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New technology for digitally unfolding history letters.
(I’m @historyb00ks over on TikTok).
Article is here and free to read : Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w
I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane
will never understand the people praying for romance in horizon forbidden west. Im as h*rny as the next girl but there was something so deeply, gutturally satisfying about aloy being surrounded by men in love with her, like truly believing the sun revolves around her, and her response being “???? what??? Im sorry??? God im so busy”
Part of the issue is the fact Aloy is 19 to everyones 26 and up LOL(unless erend is 22). Guerilla made a commitment to making her young and possibly bi and she’s living her young single years.
I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.
The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.
And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.
Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.
this is how vulcans feel about humans
Live fast, die young.
Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in the world beyond her sleepy hometown.
When the biggest mercenary band of all rolls into town, led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam jumps at the chance to sign on as their bard. It’s adventure she wants - and adventure she gets as the crew embark on a quest that will end in one of two ways: glory or death.
It’s time to take a walk on the wyld side.
Genres: fantasy, romance
*this book can be read as a standalone, but it is a sequel to Kings of the Wyld and set 6 years after, follows the daughter of the previous protagonist
squad
Tag urself I’m Plato
fake conversations in your head of you venting to someone
working through trauma by yelling at no one while driving alone
validating yourself by imagining situations where bad things happen to people and you save them
reinforcing trust in your loved ones by imagining situations where bad things happen to you and they save you
Explaining things to your therapist in an imaginary session
Projecting all your trauma onto an imaginary character and imagining others comforting them
Wanting fictional characters to have all the emotional support and physical affection you’ve always wanted
Writing a character that goes through the same troubles as you and give them loving family and friends to help them cope
Another excellent breakdown of the DCM and rebuttal to the dog food making lawyer
As someone who is working pet food retail i think this was officially the event that made me sick and tired of dog food and pet retail. Still not going to trust big business also the fact they in like 2003 UC Davis did research the effects of foods with Lamb and Rice Bran in it and saw an effect on the heart. And pre 2000s they had already linked the legume issue with cats.
We’ll see what happens but honestly I have a feeling it might have to with dogs being fed significantly less than what is on the bag with these grain free foods.
Tesla was eating close to 2x as much as recommended on the bag when she got diagnosed with DCM 🤷♀️ similar with some of the other sports dogs I know who got it.
Interesting, I'm sharing this article with my managers and make note of that when I bring it up again. Sorry about your dog being diagnosed! I've been collecting all the research I can find on the issue because I have customers who are torn on the problem and it becomes harder to find grain based foods that are also LID when the dog has a protein allergy trigger. I personally haven't a had DCM diagnosed to either of my dogs even though I fed a majority of the foods on the list but I also do not exclusively feed kibble or grain free, we mix it up alot.
Another excellent breakdown of the DCM and rebuttal to the dog food making lawyer
As someone who is working pet food retail i think this was officially the event that made me sick and tired of dog food and pet retail. Still not going to trust big business also the fact they in like 2003 UC Davis did research the effects of foods with Lamb and Rice Bran in it and saw an effect on the heart. And pre 2000s they had already linked the legume issue with cats.
We’ll see what happens but honestly I have a feeling it might have to with dogs being fed significantly less than what is on the bag with these grain free foods.
man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!”
because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration
wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front
she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day
it’s legitimately low-effort
the UK literally had so many pet cats killed by cars and dismembered by wildlife between 2014 – 2018 that the country thought there was a cat serial killer on the loose.
and that wasn’t the first time, either – the EXACT same situation played out in the UK in 1990 because so many pet cats were dying in “safe neighbourhoods”
you want more information on your “culture”? cats kill 55 million birds per year in the UK.
do you understand the significance of that? the average background extinction rate is 1 per million species year, and cats have caused SIXTY-THREE extinctions of small animals in the last century. we’re currently in the midst of a mass-extinction crisis occurring at a speed we haven’t seen on this planet before……like, Iove your cat, love your planet, or get the fuck off my post.
Here’s the thing: arousal and drive are not one and the same.
So often, I’m told about a “high drive” dog who is in actuality just frantic.“Drive” refers to focused commitment to a specific goal. A dog who ping pongs from one distraction to another without truly “locking on” to anything is not in drive, she’s simply distracted. Arousal is not drive, and high drive dogs do not necessarily show high arousal or excitement.
