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Yeah. IDK what is meant by a P value but I agree that I suspect the methodology used to create this is designed to make the data more interesting than it really is.

As in, how much more frequently is "enema" searched for in Alaska than elsewhere, and are there more vanilla terms like "college" which occur more frequently in Alaska than elsewhere.

My partner had twins 15 months ago. It's been an epic couple of years.

Just gonna point out the obvious that you may have missed... women can work while men do chores at home.

Yeah that's a really good point.

Fuck I desperately hope spacex crumbles to dust before we can stage a manned mars mission.

Improbable but not impossible.

Yeah it really was pathetic.

Like they took a stand while it was cool, but then capitulated rather than face removal.

She sounds like a conservative shit stain herself:

The author, who has been an outspoken supporter of conservative ideologies, is best known for her children's book with BRAVE Books, titled Elephants Are Not Birds.

"Follow Kevin as he learns that even though he can sing, he is not a bird, even if Culture insists that he is," according to the book's synopsis. Additionally, the BRAVE Books site said that they "partner with people of moral integrity, to teach complex Christian and Conservative values."

Doesn't sound like much of an author honestly. A kid is either too young to understand that Kevin is a metaphor for a transgender person, or they're old enough to just be told that mum and dad don't like transgender people.

I'm pretty despairing about this in 2025. Not only is nothing being done to mitigate climate change, but there doesn't seem to be any will nor support for climate change mitigation.

I'm not sure this is a really fair appraisal of Cook.

Perhaps others are more knowledgeable than myself and can correct me, but my understanding is that Cook was more of an intrepid explorer and respected commander than a "colonizer".

For example, Cook is kind of credited with the discovery of Australia but that's not really what happened. The dutch knew that Van Diemens land existed for ages but no one was interested. Eventually when the English were looking for places to colonize so they sent Joseph (Joey) Banks who was kind of a rock star level celebrity naturalist to claim Australia, and Cook steered the ship for him.

It was Banks that returned to England and declared Australia to be "terra nullis" as in he falsely (fraudulently?) asserted that the land is free to be claimed because nobody has established use or control of the land.

It sounds like Cook took more effort than most captains to support good relations with natives on the various islands he visited. This wasn't altruistic, as ships often needed to resupply and what have you, but then there's resupply and there's "resupply" I guess.

Cook is well known for avoiding any kind of inappropriate personal liaisons with native women which was not the norm for this era. Relationships that we would describe as prostitution were normalised. Oddly enough the currency exchanged was usually nails, as islanders couldn't forge steel but nails could be sharpened into great knives far superior to anything you can make from bone.

Cook certainly wasn't in Hawaii to colonize them. IIRC they revered him as a god but something happened during a visit that betrayed him as a mortal (or something?) and the natives were angry at being tricked. IDK. Google it, but they didn't murder him because he was trying to colonize them.

It's hard to describe someone who lived 250 years ago as "good" or "bad" because it was literally a different era with different societal norms. However, if someone flew to Mars and planted a flag there you'd kinda have to respect that achievement even if they're not someone you'd like or really get along with.

I'm deep in phase 2, just building up to phase 3 I think.

ADHD memes do seem to resonate with me, but I'm not sure I experience the deleterious effects to a severe enough extent to really have diagnosable ADHD.

Even if I am, I'm not sure stimulants would be the right way to go, and I'm already doing my best with ADHD style interventions to support productivity et cetera.

Australia checking in. It's a Tyre. Tire is seppo spelling.

Sure but we don't link to paywalled services do we.

Honestly these micro-dick edge lords renaming things has been a pleasant diversion over the last few weeks.