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Studies show how the giant statues on Rapa Nui were made and moved—and what caused the island's deforestation Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues—the moa...

Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong.

Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived.

And they were nothing like "primitive"

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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

My wife uses www.librarything.com , but I don’t know how social it is.

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

My latest piece @thenation.com is the loving, heartfelt tribute you've been waiting for: "Real American Scumbag: Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions

Jay Walker poster

Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK.

One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge:

“It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.”

Except… it doesn't. 🧵

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

“It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do.”

meme of Pam from the office television show looking at a photo of a cybertruck from behind and another photo of an open dumpster, text reads CORPORATE NEEDS YOU TO FIND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS PICTURE AND THIS PICTURE and Pam replies THEY'RE THE SAME PICTURE

Worth reading

This is a must-read and is also the first comprehensive post mortem I’ve read working off the vote cast data (which is the real deal) as opposed to the dubious exit polling.

i don't think millennials and gen xers "feel like sellouts" I think authors think the job of "writing the book" is an entire fucking job and marketing it is a second entire fucking job and doing the first means you shouldn't also be expected to do all of the second

Thank you. And us carriers just continue to suffer using vehicles that are over thirty years old!

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Mariam Webster definition of Kakistocracy - “government by the worst people”

Learned a new word today - thanks @joyannreid.bsky.social

If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called

Just a reminder: Sen. JD Vance sent a letter to DOJ demanding that Kagan be criminally investigated for writing the column below.

He wanted a journalist criminally investigated. For writing a column. Fascist Teddy Ruxpin then had the gall to wax about censorship at the VP debate.

Trump meets execs from Bezos-owned Blue Origin BY JONATHAN COOPER After he spoke in Austin, Trump greeted executives from Blue Origin, the space exploration company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Bezos is the founder of Amazon and the owner of The Washington Post, which reported Friday that its editorial board won’t endorse a candidate for president. The decision was framed as a return to earlier tradition, but it sparked speculation that Bezos wants to avoid antagonizing Trump, who has vowed retribution against his enemies and critics if he returns to the White House.

What we know:
- The Washington Post editorial board agrees to endorse Harris.
- The endorsement article is drafted by the Post team, ready for print.
- Trump meets Bezos’s team in Austin.
- Bezos orders WaPo publisher Will Lewis to scrap the Harris endorsement and instead endorse no candidate.

I am exactly 38 years old and this is exactly correct. They killed AIM. They killed MSN Messenger. ICQ is a twitching corpse. IRC is a zombie. Geocities, Yahoo!, all my vBulletin and phpBB forums — gone. Twitter’s death is just one more.

A stack of VHS movies, where the movie Cocoon is set upside down, so it looks like it reads “NOOOOO”

My son asked why is there a movie called “NOOOOO” 💀💀💀

well technically anything can carry 551 amps, once

decaf Noun as in coffee Strongest matches Caffeine cappuccino espresso Strong matches Brew decoction demitasse ink java mocha mud perk Weak matches Battery acid café café Au lait café noir forty weight hot stuff jam Ochoa joe varnish remover

Don’t use thesaurus dot com anyway, they switched from a human generated thesaurus to an AI generated one about a year ago. You can really tell on words like “decaf” where the words used are associated with decaf (coffee words) but are actual antonyms.

this is how they covered an identical situation when trump was president. have you seen a single article about any economic subject at any point in biden's presidency that had this tone? a single one?

if not, why not? who makes those decisions and who benefits from them?

Yes, I’m doing well! Hope you and Voss and the kiddo are all doing great as well!

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

Alien Theories xkcd.com/2953

“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.

I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard

Mine got filtered to junk (gmail, but accessed in iOS Mail app)