That's real. Vikings did a lot of breading and added beads to beards and hair. They also sometimes shaved the sides and had asymmetric haircuts too. We know the hair styles from their graves. The length of hair varied. They let them grow out and cut them when they were long enough. You could do a lot of things with such long hair.
The viking hair styles you see in the movies are mostly real.
But vikings did not have dreadlocks. They probably didn't know about them.
This is wrong:
And this is wrong too:
They also often wore necklaces and wristbands with runes made of silver, iron or wood. Something like this:
This was to either show your wealth or as an amulet. The futhark (runes) were not just an alphabet they also were magical characters. Each rune had its own special meaning.
For example ᚠ (fehu, engl. cattle) stood for wealth, abundance and security. You wore that rune if you wanted that. And smiths added runes to tools and weapons to add magical powers to them.
While the scale-up is in progress, a non-aggression pact with Russia would be prudent.
What for? Srsly what for? Russia proved they shit on bilateral and multilateral contracts and the Geneva convention. Why should anyone reward them with a NAP?
It's an emergent property caused by multiple storms, the rotation of the planet and 'simple' wave patterns. Even Earth sometimes develop a hexagons caused by jetstreams and ocean currents. But they are way more unstable than the Saturn one.
You don't do much in a kitchen, do you? Make bread slices with a bread knife is much easier than with a chef's knife. Putting butter on a bread is much easier with a butter knife. Also you can't accidentally cut yourself with it.
But keep cutting your cheese with a chef's knife. Everybody chooses their own torture.
And they could lose a lot - their job first, which also means their house and their health insurance. Not to mention plenty of laws criminalizing most protest already, where you are bound to be caught on camera or via other digital surveillance, and a single arrest on your permanent record means no future employment, and missed payments on your credit history means no future economic prospects.
It's astounding you aren't already rioting! People in my country would tar and feder the guy who's responsible for that or anyone who doesn't want to change that.
but the reality is that the country is massive and you need an incredible organizing effort to offer any real, organized resistance.
That's no problem.
The protests that brought down East Germany weren't that much organized at first. People went to the street every monday and that was it. Internet and instant messenger didn't exist back then. Most didn't even had a telephone at home and TV was censored by the state. Children were pretty successful too. The whole worldwide protest grew from a single child.
The USA is big, yes, but the population live in the cities not in between them.
Now you know what to do:
Pick a day and go protest every week on that day in your city. Politics eventually will feel the pressure.
I repeat: Live thrived under much harsher conditions in the past. It will not suddenly die out. I find your pessimism unfounded. I'm sure humankind will exist for at least another millennium.
Ocean acidification will not kill all algae. They existed for much longer than most other forms of live. They survived the +14 °C 300 million years ago, guess how acid the oceans were back then. Also about 300 million years ago oxygen levels in the atmosphere peaked at about 35 % indicating a very strong production by plants. The algae species from back then are still alive today!
+3 °C just means that the average temperature on Earth increased by that on average. There are places where the increase is higher and there are places where the temperature dropped. And then there are other places where the weather will be more violent than it was in the past.
The melting of permafrost in Russia that keeps methane trapped will probably be a problem in the future but that's still several decades or even a century away. The release of methane will not kill us. But it might kill a lot of species.
It's not the temperature that's the problem, it's the rate of change. Flora and fauna can't adapt that fast. 10 000 years would be enough time to adapt to +3 °C but it'll happen within only a 150 years time span.
Humans on the other hand will just install an air con and be done with 'adapting'. Some coastal areas will be flooded and some hot places on Earth will be too hot for humans but everywhere else will stay 'ok'.
Live on Earth will survive. There were times when temperature and atmosphere conditions were way more extreme and even toxic for humans. But the dinosaurs thrived in that conditions!
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