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Another issue is what is going on in US, that for good or worse affects everyone else on this planet. Once the current civil war in US will be over, rest would relax and adapt to new reality.

And another issue with coments is that commenting is not communication - in a way, that it is not talk with other person. Comment to communication is the same communication, that lamp post is for a dog - where he leaves mark by pissing on it. So, this is the sad reality - we are dogs here leaving marks on internet territory. And that is the closest form to "communication". If you want proper communication, get a friend and have a tea or wine and have a proper talk. Here it is simply not possible.

Every joke has some truth in it: we have a chicken - a very viable candidate to back-bred dino. Well, either that or we can have a giant chicken, that might strike fear in everybody. Though, cassowaries also are frightening enough.

This is from article: "They then prevent people from drinking the contaminated water and use pesticides to disinfect it."

Basically they contaminate water with pesticides, which locals are drinking afterwards... there are no imminent effects from pesticides - that is for sure.

from wiki: D. medinensis larvae reside within small aquatic crustaceans called copepods.

>>The guinea worm life cycle is largely human driven as well.

Not true. It affects mammals, including humans. Infected mammals becomes easier catch for predators. It is part of cycle of life, which humans are disrupting.

The main issue here is that hygiene of people in Africa is still on the same level that Europeans had couple of centuries ago, when they used water from the same water sources where they had dead cats and fecal matter, only European sources of waters are getting "sterilized" by cold weather, unlike in Africa where those water inhabitants thrive all year. USSR had very similar issues with infections from drinking water, until it educated population that only boiled water is safe to drink. Judging from the article - that is still the main issue and part of what they are doing.

Apparently, in this case humans already are giving advantages to baboons and if they multiply too many - humans again will need to intervene to kill them to maintain their "normal" numbers.

The solution to the worm and other parasites is very simple - boil your water before using it. Swim only in pools that have been threated against parasites. Instead the offered solution is to sterilize all water in nature - in jungle environment, that is infested with life, that by nature is hostile to humans and others. I suppose, that the thinking of eradication of these worms comes from how they are dealing with malaria.

Why would China be involved in this at all? This war disrupts Chinese non-military takeover of Silk Road territories, where they are dominant economical force already.

The only losers in this play are Russians, where only "brightest" of them think of such crazy scenario, that you are proposing. People in a way do not differ from lemmings - even millions of them can be wrong on their way down from cliff. But, while they are running amok, they have a goal - for that moment.

>>Too often, Native claims to land are argued with, invalidated, or dismissed as far as “we’re all from somewhere else.”

I do not know of any other people(with exception of US and Russia, that have split Aleut lands between them) that _currently_ have claims on Aleut lands, so Aleut claims as primary claims are still very valid. The main issue is that Aleut numbers are small and dwingling to make that claim into independence - a top achievement to any people.

To be fair, this claim is argued mainly for any country, where migrants want to enter, because we are living in times, where US is going through "cultural revolution" and migrants are "new oppressed"(because true working class is too rich and independent and not stupid), whether they like it or not - their opinion is of no matter, where political influence is at play. Coincidentally some natives who play along also can gain something from it, but to an extent of course.

>>I am distrustful of genetic testing/results for the second to last paragraph there—we’ve really been nearly wiped out compared to e.g. Inupiat who still have a fair number of full blooded individuals. Aleuts were enslaved and carted across the coast of Alaska by Russians and our genetic history — to say little of oral history, traditions, and culture — is not perfectly clear as a result.

Judging from the contents of sapiens.org, they are making that statement as a sum of all natives of both Americas - not specifically from Beringia. More or less nowadays 50% of indigenous people have 50% European patrilinear lineage, though 10%+(more than native numbers) of non-native inhabitants carry native patrilinear lineages, so it is something that goes both ways.

In case of Aleutians, it was something, that made me realize, that Russian colonization was not as much different from rest of Siberia(where cossacks left wastelands of bodies that even nowadays are still not repopulated), and contradicts happy picture what can be gained from media, that tells about Russian times in Alaska. But, to be fair - let's not make myth, that Aleuts were peace loving people and that they dwingled, because they were peaceful - they dwingled in numbers, because Russians were more ruthless and had better weapons - Aleuts initially expanded, because they were better at something - including warfare.

