The Youtuber Brandon F has a 4 part series talking about why they fought like this. Spoiler- it wasn't because they were stupid.

Part 1

TLDR- if you split up you just get run down by enemy cavalry.

Part 2

TLDR- a close formation lets you concentrate your firepower at one point.

Part 3

TLDR- a close formation makes communication and controlling the army much much easier (or even possible at all).

Part 4

TLDR- the formation makes the troops less likely to run away.

TIL not everyone uses a duvet (also TIL that that thing's called a duvet). That's really surprising to me, so some people just use the blanket directly? What do you do when it gets dirty, they're really hard to wash?

While this is funny, I'm pretty sure it isn't real (or it was intentionally written poorly)- It doesn't make any sense in Chinese either, and most people in Hong Kong know English at least somewhat.

The technology behind it isn't new, but The Thought Emporium is a Youtuber who:

1: DIY-d a genetically modified virus to cure his own lactose intolerance (successfully)

2: Is currently working on a biological computer that runs on animal neurons.

3: Has livestreams where the viewers submit ideas (like making tomatoes spicy) and he designs DNA to accomplish it.

Also he helped shut down a scam health product that contained radioactive material which isn't particularly futuristic (actually it reminds me of the "radiation is good for you" craze in the early 20th century) but I wanted to mention it anyways.

Oh nice, good to see r/conservative doing their absolute best to get people to avoid Reddit.

Nope, sauropods were already right up against the limit of what's physically possible for a land animal on Earth. If they were that chonky they would have been too heavy and would have overheated just from their body heat.

I mean this seems like an easy answer to me no? People in the past wouldn't suspect you're from the future, they'd think you were posessed or something. People in the future would be much more likely to think of time travel, plus they'd have records of old accents and stuff.

They're not contradictory. All other headsets' passthrough is just so bad that even though the Apple headset isn't good it's still way ahead of them.

That seems very precarious to me, I'd be constantly worried about nudging it and dropping the cups.

Aww that's a shame, the real Neptune looks really dull.

I thought this was going to be some math thing, turned out to be so much more straightforward.

I was curious about Alert's name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it's cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.

There are also some ants that farm certain types of fungus! It's really cool.

Hydras as well!

Motorsports have no defensive player and do not involve much physical movement (unless you count the car's movement).

Giving a cat a bath involves a defensive player (the cat) and significant physical movement (depends on the cat's mood).

It really depends on accent. For me, half of these sound very different.

A similar thing I've run into where a feature that usually wouldn't get activated much gets in the way because of games making you input weird patterns is the Windows language swap hotkey, alt-shift. I play a game that uses alt and shift a lot, and involves quite a bit of typing, so I kept getting confused why my language was suddenly different. Took me ages to find out why.

Yep when I first joined I thought it stood for main Instance.

Huh interesting. Here in Hong Kong there's a snack that is exactly that. It's basically the exact same thing as ramen, but it's meant to be eaten directly out of the bag and the seasoning is already mixed in.

Nope, smoothbore muskets were/are much more accurate than most people think, here's a video of someone shooting at targets with one, and they were able to hit a man-sized target out to 150m. By modern standards it isn't great but definitely not "flying all kinds of directions".