Notices by Esslar2 (flyhigh@universeodon.com)

@georgetakei Here at Joe's Surfing Academy, everything is above board.

@georgetakei This is akin to making a connecting flight which, every time, is on the complete other side of the terminal from where the disembarking flight gate is. Every time. It's one way to get exercise!

@georgetakei True story: Guy I knew from Baltimore is on the beach in Bermuda, this fellow with dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent comes up trying to sell beads and trinkets. The fellow selling sees the guy from Baltimore is wearing an Orioles baseball cap. He drops the Jamaican accent and asks, "Are you from Baltimore? So am I!" He tells the guy with the Orioles hat that he just puts on that accent to sell stuff to tourists.

@aral Just what David Graeber gets at in "Bullshit Jobs."

@hazelnot @rysiek @Daojoan The Dawn of Everything was so astonishing to me that now I'm reading 3 other of Graeber's books. Someone who met and talked with Graeber said he realized after a little while that Graeber was a true genius. He really was brilliant.

@georgetakei The "country" he is talking about is himself. Just put in "Trump" whenever he says "country," "US," or "United States" and you'll get the real message. Here, he means "Trump-threatening treason" or anything that anyone says that he feels threatens him.

@clacke @Sheril This is very good and I will look into it further. 300k years ago seems to be a reasonable start point. I've heard about the bottleneck you bring up and will also get into this some more. I was unaware it may have been such a tiny population. Thanks!

@Sheril Oh, this is so good! I've always wondered about this, how many people have lived but the trouble is, what year, century, or millennia does h. sapiens become h. sapiens?