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me: forgets birthdays

me: can’t remember where i left anything

me: never knows what i'm supposed to be doing on any given day

me: hey do you wanna hear a super-obscure fact about ancient rome

#me

justwanttobreaktherules

sludgebat

some days its worth going on 4chan and wading through the garbage for gems like this

justlearningasigo-deactivated20

This is why god created man

bassist-bitch

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS

YOU HAVE TO UNMUTE THIS

poochypups-deactivated20191009

quality entertainment

#pokemon #tom jones #it's not unusual #the carlton

good-news-network

Shelter Offers “Unadoptable” Feral Cats to Hunt Rats —With Big Success

#cats

trainedchimpanzee

omg why do white ppl love cheese so mu-

100-manslayer

I actually didnt know that

grifalinas

The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”

bemusedlybespectacled

Fun fact: white people (specifically Northern European white people) have a genetic mutation that allows them to digest lactose even after weaning, which is abnormal for all mammals and also most humans. It’s theorized that because Northern Europe doesn’t get a lot of sun, an alternative source of vitamin D (like milk) would be a useful trait. It’s a very recent mutation that would only have happened after humans started domesticating animals like cows and goats.

glumshoe

Basically every trait is a genetic mutation in some way, but one thing that’s interesting is that lactase persistence (the ability to digest lactose into adulthood) is commonly seen in certain nomadic populations throughout Africa and the Middle East, for which animal husbandry has long been the way of life. However, the responsible mutations for these populations are entirely different from the European mutation! Convergent evolution!

I’m not sure what the point about vitamin D is. I’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t make sense - vitamin D is added to milk artificially and does not naturally occur in milk to any significant degree, from what I understand. A nomadic population would be a lot more secure if it could get calories from drinking the milk of a camel rather than slaughtering their mounts for meat.

roachpatrol

those of northern european-descent do have an adaptation that lets us get more vitamin d: it’s called being white. hunter-gatherers ate enough meat that they got enough vitamin d even in darker climates, even with dark sun-blocking skin. farmers have comparatively shitty, lacking diets, so the theory goes that it’s advantageous for them to have paler skins, to fix more vitamin d from the sun, and this is more and more advantageous the darker the climate you farm in. sunburn and skin cancer isn’t all that much of a problem in like, wales, but vitamin deficiency sure is.

digesting milk sugars as adults was also very probably an adaptation by herdsmen that was carried into europe by nomads and trade routes, then propagated into the sedentary farming population because, again, it cannot be overstated how fucking crappy it is to be a farmer. any adaptation that let them get more food for less work would have been an enormous advantage.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29213892

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/white-skin-and-lactose-tolerance-recent-adaptations/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-europeans-did-not-inherit-pale-skins-from-neanderthals/

http://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-genome-sequenced.html

anyway, white people, enjoy your cheese and sunburns. you earned ‘em.

aichihuahua

Let's see if I can get this right...

Heterosexual: Fuck that.

Homosexual: Fuck this.

Bisexual: Fuck you and also you.

Pansexual: Fuck everything.

Demisexual: Fuck you in particular.

Asexual: Fuck no.

dantiloquent

i relate to neutron stars, for i, too, have been crushed beyond recognition by the gravity of my responsibilities, and i will continue to spin wildly for many years

writing-prompt-s

As you walk along the Thames pondering what Brexit will mean for you and your family, a soaking wet woman walks up a set of stairs from the river, hands you a package and tells you “Sort it out, please!” before vanishing around a corner. You open the package to find Excalibur.

demonicae

Hahahaha, hoooooly shit this is a great prompt.

renee-niles

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords are STILL not a good basis for a system of government. It doesn’t change if she’s lying in a river!