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DandyLion posted:Wasn't there a Russian family discovered living out in the Taiga (Siberia) for the last 80 years or so after the Communist purges in the first part of the 20th century. That place is 10 times as inhospitable as where he died, and that bunch had something like 10 family members living in huts up there. The Lykovs At one point they had a single stalk of wheat that they watched round‐the‐clock in shifts lest it be eaten by vermin. If they had lost it, they would never be able to grow wheat again.
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DandyLion posted:Wasn't there a Russian family discovered living out in the Taiga (Siberia) for the last 80 years or so after the Communist purges in the first part of the 20th century. That place is 10 times as inhospitable as where he died, and that bunch had something like 10 family members living in huts up there. Platystemon posted:The Lykovs Yup. About a year ago I binged on the story. There are two documentaries about the last surviving member of the family, the daughter Agafia. I watched this one first, and I prefer it to the Vice take on the story:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKwJf0VHw90 Vice's take (which isn't bad, I just like the other one better): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
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Staryberry posted:You should read this article from the New Yorker about additional research that has been done about how he died. He was subsisting on wild potatoes, which were widely known to be safe for human consumption. It actually turns out that they contain a neurotoxin that can be harmless to some people, and paralyzing to others. Young men with limited caloric diets are the most at risk. I'm not saying that he wasn't fool hardy, but the sudden precipitous decline in his health, and his death might not have been something that a more prepared survivalist would have been able to avoid. That's a controversial notion (and it wasn't the potatoes themselves, it was the seeds), disputed by numerous chemists. Krakauer floated this idea in his book but testing refuted it. Then another chemist suggested that it was another compound, and the results of further tests for that are in dispute: https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i43/Chemists-Dispute-WildProtagonist-Chris-McCandless.html Then Krakauer wrote the New Yorker article, when he changed his theory again to it being canavanine. A more prepared survivalist would definitely have been able to avoid it because a more prepared survivalist would have been more prepared and hence would have brought equipment and awareness suitable to the area, including maps that would have shown him a river crossing .8 miles away from where he holed up and starved himself to death, and wouldn't have been relying for survival on wild potato seeds. McCandless committed very elaborate suicide; the proximate cause of his death is pretty much irrelevant, if you go into the Alaskan wilderness alone when that poorly-equipped and with that little experience, you're killing yourself.
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iospace posted:Who wants forums schad? i want forums schad what's the context here?
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U-DO Burger posted:i want forums schad what's the context here? I got red texted  Oh well.
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iospace posted:I got red texted lordy guy just asked for context not a drat novel there Shakespeare.
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sneakyfrog posted:lordy guy just asked for context not a drat novel there Shakespeare. Phone posting. Someone called me the dick grabber of the F1 thread and one of the other regulars decided to make it stick.
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iospace posted:Phone posting. Someone called me the dick grabber of the F1 thread and one of the other regulars decided to make it stick. did you internet grab someones weener?
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sneakyfrog posted:did you internet grab someones weener? Yeah, by probating them, apparently that's dick grabbing.
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iospace posted:Yeah, by probating them, apparently that's dick grabbing.  Id say in that case youd need consent for that something like "may i grab your dongus at this time friend poster"
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Anyway, actual, non-meta content: https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/923667864724402177
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I posted this in the meme thread but since I found it because of your guys' wrestling talk here's the worst wrestling thing ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYcyt8FPlg
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Frazzbo posted:Why does this one have six fingers (ok, five fingers and a thumb)? Human things have two hands. One hand is behind the other hand.
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Tarantula posted:Some people are just plain unlucky. https://shar.es/1P4jUk Edit: Fixed link. Zamboni Rodeo has a new favorite as of 02:05 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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DiggityDoink posted:Please tell me you were freeballing so the true schadenfreude can come through. I wasn't so the balls were ok, just a big bruise on my thigh where the drill slammed into it. Sorry
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Early celebration is always great schad, also according to the imgurrrrrrr comments the kick is legal
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EmmyOk posted:Early celebration is always great schad, also according to the imgurrrrrrr comments the kick is legal Checks out. e: FIVB 9.2.1 Platystemon has a new favorite as of 03:16 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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iospace posted:I got red texted Mods can't change redtext?
