Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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Cake day: June 26th, 2024

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  • Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That’s the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.

    For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we’d expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.

    Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.





  • My girlfriend slept with a guy at a university camp and then got angry at him and cut one of his dreds off. She told me about it as soon as she got back. I’d met the guy and thought him a douchy child, but i mostly felt sorry for him. I was a bit disappointed in her choice but i wasn’t hurt or anything. A few weeks later i drunkenly kinda went to bed with a housemate who i then realised i’d been crushing on, and my girlfriend and i admitted there wasn’t really anything there and broke up. When i first told her that me and elizabeth made out she was like, “Aww, go you!”

    That was a real “no harm no foul” situation. Years later i went on a 3 month holiday and never came back. Everyone but me and my then girlfriend realised i was just moving overseas. She was way more into the relationship and I was too cowardly to break up. We carried on long distance until i found someone else. I broke up with her before anything happened, but she was hurt and it felt like cheating in a way that the more technical cheating above had not.





  • Maybe you were having a bad day in the above linked convo, but fyi you come across as needlessly argumentative and more than a little misogynist. Tbh i didn’t even see the comment where you talk about being accused of rape because your others were too off-putting for me to continue reading.

    Your comments make you seem angry at women. That doesn’t make you a rapist, but it goes a long way to explaining why all your friends would believe an allegation.



  • Maybe 2 years ago my partner had to explain to me that most people actually prefer milk chocolate, so when i buy dark chocolate as presents it’s not actually appreciated.

    I’ve always preferred dark chocolate because it’s just so obviously better, and presumed everyone else did too. Finding out that most people like worse chocolate was quite a surprise🤷




  • I would say these are slightly irritating. Not mildly infuriating in the way that people who use nonsense terms like “eco-fascist” are.

    Anyone sane understands that “be gay do crime” is not inciting criminality but obviously statement of opposition to unjust cultural norms.

    Similarly “killing people makes nature alive” obviously seeks to highlight the current incompatibility of human goals with the needs of all life on the planet (including humans).



  • I used to play about equal m/f characters but i’ve gotten increasingly bored with male characters.

    I never play as me though, i’m always constructing a headcanon, backstory and playing very writerly.

    Over the last 10+ years or so i’ve just found boy stories more and more boring. I think the last game i seriously enjoyed as male was ME2, coincidentally with a keanu looking sniper type.