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Fun fact! This is a Dmanisi skull from Georgia, another type of hominin to us. 

Notice that jaw? When we lose our teeth, over time our jawbone heals the gaps, making it smooth, so when archaeologists discover skulls centuries later they can tell whether the tooth was lost after death (as the bone didn’t grow to cover the hole) or during the individual’s life.

The majority of this jaw has healed, so this person would have lived a number of years with basically no teeth. The age of this skull, according to wiki, is 1.8 million years.

This means that millions of years ago this person had a diet with soft, easy foods, and that others in the group would have known, understood, and helped by specialising their foraging for this one individual.

I am so excited to announce the debut of my new series, Cryptid Club! Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved the mystery and lore surrounding these creatures and this was my chance to get to know them a bit better.

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Wake up to your phone on the other side of the room so you're forced to get out of bed to grab it and do your morning scroll for social media

Have your meds in a visible area like in the fridge next to the milk or juice that you drink every morning or beside the coffee pot so you take them with your morning coffee

When you want to do homework, tidy your space, get a drink, put shoes on, then start work - do this every time until your brain registers the physicality of that routine of tidy, drink, shoes to equal 'work now'

If you have a pet, feed them around the time you want to have dinner each night - that animal will register the routine and help you stick to it.

Want to remember something but apps, reminders, and notes don't seem to work? Write them on your bathroom mirror or buy a whiteboard and stick it in your kitchen. And dont write in black - write in your favourite colours,or in multiple colours, and don't deny yourself the chance to be silly with the whiteboard. If you designate it a work only space, you'll never use it - so draw on it, write quotes on it, be silly with friends. The more you use your whiteboard, the more likely you are to read the important reminders on it. :)

People with ADHD need routine but neurotypical routines don't work for us because a lot of NT routines inherently rely on having the executive function to get moving - we don't have that. We need mental triggers to spark that, something that grounds us in the moment and helps spark the intention into productivity.

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Also, hack for motivation to clean?

^^^^This? Is an absolute fucking disaster for people with ADHD.

The kind of “routine” that helps with ADHD is different: it’s linking together tasks in the day.

Instead of working out a specific time slot in which to do all your Tasks, you just do this: “This week, I’m going to try to make breakfast right after my shower, while my hair is drying”

If you want to organize your life as a person with ADHD, start with something you do reliably do every day (or almost every day) and try to link another task onto it, a small one.

Please, please, please do not try to work out your ENTIRE schedule all at once. You’re just building a chain: start with two links, then three, and so on.

This means you don’t have to gather the mental effort for each individual task, you can just “ride” the current activity, and you can get on the train at any time.

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any of these

could easily fit the profile

The story of Rhodopis is considered to be one of the earliest variants of Cinderella and comes from Ancient Greece. The tale of Ye Xian, aka the Chinese Cinderella, dates from around 860 AD.

“Ain’t my problem,” the man behind the counter drawled, gesturing in the sign’s direction. “You bought it. You assumed all the risks associated with it. S’ your problem now.”

“You advertised an unfertilized dragon egg, suitable for decorative use. I bought it from you because I believed you. You made a sale by lying to me.” I had to pause and take a deep breath before I wound up accidentally breathing fire myself, while my new little friend nuzzled the underside of my jaw, the same way a cat might try to offer comfort. She really was a bit like a scaly cat with wings, at this size, and it wasn’t having her around all by itself that I objected to. I just felt - justifiably - that I was owed something. “You understand that there are laws against that, right?”

“Uh huh, and whatcha gonna do about it, buddy, call the King’s Guard on me?” The shopkeeper stuck a cigar in his mouth without even bothering to light it; he did it for no other reason than to make it clear how few fucks he gave about me. “Have fun with that, buddy. We can see how long it takes the six or seven old women who ain’t been dragged to the front lines already to get here. I’m bettin’ on Fleet-Foot Belinda gettin’ here first. They say her new apothecarist’s done wonders for those bad knees of hers. If she’s well rested, she might get here…day after tomorrow, maybe.”

