Is there any evidence that the pagers mostly belonged to Hezbollah?

Sometimes I think about new life refilling the earth millions of years from now, like the dinosaurs after the Permian extinction. It sucks to witness a mass extinction but in the long timeline it’s only an instant. Just happens to be an instant my entire life fits inside of

I recently learned a really weird piece of evidence geologists apparently look at: heavy oxygen trapped in rocks. Turns out water with oxygen18 is slower to evaporate than water with the lighter oxygen16, which apparently means that rocks absorb oxygen18 water more readily than oxygen16 water, and therefore landmasses tend to accumulate oxygen18 leaving less in the seas… which means, when geologists find really old sea floor rocks full of oxygen18, it suggests that there was a lot more oxygen18 in the seas back then, which suggests that there was very little dry land to absorb oxygen18, meaning ancient earth might have been a water world, which is what we see in the start of the video.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-with-no-dry-land/

*which also has obvious implications for the origins of life, as the article mentions—none of Darwin’s “warm little ponds”

Mostly by looking at patterns across continents. For example the Appalachian mountains and Scottish highlands were once part of the same mountain range. Geologists were able to figure that out by closely examining those mountain ranges. With enough patterns like that you can start to reconstruct the plate movement.

That was cool, thanks for posting it

often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks

do you have any examples off the top of your head? that’s something I’d like to look into

yeah dude, you too! I wish you luck with it. I’ll tell you that, in the brief moments when I manage to speak and act how I want to and not how I think I should, it feels very exposed, like I’ll get ridiculed at any moment. I think I’ve been trying to fit in my whole life. It’s to the point where, most of the time, I don’t even know how I want to speak and act. I have to consciously stop myself from acting out of habit. It will take practice. I’m treating it like physical therapy, like learning how to walk again after nerve damage.

First time I’ve seen this happen on hexbear

Also, because I mask so hard, if I’m stressed out or events in my life are taking up a lot of mental resources, I find I don’t have enough left over to mask, and I end up avoiding people.

lol yeah me too

I realized recently, had almost an epiphany, that I almost never do or say what I want, but only ever what I think I should. It becomes a problem in writing. I’ve had to write essays and other things where I’ve agonized over wording for hours and allowed my inner self-critic to torture itself over what kind of thing I should write, what kind of tone, wording, structure, all that. With writing, there are so many endless ways to write a sentence or a paragraph or an essay, that it becomes a bottomless problem to reason your way to the right one. At some point it has to be an expression of you, but if your internal self-critic is louder than you are then it can be a challenge.

I’m not convinced they realize the world is a real place

Really interesting article about him, thanks for sharing. Apparently he was an actor, painter, and three-time prison escapee with multiple aliases.

The Guardian article mentions some more stuff about his past:

[Filmmaker Heath Davis] and authors including Mark Dapin had already uncovered stories of Karlson’s prison escapes that are said to include picking the lock cuffing him to a sleeping officer and leaping from a moving train and swimming off a prison island before being rescued by a benevolent fisher.

[…]

“He was some sort of trained actor, he learned that in prison, but he was also a natural showman,” Watt said. “He bluffed his way out of a court in Sydney, said he was a detective, and to do that he must have been a very confident showman … and a bit of a conman as well”.

by “turnaround” he meant the dems regaining the lead over trump after ditching biden. They’ll want to keep that momentum going and avoid bad press, so they might be more willing than usual to meet some demands of pro-Palestine protesters

the ambiguity of “is my post reactionary, and/or just stupid, and/or no one actually read the paper,” where each warrants a different response—do I self-crit? do I shrug because “everyone posts cringe sometimes”? do I defend the paper but risk doubling down on whatever might be reactionary or dumb about it?—is weirdly socially stressful even though I can handle the individual possibilities

Depends on how you define “America.” After you change the government, economic system, culture, and name, it starts to be a Ship of Theseus thing.

The only question left is the borders, but “in a communist world” borders are less important. We might even have overlapping voting regions and sub-regions like a big complicated Venn diagram, depending on the issue at hand. Maybe everyone in the Rio Grande watershed votes on Rio Grande-related issues. If your farming community straddles the watershed divide, maybe half your neighbors vote on Rio Grande-related issues and the other half don’t.

I don’t see a reason to keep the current borders of America, but also, I’m not sure what the borders will even mean.

psychological impacts of upbringing and the way parents assign names

and the psychological impact of whatever subconscious stereotypes people have about your name—like “chad” being a jock name, for example

people get the same result when figuring out if face shape is associated with criminal behavior.

my embarrassment grows lol

it’s literally looking at skull shapes

only adults, not children, showed any face-name correlation, according to the authors. That would rule out skull shape—for whatever that’s worth.

I’m not trying to double down on this goofy study I saw on youtube. I’m just feeling embarrassed and defensive that everyone is shitting on my post. I’m subscribed to a guy named Anton Petrov who summarizes new papers, and I saw this video title and thought “Wait, what?” but when I watched it it seemed to have a plausible angle.

First or last? Did they test each separately?

They said “given name” which usually implies first name

Did they account for factors of name popularity and environmental upbringing during specific periods of time?

looks like it *or at least, they controlled for period of time:

Thus, we ensured that the filler names came from the same pool as the targets and belong to adults of the same age and demographic as the targets.

How is it a phrenology study?

The hypothesis would be that your name can affect your personality, which can then affect your habitual facial expressions, hair, and makeup.

I once had an art teacher whose last name was Doart, pronounced “do art”