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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
Via: Bob Nelson • Anthropology & Archeology • 11 Comments • 7 Likes • 4 weeks ago
“In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history”
For Kavika
Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing
By: Bob Nelson • Travel, Geography and Foreign Cultures • 35 Comments • 1 Like • one month ago
“When you're done donating your tax dollars to subsidize the lifestyles of self-identified ruralites, consider making a charitable contribution that...”
Mirror, mirror, on the wall....
Immigrants
By: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 63 Comments • 5 Likes • one month ago
“What do they contribute to the nation? What harm do they do to the nation?”
A few days ago, I was very upset with NewsTalkers. The Powers That Be had just trashed a couple of my seeds themselves, and then stood by impassively while the Usual Suspects trashed another. I was not happy, and decided that from the on I would post but not seed. That resolution lasted as...
The Inverted Morality of MAGA
Via: Bob Nelson • Op/Ed • 58 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
“Trumpism represents an alternative value system. The people I regard as upright and admirable MAGA regards as morally disgraceful.”
David Brooks is a card-carrying conservative. I rarely agree with anything he says. This is worth thinking about.
Huawei's Mate 70 smartphones will run its new Android-free OS
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 2 months ago
“Huawei's new Mate 70 lineup will be its first smartphones offered with the company's Android-free HarmonyOS Next”
Forbidding the use of Android in a smartphone would be crippling, right? No. China, through Huawei, has built a separate, competing system. This is another case where countries like India, Mexico, and Brazil must decide whether they want to be tied to Google, the USA and NSA... or to China,...
Trump vows new Canada, Mexico, China tariffs that threaten global trade
Via: Bob Nelson • World News • 302 Comments • 11 Likes • 2 months ago • LOCKED
“President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States' three largest trading partners - Canada, Mexico and China -...”
Drunk, maybe?
Trump's Cabinet picks send a clear message
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 1 Like • 2 months ago
“Picking Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Linda McMahon, Trump is making a victory yell”
Remember Boris Yeltsin? Remember Russia then? There was a hint of democracy. Then came Putin and kleptocracy. This cabinet's mission is to convert the US into a kleptocracy on Putin's model.