Hey, did you know Border Patrol agents are fond of destroying the food and water caches left in the desert crossing so people don’t die of hunger and thirst?
179 people died crossing between Mexico and Arizona last year, where this happened.
Way to contribute to the deaths of innocent people, sworn officers of the American government!
Border patrol aka subhuman scum
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The real tragedy is that the Japanese River Otter went extinct before I had a chance to eat one in a sandwich
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I’m actually in a really bad mood right now and need to blow off some steam.
yeah you are actually ranting about symptoms though and not the cause
instead of advocating scientific literacy tests for adults to vote (which is problematic in a lot of different ways), you should be railing on governors who slice down education budgets, the lack of access to quality education for a large part of American citizens, constituents who are terrorized into voting against their own interests and hegemonies in place meant to keep people ignorant and profitable.
i mean i get the frustration here and sure there are people for whom it is easier to cling to incorrect or inaccurate beliefs but calling someone an idiot and demanding they take a test on something they may have never been taught is not how you go about resolving these issues
Americas ‘settled in three waves’
The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New World was settled in three major waves.
But the majority of today’s indigenous Americans descend from a single group of migrants that crossed from Asia to Alaska 15,000 years ago or more.
Previous genetic data have lent support to the idea that America was colonised by a single migrant wave.
An international team of researchers have published their findings in the journal Nature.
“For years it has been contentious whether the settlement of the Americas occurred by means of a single or multiple migrations from Siberia,” said co-author Prof Andres Ruiz-Linares from University College London (UCL).
“But our research settles this debate: Native Americans do not stem from a single migration. Our study also begins to cast light on patterns of human dispersal within the Americas.”
The team analysed data from 52 Native American and 17 Siberian groups, studying more than 300,000 variations in their DNA known as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, or SNPs.
This allowed them to examine patterns of genetic similarities and differences between the population groups …
The team also found that once in the Americas, people expanded southward along a route that hugged the coast, with populations splitting off along the way.
After their divergence, there was little gene flow among Native American groups, especially in South America.
Two glaring exceptions to this simple dispersal were also discovered. First, Central American Chibchan-speakers have ancestry from both North and South America, reflecting a migration back from South America to Central America.
Second, the Naukan and coastal Chukchi from north-eastern Siberia carry distinctive “First American” DNA. Thus, Eskimo-Aleut speakers migrated back to Asia, bringing Native American genes.
The team’s analysis was complicated by the influx into the hemisphere of European and African immigrants since 1492 and the 500 years of genetic mixing that followed …
Read Whole: BBC News
Looked up non dairy creamer
found this on wiki
Nontraditional uses
Experiments have been conducted to see if powdered coffee creamer would ignite in midair, and people have found large quantities make beautiful, and pleasant-smelling, fireballs. The amateur film scene has jumped on this opportunity to create Hollywood-style explosions on a low budget. All one needs is nondairy creamer, an ignition source, such as a burning coal or a road flare, and a way to propel the creamer, such as compressed air or a bicycle pump. One of the key advantages in using coffee creamer is that it only burns in midair; as soon as the creamer touches the ground, it goes out, making coffee creamer a much safer alternative to using gasoline.[3]
Coffee creamer has also been used to whiten clothes (after mixing it with water to form a soaking solution), defoam fish tanks, and clean dry erase boards, as well as fake snow in television and movies
America please. ;___;
Never I whisper as I silently turn into a wraith
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Untitled, circa 1947
Gelatin silver print
New York: Capital of Photography
The feathered men of Cacaopera by Sean Hawkey on Flickr.
The emplumados (feathered men) of Cacaopera do a variety of dances that are indigenous to El Salvador, from the Pipil and Lenca people, a culture that was nearly exterminated completely in the massacres of 1932. The dances are the main symbol of indigenous resistance to cultural domination in the Cacaopera area of Morazán, El Salvador. There are only a few men who can do the dances now, though several people were taught in the refugee camps of Colomoncagua while the massacres of the 1980s were happening.
