake up and there was some annoying noise, like a tinnitus. Then it stopped and I could move, so I stood up and opened the door... Then I heard the noise again, stronger, painful even, and I was back in my bed, paralyzed again.

[–] loaExMachina 8 points 1 month ago

And it's a shame, because I've seen it and it's a really good sequel. Chicken run didn't feel like the type of movie that needed a sequel so I didn't know what to expect, but they handled it really well.

[–] loaExMachina 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uzumaki loses seven places and drops out of the top 10, how unexpected. And by unexpected of course I mean completely expected !

[–] loaExMachina 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Please vote for me! I will do anything but stop supporting genocide of people abroad who share your religion."

[–] loaExMachina 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How many more photos of canids eating watermelon have been hidden from me by the council?

[–] loaExMachina 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[Edit : It turns out people have said the same thing while I was looking for the right source to confirm my point, so I guess this comment's a bit redundant now. Still leaving it in case someone's interested]

The number's correct but...

Child mortality The most significant difference between historical mortality rates and modern figures is that child and infant mortality was so high in pre-industrial times; before the introduction of vaccination, water treatment, and other medical knowledge or technologies, women would have around seven children throughout their lifetime, but around half of these would not make it to adulthood. Accurate, historical figures for infant mortality are difficult to ascertain, as it was so prevalent, it took place in the home, and was rarely recorded in censuses; however, figures from this source suggest that the rate was around 300 deaths per 1,000 live births in some years, meaning that almost one in three infants did not make it to their first birthday in certain periods. For those who survived to adolescence, they could expect to live into their forties or fifties on average.

So reaching 50 wasn't too rare for someone who had survived childhood, and given how people often started having children younger then, that was well enough to be grandparent. Doesn't mean everyone would've gotten to known their grandparents, but it wouldn't have been super rare either.

[–] loaExMachina 78 points 1 month ago (46 children)

Tbf, our teeth aren't bad. They just didn't evolve to consume so much sugar.

[–] loaExMachina 7 points 1 month ago

NOW

Somewhere between the secret silence

Secret Silence and sweets...

[–] loaExMachina 1 points 1 month ago

True, but what I actually wrote was calling horses a nuisance.

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