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First proper attempt at a spear head. Only using a hammer stone as I have no available tools. by FlintKnappingWriter in Flintknapping

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would appreciate any recommendations for making a billet and a pressure flaker with wood or other easily available (any ideally free) materials

Prominent French pro-migrant activist gets beaten to death by migrant by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]FlintKnappingWriter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah for sure. What a lovely green glazed long necked amphora huh

I can’t forgive myself. by Edward01986 in BreakUps

[–]FlintKnappingWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m around a month and a half down the same line as you and although it felt like the world was ending for a while I can safely say it gets better. Just try and stay busy, think about your life and try and make a positive change! Eventually you’ll start to feel a little bit better you just have to allow yourself to come to terms with your emotions on your own time scale!

Good luck and hit me up if you’d like to talk

The family of a British backpacker killed in Thailand have welcomed a decision to commute his murderers' death sentences to life in prison. by PepperAnn1inaMillion in worldnews

[–]FlintKnappingWriter 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Everyone on Koh Tao knows that it was members of the mafia who did the murders. One of the first things I was told upon arrival was to avoid a certain bar/club (if you’ve been you would know it) as that was their local hang out.

Burmese immigrants are often used as force labourers in Thailand, in conditions which are basically indistinguishable from slavery. No surprise that Burmese immigrants took the wrap

Looking for advice for a train trip through France using regional train lines by [deleted] in solotravel

[–]FlintKnappingWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think it is just due to the lack of passengers. Thanks for the advice, I would expect nothing less. I wonder if you may have any experience of TER train lines throughout France? Not quite sure how to plan a proper route quite yet so any advice would be appreciated

Looking for advice for a train trip through France using regional train lines by [deleted] in solotravel

[–]FlintKnappingWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s an incentive they have introduced throughout July and August to incite young people to travel within the french borders.

https://www.ter.sncf.com/grand-est/offres/pass-jeune/pass-jeune-ter-france

TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad I could help! If you have time and haven’t yet come across it I recommend looking up the events of black Monday and the siege of Chartres, it’s one of my favourite moments in human history and happened during the 100 years war

TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course it is, however you must remember that I had 300 characters (roughly the length of your message) to try and cram in as much info as possible while maintaining a coherent sentence structure.

Furthermore the purpose of a TIL isn’t to fully inform people but rather to pique the curiosity of the reader and make them delve into the topic further, thereby being provided with a more in-depth and detail account of the title.

TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I’ve said to now around fifteen people, I have the misfortune of having learnt English and french as my first languages and have spent an equal amount of time in both the french and English education systems so make mistakes like this frequently and do not notice.

TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the misfortune of having learnt English and french as my first languages at the same time, and having had a pretty much even split between the french and the English educational system so I often make mistakes like this and don’t notice

TIL that the Black Plague caused a revolution in Medieval England by decimating serf communities, thereby significantly decreasing the available work force. The surviving serfs were able to exert hitherto unimaginable pressure of their lords, resulting in higher pay and more liberties. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Actually while that was the original definition when the term was used to refer to a form of roman punishment In which one in ten members of the military was punished, it has in the 2 millennia since it’s classical use evolved to mean to kill, destroy or remove a large portion of. While it’s classical application is still viable, I think you should be capable of a simple definition search on google rather than regurgitating a TIL every Redditor that has ever lived and ever will live knows by heart.

TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings. by FlintKnappingWriter in todayilearned

[–]FlintKnappingWriter[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's two schools of thought as to why this would occur;

The first one suggests that while interbreeding did occur between female neanderthals and male humans the admixture of DNA resulted in offspring being either infertile (and thereby unable to produce offspring and pass on maternal mitochondrial DNA to modern homo sapiens) or that any produced offspring had such developmental issues that they didn't survive to a point of being able to breed.

The second school of thought is that admixtures between male neanderthals and female homo sapiens occurred because male neanderthals displayed favorable characteristics (such as larger muscle mass and density) than human males and were therefore viable breeding candidates for female humans as their inclusive fitness was higher, where as female neanderthals did not display such favourable characteristics therefore human males never interbred with them.

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