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Big goof that's a *paleolithic handaxe, not neolithic.

There's a Medieval French painting the MELUN DIPTYCH that shows a neolithic hand axe. St. Stephen holds it on a book. It's quite detailed, so the painter probably saw one someone found.

Sort of related

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I do... Too many typos....

*Khara Khoto

The wiki picture for Khara Photo, the Lost City of the Xia dynasty, destroyed by the mongols, and explored in 1907 by Potanin and Obruchev looks exactly like you think it should.

Why yes, this is certainly where 2000 Tangut manuscripts were found.

Love to go to work before the sun is up and leave after the sun has set

Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit.

Great essay arguing that Kirk is not a ho, and how changes in American masculinity ended up changing our interpretation of Kirk over time as the 60s became the 80s

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Wouldn't India be like the big exception here? And I suppose brazil the other way. Interesting to think about

Build trams. But build them well. Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.

I wrote a thing.

Build trams, but build them well.
Understanding what tramways are, what they do best and how to employ them.

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Is there a report going over the predicted effects of the St. Lawrence Seaway vs actual effects? IIRC the expected traffic didn't really appear? I know they rebuilt Lake Calumet with slips for SLS traffic that never appeared...

IIRC it shows up in some high school upper level math classes?

fiveable.me/ap-stats/uni...

It is a bit odd that "worrying about AGI soon" and "worrying about demographics collapse" are correlated among the online set? Like, surely AGI soon then the other doesn't matter. And yet you have to be a very hardcore AGI-Soonist to not also post about demographics for some reason

America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Surprisingly common. Everyone (including the coupists) felt vaguely embarrassed by the overthrow of the Brazilian empire. To a large extent it happened because the emperor was tired and sexist (didn't want a daughter to inherit) and didn't put up a fight.

I think it's meant to be gibberish swedish since that's where Ghibli did their inspiration trips

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Breaking out several thousand pages of environmental reports to figure out if this is really in keeping with Peltola's Pro-Fish agenda [unironic it's all controversial]

IMO it's that they assumed that the house proposing the budget would give it power of the purse, but it turned out that needing the Senate to ratify and giving the Senate more powers made it vastly more powerful

Also they were very tired in un air conditioned Philly summer! The presidency was the last thing the convention got to and they threw up their hands. They assumed the House would be the most powerful body, lots of mistakes

A lot of film series shifted into some high concept SF/F series obsessed with continuity but it's hard to draw parallels with politics
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO

A lot of film series shifted into some high concept SF/F series obsessed with continuity but it's hard to draw parallels with politics
Was the response to 08 and Obama parallel to F&F going to space and thinking about legacy? Not really IMO

People point to the sudden post 9/11 Bourneification of JANES BOND or BATMAN the 90s/00s line, but it's not much of a genre shift. Things get more violent?

But what the hell do the F&F or MI series say about their times? Hell, or Marvel?

Rambo I (after effects of the Vietnam war, psychotic small town sheriff paranoia)
Rambo II (guns guns guns)

Hard to think of a 90s/00s pair. Or an 00s/10s pair

Cuellar appears to have immediately refiled to run as a Dem

So lol all around

xcancel.com/birenbomb/st...

National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down Issue CHOCOLATE CITY—After months of ceaseless debate, including last week’s record 76-hour filibuster slap-bass solo from Senate Rubber Band Minority Leader Bootsy Collins (D-OH), the National Funk Congres...

I waited my whole life for this joke on Parliament Funkadelic

theonion.com/national-fun...

She was a RW intellectual from a very conservative farming family in the central valley. Also she had good taste. Rare combo in American life these days

In a world of 8 Billion is 450k that much? I mean yeah sort of, but also no. Outsider art is harder to define in our world

I was trying to figure out if animal dung usage for fuel is decreasing and even that's not clear. It doesn't seem to be broken out from broader "biofuels" very much which is increasing

Interesting observations that in S Europe, landowners in general could overpower the planners and allow for higher densities for new greenfield apartment areas

Why the West was downzoned In the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?

Good article looking at the "great downzoning" of the 20th cent. as a global effect. IMO it's right that this was mostly landowners cartelizing — I would also point out that the reason this happened at the time was the state developing enough to enable it.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-the-wo...