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ghosthorse posted:I posted this in the meme thread but since I found it because of your guys' wrestling talk here's the worst wrestling thing ever: I thought this was going to be this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uTCHS8KHdE But yeah, spoken word smashing pumpkins is pretty terrible. EmmyOk posted:Early celebration is always great schad, also according to the imgurrrrrrr comments the kick is legal So long as you aren't carrying the ball you can strike with any part of your body.
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Kurieg posted:I thought this was going to be this. The best part is Sting yelling "I agree, I agree" back to the crowd's "bullshit!" chant.
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Samizdata posted:Mods can't change redtext? I like to let mine sit for a bit if I find it funny at least!
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Samizdata posted:Mods can't change redtext? Most mods take the stance of "someone was willing to pay ten dollars to pin this message to me, I may was well let it stick for a few weeks."
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A few months ago the Australian government got rocked by a scandal: two senators were dual-citizens. This is flagrantly against the Constitution, and they resigned once they found out about this. At the time, deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce had a few words to say about it: tithin posted:“Unfortunately that’s the law. It’s like if you’re driving down the road without a licence and you get pulled over, well you’re in a spot of bother. Half an hour ago, deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce got disqualified from Parliament by the High Court of Australia. He was a dual-citizen.
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Really silly rule that you can be a citizen of another country despite being born in Australia. But it makes for good schaden stories.
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Mu Zeta posted:Really silly rule that you can be a citizen of another country despite being born in Australia. But it makes for good schaden stories. It's not hard to wind up with dual citizenship. If an American gives birth while living or even on vacation in Australia, then the baby will have citizenship in both countries. Likewise if an Australian gives birth in America. Unless you meant to say "can't," in which case I guess for politicians it's like a conflict of interest. I wonder if they renounced the other citizenship (before running, obviously) if that would make them eligible.
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EKDS5k posted:I wonder if they renounced the other citizenship (before running, obviously) if that would make them eligible. Yes
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iospace posted:Yeah, by probating them, apparently that's dick grabbing. Rosberg is cool and good
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ilmucche posted:Rosberg is cool and good He is but he took the coward's route out. Oh well, he retires with a WDC which is indeed, cool and good.
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EKDS5k posted:If an American gives birth while living or even on vacation in Australia, then the baby will have citizenship in both countries. Likewise if an Australian gives birth in America. Nnnnnno, the baby born to Americans in Australia wouldn't have Australian citizenship, because we don't have jus soli. The baby born in the US to Australian parents would get US citizenship though, because they do. Edit: clarity Weatherman has a new favorite as of 05:31 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Weatherman posted:Nnnnnno, the baby wouldn't have Australian citizenship. We don't have jus soli. The baby born in the US would because they do. quote:If you were born in Australia, then you would automatically be an Australian citizen if: ref: https://www.acacia-au.com/australian-citizenship.php
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None of that contradicts what I wrote, except for the part about living in Australia from birth to 10 years, which is not what a child of American tourists would be doing. I guess you are technically correct (the best kind), but if you think that one particular loophole is what the OP was writing about, then I need to update my list of Fishmech alts vvvvvv lol Weatherman has a new favorite as of 06:42 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Weatherman posted:I guess you are technically correct (the best kind), but if you think that one particular loophole is what the OP was writing about, then I need to update my list of Fishmech alts Can you stamp your foot harder, I like a good tantrum.
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Weatherman posted:Nnnnnno, the baby born to Americans in Australia wouldn't have Australian citizenship, because we don't have jus soli. The baby born in the US to Australian parents would get US citizenship though, because they do. Oh, my bad, I thought it worked the same as over here. Regardless, my main point was that getting dual citizenship isn't that difficult or unusual.
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