Ty for this by the by =) I see it’s teeny-tiny, and that it’s not so much that the soft tissue was found, but that the outline of its internal organs were left on record from lack of compression. I’m not sure how that happened, let alone how someone found such a small thing.
Someone can probably fill me in here. There are always so many wondrous finds coming out of China. I think I once heard why, but I can’t exactly remember why. Is it because of the exposed striations in sandstone faults x difficulty to develop in the desert x lack of humidity x overall mass of area that has given rise to this? I am pretty sure someone can give me a clearer picture here somewhere between a paleontologist or a geologist.
Hot take, and I know that this isn’t everyone’s tippy top. But I have seen so many people who were once kids born to parents with addictions. And I am talking range alcohol, heroin, cigarettes, crack, meth, coke. How about if you know you’re pregnant and you have a child that you would love to see flourish in the best of ways you just idk…eat food - stay away from high-stress situations, stop using the shit you’re addicted to for at least the 9 months you’re pregnant with your kid, and take multi-vitamins. Someone I love to death is dead because their birth defects leading to a premature death all because of cigarettes. I once knew a couple of sisters who were both crippled because their alcoholic mother. Someone I love can’t breathe some days because of a birth defect. Crack babies and heroin babies are fucking INSANE to even comprehend and the people I have seen who have grown up from that have either had a feeling of profound loss in their lives or been up to absolutely no good. Same with the meth kids, and it’s just awful to see kids - who have absolutely no future because their parents are tweakers. It’s like seriously so fucking sad.
I can’t speak on weed, because it’s taboo and while clearly the science is forming - it’s not a solid thing. But I can’t imagine if all these other substances have done reprehensible harm people I love and know - that weed isn’t right up there. Something I can state is that some people can be real assholes when they have to be sober, when they are addicted and that is one thing I know pretty well too. But eh, this is all opinion. I just you know, I can’t comprehend how someone can’t pump the breaks for at least 9 months. It’s beyond me. But also, addiction is ugly and I for sure scrubbed crack out of a bathroom where a single mother was living because I suppose she went in there to smoke it and keep it “separate” from her kid.
I just hate that people always play at weed as being this innocuous thing. But also always say it does need to be legalized, along with all drugs. I am not sure how it’ll work big picture but perhaps we could look to Portugal to get some clues.
Yeah, I talked about that before too somewhere on here. If they tell you to fudge, you fudge because standing up gets you axed.
I mean tbh, if it’s tech from San Fran they actually are super about inclusive. At least any devs I’ve met from there, as it’s sort of woven into the cultural tapestry of the West Coast as a whole (which is funny considering it has had some exceptionally racist policies in the past). I think more so people just don’t realize what might be a thing needed to run the gamut of diversity because the face of STEM itself is relatively one sided in America. Probably just the face of corporate America as a whole, if we were being honest.
Oh for sure, you’re most right! I mean we see it replicated over and over and over again in our society in so many spaces how would the ripples not continue onward into cybernetics. Something I often think about is if it’s not/hasn’t happened to you, you don’t even tend to think about it. And by it, I mean being oppressed in some manner pertaining specifically to something you cannot change. They’re also cannibalizing the middle class. So in the end you really probably will just have the “global” ruling class and the “indignant” and “ungrateful” others who they must charitably coexist with. But I also think it’s like…the concept behind Deus Ex/Snowpiercer (Idk too many SciFi things don’t come at me with pitchforks). So like, sci-fi writers got one up on us.
But I always figure, if you want to remember you’ve been bought and sold as a whole (no matter your class, ethnic background, or gender as long as you’re not the top dog) I always point towards Russell Means Welcome to the Reservation because he proposes that America as a whole is a reservation because just because you think you’re “free” doesn’t mean you actually are free.
Eh! The whole thing gets me sad.
Tech for sure has a race/gender/class issue in America. On a global scale, I can’t say much and I know that tech is global. I also know that Nigeria has a solid tech hub in Lagos. But also know that education in general in Nigeria is brutally competitive and very situationally based.
But to be honest, this has long since been an issue with technology. I know it was fluttered all over the net but people have long since known consumer cameras were made with a certain type of complexion in mind. But hilariously the first time I seen AI x racism talked was via Robin Thede (so a skit show) some odd years back. But capitalism gunna cap, and it’s crazy that people can’t just widen their test range if they’re not going to at least offer a seat at the table.
Holy jam, I saw this and had to comment. So idk about rooting a Motorola because it’s not a “mainstream” Android (as in pretty much Samsung) nowadays. But perhaps Legacy in that situation. But I did have a solution for you if you were interested that doesn’t require rooting (as far as I know). I was goobing around on the internet and found this man who was talking about the perfect minimalist phone. And figured when I gave a shit I would mess around with ADK (I believe it is) and this git-repo. But the lovely Jose Briones apparently also supports this. So give it a check if you want because I remember seeing Motorola explicitly being used in both the OG and the offshoot.
