Title says it all. Has anyone ran across these lately while hiking ? Please list trail name and approx elevation/distance :)
Hi all, I just recently became aware of larch trees and their fall colors, and wanna find a good hike to see some next weekend. Does anyone have rec's for hikes within 2-3 hours of Portland? I'm finding solid info on their location/schedule hard to come by. Not even sure if they're turning this far south yet or not. Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Having a "favorite archaeological artefact" is kind of tacky, but were I a tacky man, mine might be the so-called Shigir Idol, a nine foot tall wooden statue discovered in the central Urals in Russia that just keeps getting its date of creation pushed back, now at about twelve thousand years before the present. It is a beautifully evocative piece, I would never say something embodies the sublimity of primitive art, but I must say that it certainly does that. Unfortunately I know basically nothing about it or its broader cultural context--I assume this information is either published in Russian or just generally in the thicket of Mesolithic studies I am not very experienced in getting through.
So imagine my joy when during one of my random Googlings of it I find that the New York Times, the Paper of Record, the Grey Lady herself had published an article on it! Hopefully this will be an informative read! And it was! Because I learned just how bad an article on this topic could be! It was very instructive on the results of what happens when an author who knows nothing about which they are writing and is not so inclined to find out! Let’s get into it!
The trouble starts, as it so often does, with the lede:
>At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is by far the earliest known work of ritual art. Only decay has kept others from being found.
“Only decay has kept others from being found” is kind of a clumsy way to express the point that wood usually decays before archaeologists can find it, but fine. The real focus here is that first claim, that it is “by far the earliest known work of ritual art”. What exactly is “ritual art” you might be wondering? Well, keep wondering because he never defines it. Which then makes it difficult to assess whether it is the “earliest”. But let us say that he means art created for the purpose of ritual, but then why is it ritual art but the Venus of Hohle Fels, which was older to the creators of the Shigir Idol than the Shigir Idol is to use, is not? Maybe he is defining it as something that marks out a ritual space, which I can agree the diminutive Venus figures are a bad candidate for, but then what about the paintings at Lascaux? The thing that, if you say “prehistoric art” 90% of people will think of first, that is the first result for “prehistoric art” on Google? Those predate the Shigir Idol
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
We should all be worried about the blacklisting of literature
It may not be true censorship to blacklist books in a Western country with free and open internet access. But it's still deeply concerning.
By Megan Nolan 3 December 2021
My mother gently let me know from an early age that she didn’t believe in what I was being taught in my Catholic school and in Mass. I managed to hang on to my self-important, girlish faith for a good long time. But when I was in my mid-teens I became very righteous indeed – only, it was the opposite of the righteousness usually encouraged by nuns. I was filled with moral indignation having learned about the Church’s atrocities – including those that occurred in my own neighbourhood, even to my own family.
I was especially upset about what they told us about abortion, and the way they did so: showing a 1980s American conservative horror film named The Silent Scream (which purports, among other things, to show a foetus at 12 weeks thrashing around in pain, an effect created by speeding up the footage). I walked out of class when they had us watch that, and fell out with a friend by doing so. She held the opposite view from mine, and we could not find a way to talk about our beliefs without shouting.
Not long after that episode I read the John Irving novel The Cider House Rules. In it, the two characters we care most about – Dr Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician who runs an orphanage, and one of his orphans, Homer – have divergent perspectives on abortion. Dr Larch, having seen first-hand how back-street butchery caused women to die, considers providing safe abortion to be the moral choice. Homer, his protégé, can see that this is a valid perspective – but as an orphan who would not exist had his mother been able to terminate her pregnancy, he does not feel able to endorse their provision.
Reading The Cider House Rules did for me what much of the best fiction does, which is to serve up some “issue” that feels absolute and intractable, and to present it in such a way that the complexity of life is rendered vivid and obvious. I didn’t change my mind about abortion when I read it, but I did understand how people were able to see it their way rather than mine, which is one of the more valuable things one can learn to do.
The Cider House Rules is one of 850 books on a list drawn up by the Texas Republican state representative Matt Krause. The list mostly contains books that refer in some way
... keep reading on reddit ➡It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
