I was told earlier today this was due to a transporter accident.

Linux mint ftw

USGS research geologist Jeff Pigati and his colleagues (including Bennett and other co-authors of the 2021 paper) recently radiocarbon-dated conifer pollen—mostly from fir, spruce, and pine—from the same ancient ground surface as the tracks and the ditchgrass seeds. They also used another type of dating, called optically stimulated luminescence (a type of dating that measures when a grain of quartz was last exposed to sunlight) on sediment samples from between the oldest two layers of tracks. The results lined up very well with Bennett and his colleagues’ original radiocarbon dates; the tracks couldn’t be any younger than about 21,500 years old.

I had never heard of this other method with the quartz. Interesting.

Ditchgrass, as its name suggests, is an aquatic plant, exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to find along the shore of a lake. But aquatic plants tend to soak up groundwater, which can contain older carbon than the rain that waters more landlubberly plants. Seeds from aquatic plants like ditchgrass can (but don’t always) look older than they really are when radiocarbon-dated—sort of like the radiocarbon version of carrying a fake ID.

The other two methods don't suffer such problems. So now that they have similar results from these methods the evidence is much stronger.

Er… North America. :)

Coincidentally I just started to do so last night. Looking forward to these episodes.

This is me. I see you

Can confirm. Source: ADHD and clinical depression. Klingon therapist is best therapist.

From an evolutionary standpoint, yeah, we're donuts or tubes. It was either that or cups. Those creatures, like sea anemones eat and expel, erm, waste out of the same hole.

An example of a fellow tube is a sea cucumber

Sounds like something a bigot would say.

A fish rots from the head. Corporate culture all flows from the CEO and board. If a bigoted piece of shit is in charge, this is what you get. Because the top of the company sets and enforces policy. So if they don't care about bigotry or if they are bigoted themselves, they won't set or enforce policies to stop it. They will hire bigoted management. Those bigots won't stop it and probably encourage it. They hire bigoted workers who will persecute others and face no consequences. Those who anti-bigots can report but will be ignored or face retaliation.

The clinical dose is a lot lower than the recreational dose, is my understanding.

I would love to hear more of this wonderful fairy tale…

I know that you think you might be but I also suspect you aren't.

"How can I find anything in all this order?!?"

Fixed her fucking portfolio probably.

The OG (80’s) Battlestar Galactica. Source: I saw it as a kid and I still have the trading cards lol

That’s not enshittification it is a normal progression of tech to make it useful for a wider audience. Otherwise we would be typing a byte at a time with front panel toggle switches like on a PDP-8.

I think that’s true of any technology that goes mainstream. New tech is evolved to where the end user doesn’t need to know how it works to use it.

Oof. Brings back the memories.

Though it was expensive, my Time Life 80s Music series (CD) was worth it and I still have em all. Thankfully, it wasn’t hard to cancel once I realized I was getting redundant stuff and they would never stop sending CDs as long as I kept paying.

Fellow Gen-X. I’m assuming they’re an ass and that’s about all I need to know.