Anyways - less invasive phone while not being totally degoogled and the battery lasts longer. Hope you dig in cause I think you’ll end up really liking it. GL!
I read the whole thing, but I am also getting sleepy so I am not sure if I missed it. But did it say anywhere what directly caused the issue? I kept seeing them point to hormones and in theory (if I read this right) most of the brain returns back to normal post-pregnancy but that pre-dispositions for mental illness might be a cause of them not? And that the empathic network of our brain sort of remains scrunched perminantly? This is a poor summary, but that’s how all I read it.
But the thing I was wondering if perhaps a nutritional deficit causes it? Because I know that forming a new body can be incredibly invasive. But I don’t beleive children are little zombies that siphon brain matter. More so that perhaps that it is a very difficult game to keep up with nutritionally and then long-term malnutirition causes the brain to shrink. But also pain, which I believe I have read shrinks the brain when exposed to an extended time. I know that pregnancy is a series of uncomfortable pains. So perhaps that’s a piece of the puzzle? I am not sure, just spitballing here.
Oh no, freakin’ COVID! I swear it eats up your mind like a zombie - stay strong. Don’t let it winnnnnnn! (And by that I mean rest as much as you can but also eat and drink what you can)
a) Why did I miss the Eartbound and Telltale conversations. Boo!
b) The first Animal Crossing played via the purple purse will always have my heart. It’s the best of the best and I remember staying up wayyyyy to late with my buddies beautifying our town and searching for ghosts. The only other one I ever played was the - wait that was a lie - I have actually played two. The only other one I remember playing was the one on Nintendo DS. A friend tossed me their old DS and my sibling tossed me some games - this included (and Rhythm Tengoku being one of the other ones. I absolutely do not remember any other games. Wait, lied again - I played one with Sudoku). But I didn’t really dig it, or the DS as a whole. I don’t think I like multiple screens for much of anything, and even work on a single monitor to this day. I also clearly don’t love resistive touch screens and felt the little stylus was fiddly and hard to use. But it was more of a game as a whole. Just not for me.
Then covid happened, my gal got a switch and I played the new AC a bit while she ran around as Link. Eh, I literally don’t even remember it. I might have aged out, or it might just be my disinterest in non-turn based games (which is pretty much my bread and butter now because I don’t want a game to be able to dictate how and when I play it). It was much more forgiving than the old stuff. Idk where the HELL the gyroids were - but they might be in the game now. We were in some kind of tropical paradise (I believe!?) which I dug from an islander perspective. But as a whole, just didn’t really care.
But I kind of feel that way about most “cozy” games nowadays. And it’s funny, because I play games to “turn my brain off” so it’s not that aspect. It’s just that I think there’s some weird brain-drain infantilization of the masses and that these games are kinda like the binkies of the brain. But there are some real pros to these types of games as whole. I think they give certain individuals a lot of structure, things to do that make them feel successful, and individuals to form relationships with. Like, give this game to an older individual who’s open to playing them, and I think they’d go ham. Give this game to individuals who have certain qualities that society tends to push to the fringes - and I think it’d also be great. To be honest, Animal Crossing is about 700x less goofy than The Sims - even with its pastel graphics and chibi forms. But a lot of these games as a whole radiate kind of a toxic-positivity that I just don’t vibe with. Especially when we know statistically a lot of developers - let alone GAME developers are terribly depressed.
And like, there’s a light to looking to the bright side - eating potato chips - etc. Like there’s a nice side to getting real basic sometimes. Especially when your brain is on fire (for whatever reason). It’s probably why I play select games repetitively until it’s akin to eating only peanut butter sandwiches 100xs over and get tired of them. You don’t have to learn new systems really, and you’re never truly challenged. Or if you are, because you’re familiar with the mechanics of the game you can just ride the wave - get the dopamine and turn off. But 10/10 I don’t think it’s the healthiest thing to indulge in all the time. But that’s just my opinion and pretty much every Nintendo made game (let alone games like Stardew) have cult followings because they really touch people where they need it.
So it is what it is. But also, on Stardew - I played it a long time ago. I had fun, then I had an okay time, now if you stick me in front of a crafting game of any kind I will burn you at the stick. The original Harvest Moon is/was (eh, debatable) one of my favorite games. It’s cute, but it’s also dirt-brown like a potato. It’s ultra simple, kindness coins bs. I don’t have to see a single portrait of anyone I am talking to. I don’t really even have to give a poop about talking to anyone. I can just farm and care for my grumpy cows and chill. All while cleaning a massive field that I will never fully utilize. By this I am saying - Stardew even is too much for me. It kinda feels creepy to me too. Like it has the secret smugness and hoity-toity crap I hate so much about Seattle. And being the emotional creature I am - if I am not digging something it really takes a lot to sway me in the other direction. But the big picture reason why I put all of this is because I am clearly not the audience of either game in these modern times. So big reason why I wanted to post any of this is to say AC1 - yes! AC++!? Eh.
