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Yeah, they always do a great job catching bugs (mostly ants, which is great). For me, it’s the water, light, and temperature situation.
I get one maybe once every two years, forgetting that they always die when in my possession. I’m also fascinated by them, but my experience personally is that they’re hard to keep alive.
which is pretty mid tbh,
Awaw! Deep space nine starts slow and then goes incredibly hard. It ends with massive geo political intrigue, heavy religious/spiritual challenges, and lots of other wild philosophical stuff. I’m no tv fan, but I’d recommend anyone hang in for the final seasons of DS9. It’s also kind of the anti-startrek Star Trek show for obvious and not-so-obvious reasons alike.
Also, not sure by this post if you enjoy the character Quark or not, but his family (admittedly campy) becomes a really cool part of the show. My ethnically Jewish wife is still convinced the Ferengi are supposed to be racist depictions of “space Jews,” and if I remember right, even she really digs all of Quark’s family members’ character arks.
Oh hey, so did you get to/dig “Darmuk?”
There was a collection under my Christmas tree this year. It’s a wonderful collection in addition to how well each individual edition is put together!
I know they’re always bragging about how cnn does these features on how bad they are, so they’re turning someone’s head.
My wife is actually doing the Tuttle twins American history curriculum with our two oldest (7&9) right now. Before a two week winter break, they just finished their presentation on the glorious revolution as background to the American revolution.
There’s a cartoon that’s based on the Tuttle twins characters that was our gateway drug, and we found out about that because they did a Bitcoin episode. To this day, I would argue that any kid over the age of five that has seen that episode has a better understanding of Bitcoin than the average adult American.
Thanks! There’s no way to collect sats, just use them to pay for things. I do have a 1000 sat bounty out for incorrect non English words in https://turtlewordgame.xyz/ but the game itself costs 100 sats after the first daily game. Here’s the directory with the words though, if you want to give it a look: https://github.com/ttooccooll/TURTLE/tree/main/words
I’ve thought about it for my goals with home solar mining, but the idea of crowdfunding seems elusive to me. I love what you guys do though and so many of the projects you’ve made happen. Maybe I’ll give it a try at some point.
Downzaps are ~3x as powerful for influencing ranking as an equivalent amount sats upzapped or boosted
Am I interpreting this correctly? The wording is throwing me off. A downzap is three times more powerful than a zap or boost? If so, hell yeah! If not, can somebody help explain this to me?
As someone who’s never studied social media (and normally hates it), the idea of trust is kind of elusive to me in this context. That said, was trust also determined by someone’s downzapping skills? I kind of pride myself in my downzapping discernment. It’s one of my favorite parts of this platform.
Here's a pic from the group that maintains the grounds' website of the winter solstice sunrise. This is what I hope to see on Monday. The coolest alignments at this particular site (Fort Ancient) though are these really cool stone-covered mini-mounds that look down parallel walls to the summer solstice sun rise and another to the sunset.
It's funny you ask whether or not I'll be allowed to take pics (I don't know) and bring up Graham Hancock's show as well. I believe one of the most controversial parts of that show is when they don't let him in to see Serpent Mound. That's the world's largest effigy mound, which has a massive amount of solar and lunar alignments. I grew up taking field trips from Dayton to Serpent Mound all the time, back when it wasn't controversial and people just viewed it as really cool.
It's always been ultra-mysterious though. To this day, we don't know if it was built by the Adena[1] (older than Hopewell), the Hopewell (my bet), or the Fort Ancient[2] (contemporary to Mississippian, but less cosmopolitan). It sits on top of this hill in a meteor impact crater, near a handful of Adena and Fort Ancient burial mounds. I don't remember why Graham Hancock was interested in it, but I think the coolest thing is the missing coil! Some ancient people at some point in time realized that one of the lunar alignments of one of the serpent's coils was off and just deleted it. They rebuilt that part of the mound without the coil. I just love the idea of some ridiculously smart group of hunter gatherers coming to a site their ancestors brilliantly built. They look at the complex lunar alignments, the artistic prowess, and the logistical flex (since they're doing this carrying baskets full of dirt with no central leader or slaves or other cheat codes) of their forefathers, and say, "hold my beer. They messed up this one part."
That was a bit of a tangent, so to answer your question, I don't know. There are often times a handful of Miami and Shawnee descendants at these things, and if they're offended by people taking pictures, I won't.
It would be super cool if it turn out the Adena built this because it would show they had all the astronomical knowledge that the Hopewell did. ↩
This people group was named for the site that I plan to visit Monday, which was actually built by the Hopewell. All the names are arbitrary as we have no clue what they called themselves. ↩
For quite some time, I’ve had an interest in the Hopewell specifically. They were hunter gatherers that travelled in small communities, and there’s no sign they ever developed a centralized leadership structure. Despite what I’m about to write, they were incredibly egalitarian: no kings, no wars, no castes, no ritual sacrifice.
Yet they would join together and create massive earthworks that were perfect geometric shapes with interesting proportional relationships to other massive geometric shapes. But these earthworks also have precise astronomical alignments (I’m planning to visit one to watch the sunset Monday). Many ancient societies built solar alignments into their architecture, but the Hopewell (remember these guys have no kings, agriculture, or cities) would build dozens of precise alignments into these huge earthworks that track the phases of the moon as well.
While the Mississippians continued a lot of these traditions, they had huge cities, kings, agriculture, and were pretty violent, much more ideal for accomplishing feats of engineering, mathematics, and astronomy. One of the theories about the decline of the Hopewell I find most convincing is the introduction of new technologies. The bow and arrow made its way south from Canada and human-bred corn made its way north from Mexico around the same time they stop doing Hopewell culture type things. It makes me think of smart phones and social media.
I’ve been visiting a lot of the remaining sites for decades, but a bunch of them just became a UNESCO world heritage site and I’m curious what’s going to come of it. The rabbit hole goes quite deep, but there are still so many mysteries. One of the biggest for me is what the sites were actually used for. Most scholars just say “religion” generically. Most conspiracy theorists say aliens. I like to think, and there’s precedent for this, that they were just for recreation. It’s kind of a silly analogy, but I find myself walking through amusement parks or malls and just imagining future scholars talking about them as sacred ceremonial sites.
Nice!