[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 12 points 6 days ago

There is nothing more speculative than evolutionary psychology.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 13 points 6 days ago

My family has been doing this for several generations. My race is so ambiguous and I love it because I can jive with so many ethnic groups.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 38 points 6 days ago

I'm 38 years old and I think I've read a "What We Know About Lucy Is Wrong" article every year.

It's not surprising, of course, because this is the entirety of the fossil. 1000043424

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Scientists may have solved the mystery behind transporting some of the materials to the pyramid site: a dried-up a river

Fixed the title for you.

The construction of the Giza pyramids is still baffling. Some of the stones are purported to weigh 80 tons. That's four or five times more weight than what modern trucks can pull on paved roads.

It's not so farfetched to presume that this ancient civilization employed technology that is lost to time. I'm not talking about aliens and laser beams, but good ol' fashioned mathematics. They could have exploited a principle of leverage and incline that we simply don't understand or recognize. Or perhaps something entirely different from our six simple machines...

The problem with this theory, of course, is that we like to believe that humanity is always progressing and that we are superior to our forebears by default. That is ultimately a subjective opinion.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 75 points 2 months ago

Here's an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:

The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses.

I grew up in Silicon Valley and I can testify what you already know: venture capitalists and tech CEOs are just dumb kids with a lot of money. Many of them landed in their positions by chance alone. We are not obliged to give them more credence than anybody else.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 78 points 4 months ago

I've got a friend from Uruguay who lives in Finland (very similar standard of living compared with Norway) and who recently visited me in America. I can confirm that this article is not satire. He was absolutely shocked to see the amount of homelessness and poverty in New York city and he tried very hard not to talk about the rock-solid financial security available to every citizen in Finland.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 83 points 4 months ago

We could have had Bernie. I can't even imagine how different so many things would have been...

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 71 points 5 months ago

Holy shit! My IP is 192.168.1.1!

What are the odds!?

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I spoke with an American Rabbi the other day who flatly denied that al Nakba, the expulsion of the Palestinians during the formation of Israel in 1948, ever happened. I was shocked. It was like a holocaust denier but in reverse.

As the conversation went on he slyly admitted that "maybe there were only a small number of people living there". He's convinced that the land grab is justified because it's only a few people who were displaced. I asked him if the "small number" of Israelis murdered on October 7th is justified...

It's amazing how our brains are so biased towards selective information and selective history. He was obviously an intelligent man, but he simply couldn't admit the well known history.

I realize now that all of us have this potential to be bewildered if our bodily identities are threatened. It's not unique to Israelis or Palestinians or anyone else. It's a universally human tendency. That's my belief.

Anyway, I love all of my brothers and sisters no matter their ethnicity or religion.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 74 points 6 months ago

It reflects the inevitable result of Modi's extremism. He has been prime minister for too long.

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 80 points 6 months ago

Especially from a Texan newspaper

[-] Haagel@lemmings.world 87 points 7 months ago

Some people don't grow facial hair, my dude

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