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Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????
I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT
Fun fact! If you duck duck went vocaloids, they have icons too
holy fuck there's more of them?
They also do it when you search Linux
how many of these are there???
Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln and mandarin duck work too :D
cow tools real..
This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished.
Map showing the kingdoms of Britain, 550AD.
So SO close to being the 6 of them
you can tell a lot about a guy by the stuff you make up in your head about him
this is the official position of the supreme court of the united kingdom
I read this in Philomena Cunk's voice
One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.
The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:
Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.
Is this why we call them cinnamon quills?
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On this, the poor reading comprehension site, I read this as "pissed on" while scrolling past the first time ><
First ape to go to the watering hole with a container and put some of the water in it so that they could drink more later without returning to the watering hole must have been lauded as a fucking genius.
Actually, as someone who used to study anthropology (albeit a very long time ago), I think it is generally accepted by now that the ability to Carry Containers Of Stuff is generally agreed to be one of the real tool-using leaps in human development, perhaps as important as fire. I mean, you'll get the impression that people studying early humans are basically spearhead experts, but that's just because spearheads don't decay. (And because for a long time people assumed that hunting was The Most Important Thing, which has a fascinating intersection with implicit bias and sexism and stuff, and yes I am still bitter at things like 2001 for popularizing the idea that the most important part of human evolution was the ability to bash the shit out of a thing/animal/person, but that's a whole other story.)
Carrying stuff is huge.
If you can put meat in a bag, you can carry more meat. If you can put something like nuts in a bag, then nuts abruptly become a food that you can bring back to the tribe or save for later and not a food that you're required to eat on the spot because they are tiresome and stupid to carry by hand. In both cases your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better.
If you can put your baby in a bag, you now have both your hands free to stick a spear into things, pick nuts, fish, dig tasty cicadas out of the ground, etc. Your ability to feed yourself and your tribe just got a whole fuck of a lot better, and so did your ability to defend yourself while you do it. (And let's face it, your babies were already getting downright ridiculous in terms of the time it takes them to be fully walking-ready, due to brain size and being essentially premature; inventing Multitasking With Baby is like, pure survival at this point, and your way to do that is to create a specialized bag.)
If you can put water in a bag (first water containers very well may have been animal bladders or stomachs, not pots) you can bring water to your sick tribe members and they have a much higher chance of recovering.
And then you have elaborations of the basic "thing that contains objects" idea. If you make an exceptionally loosely woven bag and put it in the water, you can on occasion finesse some fish into it. And then you have delicious fish. If you put yourself in a loose and flexible bag of animal skin, your tribe can operate in the cold better, which changes your entire migration pattern and opens up new environments to you. If you make a hard container and fill it with water and put it over your fire, you have invented a new type of cooking that unlocks whole new food types, such as vegetables that need softening in order for humans to eat them. (Of course at the same time your stomach is becoming steadily more dependent on being able to fuck with your food in this way, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, because the less energy you spend on digestion, the more energy you have to spend on other things, like brains. And big brains are good for unlocking whole new levels of communication, allowing for fantastic new levels of foraging cooperation, passing knowledge through generations, mate selection, and even various sorts of mental recreation where you imagine something that you don't see, and then convey that to your fellow beings.)
Bags are important, is what I'm saying.
@justanotherhornycatgirl anthropology mention
Carrier bag theory of fiction, Ursula K Le Guin
And now, if you want to see a picture of a racoon in a funny hat, you either have to already have saved it yourself from the beforetimes, when the internet was more or less pristine, or else come across it highly accidentally. For the rest of us, it's endless sifting through the AI generated image slop.
Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix) EAT A TASTY BERRY!!!, family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, South Africa
photograph by Andrew Vickers
Tasty berry looks like one of the indigenous yellowwood species, a protected tree because of them acting as an important food source, especially for Cape Parrots.
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well since no one else is going to perform this vital public service here are some reviews of the top ten gun violins on google, by a violist who has shot a gun like twice.
3/10. strings seem to disappear and there are no tuning pegs. impossible to aim as a gun because violin body gets in the way. 3 points for classic black finish, never goes out of style for murders at the symphony.
0/10. same aiming problem as the last one and with strings that short the sound you produce will kill people on its own so why have a gun. also seems to be cut like you’re supposed to shoulder-mount it like a rocket launcher, which is a terrible idea with this kind of gun.
6/10. looks like they’ve gone for an electric violin which is a great choice! it fits the aesthetic and you don’t need to worry about the instrument body this way. heavy, but the weight is concentrated near the chin so should be fine for short sessions. tuning pegs are directly in the firing line so using the gun destroys the violin, only fire as a last resort.
2/10. not fit for either purpose. stupid fake gun gets in the way of the bow, and there’s no sound chamber at all. plus, where do you even put your shoulder. 2 points because I guess you could put it on your wall as a weird art piece.
8/10. finally someone is thinking this through! the retractable barrel and folding fingerboard offer good flexibility and the bridge even doubles as a handy iron sight! needs to be de-strung to fire, so limited on-the-fly mode switching.
1/10. firing the guns will absolutely annihilate the scroll but you might as well because it would have terrible sound anyway. 1 point for thinking of left-handed violinists for once.
-4/10. not even a gun, just a violin that lets you scope the audience for dramatic effect.
5/10. useful if you want to shoot yourself and the conductor at the same time, which is frequently a mood.
6/10. he a little confused, but he got the spirit. technically works as both weapon and instrument but be VERY careful putting it under your chin if you haven’t unloaded the bolt.
-100000/10 what the fuck
Gun Violince
Reblogging for the pun of it
But how
Do we ever
Face a thousand violins?
Violists once again performing thankless tasks in the service of violinists
I was curious and, funnily enough, both seem to trace back to the Ancient Greek/Proto-european words for divide. In the senses of: δαίμων - "god"/"entity" - dispenser/apportioner, and δήμος - "people" - sharing/dividing between. Etymology is probably not a solid basis for governance, though.
This is how I will be asserting dominance from now on
one of my favorite things is this manuscript I saw in special collections this past spring of a fifteenth century english text called the prick of conscience whose final pages are covered with these sixteenth century child’s drawings, I especially love the well-dressed lady and what looks like the tudor rose on the last page
Is that shrek on the second to last page??
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