The numbers are so crazy, aren't they? The number of deaths from the Black Death, which transformed Europe, they're already so huge it's hard to grasp it... and then you look at the Americas, where in some places, 9 out of every 10 people were dying. It's just insane to think about!
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Wow, you have no idea what you're talking about. The Inka were not "primitive" because they didn't have the wheel... they didn't have the wheel because they lived on steep mountains where a wheel will do you no good whatsoever.
That is honestly one of the best comments/actions I have seen on Gizmodo. I have so much more respect now. I have hated the increased trickery employed here to get clicks in recent years and to see this is really refreshing. Cool video!
No, you don't. But you are right. That's lazy writing. Fixed.
I'm not a climate scientist but I've met, talked with, taken classes from, and heard talks from enough to feel semi-knowledgeable about what is going on in the brains of climatologists.
No, it's not like economics. You freakin' loon.
This is a really great list, but I will humbly add one thing just to see if I am alone in this. I didn't then and still don't think that Idiocracy is any good. More to the point, I guess, I think it's pretty bad. It's like the dudes on reddit who call people "sheeple" when they don't believe in truther conspiracies…
Ahem, I think, if you check the byline, you'll find that it was a different writer who said that.
My favorite description of him is when Erin called him "a tribal arm band tattoo that willed itself into becoming a full-fledged human man." But yours is easily #2.
Seriously, I've heard all of these :(
Baseball - where it's manly and just to throw a 95 mile an hour projectile at someone because your feelings were hurt.
Images from Russia and the ex Soviet countries/regions always depress me. Having grown up (and still living) in a country that was under communist rule for a few decades (and a city full of typical communist blocks of flats, might I add), when I see photos like this it's like looking at all the worst parts of my home,…
Aw, shit! RESET!
It's a nice summer day here in Norilsk. Let's go to the beach!
Which, my God, has got to be one of the darkest things said during a Reds-Cubs game.
No joke. That was actually pretty amazing.
No. They're illegal.
I can't believe mopeds are illegal in NYC... at least half the Chinese restaurants would stop delivering. :P