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So I just got word my will arrive at my house by the end of the week. You people have no idea how stoked I am to get this thing!!!

please please please take care of yourself. you are precious and loved! 💖😘😍💋💗😁🤗😇🌹🙏💕♥️😉

Interesting

The human body generates heat at a rate significantly higher than an equal volume of the Sun.

Remember the gravitational waves?

Prof Rana Adhikari is a hero of mine. People like that make science fun.
youtube.com/watch?v=iphcyNWFD1

@commandelicious @freemo @Katobell @Demo318 About women in science and engineering? I wasn't exactly encouraged but I grew up in the 70's and 80's and it was a lot more sexist back then. We had a typing class in my school that I actively had to avoid 😖

I read about Leonardo Da Vinci when I was a kid and decided I wanted to be a renaissance man and learn about everything like he did. That is probably why I am the way I am. There was a lot of arguments in order for me to learn a few things along the way and I ended up growing pretty thick skin and working in a few all male teams so I could learn things too 🤔

I think things are a lot different nowadays. I hope they are in any case. I think they have changed how they teach things in England a LOT though. I was looking at the qualifications so I could tutor someone and I barely recognised them.

@freemo @commandelicious @Demo318 there's an organisation called Equate Scotland specifically for this, if you're interested in data and seeing some current attempts at helping the situation!

Fun little note, @Demo318 was our 800'th user. I wonder who will be #1000!? At the pace we are currently gaining users on QOTO it will probably be by the weekend or before.

Ok, I know, I know, praising Mastodon and all. 

What I get here: Nice people. Information about stuff I really enjoy. Tons of cat pictures. Interesting people and engagement. Friendly conversation. I am having fun sharing stuff I made or knowledge I aquired.
Good to have you all!

@W201028 @freemo
@W201028

@freemo

Hey I'm also Native American. Look almost exactly like you. Full beard and pretty chill dude.

Thanks for being such a great hero! Stay optimistic/ chill man. Thanks for the useful instance in the fediverse

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What debating feels like these days (Well not with the awesome people on QOTO, but for sure when it comes to the rest of the english speaking world).

@js290 Well, not really. We're not personifying ancient people because they are people. We're not giving them person-like traits they didn't actually have because they were human beings like us, and undoubtedly led as rich and interesting lives as any other human being does today.

It is true that we don't fully understand many ancient peoples. We don't know why they did certain things, and the whens of particular historical events can get exceedingly muddy the further back you go. All we can do is make an educated guess based on what evidence we do find.

Bringing it back to Ancient Canaanite religion- there isn't an awful lot known about it. The ancient Canaanites seem to have taken papyrus paper from their Egyptian neighbors as their preferred writing medium and most of the contemporary writings to those eras are lost or remain as of yet undiscovered.

Most of what we do know is traced back through the surviving children of the Canaanites- Jewish and Samaritan histories and religious texts, which are perhaps not the most honest of historical sources, and from cuneiform tablets found in Ugarit.

The rest is pieced together from later Greek sources.

That being said, there is a lot more about ancient human societies and cultures that we don't know than we do. We're making our best guess based on those shreds of evidence that have survived (sometimes) thousands of years.

It's a puzzle we'll likely never fully solve.

I have posted some pictures somewhere but I've found the best picture I have of me. It was 2008. Time flies.
Then something to smile, and the last one is me now (or well, a month ago)

@freemo This is me, enjoying what is likely to be one of the last times I can enjoy the pool this season

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