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They're far worse.

A Nepali woman said shipping a monk was weird and offensive to Buddhists. The Aang/Katara shippers responded by sending her death threats, but ok. 🫩

Reminder that Aang/Katara shippers are demons.

Rightists uphold social hierarchies which is why they are incapable of adequately criticizing the failings of capitalism. They constantly distract from class wars by shifting the attention to culture wars.

I despise the glorification of Bhutan in the Western media. It is frequently described as the "happiest nation in the world" and depicted as an isolated Buddhist paradise. I never see any discussion about the racism Nepalis in Bhutan endure, such as the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Lhotshampa.

What’s wrong with evolutionary biology? - Biology & Philosophy There have been periodic claims that evolutionary biology needs urgent reform, and this article tries to account for the volume and persistence of this discontent. It is argued that a few inescapable ...

I keep finding myself suggesting this brilliant paper by John Welch, about why pointless debates in evolutionary biology + behavioural ecology. Maybe it is easiest if I just repost it here every so often?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A 🧵 about the recently published discovery of a sabre-tooth kitten, including some personal reflections and thoughts on its age...

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I can't believe there are still people who believe in the Altaic languages hypothesis.

US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.

This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Snow capped mountains, calm lake, local houses

John Singer Sargent showed his talent early. Here are watercolour sketches he made during his family’s trip to Switzerland, when he was only 14

Many people rightfully dislike Kataang because Katara serves as both Aang's mother figure and love interest in the story. As a Tibetan Buddhist, I have an even deeper loathing for the ship and its fandom for being highly disrespectful toward my culture and religion.

Oxford’s Word of the Year Is ‘Brain Rot’ A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”

“Brain rot” has been named 2024 Word of the Year by the Oxford University Press.

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"65,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘tar factory’ found in Gibraltar cave"
archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nean...