I remember watching a video that showed that this is how cats are always able to land on their feet. As in, their bodies evolved to be able to twist awkwardly (to us) like this. By counter-rotating the front from the back in the air, they can face backwards without being able to change their rotational momentum in the air.
I retired from being an "audiophile" when I had 5 drivers stuffed into one earbud. It does sound nice compared to a single driver though, especially for gaming.
Oh damn, I did not know that tomato was a new world food, and from South America too (as opposed to Central and North).
The original cultivation of so many fruits and vegetables before the Columbia Exchange and then modern industrial agriculture is always really interesting.
The one that sticks in my head are kiwis - the modern kiwi is cultivated from a plant from China, which is somehow a source of a lot of cultivars that we eat today.
I find it fascinating that almost half of the world has their own dumpling (ie. a small ball of a cheap source of protein and fat held together by a wrapping of flour dough; a peasant dish that's most often boiled).
I bet if you they would all dispute the origin of that food item.
Seriously I think we could all do with less interacting with nuts. The kind of neutral objectivism that is celebrated in rational discourse is exactly what's co-opted during these encounters.
I ended up writing paragraphs as a result of a back and forth between a conspiracy theory who thought NASA lies about space and Kirk alive somewhere.
Dude told me, "Nice try jew" in the end. I'm goddamn east Asian and told him multiple times, even writing in Japanese.
They take their ignorance as proof of their own enlightenment.
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