Reddit thread: What is a fact or statistic that seems fake but is real?
Lots of interesting trivia, many I had already heard. But I found this insight about trilobites particularly interesting.
The thing that fucked me up was realising that trilobites, which are an entire class of animals onto themselves, like mammals or reptiles, and these beings were not just extinct before the first dinosaurs existed, they were even fossilised before then. Meaning that any trilobite, which is a very common type of fossil that can be found at most shops that sell them, has existed in fossil form for longer than the entirety of the existence of the dinosaurs up until now.
But wait, there's more. Because the reason I picked trilobites specifically is not just that they are such a common fossil, though it is related to it. Because there's a reason they're so common today. Trilobites were around for 270 million years before they went extinct. For reference, the first dinosaurs emerged 230 million years ago. Meaning that trilobites, which were already fossils by the time the first dinosaurs showed up, were around for longer than the time from when the first dinosaurs emerged to the present day.
We as humans cannot even begin to comprehend such lengths of time.
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MKBHD on Pixel Fold
I am still unwilling to make the purchase at the current price point. But one thing I'll note with these devices. I'm not saying it should be the same price as other phones. The thing that got me okay with a nearly $1k price for my Duo 2 was the fact it is basically two phones together.
Seeing him use it made me realize the Fold has essentially three screens, with an external one and two internal ones (well, one big one inside.) The Duo 2 just has two inside. And just the screens alone is going to raise the price. So, my line now for where I'm thinking about this phone would be closer to $1200-1400 range. I don't know if I would pull that trigger or not, but I'm just saying - it makes more sense to me now that I have actually seen it.
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Watching Air on Amazon with Katie and while I am enjoying the movie, I have to say it has an absolutely incredible soundtrack.
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Automated Archives for May, 12th 2023
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Wallabag Additions
These are articles that which I saved today so that I may read them later. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
- Encountering the High Arctic (hedgehogreview.com)
- Collections: Who Were ‘the Celts’ and How Did They (Some of Them) Fight? (acoup.blog)
- The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe (chicagomag.com)
- 23 Pandemic Decisions That Actually Went Right (theatlantic.com)
- The One and Only | Alan Lightman (nybooks.com)
- The Mission That Could Transform Our Understanding of Mars (smithsonianmag.com)
- Notes from Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter (newyorker.com)
Chess For the Day
Record: 3-1-2
Net Elo Change: +7
Games Played
- Mercyjohn - LOSS
- Felix_molina - DRAW
- alexander_1314 - LOSS
- Hall_Effect - WIN
- dallajay - WIN
- odahs - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- 2004-05-12 (1 post)
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