Personally to me genetic results was shattering some myths, that I had and I could rediscover history of my own, as my relatives were afraid to talk about past. Also in USSR people were robbed of history and not allowed to have memory, so that is an awakening for me.

I think that understanding history, that can't be changed and not hiding from it is what makes strong people, as the truth and understanding of past is the only foundation on which to build future. Without understanding past, there is only repetition of the same errors - again and again. Even with all the might and power Russians are still in agony, as they can't built their own future and are making same mistakes, because time does not stand still and others who are learning from their mistakes and errors have grown, while Russians have learned nothing and are declining their own growth(and numbers), by living in glorious past - or rather still undecided on which glorious past to live in.

Well, anyway - I think, that nowadays Aleuts in US can do more, compared to Aleuts in Russia and it is up to youth if they want to be Aleuts in future or not - just the same as anywhere else. Yeah, I'm wondering if Aleuts of US are making contacts with Russian Aleuts, but then again - probably now it is a bad time to do so, as Russia is descending into totalitarian state again.

Only it is Na-Dene(because it is constructed word - just like Google, Meta, Apple, and Giigle, Mita, Ipple could be names of different companies - and in the case of article to something else, that is only in the head of author) and this and other mistakes are making me look on sapiens.org as entertaining article and not scientifically reliable source. I would suggest for everyone to read something else on that topic - this is close to the truth, but nothing new and can not be regarded as news.

The thing about migratory highways is that people who live there(on migration highway) are not be able to continuously be connected to that place, due to constant influx of new people that pushes them along, like waves in ocean. But nonetheless - all people are related to other people and have very deep and long and unique ancestry. And the unique is what matters - and story that comes with it. But in this case those early Beringia inhabitants are more closely linked to American natives in Brazil, than to Aleuts.

In 2020, Steele, along with researcher N. Chandra Wickramasinghe and others, claimed in ten research papers that COVID-19 originated from a meteor spotted as a bright fireball over the city of Songyuan in Northeast China on October 11, 2019, and that a fragment of the meteor landed in the Wuhan area, which started the first COVID-19 outbreaks. However, the researchers, including Steele, did not provide any direct evidence proving this theory.[1] The pseudonymous science blogger Neuroskeptic, writing in Astronomy magazine, called the meteor origin theory "so remarkable that it makes the others look boring by comparison".[1]

IMO, modern home should leave as less impact on nature as possible - be it materials used to build it or energy demands to run that house.

The conflict from Islam POV is about which religion is better. That is biggest weakness of Islam in the region, where Jews were living in Medina and Mecca long before Islam was arisen and where majority of Arabs were Christians up till Middle Ages. So, even if it takes another 1000 years, I would put money on that Jews will survive, while Islam will be long forgotten history.

There is no need to use concentrated heat to heat up a tea - your target is making a tea, not making a hole in kettle.

Also, Israeli government simply can't forbid their companies to do, what US companies are not forbidden to do, because that option is only available to totalitarian states.

Patching is not an issue here, but your ability to take your own(and if you are a really lucky - then others) government by balls and squeeze hard, if they do this stuff. If you do not have ability to get government by balls, then government is squeezing your balls already.

How this even compares to Crimea? Russia has no intention to give Crimea back - no matter what government is in Ukraine. Russia was already very nervous about Sevastopol naval base under Yanukovich, when the rent agreement was running out and that is the only reason for seizing Crimea, as this allows it to maintain than naval base. It is also a theft, as so far Russia was paying rent for that base and now it doesn't have to.

Looking how Putin is performing in Russia, it seems more than clear that he will get his rusty pipe in his anus, because the path of getting it is way too similar... Kadaffi got his rusty pipe, after his Navalny-level opponents were forced out and killed and the ones that came next were not into sophiscated and educated arguments, but went straight in with the pipe... and surprise surprise - they were new generation of Libyans, born in Lkadaffi Libya and bred by Khadaffi.

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker did not had authority to promise that NATO would “not expand one inch eastward” of Germany. Also in a real nonimaginary world, such "promises" and talks has to be realized as written agreements on paper. Completely different from what Russia signed in a very real Budapest Memorandum.

Today Qing are as relevant, as Russian historical claims on California.