No it isnt, a Finnish girl I was dating went to university in Malmo in Sweden and quite bluntly (Finnish remember) stated that if you were a Western woman alone in an immigrant area at night, you will get raped. No ifs, buts or how abouts as if its a totally normal thing.

That isnt as far fetched as people think, the people who will move to Mars are likely the ones who can afford it.

The VAST majority of technological advances in human civilization only happened within the past 2500 years, the 10,000 years before that were pretty static aside from bronze toolmaking and the 50,000 years prior to that was mostly nomadic.

According to this woman, yes.

Meredith is the best! Especially considering Taylor allegedly let 4chan name her.

You see thats the issue, they have guns. The ability of gun owners to easily inflict deadly violence is precisely why the government prefers to leave them alone and bully poor minorities instead. You can declare guns illegal tomorrow but I doubt they’ll go away because there are plenty of policemen, soldiers and…

Still havent re-engined the damn thing in 60 years, surely the absurd amount of savings in fuel costs for the next half century would make the effort worth it now right?

Just remember that the people who have the most to complain about mainland visitors are mainlanders themselves. The Shanghainese bitch about visitors just as much as Hong Kongers, Taiwanese and Singaporeans.

The Khmer wernt very international and never really took advantage of maritime trade routes like the Chinese and Europeans did despite its huge size. Geographically it seems that European and Chinese trade ships also tended to bypass the Gulf of Thailand in favour of the more lucrative Malacca Straits, a reality that…

Except in the early years the naivete was shared with everyone, not just children as the internet itself was a new phenomenon. Now almost two decades later there are adults who have been on the internet all their lives resulting in today’s children now being genuinely naive because of their age.

I think much of the differences in opinions about projects like pleistocene park stem from the fact that Western conservationists tend to be wary of interfering with the status quo, preferring nature to ‘take its course’ whilst Russian and Chinese conservationists are far more willing to take an active role in…

This, I was recently reading about the Pleistocene Park being made in Russia, an attempt to recreate the vast Mammoth Steppe through reintroduction of megafauna to areas where they were driven to extinction by human hunting. This also has the bonus of grassland being far better at sequestering carbon than permafrost,…

Trump survived a Comedy Central Roast, he probably wont mind a few fake twitter accounts.

Aaaand this is how the most gender equal nation on Earth reverts back to the worst patriarchy possible. Allah ackbar Sweden, you brought this on yourselves.

Individuals hurting themselves to claim they are abused happens incredibly rarely, but the sheer amount of money involved in this case does increase the chance that something kooky is going on.

Its ‘inflated’ by being unfolded from a compact size by air pressure, not stretched like a balloon that pops. In reality the BEAM modules are made out of the same materials as standard modules, just packed differently to offer far more working space once in orbit.

In many Asian countries, a man having muscles is seen as prone to domestic violence, they do have different standards there.

That you might feel a little hostile to the religion of the people who tried to murder you? Seems pretty normal to me. I know friends whos grandfathers fought in the Pacific during WW2 and refused to buy Japanese goods for the rest of their lives because of how deep the trauma went.

I was so dissapointed that the Wildings didnt have Scottish accents, maybe the White Walkers do?

Nope, Darkie was the original brand until Colgate bought them and changed it to a more politically correct Darlie, in Chinese though the name is still Black Man’s Toothpaste.