I would venture to guess it had to do with noon. It would have always been easy to say sunrise, sunset or noon even before a clock or sundial were invented. Remember there were no aircraft flying through the timeshifts. The effects of time on long distance travel were negligable if noticeable at all. Communications also traveled slowly. Once technology introduced clocks, you could see how your noon no longer aligned with the sun a couple hundred miles east or west. Your clock would not match the place you are visiting as noon had hands both pointing straight up as where the sun would also be located at that time. Your question only becomes relevant when we get light speed communication like radio and telegraph.

“Good afternoon German friend how is the weather today?” “WHY ARE YOU RINGING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AMERICAN FRIEND!?” Not a real conversation, but you can imagine.

The answer: people hate change.

For a long time, the One Blade was the only razor that didn’t pull my hair. Then they changed how they made them and started pulling. I no longer use it.

Form a healthy relationship with death. You can understand why it happens and attend other funeral services so that by the time you lose someone that close, you can manage the emotions of personal loss without the shock of mortality.

If subtitles are on I may as well be deaf because I’m no longer watching with those damn words getting in the way. That’s what books are for.

Have you ever tried earthworm milk?

The comedian Gallagher said he liked the shape of Florida becaise it looks like we’re pissing on Cuba.

Little pieces of a jellyfish can become new jellyfish. They can reproduce sexually or asexually. The Immortal Jellyfish is even weirder. They are some of the simplest multicellular animals after sponge and coral.

You forgot the spikes of bahia and the variety sandspurs here in Florida.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

Sponge are some of the most simple animals alive. Jellyfish are comparatively not too far off.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.

That looks like a healthy cry. She will go through much self reflection and come about as a better person.

Nope! She has spent her life with a religious as her backbone and now will seek it as a crutch with greater desparation. Trauma…survival mode…etc…

I was using the mathematician Hans Rosling as a reference. He researches how to slow population growth.

Food, water, shelter, safety. Those are the basic needs. I didn’t forget. But yes, distribution is the main cause of food scarcity.

Using ctritical thinking will get you called all the words. Like this meme says, what you are called is based on who’s listening.

Availability of education and basic needs is inversely proportional to birthrates.

Paras is a fungus. Totally different thing.

Humans along with their cats and pigs have done a lot of damage to biodiversity around the world. It’s just one element of the 6th mass extinction we are causing.

Teachers are generally quite adaptable. We have asjustes for AI in our classrooms. We have adjuated to not teaching up to standards because we would be fined by our states for pushing some imaginary agenda. We have changed our entire curriculum the week before classes start because the County curriculum specialist had a bright idea.

The reality is that we have to navigate arbitrary law, we have to not do what’s best for our classroom and teaching style because someone who hardly spent any time in a classroom thinks they know better. We have to do all this while being blamed for the behavior of students when their parents block the school phone numbers.

Does that chart account for partial cuts that destroy ongoing studies? The kind that would have to be completely scrapped because one element is lost. Even worse, if all replication or even repetition were cut, then we are throwing out all of science.

I hope Europe is able to step up like they were talking a couple weeks ago.