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  • Yeah, this isn’t news to me that this is a thing. Saw articles on this ~ 20 years ago. Complete with grainy images of the tiny flatworms “fencing”.

    Was weird then. Got used to the idea since. Worse to me is some of parasites like toxoplasma gondii that just get to rewrite what smells you like so that they can get back into a cat.



  • Actually, a few times:

    1. Prior to the seven years war, the governor of Virginia was so openly corrupt the other colonies refused to official business with the colony, as he would just assign the contracts to his firms and run away with any money.

    After the seven years war, leading up to the US revolution, things were very heated. Mostly from: 2a. Rich colonials defrauding British banks via loan fraud. 2b. Rich people then using said funds to buy up the available land, driving prices out of reqch of the regular colonials. 2c. Rich colonials got really pissy that the stamp act was going to prevent them from executing loan fraud. 2d. Rich colonialists astroturfing imaginary support for motiona and even faking riots to make it look like they had popular support. (Note that this was so faked that English speaking Canada became a thing out of this.) 3. The only land they would give to the poor people was in the strictly off limits Ohio Valley as that land was seen as native land in tha ks for them winning the war in North America for England. Neither the natives or the crown soldiers stood for this, but it was paid for by the rich colonials en mass, so was functionally unstoppable.

    About 50 to 100 years later: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line the Mason-Dixie line became a thing and the two sides fought to gerrymander support for slavery/freedom. Which ended causing the US civil war.


  • Actually, a few times:

    1. Prior to the seven years war, the governor of Virginia was so openly corrupt the other colonies refused to official business with the colony, as he would just assign the contracts to his firms and run away with any money.

    After the seven years war, leading up to the US revolution, things were very heated. Mostly from: 2a. Rich colonials defrauding British banks via loan fraud. 2b. Rich people then using said funds to buy up the available land, driving prices out of reqch of the regular colonials. 2c. Rich colonials got really pissy that the stamp act was going to prevent them from executing loan fraud. 2d. Rich colonialists astroturfing imaginary support for motiona and even faking riots to make it look like they had popular support. (Note that this was so faked that English speaking Canada became a thing out of this.) 3. The only land they would give to the poor people was in the strictly off limits Ohio Valley as that land was seen as native land in tha ks for them winning the war in North America for England. Neither the natives or the crown soldiers stood for this, but it was paid for by the rich colonials en mass, so was functionally unstoppable.

    About 50 to 100 years later: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason–Dixon_line the Mason-Dixie line became a thing and the two sides fought to gerrymander support for slavery/freedom. Which ended causing the US civil war.












  • It means I signed up for the original Kbin during the original reddit migration but then the developer got overwhelmed and the site was unuseable.

    Then I signed up for the next one, supposedly run by a team to avoid such a meltdown. Then the head maintainer just took everything down and vanished.

    So now I am on mbin, which is yet another fork of kbin.