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Here’s the article from the Smithsonian, it’s hilarious

I'm late to the paleontology drama but my god this is so funny

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

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One of the baristas at a nearby Starbucks makes me lose my mind every time I’m there by saying things that are not outside the spectrum of normal human words but are just slightly off-the-wall.

Barista: Welcome to Starbucks, home of delicious, what deliciousness can I put in motion for you today?

Customer: … Can I get a trenta pink drink please?

Barista: Go big or go home, we here at Starbucks appreciate your commitment, what else can I get started for you?

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Customer: Nitro cold brew with shots of espresso please.

Barista: Brave of you to commit to staying awake for three days, anything else today?

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Barista: *slams open drive-thru window* HI HOW ARE YOU?

Customer: …I’m pretty good.

Barista: Are you ready to be even better? Because you’re about to be. *hands them their coffee* 

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Barista, realizing that a drink was made wrong: *slams open window* SO how do you feel about surprises?

Customer: ….they’re okay.

Barista: Great because I’m about to give you one.

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Barista: You have two drinks so I am going to hand you two straws which means, FANTASTIC news, these straws double as drumsticks. / You have one drink so I am going to hand you one straw and, promise not to tell anyone, this straw doubles as a magic wand.

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Barista: Here are those cake pops, I plucked them fresh from the tree myself.

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Barista: *slams open window, holding drink* Amazing, fantastic, delicious, you are a very lucky man/woman!

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Barista, realizing drink is being delayed or remade: Looks like it’s gonna be just one minute so they have time to put the extra love in.

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Barista: I’ll be with you in one hot second. *beat* WOW that second sure was hot!

Anyway she has a few dozen catchphrases she rotates approriately and it’s both distracting and fantastic to listen.

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sound on

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How to make baseball exciting again

Pure Passions Farm

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I bought these. They’re $15, or $17 if you want a color other than black. They work just fine with my iPhone. I bought them about a year ago when my AirPods crapped out on me. These $15 ones have given me no problems.

“Headphones are too expensive” is a ridiculous excuse. You’re going on a flight - you can spend $15 one time to get a pair of earbuds and not subject everyone else to the sound of the TikTok scroll.

i'm literally begging people to relearn how to use earbuds and headphones. i don't wanna hear your fucking tiktok while im waiting for my flight.

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Having recently binge watched Handmaid’s Tale, Islam would actually have fit much better as the religious backdrop for the society Margaret Atwood came up with.

Gilead “justifies” their handmaid system with the story of Jacob and Rachel, where Rachel is infertile and tells Jacob to sleep with her handmaid. There’s another story where a similar thing happens - Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar.

In Christianity, the lineage of Jesus traces through Judah, who was born to Jacob and Leah, Jacob’s first wife. The lineage also goes through Isaac, born to Abraham and Sarah. In the case of Abraham, God promised that the Messiah would be his descendent. When Abraham slept with Hagar, he was trying to make God’s plan happen outside of God’s design for marriage (one man, one woman). God said no, and instead fulfilled His promise by letting Sarah conceive Isaac.

In Islam, Muhammad’s lineage is traced through Ishmael, the son of Hagar. The story of Abraham and Hagar would be a much stronger justification for a handmaid system for Muslims than the story of Jacob and Bilhah is for Christians.

Given the fact that Islamic societies today frequently discourage or prohibit women from getting an education, driving, etc, they are much further along the path toward a Handmaid’s Tale society than even the most out there Christian church.

Cosplay is easier and more fun!

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I loved your comment on the Hawaiian culture post. It makes so much sense! There are things that need to be done regardless of location and economic system, and so many people just don't get it. And don't get me started on the 6 hour/4 day work week people ....1

Thank you! The distinction in cultural views of work between cultures with relatively consistent weather and those with drastic seasonal changes is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. It tracks with other similar stories I’ve heard about missionary/volunteer groups in Africa trying to teach locals ways to preserve food and build better systems, only for the locals to abandon the improvements or take them down and sell the parts.

There’s also probably an internal/external locus of control factor at play. Hard to know if there’s a causal relationship there, and if so, in which direction.

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I genuinely think it’s actually the difference between your culture developing in the north/south vs near the equator.

Closer to the poles you have to work harder in the warm months to ensure you have food in the cold months. An early frost or late spring can devastate the year’s harvest. Increasing crop yields and storing for the future is essential to survival.

Near the equator, with year-round growing seasons, you don’t have to do that kind of planning ahead.

If you’re struggling to survive, you’re constantly looking to improve the way you do things. You’re developing new techniques, new technologies. Your culture will value that, and even when you get to the point where it’s not quite such a struggle every year, you’re going to still value progress, improvement, and hard work.

So then when you eventually travel close to the equator and meet people who haven’t had to work as hard as your ancestors did to survive, you’re going to see them as “lazy”. Here they are with all this abundance, and they’re not working to build and improve and optimize.

I totally see the appeal of a lifestyle where you are able to do the work you need to and enjoy the rest of your time. It’s just only possible in a somewhat narrow band of the Earth’s surface. And it’s at least partially why the missionaries found the Hawaiians and not the other way around.

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Finally landed. Still a bit before we’re actually home, but at least we’re here safely and our luggage made it lol.

So my flight that was supposed to leave at 5:45 eastern is now leaving at 12:30 am…

So instead of getting home at around 9:30pm I’m getting home close to 4…

Prayers please!