Viewing profile — viciousvoxel

That was samsung

Seems like an extremely reductive and negative take on what is "American". Perhaps you've only experienced America via LinkedIn and a specific shitty company?

Perhaps you're thinking of Salad Fingers?

Same on pixel 10

Yes, we regularly (for some definition of "regularly") uncover human burial sites (both as part of planned archaeological excavations and accidentally during construction) all arou…

I thought it was strange that I hadn't heard of this...apparently it's widely agreed that it's a conspiracy theory started by Russia and then amplified by China.

There's a big difference between the (controlled) chaos of an ER vs scheduled surgery, but it's still dramatized for TV obviously.

or nominative determinism

Nowhere was Israel mentioned. Please stop with these antisemitic dogwhistle posts in this thread.

Nitpick but we do know who built Teotihuacan -- it was the Teotihuacanos! Unfortunately it's true that we know relatively little about them.

The term "toxic individualism" doesn't mean that individualism is inherently toxic, like "toxic masculinity" doesn't mean that about masculinity in the general case. These terms me…

Once a desirable sequence modification is identified through artificial means, what is often done in practice is to simply expose samples of the organism to UV until the desired se…

Doh, thanks. I even googled to check my spelling but the first article that came up was from The Guardian which also misspelled it :'(

The Whanganui river is in fact only the second of three geological features to have been granted personhood in NZ, the others being Te Urewera and Taranaki Mounga (mountain).

There was a No Kings protest just a few days ago, millions of people across nearly every state demonstrated against the administration.

If you use an ad blocker, just disable inline scripts

Minor correction, but in the book the act of asking to be discharged on account of insanity is taken as proof that one is sane, because no sane person would want to keep flying bom…

There's been conflicting information about this over the years. The latest research suggests that it may increase cancer risk when combined with other behaviors that themselves inc…

It's usually just called archaeology or perhaps biomolecular archaeology. Forensic archaeology is a bit different, and it usually pertains to humans and their crimes.

This is actually my wife's job/area of research, except typically they use the eggshell proteins to determine taxonomy. It's extremely rare that DNA survives in these types of samp…

Except as it mentions in the article, the accused denies that he wrote or published the material in question.

Reminds me of the time I suggested to my cousin's new girlfriend (gentile) that she bring macaroons (a standard kosher-for-Passover dessert) to our Passover seder and instead she b…

You're right that modern work and military boots are generally better for their specific purpose -- they are certainly much lighter and usually cheaper than their older equivalents…

I'm not sure what you deem as "sufficient", but there certainly are studies suggesting that handwriting has some benefit over typing w.r.t. learning and memory [1]. 1. https://www.…

Counterpoint: when web communication was unencrypted it was before we did our banking, tax filing, sent medical records, and sent all other kinds of sensitive information over the …