Whether they’ll ever be able to unearth it from a vast complex of at least seven dome-shaped burial mounds remains to be seen.
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The Social Media Purge Continues – Carey Wedler
This is an issue that we cannot simply stand back and do nothing. This Social Media Purge is beneath Western Civilization and we have the power to stop it.
The WaPo hit piece in question: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washing…escription
Note: I’m now unable to find the list Prop or Not compiled, but suffice to say Anti-Media was on it, and so were multiple others purged today. To be safe, I’ll modify my statement in video from “a lot of the outlets” to “at least some.”
Hovercraft Inspired By ‘Back To The Future’
“Back To the Future” fans will swoon over this ‘DeLorean’ hovercraft. 🆒.
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Kurile islands in Russia
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck an area 175 miles northwest of the Kurile islands off Russia in the northwest Pacific on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
There was no immediate tsunami warning or any reports of any damage or casualties resulting from the quake, which the USGS said had occurred at a depth of 292 miles.
Here’s how to find out if your Facebook was hacked in the breach
Are you one of the 30 million users hit by Facebook’s access token breach announced two weeks ago? Here’s how to find out.
Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info accessed, 14M’s bios too
Here’s the moment when the anomaly occurred, it occurred right after the four strap on boosters separated from the core (2nd) stage
Click on photo to start video.
Note in the in-capsule video, that Col. Nick Hague’s Falcon stuffed toy is thrown violently upwards as G-forces grip the capsule, followed by both astronauts being shaken violently as well, their hands and arms waving wildly. I won’t share my hypotheses as to what happened as of this point, but I have some ideas.
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot
In early 1999, during the halftime of a University of Washington basketball game, a time capsule from 1927 was opened. Among the contents of this portal to the past were some yellowing newspapers, a Mercury dime, a student handbook, and a building permit. The crowd promptly erupted into boos. One student declared the items “dumb.”
Such disappointment in time capsules seems to run endemic, suggests William E. Jarvis in his book Time Capsules: A Cultural History. A headline from The Onion, he notes, sums it up: “Newly unearthed time capsule just full of useless old crap.” Time capsules, after all, exude a kind of pathos: They show us that the future was not quite as advanced as we thought it would be, nor did it come as quickly. The past, meanwhile, turns out to not be as radically distinct as we thought.
In his book Predicting the Future, Nicholas Rescher writes that “we incline to view the future through a telescope, as it were, thereby magnifying and bringing nearer what we can manage to see.” So too do we view the past through the other end of the telescope, making things look farther away than they actually were, or losing sight of some things altogether.