Sometimes I scrounge around bargain tech and I see a vga port (is that a serial port? I can’t remember) or the green/purple ports for a mouse and a ??? (keyboard???) and I am blown away because I forgot they existed. And do you remember that big fat fuckin’ port that you put a printer on? Cause I remember having to undo, redo, undo, redo that fker a hundred years ago because it never seemed to connect right. But I can’t even tell you WHERE I was messing with that. Maybe a library. I just remember it because it was the size of a harmonica (but not really).
Yes, I was actually going to say this is cedar I think because it looks like a place we rented once and I had no clue the siding was cedar until it got humid and you could literally smell it coming off the place. But also the little birdies would drill into it and live in the walls…which was a first.
p.s. - Do you smell cedar when humid? Cause that’s a huge tip off =P!
Where there was water…? Right?
I don’t think about this little bot very often, but I did want to dig up bits on how it could test for these compounds. I thought perhaps it was programmed to dig up samples, burn them, and then identify them by how they processed (which I literally only thought of due to that Numa gluten meter I know absolutely nothing about chemistry). But I found the starts of what allows it to analyze things (I say the start because even this page is pretty thin). But it looks like it’s through a variety of powerful cameras. At least for the mineral based stuff.
Hahaha, I once wrote this whole take it to the streets thing for a buddy of mine. Cause he had the crazy idea of asking my ass to write him a monologue to do. Prompted some strong ass street justice, and definitely was not mixed-company appropriate (gays x straights). He did some monologue from that Radcliff play instead. Made me laugh my ass off. I love that man, what was he thinking =P!?
TAKE IT TO THE STREEETSSS HAHAHAHAHA!
Absolutely no worries, I am really not a stickler. And the Guardian has brought up some really interesting things as far as I know since reading it. I don’t really mind what anyone links. I was just wondering if anyone has some interesting reads on the subject. I recently found this blog with 5 mammalian-esq reptiles and it was an interesting read. I was just wondering if anyone had some interesting reads on Komodos because I just scrubbed the wiki and love reading stuff on this.
p.s. - MOTHRA =D! I should have named myself Gidora. Hahaha! Jelly, like a donut!
It’s a protest. I mean pride itself is a protest for the rights of the LGBTQA+ So like…what!? When did we stop permitting a wide variety of opinions, ideas and expressions? So freakin’ bananers.
They seemingly tend to crop out gender, socio-economic standings, and ethnicity all of which can alter the data. Although they’re not used I believe due to scope and variability. It is also noted there are external influences which could in theory “fudge” the data. At least as far as I see it. There also seems to be a tie to smoking and alcohol which perhaps links the two risky behaviors together. An abstaining of one, leading to an abstaining in the other. Which leads in part to what others are saying about other health issues not being tracked or noted.
But ultimately I would say addiction, as a disease, is quite abstract. And it’s very social in nature. And that many cultures spread it through coming-of-age rituals. Which makes it difficult to villainize. But also difficult to “pin down” when an activity reaches an unhealthy level. Also people lie. So all of this could lead to fudged data as well.
I’ve got some thoughts that kick up on reading this.
a) Does anyone have some solid reading on this family of lizards?
b) I know a bit about Komodo dragons. I know they tend to eat the dead, and it’s believed they gained their title due to looking like dragons and inflicting deadly toxic bites. It was later analyzed (although this is all from memory) that it wasn’t as if they had actual poison in their mouths, but instead just carried bacterial that would infect the wounds.
c) In reading up (wiki) on their hunting habits (shred and stalk) it actually does sound more akin to some of the smaller Saurischian hunting habits. As I remember reading about some would slash vulnerable parts of their prey and then stalk them until they succumbed to their wounds. But it’s also my understanding that T-Rex had bulbous teeth over these sort of curved like teeth. And acted as a guillotine crushing their prey bones and all over inflicting razor like damage. So I think the article (at least to my understanding) is off the mark there with its comparison.
I know that there are a series of faux-findings. Because I believe I read one in a book…? About chicken bones being used. And I know that there is a black fossil market including fake fossils. But the west went through their own bone wars and it makes me think that perhaps this is just an alternative of that. But I think there are so few great discoveries here in America exclusively by this point on account of everything being so moist and developed (although I know bogs can preserve things). I believe all the latest findings coming out of China are all from a desert portion of the country. And that perhaps being under-developed in that space and perhaps faults being exposed by say…earthquakes or something make the striation more visible which in turn leads to more fossils being detectable? I am not sure though, because I know very little about China as a whole and am not a geologist or a paleontologist.