Sometimes I think about new life refilling the earth millions of years from now, like the dinosaurs after the Permian extinction. It sucks to witness a mass extinction but in the long timeline it’s only an instant. Just happens to be an instant my entire life fits inside of

I recently learned a really weird piece of evidence geologists apparently look at: heavy oxygen trapped in rocks. Turns out water with oxygen18 is slower to evaporate than water with the lighter oxygen16, which apparently means that rocks absorb oxygen18 water more readily than oxygen16 water, and therefore landmasses tend to accumulate oxygen18 leaving less in the seas… which means, when geologists find really old sea floor rocks full of oxygen18, it suggests that there was a lot more oxygen18 in the seas back then, which suggests that there was very little dry land to absorb oxygen18, meaning ancient earth might have been a water world, which is what we see in the start of the video.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-with-no-dry-land/

*which also has obvious implications for the origins of life, as the article mentions—none of Darwin’s “warm little ponds”

Mostly by looking at patterns across continents. For example the Appalachian mountains and Scottish highlands were once part of the same mountain range. Geologists were able to figure that out by closely examining those mountain ranges. With enough patterns like that you can start to reconstruct the plate movement.

That was cool, thanks for posting it

often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks

do you have any examples off the top of your head? that’s something I’d like to look into

the second time I actually started writing down dates and events to create a timeline

You should consider sharing this some time!

If im going to sleep, I have to ironically not be in the mindset of trying not to sleep. I can’t think about thinking about falling asleep, or then I can’t fall asleep

Yeah that was pretty much how I got out of it. I decided to try to stay up instead of trying to sleep, and eventually sleep crept up on me. That first night of sleep relieved some of the “how will I ever sleep again” fear and made it easier to sleep the next night, and I gradually returned to a kind of normalcy. It’s been years now, often I can lie down alone with my thoughts and drift off, but when I have something the next day that I really need sleep for I often find that I have to stay up and distract myself until sleep catches me unawares, so end up feeling like shit on the days I most need to be on my game lol.

Anyway, I relate to what you’re going through and I really wish you the best with it.

maybe drink some caffeine and blast out a typo-filled stream-of-consciousness rough draft today?

*I had this typed for a while before I sent it, and I didn’t see that there were already replies

it can be so draining and isolating. I also have issues getting to sleep and sometimes pull all nighters for no reason, and it really fucks with my ability to socially mask and not come off weird to people, so I end up avoiding people.

In my case, there’s probably a lot of factors but I think part of it is lingering fear from an incident in undergrad where I stayed up for four days straight as my increasing desperation to sleep made it paradoxically harder to. I think my adderall prescription at the time might have been too strong and it gradually threw off my brain chemistry. I use a lower dose these days and take tolerance breaks to reset, and an incident like that has never happened again, but I’m forever scared of “trying to sleep” now

There are more bonafide Nazi scum than not.

I always heard (or thought I heard) the nazis were only a dominant minority, leading an unresisting but non ideologically committed majority, but I’m realizing I don’t actually know that and I just absorbed that impression ambiently. It’s been a year at least since I followed the situation.

true, but a lemmy user unfamiliar with our takes is not going to infer that’s what we mean. They go off back to lemmy and repeat our take secondhand to other people, those people will tear into it because they also won’t infer what we mean or give us the benefit of the doubt, and then the person starts to lose confidence in what we have to say.

Nazis in Ukraine are almost a state-within-a-state. Not everyone in the Ukrainian government or military is a Nazi, but the Nazis are a dominant force.

I go through periods of morbid fascination with 9/11. Not the theories, just the event itself. Little details—the timeline, the personal anecdotes, tourist home videos from before the attack, the guy who tried to chimney-crawl down the outside, the woman who briefly survived a fall from the tower and complained to a paramedic that she wasn’t dead, even stuff about the construction of the towers, the “bathtub foundation,” the gypsum debris that clogged the stairwells.

9/11 is such a weird probe into American life. You have ivy league finance guys and support staff up in the towers, you have firemen, confused cops, port authority officers; you have morning commuters from all walks of life, peering up in awe, unaware they are stepping on the powdered meat of people from the impact sites; this whole slice of America struggling to understand an event totally outside their grasp of the world.

For me personally, there’s a surreal aspect to it. I’m just old enough to have vague, dreamlike memories of 9/11. The world in the footage looks almost familiar, almost like our world, and yet simultaneously it’s on the cusp of being in the past, being history. A world I almost remember, that was once the backdrop of my early childhood, now feels like an alternate dimension. The last instant before the war on terror reshaped the society I grew up in.

Artist is Richard Pace https://bsky.app/profile/rpace.bsky.social/post/3kuq5uim2fz2h

Does ravioli count???

I like all pasta shapes. Mainly I think the pasta shape has to fit the sauce. Why some shapes seem to fit some sauces better than others, I cannot articulate.

Also Tainanmen. Athough fatal clashes did occur on Chang’An avenue and elsewhere in the city, in which hundreds of civilians and a smaller number of soldiers died, witness testimony from numerous western journalists and diplomats and student organizers themselves who were in the square all night, has indicated that no one died in Tiananmen itself. A Spanish news crew even filmed crowds of students walking out of the square at the end of the night. The Tiananmen Square Massacre is a stunning example of a “big lie repeated often enough.”

The first link is a comprehensive article. I can link more on request.

our only defense is not getting divided, which is why this stuff scares me, seeing how easy it is.

I’m optimistic though, I think the red scare stuff is harder in real life, when people are in a real situation with other real people instead of alone at a screen.

on further thought, I’ll just add that I think we’re both defending ourselves and then taking each others’ defenses as attacks to defend against, and it’s a vicious cycle.

I still feel hurt over db0’s two posts tbh. It’s not even the meme, it’s the witch-hunt feeling of that meme being broadcast across all of lemmy to a receptive audience we cannot talk to.

I’m sorry I stressed you out and put you on the defensive. I actually felt the same way. I don’t think either of us intended it. From one communist to another, I hope there are no lasting hard feelings.