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Open Thread - Thurs 09 Nov 2023 - An Amazing Animal
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 5:12am
An Amazing Animal:
Recently, while going down a rabbit hole about current research into the origin and domestication of dogs (I will probably write about that later) I branched off a bit into researching hyenas and I learned about a very interesting type of hyena. It is called the aardwolf (and here's a bit from National Geographic about them) , which is, in itself, an intriguing name. It means 'earth wolf'. Aardwolves are native to south eastern Africa and live in the grass and scrublands there. They are about 20 (10-30 for outliers) lbs in weight, long, skinny, with a lovely thick tail. They are nocturnal.
from: https://animalia.bio/aardwolf#description
And...
The Evening Blues - 11-8-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 11/08/2023 - 2:53pm22% is not a "Spoiler"
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 11/08/2023 - 1:56pmLet's be clear: a candidate getting 22% is a contender, not a spoiler.
Open Thread 8 NOV 23 ~ Tech / Psyche
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 11/08/2023 - 4:00am

written by Maggie Jackson
Why Egypt will never open their border to Gaza
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 9:02pmWe know that Israel wants to ethnically cleans Gaza. They are openly calling for that (and worse). Their plan is to push them all into the northern Sinai (I guess the irony of pushing a slateless people to wander for years in the Sinai desert as been lost on the government of Israel).
The Evening Blues - 11-7-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 3:27pmI need space
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 10:29am
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, imo, the real source of evil
Albert wrote these words way back in the year of my birth. A lot has changed since that time.
A couple of articles for our times
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 6:17am
“After 2016, the national security state, the foreign policy establishment, & the gov’t-funded NGO-plex orgs redefined the word “democracy”: it no longer meant a consensus of individuals, it meant a consensus of institutions.” —Mike Benz