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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

There's nowhere enough evidence to say he definitely existed but the scholarly consensus is that he most likely did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Bringing whole new meaning to the term "intergenerational trauma"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

lmao at "(n? or 2n?)". Whoever made this was probably ripping their hair out wondering why nobody's karyotyped these

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The "is it related to work" is a little misleading. Most industries are mostly imperial but government regulations and communications are all metric so things like fisheries end up being pretty metric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hot take: 2025-Jan-27 is better than 2025-01-27 in monolingual contexts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm kinda amazed it's still mostly there

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They allow conlangs but not historical languages?? What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please I crave more info. How did he possibly think that Boxer from animal farm was an allegory for the Boxer Rebellion and how did this possibly prove that Boxing Day commemorates the rebellion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

He's trying to recreate his mugshot I think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, the Battle of Fort Michilimackinac in 1763 was won by sport.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

When you predict a new phenomenon from a current model, either you've opened the door to the discovery of this new phenomenon or you've demonstrated a shortcoming in the model. Both are useful to science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I understand the Dodo and Thylacine—colonialism has been a disaster for ecosystems around the world and restoration is very much desirable—but why the woolly mammoth? What possible benefit could come from destroying the ecosystems we've had for millennia to replace them with a facsimile of the ice age?

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