Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Mom. Love to read, learn, and travel. Interests include science fiction, astronomy, geology, and archaeology, particularly in the Americas. Cat mom. Retired US military officer. Retired RN. Blue dot in a red part of a blue state.
Former wives of tech leaders have told a longtime journalist that they sensed something was off when they visited late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island.
Tech wives knew 'something terrible' was happening on Epstein's island: 'We need to leave'
Former wives of tech leaders have told a longtime journalist that they sensed something was off when they visited late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's island. Technology journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher told a CNN panel on Wednesday that several people have come to her...
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
Remember, kids: press play on Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at exactly 11:56:20 on New Year's Eve to get that iconic drum fill when the ball drops.
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I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.
Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
Project 2025 is bad for Veterans. Privatizing TRICARE will leave millions without access. Repost if you feel that our nation's bravest deserve better. #VeteransDay
Donโt hold me to this, but I think the earlier Thule/Dorset people were around 1000 CE, while the Inuit were later. Iโd have to look it up. Both migrated east across northern Canada once the ice sheets cleared. However, paleogenetics show a lot of east <โ> west cross flow between these peoples.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social ยท 9mo agoyeah my understanding is that the people in the arctic the vikings encountered were basically part of the same population as the rest of native americans. the inuit came in after the vikings died out in greenland. other indigenous ppl perceived inuit as being very different from them!
Has been for awhile (Monte Verde). Why are comments off on this thread?
Public Universal Fiend@publicuniversal.bsky.social ยท 9mo agoFYI Clovis first is dead
Depending on where youโre talking about, but the earliest settlers in South America were definitely pre-Clovis and left a genetic signature. I believe that is true in North America also.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social ยท 9mo agodid pre-clovis ppl survive or did they get displaced completely?
What about the White Sands footprints? Those are way earlier than 13k years ago.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social ยท 9mo agothe current consensus based on genetics/linguistics is that that there were at least three pre-columbian settlements of the americas: one very ancient one ~13K years ago, one about ~5K years ago that brought in the na-dene speakers, and the inuit who spread only around ~1000 years ago
Yeah, there were no indigenous people in Iceland before the Vikings got there. Seems that from what we know now, the Thule and Inuit stopped at Greenland.
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social ยท 9mo agowell sure but then what's the definition of indigineity in this context then. like the vikings seem uncomplicatedly indigenous to iceland for instnace
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
I love that weโre all unanimously like โlisten that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldnโt shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me upโ
Zelensky clearly annoyed with Steve Witkoff, who views the war as some sort of real estate transaction & pushes Kremlin talking points. Recently he pushed Kyiv to accept Putin's demand for the rest of the Donbas because "it was incorporated into [Russia's] constitution." Read Zelensky's comments:
Wow, the season 3 finale of Foundation was really incredible. Interested to see where they go with season 4.
Idea for an amicus brief: We list the powers in a chart let's say Louis XIV claimed for himself, and maybe the courts can just indicate with a checkmark which ones of those Trump doesn't have. Seems more efficient.
Somehow, putting a deranged eugenicist with a brain parasite in charge of our health infrastructure has gone terribly wrong.
Classic Rock is rock music from the 60s/70s, not the 80s/90s. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
The @washingtonpost tracked where Trump's forces are patrolling in Washington. Spoiler alert: They're not where the crime is.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
