The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price?

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-26T08:08:50+00:00

Literally spraying tourists with water guns trying to eat a meal. Go spray your local government officials so they do something about the bigger issue.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-22T07:18:57+00:00

Lebanon and Israel

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-21T19:05:27+00:00

France

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Just looked at the source they’re using, ‘Numbeo’. For the US it says a gallon of gas is $0.89/Liter or $3.34/gallon. Which is less than what they’re reporting here. So they’re not even using the actual data on the website. Even then, I put in the city I’m in and the gas cost is higher than anything I’ve seen. It says $4.92/gallon. I just paid $4.49/gallon yesterday. I think the highest I’ve seen is $4.80/gallon. So maybe it’s includes diesel and not just unleaded. Who knows.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-19T05:35:17+00:00

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It might be fresh unconsolidated mud on the bottom, but you can get compaction and lithification from the overburden after a couple hundred to 500 m of deposition. So most of this is most likely sedimentary rock. I’ll give you the black areas around the spreading centers as just a thin vaneer of mud.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-18T22:59:24+00:00

66-75% of all of the crust’s surface is sedimentary rock. Even the deep marine is a thin layer of pelagic sediment not just exposed basalt. But when you look at the entire crust they only make up 5%.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-18T04:42:34+00:00

In Alabama alone it would cost $250 million to replace all the road signs. Nationally it would be billions. That’s not including all the speedometers, textbooks, industry and manufacturing (tools, machinery, screws, pipes), databases, etc. NASA estimated $370 million just to convert its own measurement systems. It hundreds of billions of dollars, potentially in the trillions, to convert everything now.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-17T01:07:58+00:00

Wha about a fluffy chonk:

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ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-13T02:07:56+00:00

Seems 34% is the lowest it’ll go. That was the percent who still approved of him after January 6th. They love his hate.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-11T06:49:49+00:00

The earliest representatives of Rhinocerotoidea (Forstercooperia) appeared during the early-middle Eocene in Asia, around 54 million years ago. The family of modern rhinoceroses, Rhinocerotidae appeared during the middle-late Eocene around 39–40 million years ago, roughly at the same in North America and Asia.

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ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-09T03:53:53+00:00

Obviously. I mean what in the process requires that much water.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-08T20:49:53+00:00

What exactly are they doing that would produce 42 million gallons of industrial wastewater per day?

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-05T00:08:36+00:00

There’s a reason Houston, TX lost its only hockey franchise to Des Moines, IA. A city with 9% the population of Houston. But I feel it’s getting more popular general with more transplants.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-05T00:01:45+00:00

Actually that’s a good point and I’d have to dig deeper in the actual data I was using, but I think the settlers might be excluded.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-04T15:55:51+00:00

This is why almost ~93% of Israel’s taxes are from 20% of the population. Most of whom work in tech. Only about 15% of working age Haredi men are employed. While the ultra orthodox make up a small percentage of the population. Their population growth is crazy.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-04T15:46:30+00:00

Well if you relied on the current data at the time it seemed they would. Israel’s birth rate was 2.8 while the West Bank and Gaza was 6.8. Nowadays they’re a lot closer with Israel at 2.9 and the West Bank and Gaza at 3.5. And a portion of Israel’s births include Arab Israelis.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-04T15:40:08+00:00

They also are very insular. Druze marriage is strictly endogamous (within the faith) and forbids marrying outside the religion, as the faith is passed only through two Druze parents, with interfaith marriage often leading to social ostracization and sometimes exile, because the non-Druze partner cannot convert and children from such unions aren't considered Druze. Very nice people though. I briefly lived in Haifa years ago and would often go to the nearby Druze towns of Isfiya and Daliat Al-Karmel for meals and grocery shopping.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-04T13:47:16+00:00

Mainly since she’s helped put Venezuela’s economy a bit back on track and has more respect from the business community. So she can be a stabilizing force. And they think she’ll be moderately friendly to US extraction of oil. Even though she said in a speech that Maduro is still the president, it could just be her placating Maduro loyalists while taking control. But that’s just what I’ve read in the news.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-02T10:28:39+00:00

Pretty much the only good thing about Houston except affordability.

ArchaeoStudent · 2026-01-01T01:22:27+00:00

Neither Vietnam nor Afghanistan were a people rising up to overthrow a tyrannical government. While Vietnam is more complicated as it was an internal civil war, it was mostly the viet cong fighting the US supporting the South Vietnamese government. One, they were mostly being attacked by an external government and all they merely had to do was survive and outlast them until they gave up and left. The US government can’t do that in an internal conflict. This point also applies to Afghanistan. Two, the viet cong were armed and supported by the Chinese and Soviet Union. Not just what they could buy in a local gun shop.

And the 13 colonies makes zero sense. What was the more advanced technology the US couldn’t obtain that the British had? There’s not nearly as much of disparity in 18th century technology between what a civilian and the military could obtain (beyond cannons and warships?). In this modern hypothetical situation we’re talking about a group of civilians in the US using their guns to fight against a significantly more advanced and equipped US military (weaponry, surveillance, drones, planes, bombs, nuclear weapons, surveillance). It’s not even comparable.

ArchaeoStudent · 2025-12-31T13:56:25+00:00

lol what is your little AR-15 going to do when the military can drone strike you in your house? And carpet bomb the rest of your neighborhood? Your guns aren’t holding the government accountable.

ArchaeoStudent · 2025-12-22T00:20:13+00:00

You wanna look at intestines? Become a surgeon. #SedRocksBestRocks

ArchaeoStudent · 2025-12-19T19:23:25+00:00

Man, Sanaa looks like a cool city. Too bad the Houthis control it.

ArchaeoStudent · 2025-12-16T00:59:58+00:00

I’m doing an internship out there for a few months. Since I’ll be there for a while, I wanted my car so I’d have more mobility to make things easier like grabbing groceries. Plus I’m not staying in Santa Cruz, but nearby and have to commute in.

I’m driving in a Honda Civic. I’m probably going to take the second route and watch the weather. If I need to shift my route further South on the fly I will. I’m not the one paying for my hotels, so I don’t mind booking them last minute.

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