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Pile of brick & tree trunks

Side scan sonar image of a lost cargo of historic brick on the bottom of the Waccamaw River in South Carolina (Barr, Green, Bastian & Wilbank 2012). #archaeology #sonar

02.03.2025 00:08 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You can still see this clearly online today. The more general the audience, the worse the behavior, even within the same modern social media platforms. E.g. the extremely general /r/pics subreddit vs the extremely niche /r/flytying. Toxicity is a direct function of topic focus and subscriber count.

01.03.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love the beaver. Worship the beaver. Praise be to the beaver.

27.02.2025 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a Florida resident, between people driving like psychos, and every single road and intersection seemingly designed to maximize opportunity for crashes and pedestrian fatalities, it's kind of a miracle this number isn't even higher. It's certainly nothing we're doing, that's for sure.

26.02.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Screenshot from a Spongebob Squarepants episode with the city on fire and Spongebob saying "We did it Patrick! We saved the city." Text above the image says "Florida celebrating that traffic fatalities have decreased when they're the same as they were in 2019 and higher than in 2010:"

Everyone wants fewer deadly crashes, and any decline in fatalities is good news. But before we declare victory, we have to ask a crucial question: Is this decline real? Or is it simply a return to pre-pandemic conditions, misattributed to policy changes?

25.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 54    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

You know the old saying about lies, damn lies, and statistics. They say the data is from JATO Dynamics, but that's a closed source automotive market analytics firm, so where their numbers are actually coming from versus where they claim (dealerships, online sales) is difficult to say.

26.02.2025 00:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This whole thing reminds me of 40k, where tech use has devolved into ritual and the why lost to time. "Strike the first rune upon the engine's casing employing the chosen wrench. Its tip should be anointed with the oil of engineering using the proper incantation when the auspices are correct."

25.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh man, that's going to be super annoying. Couldn't they at least stick some landsat mosaics on there? It's better than nothing...

24.02.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Most kids experience school as a place where only the grades and tests really matter. The core of our education system was created in the 19th century and it shows. Until we redesign it to reward curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity as much as grades, kids will keep gaming the system.

23.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I definitely have more than a hundred, but most of them kind of suck, and I only have the ability to execute on about half of one anyway. Even less now that some wild orangutan is messing with all the funding. Yay science (?)

23.02.2025 04:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0