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  • So weird that my body just decided “Nah, Im good with dairy products” all on it’s own.

    That’s actually the normal way your body is supposed to be. Most mammals lose their tolerance a little after they are weaned. Only some portions of humans retained lactase in their guts, generally groups that were pastoralists retained lactase and other groups didn’t. It’s why most east asian don’t have lactose tolerance but Mongolians, some Sub-Saharan Africans, and Europeans do.









  • It’s used for both in English.

    So retard can mean “to slow something down” or it can mean “a mentally deficient person”

    The second usage is considered offensive and for that reason it’s not normally used in speech except for scientific descriptions of something slowing down.

    Im Deutschen: Es wird im Englischen für beides verwendet.

    „Retard“ kann also „etwas verlangsamen“ oder „eine geistig behinderte Person“ bedeuten.

    Die zweite Bedeutung gilt als beleidigend und wird daher im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch normalerweise nicht verwendet, außer in wissenschaftlichen Beschreibungen von Verlangsamungen.