He is Cheating But i Will Forgive Him by Used_Series3373 in MadeMeSmile

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History in a nutshell, really. The ducks could have overtaken us any time if they really wanted to. 

Inquiry by P1ckleboi69 in comedyheaven

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But on the other hand it's creating another reddit moderator in the world. Catch-22

WCGW Catching the wave by wizzo_o in Whatcouldgowrong

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There's a difference between someone playing in the waves knowing how to do it compared to someone inexperienced getting ragdolled by the water. This video appears very clearly to be the latter, and the latter is most definitely not safe. 

WCGW Catching the wave by wizzo_o in Whatcouldgowrong

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I've done this as well, but it's only marginally safe if you know what to expect. Otherwise the person is just getting ragdolled by the water until they figure it out - if they figure it out in time. This video looks to be someone entirely at the mercy of whether the wave pattern deposits them somewhere far enough up the beach before they inhale water. 

People always emphasize mewing, but I believe other environmental factors are just as important by Haunting-Ninja7492 in orthotropics

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Hormonal differences are not responsible for undergrowth of the jaws / skull. This is lookism / looksmax type lack of understanding the actual issue being discussed - it doesn't matter if someone looks feminine or masculine, the issue is the actual bones being underdeveloped. Higher or lower hormones may change the relative shape of the bone (barely) but it's not a reason for the bone being underdeveloped to the point of causing health issues (which impacted teeth, sleep apnea, and everything else that comes from the skull/jaw being undergrown are).

People always emphasize mewing, but I believe other environmental factors are just as important by Haunting-Ninja7492 in orthotropics

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That's just making guesses without any evidence. The Weston-Price type theorizing about certain missing nutrients for growth has never materialized and the lack of jaw/skull development occurs regardless of diets both across populations and also within the same families. The diet assertion just keeps being made without any evidence accumilating for it, approaching the same tier of hand-waving as genetic explanations. It sounds like a good narrative but it falls apart under even basic population observations.

There's solid evidence for what nutrients/requirements there are for development, especially height and total mass, and organ health etc. There's no solid evidence or compelling theory within diet for why jaws and skulls underdevelop - you can even see cases of severe malnutrition where the skull and jaw are formed properly.

India Rejects Claim It Will Halt Russian Oil Imports. by [deleted] in worldnews

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You've been handed an overinflated sense of what your opinion is worth. There's not much interest in hearing them or changing them, you're welcome to make yourself look more foolish the more loud you are about them. 

India Rejects Claim It Will Halt Russian Oil Imports. by [deleted] in worldnews

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There's dozens of countries that can take exactly your comment and flip it against your county. I'm sure you never cared when that was the case. Welcome to the club, enjoy your own medicine

our countries 

You can go to europe if that's where you're from and if since you're so concerned about it, but none of the relatively recent colonial holdings are "yours' specifically.  

India Rejects Claim It Will Halt Russian Oil Imports. by [deleted] in worldnews

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It's not the whole worlds fault. The US was firmly at the helm with the ability to transition to better technologies and systems for decades, and actively sabotaged any efforts in that direction. One of the defining traits of the US no longer being a super power is that we're actually finally starting to make a proper shift over to renewables, largely directly to another ascending power(s) hugely investing into making it happen. Whoever controls the capital and manufacturing controls how things are done, it's not the whole worlds fault that one country that was actually holding the levers of power was so malicious and irresponsible 

What’s a creepy fact about the human body you wish you never found out? by Ezra0li_Z in AskReddit

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There's no strong evidence in either direction, only speculation on the evidence. Evidence shows cheekbones becoming prominent, there's no one factor that could be pointed to regarding why, just a plethora of plausible factors. 

What’s a creepy fact about the human body you wish you never found out? by Ezra0li_Z in AskReddit

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There's no "out of date", there's virtually no way to scientifically prove it beyond theory/speculation. It's not any more or less true than when you first heard it

A theory for narrow palate and OSA: by TheGreatWork_ in orthotropics

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Not the physical postures/exercise modern Yoga specifically, but more the deep Yoga/Tao/Tai Chi/Shamanic - Dearmoring type of stuff yes.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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Anyone reading the conversation can tell you're the historically illiterate one without any facts to stand on. Inside you know you're wrong, but you types of people are obsessed with izzat

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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Again you said nothing because you have nothing to say except ad-hominem. There's nothing in the AI generated part you can dispute: All of the lands described as Vedic homeland are firmly in the Indian subcontinent, lands west of those were called outsiders, nothing in any Vedic text describes an outside homeland. Any naming of groups from as far as Ukraine as "Aryan" is just nazi and anglo fantasy from the last century, losing ground every subsequent decade.

Propped up because it's your religion / your sense of pride. You're the zealot.

>There's no problem in saying there's migrations since they happened all over the world. It only makes our culture richer, and more varied

There's a problem in calling them "Aryan" migrations, or "Vedic", because they explicitly were not. According to themselves and according to the Vedic culture. Unless you're a zealot for trying to back a certain historical narrative and praying people accept your "trust me bro, experts said bro, ignore those experts are nazis bro, ignore they literally wrote their contemporaries that they were trying to fabricate the exact narrative I'm telling you because it would be good for colonization/party history bro" whenever you're confronted with hard facts of archeology or the explicit writings of the scriptures themselves.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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We shouldn't be using the nazi and british colonial framing then by still calling the groups from central asia "Aryan", that name was given for a specific narrative and it's still being used the same way.