Excellent blog post making the rounds on Facebook. So many people, especially agility people, fail to understand that arousal and drive are not the same thing. I didn’t either for a while, I just knew I didn’t like Ryker’s crazy barking before his agility runs and that he was only winding himself up into a frenzy with it. Requiring him to be quiet and focused outside the ring has been tough but it has made him work better. It certainly hasn’t killed his drive. I actually saw someone at the trial this weekend encouraging her dog to stare and bark and get excited by the dog running the course. Really????
This comment sums up my thoughts perfectly:
“Still it’s very hard to convince the handlers in the highest levels of competition that their dogs would be more focused and able to perform better if they learned to control themselves and not bark en scream for half an hour before they had to perform. They think the dog is showing it’s drive, that he want to perform, while in fact the dog is in overdrive and out of control. They still think that that frantic behavior leads to the best results on the course. And that, if they would teach the dog some self-control, the dog will be slower on the course.”
Hi family, I helped write this post on behalf of my friend Miranda who I’m sure most of you know as @blindpandabear. Randa has been in a tough situation for a long time now, and unfortunately her circumstances in New York have reached breaking point. Her landlady has increased her rent again—for frankly a room that is unsafe and dangerous to live in—and Randa can’t afford to continue living there. She’s already going without food for sometimes weeks at a time, and for a healthy person that would already be bad, but with her multiple health concerns, it’s making her disabilities and symptoms much, much worse. As her friend it’s been incredibly worrying to watch her debilitate under the effects of malnutrition and the stress of living in an unsafe situation.
She’s also trying desperately to avoid moving back in with her parents, who have a history of physical and verbal abuse toward her, so her options for seeking out help are limited.
We do however have a chance at moving her in with a friend in Atlanta, who can put her up for a short while in a stable and non-violent situation while she tries to find her own apartment and continue trying to work, but we need to get her out of her current living situation by Sunday the 28th of April 2019 before her rent rolls over into the new month and her landlady tries to slap another fee onto her for not being out by the 28th.
To move her to a safe and viable living space where she wont be in danger from both malfunctioning electrics and dangerous housemates, we need to cover the remainder of her rent for this month, the cost of getting her car serviced to ensure it is road safe, and also hopefully being able to eat food this week too because her bank balance is currently sitting at -$500 from medical costs. We are hoping to raise roughly $1500 to try and cover all this, and while we know times are hard for everyone and we really appreciate that we’re all struggling, any help you could offer toward this goal would be deeply appreciated.
Please only help if you can, and if you can’t please reblog, every little helps. Thank you.
This is insane
holy fuck, this is A LOT
Also that figure is way too low, modern population estimates might be as much as twice that. There were between 25 and 40 million in central Mexico alone, almost as many people in the North Amazon, almost as many in the Andes, and almost as many in the American South. All saw 80 to 99 percent population loss in the period of 2 to 3 generations.
The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.
Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.
That’s not even genocide, it’s apocalypse.
Why are you all omitting the well known fact that it was not purposeful genocide but simply new microbes introduced that no one knew about at that time.
Cuz that’s not true.
Tw genocide, tw violence
When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.
They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.
Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.
The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.
The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.
And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.
Colonizers are not innocent just cuz the germs did a lot of the work of the apocalypse.
(tlaxcallān had a democratic form of government)
So my friend’s kid has celiac and dyslexia and reading labels is difficult for them (also they’re like 7) so he’s teaching their pigeon, Grey Boy, to read the labels and identify ingredients with gluten. It’s going well, other than Nick thought it would be a good idea to make the behavior when the pigeon does find a bad ingredient to just fucking…wing slap the box. Just beat the shit out of it like, “no! BAD gluten! BAD!”
I see a lot of “they taught a pigeon to read?” comments and thought I’d explain a bit more.
So it’s not really like their friend’s pigeon now knows how to read. He’s not going to be terribly interested in a novel you hand him (unless he decides it looks like a good nest.) However pigeons are remarkably good at pattern recognition, especially visual patterns. They out-perform humans when it comes to things like identifying artwork/distinguishing between different artist’s works. So it is pretty easy for them to recognize a visual arrangement of ink, such as a printed word, and be taught to respond to that particular pattern. So when looking at an ingredient list the pigeon learns to pick out the specific pattern(s) he’s been taught to react to among the other patterns (words.)
So he sees “wheat” and doesn’t read it the way humans do (w-h-e-a-t spells wheat), but rather sees the arrangement of pigment that he has been trained to slap. So he slaps it.
He will have to be taught every single gluten containing ingredient for it to be super useful, but it is definitely possible, which is super cool! Plus it makes a little kid’s life easier, and enriches Gray Boy.
Skinner did experiments with pigeons that showed how a pigeon can learn to respond to a visual pattern cue, if your interested more in the science behind it.
