JohnnyCanuck

Fucking click bait. He changed his name. Leave him be.

Okay yeah. I don't think I use that as often or that it would catch me the same way.

Having this on by default with a "never ask again" option (which can then be turned back on in settings) would be ideal.

This gets me all the time. And to be clear, it's not just swipe to go back, it's the back button as well.

Look I'm sorry, i wasn't meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn't the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

Oh I didn't realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn't use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn't be an antivax movement.

From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you're actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you're also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren't even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn't invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).

I mean if you had a full data set of known allergies and millions of DNA of people that have and don't have allergies, you may find a genetic correlation of people susceptible. But there's too many environmental factors that would alter that anyway.

Wasn't there a huge announcement this year about exposure to allergens at a (very) young age preventing allergies? That would suggest genetics is a very small part of it and environmental factors being much more important.

However, checking hair samples doesn't necessarily mean checking DNA. They could be checking for certain markers like antibodies your body produces. Still sounds like bunk science or it would be much bigger though.

I don't believe this one. Links, or it didn't happen.

There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they're accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.

Fuck yeah, I'll raise a glass of spider-venom-laced-pumpkin-juice to that!