Autoimmune diseases are where the immune system attacks healthy tissues. Some pathogens have been known to trigger autoimmune diseases, but they aren’t what’s causing the disease.

The guy on the far left (not Pence) and the guy on the far right both look like they would rather be many places other than standing where they are.

It was trollfic. The real writer finally unmasked herself, and there was a great controversy with her supposed memoir where her younger brother called bullshit on most of it on the internet and independently verified it was his sister and one of her friends that wrote it. If that was a fake-out, it was very…

Yeah. I’m not familiar with the design, really, but in terms of making actual swords, the one they made is massively unbalanced.

Agreed. It’s pretty, but proper forging would have required the entire blade to be red hot to temper it so it wouldn’t break. It was ridiculously thick, too. Claymores are only a couple kgs, for God’s sake. Granted, I’m comparing this to how to make a real goddamn sword, but the obvious solutions are to use a lighter…

Class can be signified by the newness of the uniform, but most kids at my high school wore the same five shirts and skirts and single pair of shoes for the entirety of high school. Hell, I did. Yes, there are small indicators of class, but it is in nowhere near the same realm as the difference seen in non-uniform…

Please read the initial couple paragraphs of the wikipedia article on life expectancy. Making it to adulthood meant you’d live what we expect to be a more or less normal lifespan. People weren’t stupid back in the day and noticed trends like very high childhood mortality with adults having a far lower likelihood of…

You do realize that life expectancy was so low because of all the infant and childhood deaths, right? Disease claimed a shitload more kids back in the day, and if you lived to adulthood, you were just as likely to live a fairly long time as you were back in the 1950s.

The individuals you’re referring to have genetic defects causing their immune system to entirely lack the adaptive lineage and so have a severe immunodeficiency. They still exist and are on a whole different level than people with allergies.

Heroin isn’t poison, to be fair. It’s a drug, but on the street it’s cut with God knows what. The fact you have no idea what you’re actually buying when you get the heroin is why it’s ridiculous. You don’t expect cigarettes or booze to have anything in them that you wouldn’t expect, and if they did, it would be…

As long as you’re polite about it, servers are usually okay with replacing the dish if you were served the wrong thing. It’s a little annoying if you are given the wrong thing, but restaurants will replace them. Granted, if you’re talking about something super fiddly, I understand why a waiter might be exasperated,…

I got the Assassin’s Creed siblings?

I agree. The fact she also seems to be doing only performance art means what she’s up to is even more tired. Like, this sort of stuff was tired decades ago. I mean, her work isn’t even that transgressive, especially compared to artists like Carolee Schneemann, whose body of work on sexuality and gender from the 1960s…

It’s fine. Also, that is an excellent gif. That cat is a credit to Siamese cats everywhere.

Pardon my correction, but as the second comment on the first article, I actually called it first.

Most of the Midwest, too, probably. Well, at least at State Fairs.

Fur-trimmed gloves and hoods of coats make a hell of a difference when staying warm in colder climates. You don’t have to be living near the Arctic circle to be living in an area where it’s really cold outside in the winter and synthetic materials will not cut it. Like, say, Iowa or Massachusetts or the general area…

No More Student Loans was in the Post-Apocalyptic category. It’s on the lower right bracket, which is labelled “Post-Apocalyptic (Nurture)”. It was never against Indoor Plumbing or Bees.

You realize clean drinking water and hygiene in general are fundamental to public health, right? Indoor plumbing means you have easy access to clean drinking water and don’t have to worry about epidemic diseases like dysentery and cholera. I mean, indoor plumbing was the least selfish of its bracket, and bees won its…

Besides, the bees (I assume everyone’s thinking of domesticated honey bees specifically) would probably have a population rebound after we stopped, you know, using pesticides and making them collect pollen from monocultures. Also boo cholera and dysentery.