NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
ONLY WANNA FILL YOUR HOG AND CRANK IT
I find it pretty amazing how someone figured out how to make cassava edible. It's got enough cyanide to kill you unless it goes through some complex process of mashing and boiling. Who thought to themselves "this killed Greg, but maybe it'll be delicious if I boil it for a little longer"?
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantor
Tantor is a generic name for elephants in Mangani, the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of Tantor, most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes and in the 1999 Animated Walt Disney film he is a red African Forest Elephant and friends with the ape Terk.
Oh good, California will have two functional senators again
Yeah he's bullshitting about this, but I applaud him taking the stand. He'd earn the Guinness Book of World Records award for fastest perjury ever.
There's a whole series of these. Not sure where the trail ended, but here's one of the iterations of this site:
Here's a recent HN thread about the objects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937540
Metalworker status symbol seems compelling, as it explains several facts about them, and the knitting angle could be a chicken vs egg situation. Either knitters found an existing and relatively common object to be useful for their needs, or knitting is older than we think and the need for these tools drove metalworkers to decide that a hard-to-make tool was a good status symbol. Or maybe it's both/and, with both needs influencing each other. I can easily imagine some metalworking culture deciding that this hard-to-make tool is a good status symbol, and they eventually turn it into something that's not actually useful for the original purpose, but works great to show off.
It was actually Sonic
Yeah, what a piece of shit. It's nice that what he's doing now happens to be the right thing, but it's not because of ethical reasons.
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