Growing up in a Reagan household in the 80s it was EXACTLY the same with Nixon

i think everybody who wasn't an adult in 2006 is unprepared for how fast and how totally they're going to pretend trump never existed

more things should be wracked with more things

Patch of grass between a building and a parking lot. There are four bunnies on the grass.

It's a party

Birthright Citizenship and Youth Crime - Marginal REVOLUTION This paper studies the impact of birthright citizenship on youth crime. We leverage a German reform which automatically granted birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born in Germany af...

Germany began automatically granting birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born after 1/1/00. Study finds that "immigrant youth who acquired citizenship at birth are substantially less likely to engage in criminal activity, with estimates indicating a 70% reduction in crime."

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need a site that summarizes all AI news as "you're paperclips now" or "you're not paperclips yet"

don: how did you create the world?
ialdabaoth: we took sparks of the Pleroma, shattered them, tortured them, individualized them --
don: there you go. the Material: It's Individualized!
ialdabaoth: but matter just creates suffering!
don: no, the _Pleroma_ creates suffering. you create individuality

2400 Year Old Toy Bird * A recreation YouTube video by Kiera-Oona's DIY

Yay! How to make him:
youtu.be/-9mn42BLk9s?...

Pazyryk Swan: A 2,400-year-old plush swan from Siberia tied to the 'creation of the universe' Archaeologists think the felt figurine was used as a symbol of life by the Iron Age people of the region.

5th or 4th century B.C.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

Two sea lions swamping a small boat

Only in Puget Sound, Olympia, Washington:

A pair of Stellar Sea Lions, weighing in at at least one ton total weight, commandeer a small sailboat
📸Dane

A yellow catfish laying his head inside a brown ceramic tube in an aquarium with black sand and plants.

When life gets hard, enter a TUBE

this is an incredibly sketchy story and so far all the people involved in breaking / spreading it are deeply unreliable sources

In addition, Hugg was recorded discussing how nuclear launch decisions are made in real time and stated that while the US has no plans to use nuclear weapons, saying, "We're not going to nuke anybody." He also described how the United States could target Iran's next leader, saying, "If he [Mojtaba Khamenei] doesn't change his ways, yeah, they're going to kill him." The footage also captured personal remarks directed at the undercover journalist, including, "The easiest way to get intelligence...send a pretty girl," and "Your eyes have mesmerized me so much...Almost like you're an intelligence."

This is really cool and funny because North Mexico has been struggling with a series of Measles breakouts and it is presumed that they’re largely a result of transmission via USA along with the mennonite colonies which, by no coincidence, travel regularly to the other side of the border.

Federal Judge Breaks Trump’s Permitting Blockade The opinion covered a host of actions the administration has taken to slow or halt renewables development.

NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)

the only logical reason for the Trump administration to bring this case is that doing so will necessarily reveal the identities of informants who have been spying on white supremacist hate groups and turning information over to the SPLC.

the Stats 101 answer to "how well can you predict something heteroscedastic that you cannot randomly sample and where sample is well predicted by the outcome being measured" is "badly"

the advanced statistics answer is to locate alcohol

thinking serenely about a coughing Army cook at Camp Funston, Haskell, Kansas, on March 4 1918.

I think we will get more work done if we reassign two-thirds of the Research Ways To Work More Efficiently guys to just doing the normal work the normal way

Show me the 2, baby. Show me the post-Katrina 2. Papa needs a new party system!

You can have a happy ending in which the Minions finally discover there's a level of evil even *they* get fucking spooked by and wind up, by some bizarre misadventure, in the town of Yorba Linda, California.

There, they form a fast friendship with a poor Quaker boy.

Sorry vibecoders, the only "OpenClaw" I care about is the failed grappling claw the CIA built into the Hughes Glomar Explorer for their attempt to salvage the soviet submarine K-129 from the floor of the pacific ocean as the classified Project Azorian.

"the weed pen that earns crypto also gambles for you" this device makes a large majority of men obsolete

The Communist Manifesto was effective because, among other reasons, Marx and Engels were commissioned to write it by an active, international body of communists. They were giving voice to a movement; they weren't just spouting off.

An orange white and black calico cat named Rainbow greeting CC, who is in that late kitten stage, and is a tabby calico, no orange. They sit on a conference table, and Rainbow looks like she's about to either groom or bite CC.

The first cat to be cloned was a calico female named Rainbow (left).

The clone, produced at Texas A&M University in 2001 was named "CC" for Carbon Copy or CopyCat (right).

Notice something odd about the "identical copy"?
Not very identical is she?
But they *are confirmed* genetically identical.

The Iran War Is Changing How Millions of People Cook — And What They Eat Across Asia and Africa, the cooking gas shortage is emptying menus, driving people to coal and wood, and fueling a booming black market.

People began hoarding gas cylinders, and in the Delhi area, prices skyrocketed by 600 percent. Some people stood in line for three or four days to get LPG cylinders.

With his own supply running low, Kapoor had little choice but to turn to the black market.

www.thexylom.com/post/iran-wa...

Report details tetanus in 4 unvaccinated US kids, including refusal of post-exposure prevention

Remember the unvaccinated boy who contracted tetanus in 2017, hospitalized for months at a cost of almost $1M? The boy who was a patient of (former) antivax doctor Paul Thomas?

He's not the only recent case. 4 kids, unvax'd, none received immunoglobulin when symptoms developed. Those poor kids.

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