Hegar

This is such an elegant observation.

Fahrenheit is demonstrably better for describing temperature as experienced by a human.

It’s just not though. F uses a wider range of numbers to describe common outside air temperature, but more numbers =/= better.

I’ve lived in both F and C countries and farenheit is not easier, more intuitive, more sensible or better in any way. A number is a number. The extra precision of F is not super useful - no one can really feel a 1F difference. The freezing point of water does make a huge difference, so knowing above/below zero C is useful, but above/below 32F is no harder.

This argument that F is somehow more suitable for human temperatures is something you see online, but as someone comfortable with both i can say there is functionally no difference, except that metric is compatible with the rest of the world.

Ok but how does it look from the other side?

Sure yep, that also seems unlikely 😆

Yeah for sure, that’s all possible. Or eden could just be an idealized dream of an agricultural society and not a historical memory at all.

Green Sahara/Desert Sahara is a cycle that happens.

I’ve heard people try to claim the garden of eden is a memory of the green sahara, but that’s not provable.

I also heard it has an effect on animal evolution - the desert acts as a wall, seperating north and south, then goes green and the two regions’ life mingle and compete for a while until it desertification seperates them to evolve independantly of each other until the next green phase.

The US also doesn’t label alcohol content effectively - % alone is not helpful.

In Australia for example, all booze containers tell you how many “standard drinks” they contain. 1 standard drink is the average amount of alcohol a body can process in an hour. If you have no more than 1-2 standard drinks in you, you should still pass a breathalyzer, depending on weight/gender.

A ~5% beer can is ~1.5 standard drinks. So if you drank 4x beers over the last 3 hours, best spend another hour drinking water before you drive:

4 beers x 1.5 = 6 standard drinks. - 3 hours = 3 standard drinks

My parents’ terrier would give in to this dark urge all the time.

Sometimes we have to wake up and throw a tennis ball for her. She’d grab the ball and keep barking for ages, but at least that way it was like a trumpet with the mute in and we could all get back to sleep.

The whole island has less than 10k people. They’re not cities, they’re villages with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comment is comedic hyperbole, alas.

Ok, firstly, those aren’t cities. That’s an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we’ve got the scale right.

Specifically, that’s christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced “kirismas”. So that’s probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation (“kiribas”) underneath that.

A musician i know with a french name often publishes under QTN so anglos pronunce it properly rather than say que-teen.

Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That’s the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.

For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we’d expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.

Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Just drink stovetop espresso made from decent beans.

It’s not true though, so it doesn’t need an explination

There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don’t. It was just nonsense.

His behaviour is televised daily and has been for over a decade. Most of the world has seen his mental decline. It’s obvious in his speech and actions.

People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn’t think they would but 🤷

Solo is not an independant mercenary. Solo is a beefy heavy gun type.

It comes the tabletop rpg. If you make a combat character who’s powerful enough to solo the enemy with minimal help from the rest of the party, that’s a solo. Rocket launchers, HMG, weapons with kinda broken rules, heaps of hit points, etc.

Shhhhhh!

I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like “eco-fascist” are.

Anyone sane understands that “be gay do crime” is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.

Similarly “killing people makes nature alive” obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).

That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman’s mind.