Did you, like, intentionally read around the stuff you didn’t like?

Not everything, especially concerning ancient human societies, has to boil down to “religion bad.” Until fairly recently (in the grand scheme of our existence) religion and the supernatural was how all people alive understood the world.

> The Aborigines named the mountain Wingen, which means 'fire'. Their explanation of the origin of the burning mountain was that one day, a tribesman was lighting a fire on the mountainside when he was carried off deep into the earth by The Evil One. Unable to escape, he used his fire stick to set the mountain alight, so that the smoke might warn others to keep away.

He is literally carried into the mountain by an evil spirit and lights the mountain on fire to warn others of the spirit’s presence. The complete opposite of your understanding.

TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago, because that's which is when clothing lice diverged from head lice.

I’m no copy editor, but I do think this reads a little easier.

This article could’ve been 20% the length if it didn’t repeat itself on every point five times and offer the anonymous author’s useless opinions lmao.

For anyone who doesn’t want to read the same shit over and over: Carl Pei, whose job title is never stated but I’m assuming founder/CEO, says that the Nothing Phone (2) will ship in the US because the Nothing Buds moved 1/3 of their entire volume in the states and they don’t want to miss out on that market.

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I loved that episode as a kid. I don’t know why, but I distinctly remember finding it ridiculous that they would still be using the format of “Big Brother” that far in the future lmao

I do not hate the idea of a public counterweight to big tech, nor the sort of gimmicky presentation.

I guess it isn’t a gimmick if it’s the first time, it’s just novel.

I do have serious concerns about the public counterweight to big tech being utilized for nefarious purposes by the government, but federal investment has historically driven huge leaps in technologies. The landscape is extremely different now with private tech ostensibly representing the bleeding edge, but I think access to a hub for publicly funded educational institutions would be enough of an incubator to spur real innovation.

This field is not going anywhere, and I think investing in it now is extremely wise.

We already collaborate extensively with the Israelis, I’m sure their inclusion is as much to secure more science-spending adverse representatives as it is to offload some of the cost burden. Not to mention the obvious intelligence implications.

Poor guy, I still can’t believe that Steve Jobs stole the design for the iPhone from him right before Santos invented the Italian language.

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