Odd Stuff (Part 4)

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Surely, some Alaskans and citizens of Siberia have grilled up thawing mammoth that they came across.

From Yale:

Famously, members of The Explorers Club purportedly dined on frozen mammoth from Alaska, USA, in 1951. This event, well received by the press and general public, became an enduring legend for the Club and popularized the notorious annual tradition of serving rare and exotic food at Club dinners that continues to this day.

https://cgab.yale.edu/projects/ancient-dna/was-frozen-mammoth-or-giant-ground-sloth-served-dinner-explorers-club-past

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Urvinyl?

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Damn.

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Ahhh. (Was in an airplane all day yesterday)

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I canā€™t help thinking that a society that had the resources it takes to build a Dyson sphere wouldnā€™t need to build a Dyson sphere.

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Urine trouble if you break that record.

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:thinking: Well, what if we could convince a cabal of wealthy people that this is their best option to flee the hellscape they seem bent on creating? After itā€™s finished, if they wind up trapped insideā€¦

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sO pUNk R0cK!1?!!!1! /s

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Youā€™d have to have a phenomenal number of very rich people, and they tend to concentrate over time, so a L5 or Mars colony, maybe a planet, should do the job for anything less than a galaxy-wide civilization.

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This is the most French thing I have ever seenā€¦

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It could be art project. You know, the kind of thing where locals complain about spending so much on that hideous thing, but then end up making it the centerpiece of all their tourism campaigns.

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I didnā€™t know that there was a cheap strip-test for fentanyl. Making them easily available everywhere seems like a no-brainer, but Iā€™m sure some people will have objections.

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Iā€™m going with big ones tend to break off.

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Oh come on, itā€™s not like theyā€™re asking for free period supplies in school bathrooms. This is to protect white youth in Republican areas, so they can grow up and start voting like their parents do. Itā€™s the least we can do to preserve their way of life.

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