I knew this flimflammer was trying to irritate me into giving up and leaving. He was actually pretty close to succeeding, I had to admit. But I could almost feel my mother glaring at me, her eyes somehow boring into the back of my neck from a hundred miles away at the very idea I might let a cheating shopkeep get the better of me. Or maybe that was my little friend’s hot breath. “What refun’?” she asked me, sticking her snout directly in my ear. “What refun’, daddy?”

Of course she’d ask that right now. “A refund,” I said, sighing heavily, “is when a shopkeeper gives you back the money you paid to buy something from them. Usually it happens because the item is bad somehow. Some shopkeepers will let you give the item back in exchange for your money just because you decided you didn’t like it anymore, as long as they remember you buying it from them in the first place.”

“…Am I bad, Daddy?”

“No, sweetheart, you’re not bad,” I reassured her, scratching behind her crest. “But this man promised me your egg couldn’t possibly hatch, that it wasn’t the kind of egg that could hatch, and that turned out to be wrong. I want a refund because he lied to me about what I was buying in order to trick me into buying it, and that’s a very bad thing to do.”

She still wasn’t able to fly properly just yet, but she was able to make some pretty considerable wing-assisted jumps. One leap took her from my shoulder all the way to the counter, where she stood in front of the shopkeeper like an indignant cat. “You give my daddy refund,” she said.

Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can't, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements -- such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars.

It's a lucrative business for Tesla -- bringing in $3.3 billion over the course of the last five years, nearly half of that in 2020 alone. The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla's net income of $721 million -- meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020.

Eleven states require automakers sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. If they can't, the automakers have to buy regulatory credits from another automaker that meets those requirements -- such as Tesla, which exclusively sells electric cars.

It's a lucrative business for Tesla -- bringing in $3.3 billion over the course of the last five years, nearly half of that in 2020 alone. The $1.6 billion in regulatory credits it received last year far outweighed Tesla's net income of $721 million -- meaning Tesla would have otherwise posted a net loss in 2020.

Osage Nation, the American Indian tribe whose ancestral domain included much of Oklahoma, said in a statement that the sale was “truly heartbreaking”.

“Our ancestors lived in this area for 1,300 years,” the statement read. “This was our land. We have hundreds of thousands of our ancestors buried throughout Missouri and Illinois, including Picture Cave.”

The bidder, who sought anonymity, bought the Picture Cave along with 43 acres of hilly property surrounding it near the town of Warrenton in Missouri, said Bryan Laughlin, the director of Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers.

Carol Diaz-Granados and her husband James Duncan, who spent 20 years researching the cave and wrote a book about it, also opposed the auction.

“Auctioning off a sacred American Indian site truly sends the wrong message,” Ms Diaz-Granados, a research associate at Washington University in St Louis said. “It’s like auctioning off the Sistine Chapel.”

if this was Hobby Lobby, the Mormon church, or some weird libertarian ghoul treating this like the newest addition to their private collection, there should be fucking bodies

how exactly do you auction off priceless cultural heritage and it just ends up going to some random guy

who actually benefits from this

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

I'm an American living in Germany. I've lived here for four years as of this week (June 2021).

Two and a half years ago, I had a medical emergency in the form of gallstones and an infected gallbladder. I tried to tough it out, like a True American Who Can't Afford Treatment, and ended up in the hospital getting the gallbladder removed. I was brought in on Thursday, had the gallbladder and five gallstones the size of macadamia nuts removed on Saturday, and was home by Tuesday. Total cost, 200 euro.

Back in March, 2021, I saw a visual distortion in my right eye, like an afterimage of looking at something bright for too long. Got seen by the eye doctor that day, got sent to the hospital that day to get a diagnosis--ocular vein occlusion--and spent the following three days getting followup diagnostics, including a full blood panel. I got diagnosed with having elevated levels of homocysteine in my blood, and that turned out to be caused by a genetic disorder that runs in my family (MTHFR-5 mutation) where I can't metabolize B vitamins correctly. And now I'm on modified B vitamins and the difference in my daily life is amazing.

Total cost for the hospital stay and all of the blood tests and eye examinations and other tests?

250 euro.

In my old city in the US--which has a nationally renown hospital--the gallbladder removal costs a year's salary for a minimum wage worker.