SturgiesYrFase @ SturgiesYrFase @lemmy.ml

Canadian, Stone Mason, Ex-Pat living in the UK.

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Exactly, it's just an "evolution" of the whole White Saviour bit they love so much.

On the flip side, there was an article on the BBC website around a year ago. Basically the article was explaining how archeologists had no idea how the ancient folk made Stonehenge so accurately plumb and level, and how they've been experimenting for aaaages trying to figure it out....
Now, I'm a stonemason. And I can tell you exactly what they probably did, but the Big Brain people don't like to ask people who work trades. (Or maybe they are just asking the wrong ones)
If you have figured out rope or string, and you have access to wood and a few stones, then it's incredibly easy to level off an area, to make an accurate circle, and to make the tops of all the standing stones level and the uprights plumb.

A basic plumb-bob is incredibly easy to make, in this instance we would use as straight a piece of wood as we can find, a length of rope tied to the middle of it, with a stone tied to the other end. For the uprights, get straight logs as long as each stone going into the ground. Now we have our standing stone analogues, and a plumb-bob. Dig the holes for the uprights, plop the logs down in the hole, if the plumb-bob isn't pointing straight down between the two logs, one side has to go down.

There, mystery solved. Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

HOW DARE YOU!!
MY DESIRE FOR ANDROID SUPPORT FOR ALL 🐧SUPPORTED STEAM GAMES MEANS THEY'RE LOOKING AT ARM CHIP SUPPORT SPECIFICALLY TO SATISFY MY DESIRE TO PLAY 1 SPECIFIC GAME ON MY PHONE BECAUSE IT'S REALLY FUCKIN GOOD, AND IT'S A REAL BIG FAFF TO HAUL MY GODDAMN LAPTOP EVERYWHERE WITH ME, AND IF I WANNA PUT A FEW MINUTES INTO IT RANDOMLY DURING A SLOW BIT AT WORK, IT ALWAYS GETS ME TOLD OFF FOR HAVING MY LAPTOP ON THE SCAFFOLD!

That said... you're probably right....

I'd say it's more that we have a short memory as a society, and that they never really bothered to hide it, we're just noticing it again.

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I can do that:

Some who work forces

Also jerk horses.

FTFY

Look, if it's gonna be a fascist dictatorship anyway.....

(To be clear, I'm not saying if the Dems win that's what it'll be.)

Well....slap my ass and call me Mary.....
Thanks kind internet stranger!

I'd have to hand in my Canadian Passport if I weren't, buddy.
Just goes to show, though, that even we can be fooled by things that look really similar.

Did we all forget about the study from Mozilla on vehicle data collection?

The fact of the matter is that every single new connected product is collecting data on anyone who uses it. Once the data is collected, it's sold. Once it's on the market, that data is used by every country. China will eventually get data on US drivers regardless of what make they drive, the US government just wants first dibs.
I'm not one of those people who think that China and Russia are some kind of utopic ideal we should all be working towards. The US government is also not a shining beacon of ethics.

Sorry, really.
Hyenas aren't closely related to dogs.

Although phylogenetically closer to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canids in several elements due to convergent evolution: both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws.

I usually use:
Email - nope@nah.com
Name - Nah Nope
Gender - prefer not to say
DoB - same as you
Phone - just random digits, or if I'm feeling spicy the phone number of a guy I used to be buddies with who fucked me over
Income - never been asked for this yet, probably go with something outlandish....like 1

Not OP, but I'll field this part. Where we're going 401Ks and dental won't be needed.

I mean, if they were going to try and burn down the Capitol Building, clearly the right people to have blamed would be us Canadians. We do have a bit of history doing just that. 😏

Oh, it's gonna be way more than that if inflation keeps on the way it has been.

I do, when I'm not at work. The car key has one of those little clips on, so when I'm at work the car key either goes in my left pocket if I'm not going to need my work keys, or gets clipped on my work keys. When I'm out on a weekend the car key gets clipped on the house keys

I mean.... Skyrim is ok, I wouldn't say it's amazing...one of the weakest installments of TES. And then they beat every last cent out of it.

This game should have come out in 2016 at the latest.

Absolutely. I'm surprised they didn't try to release a version for calculators.....

Front left: lighter(s), earbuds, car key(only if at work, I lock my house keys in the car as I have a habit of leaving my coat in the lunch room)
Front right: sometimes phone, if at work nothing as I put my phone in my jacket breast zip as I'm a stone mason and I really don't want to smash my phone...
Back pockets: nothing, sometimes my travel mug if I'm not wearing my work jacket.
Work trousers cargo pocket: tobacco/vape

I've been really enjoying this series, and I hope you stick with it!

Thanks so much for taking the time to give me this info.

Cool, thanks.