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  • That's actually quite an interestingly accurate one, considering that something like 95% of Egyptians live near the Nile River, and anywhere that is NOT near the Nile is desert wasteland.

    Other accurate analogies would be anywhere in Canada that is NOT near its' southern border, or nearly anywhere/everywhere in inland Australia, they call it the Outback for a reason.

  • This makes spiders only the second known arthropod species, after bees, to sense and use electric fields.

    But birds use the magnetic field to navigate, correct?

    Because humans don’t feel Earth’s electric field, its role in biology is often overlooked.

    Speaking of the magnetic field, there is purportedly an Aboriginal group in Australia that uses a subjective form of orientation terminology baked into their language or syntax, that forces their speakers to maintain an intricate and complex awareness of their surroundings and place in them.
    Anyway... these people seem to be able to sense fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, for example - they can tell when a solar storm is hitting the atmosphere.

  • So we domesticated fire, that's one step out of the swamp and steppes.
    Then there was agriculture and animal husbandry, we became sedentary.

    Writing developed, accelerating growth in the arts, math and engineering, the sciences... we had domesticated knowledge and memory - data storage.

    Before we knew it, the printing press popped up and soon after we domesticated something abstract and invisible, awesome and truly fundamental - electromagnetism. That's is the big game changer right there.

    We have figured out our physical place in the universe.
    We can image distant supermassive black holes, we have mapped the farthest, faintest reaches of the visible universe using the oldest light there is - the Cosmic Microwave Background (which started out as orange light 13.7 billion years ago).

    We are now in the process of harnessing sunlight and the wind; the genome; we can now even perform data operations using quantum superimposed electron states, harnessing the subatomic wave function itself.

    Surely we can now domesticate cruelty-free protein chemistry. So many steps away from the swamp and steppes already, so far we can't turn and go back again. What's one more step?

  • Yeah, well that's what happens when you want your politics to satisfy your celebrity "culture" cravings, otherwise "politics are boring, why bother voting?", never allowing time for fixes and positive change to gain inertia, and it is easier and quicker for political red meat predators to break something than for well-meaning government nerds to fix it.

    And also, of course - "vote for woman?! when pigs fly! muh puriteh!"
    This piggish government is an accurate reflection of its' people, both the maga and the non-voting shitheads: ignorant, lazy and angry. Looking for a magical messiah, like medieval peasants.

  • "I think politics should always be entertaining. Then I get annoyed that politicians are always drawing attention to themselves and there's always drama. I cannot even visualize living life any other way. I find myself to be very intelligent! And pure. I find myself to be very intelligent and pure. At the center of the universe! I mean... I turn around, I see the horizon always at the same distance... I must be at the center of the universe. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I find myself to be very intelligent, and pure, and at the center of the universe."

  • Japan has always given me more of a Denmark vibe. The general shape and area, lots of islands, connected to its' mainland and a bit on the flatter side but hey, you can't have it all exactly alike, can you?
    They even have their own kinda-sorta version of sushi with a Baltic twist, heavy on the pickled herring. But there is a famous pickled fish sushi version from Kyoto.