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  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzwhat is north?
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    21 days ago

    The map he linked literally shows the Ross sea south of Antarctica.

    Also since its earth is spherical and its near the south pole you can really go any direction and find a sea… that just becomes a matter of perspective.

    In this case, specifically, the wedell sea is to the north of the continent




  • I know shes a bigot and hates trans people, but i do think people are overlooking the fact that this was a kids series. This wasnt meant to be read and deconstructed and analyzed by adults.

    When I read the books as a kid I really enjoyed the world. Some things made me pause or think, but for the most part it was a fun adventure. When I read it again in college, I couldn’t get through the first or second book because of how poor I found the writing.

    But again, it is a children’s book. I dont reread Famous Five or Noddy anymore either. I used to love the Redwall series, but when I went back to read a couple last year I found I couldn’t get into it as much as I did when I was 10.

    Are they the best books or even the best kids books in the world? Definitely not. Is she a brilliant writer? Definitely not. But were the stories engaging and fun and did they give a lot of children an intro to reading and fantasy? 100%. They became popular because even kids who hated reading enjoyed these stories. She might be a miserable awful person now but that doesnt change what these books did for a lot of good people too.


  • You’re totally right there’s absolutely no evidence of a vast majority of women being physically attacked or assaulted after rejecting a man who couldn’t handle rejection…

    Also if you got a thousand rejections before getting one yes then that might be a huuuge reason to look at yourself and how you come across. Hundreds of thousands of rejections have to be because of the person themselves, not the hundreds or thousands of people rejecting them.













  • Why would be not be?

    Funded, cosigned, authorized, and supported wholeheartedly a genocide

    Increased oil and gas drilling

    Didn’t do nearly enough to help them climate

    Broke workers strikes without giving them shit (see the train union)

    Basically told his entire support base to go fuck themselves

    Basically handed the country to the Republicans and destroyed democracy because he didn’t have any self awareness and wanted to break his promise to be a one term president.

    Didn’t give a fuck about corporate greed or price gouging

    He’s been fucking awful



  • Even then would be pretty recent considering human history, and I have a feeling that like you said that’s very narrowed down through both region and religion.

    Though funnily enough I grew up (middle school and high school) with kids from 2 different Mormon families as two of my closest friends, and knew kids from 2 others. Each of those 4 families had a minimum of 5 kids, and each one of those kids as far as I know, both guys and girls, got married by 23.

    But it was normal in Europe to be betrothed as young as 5, and married at 12 or 13 for centuries.

    If you go to the east, Akbar the Great was married off at 9.