I love it!

It’s true — most of their brain cells are actually distributed throughout their body, with a consolidated brain that curves around their digestive tract. Their arms retain some intelligence even after bring severed. In some cases, a severed octopus arm will encounter something that feels like food, then pick it up and…

I know nothing about Japanese and only a bit about Chinese, but somebody else in this thread made the same observation — both versions approximately mean woman in both languages. 女人 is more common than the other form in Chinese, I think, but it could definitely be either language.

“She’d also advertise other cool mods she was editing, they said, like a Zelda skin that envisioned the princess covered in blood from head to toe.”

I think they took out Chinese and left Japanese in. The one on the left has 女人, which is nǚrén in Chinese.

Even not taking that into account, though, “the first use of zero in Eurasia” is a very significant milestone — like with “the first use of writing in the Americas.” Reacting to the latter with “uh, the Sumerians did it first!” misses the point. The case of independent development of symbols is really interesting, and…

Right, but if you have a server outside of the continent, then packets need to travel through the more limited high speed routes in Africa and the European routes. Putting a server in Africa would likely reduce ping for parts of the continent, even if it might be worse for

African cities often have some proper internet infrastructure. And if you’re choosing a place in Africa to put a server, you have plenty of non-war zone options — like, put one in Accra, or Dar es Salaam, or Johannesburg. Not all of Africa looks like the DRC.

Yes, I think that’s the most likely option here.

I did not say she wasn’t a cis woman. Ever.

So what you’re saying is women who did badass shit most likely privately identified as male?

I watched it religiously as a kid.

Yeah, that’s why I think it’s an unlikely scenario. But people who identify out of their gender have existed for a long damn time, so it’s still a possibility.

It is possible that the warrior was a trans man — in some societies, people were given the option to transition fully, including in roles. In Albania, for example, biological females could take on the role of men in exchange for remaining celibate. Not necessarily the most likely option here, but at least worth…

Far Beyond The Stars is my favorite episode of television of all time, hands down.

Well... Saying that game devs handicap black players by limiting their ability to create or play as characters who look and/or act like them doesn’t strike me as racist, and I think that’s the point OP was going for. Saying ‘black people are handicapped by character creators’ is clumsy phrasing, but I don’t think OP…

Where’s the shade...?

Hillary Clinton is explicitly willing to throw away innocent lives in countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to further the geopolitical agenda of the United States... but would never do the same in Europe. That’s upholding global white supremacy. As long as the U.S. keeps developing countries…

If the right gets to be afraid of violent Antifa members — a tiny, unsupported portion of the U.S. population — and Islamist terrorists — a REALLY tiny portion of the American Muslim population with virtually no support from any American faction — than yes, being a target of the hatred of armed Nazis who DO have the…

But if the Nazis are willing to use violence, but the counter-protesters are hit by backlash from the rest of the country if they use violence, then yeah, a march of 500 Nazis, many of them armed, is a valid reason to be scared. Just like it’s valid to be scared of a radical Islamist terror attack.