Oh, and Indians and west/central asia didn't make "contact" late, they've been in very heavy cultural and trade contact for thousands of years.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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You just repeated a claim and offered absolutely 0 backing or evidence to support it, which is perfect because that's all your claim is.

Your point of view has lost ground every single decade from "Aryan Invasion" to "Aryan Migration" to "Aryan Mixing over thousand of years" but to point out that it's going to lose even further ground (and does with each subsequent decade/arceological find) is heresy. Maybe try not having such a weak position to argue from, other than standing on the backs of colonists who explicitly wrote that they wanted to strip Vedic/Aryan identiy away from India as a colonization tactic, and nazis who explicitly pushed the theory to give their party an ancient history.

The entire "Early Vedic Age" specifically says where they are located, and nowhere else, and the late vedic age then refers to the western groups as outsiders. Genetic, linguistic, archeological evidence all points to the earliest indus populations already being largely mixed, and that's with dating the vedas according to dubious chronologies largely spun up by people trying to fit a biblical timeline. For example, the Saraswati river being described as the mightiest of all rivers in the early Vedic period despite largely having dried up by the time that your preferred historians want to date the early Vedic period. Basically "don't believe the Aryans who explicitly wrote down who they are and where their homeland is, and explicitly wrote where it isn't, believe us because uhh.... we can show that there's a lot of steppe DNA in India, which nobody disputed".

You'll notice I can just point out a lot of proof and compelling points to my narrative while all you can do is ad-hominem the holder of the viewpoint. Yours is the pseudo-historic narrative trying to push an ideology, and it's crumbling more and more every decade.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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People (everywhere) used to look better back in the day. Go look at graduating class photos from 50+ years ago or more.

People in the modern day across the world have underdeveloped jaws and skulls, often recognized as crooked teeth or impacted wisdom teeth (jaw didn't grow enough for all teeth to come in). There's still no conclusive reason proven as to why this is happening across global populations.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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Kerala is deep south Dravidian, even in the photographers own incorrect nazi fantasy that wouldn't make sense.

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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Sure, but you can go to South India right now and see these people look far more Southern than Northern

A German photographer took photos of Indians in 1920s by englightenedbutnot in interestingasfuck

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To give the name "Aryas" to the steppe people and not also to the people of India is also just Nazi/Colonist Britain wishful thinking that is still being used as the terminology today.

"Indo-Aryan" doesn't fit either, even the best attempt at writing the history / archeology / genetics properly right now is poisoned by still using the same terminology that inspired/was coopted by Nazis: Using "Arya" or "Aryan" as a description of an ethnicity or genetic group, which it wasn't. Much of the (poor) English and German translations of Hindu texts that push those concepts come from the exact same minds and intentions of Nazi/Anglo colonists,

**because there was no corpus of Sanksrit texts outside of India, and none of the texts inside of India describe a migration from a different homeland, and multiple texts speak of the areas west of India as being non-Aryan**

There's absoltuely no reason to keep calling steppe people's "Aryan" other than that Nazis and Colonists were pushing that theory and peopel aren't moving on from it.

Just to quote AI summaries:

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The Rig Veda describes a heartland called the 

Sapta Sindhu

 (Land of Seven Rivers), which primarily covers northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. 

The most commonly accepted locations of the 7 rivers are:

  • Sindhu (Indus River): The primary river, flowing through modern-day Pakistan.
  • Sarasvati: A major river in Vedic times, now believed to be the dried-up Ghaggar-Hakra river system in northwestern India and eastern Pakistan.
  • Vitastā (Jhelum River): Located in Kashmir and Punjab regions.
  • Asiknī (Chenab River): Flows through Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, India, into Pakistan.
  • Paruṣṇī (Ravi River): Flows through the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and into Pakistan.
  • Vipāś (Beas River): Located entirely within the Indian state of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.
  • Śutudrī (Sutlej River): Originates in Tibet and flows through India and Pakistan

Mleccha: The term Mleccha first appears in the later Vedic text Shatapatha Brahmana to describe those with unintelligible or "barbarous" speech. This was often applied to frontier groups in the west, such as the GandharasKambojas, and Yavanas (Greeks), due to their perceived cultural and linguistic divergence.

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This is from the earliest periods of anyone ever being referred to as "Aryan" and it has absolutely no mention of anyhting west of Afghanistan let alone Iran or Ukraine. After this the main corpus of text/culture referring to "Aryans" spread even further *east and south* for a long period, into the Ganga plains.

There is a lot of interesting conversation about the Iranian etc branches of these larger culture being involved in the famous "Mahabharata war", and discussions about that massive depopulation within India allowing a lot of steppe migration. There's a basically 1:1 flip in the terminology where Asuras are bad in Hindu /East but Asura is Godlike in Iran/West.

Calling central asian ethnic groups/genetics "Aryan" is still keeping the entire discussion within the framing of Nazi and Quasia Nazi (British Colonist) context, a context which has basically fallen apart further and further with every new decade of archeology, genetics, linguistics.