To be fair, there is evidence for people of ancient civilizations traveling far afield from their homes. Indigenous North Americans were known to traverse the continent for trade or just to join a different group.

There’s a clear bias toward European civilizations in archaeology that is only very recently and in small ways being challenged. Consider that until the Hokulea sailed in 1976 archaeologists and anthropologists thought that Hawaiians came to Hawaii from South America on a raft because “no one could navigate the Pacific on a sailboat using star maps.” Prior to 1960 it was assumed that Columbus was the first European to reach the Americas, when the Norse had reached Canada 500 years before Columbus.

I’m not saying this person is correct or even sane, but it’s far from absurd to believe that there was communication and trade between distant civilizations before the advent of modern travel and communications technology.

Is there a non-infowalled version? WaPo asks for email even on a gifted article.

I really wish this didn’t need to be clarified every few days. Thanks, zionists and white supremacists!

Dave Chapelle had a whole bit about this before he decided to double (and triple, and quadruple) down on transphobia. He makes the very salient point that these things are delicious.

Melon with something savory is a widely popular choice. See: honeydew with prosciutto/parma ham and cantaloupe/honeydew with tajin (Mexican mix of savory spices.)

It’s always a “laugh to keep myself from screaming” moment when I hear some free market ghoul quote Adam Smith as though Smith would support anything those monsters believe in.

Yet another reason to avoid this absolutely unnecessary spectacle.

The “THIS IS A DEEPFAKE VOICE” label really helps human brains tell that it’s a deepfake voice.

Yeah, that’s the wrong word. “Extracted” or “looted” or “stole” are all more appropriate.

Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.

2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.

3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.

None, because seeing a four minute unskippable ad halfway through a two minute video would make me go apoplectic.

Depends on a number of factors. A ton of companies have moved to web based tools for a big chunk of their workforce. If those web apps are more or less standards-compliant you could pull it off with minimal retraining.

Bacon sausage eggs hash browns. Easy.

My best read on that phenomenon is that a few people took the discussion from Clerks a little further and started arguing as a joke that the empire were just trying to establish order as. They started r/EmpireDidNothingWrong, where irony-poisoned kids began taking the joke seriously, just like the people who legitimately believe the whole “birds aren’t real” theory.

It’s not saying “do something,” it’s saying “stop supporting the evil empire in real life.”

Considering what I know about Alan Moore I’m 50/50 on thinking this literally happened or is just a useful metaphor.

Counterpoint: I did not watch Divergent.

I want to be a mouse rabble rouser building mouse-scale guillotines.

I’ll bet USD$20 that someone in the Danish health ministry embarrassed themselves eating this stuff and is covering their ass by demanding a recall.

I like swapping them out but I wouldn’t do it all at once and I’d implement term limits that put them outside of a two-term president’s reach. I like 13 year Supreme Court terms because it’s a prime number and it would keep any one president from naming more than one or two justices.