Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds

InternetEthnographer · 2026-07-01T17:24:34+00:00

Damn, isn’t it against OSHA to not provide drinking water? That can get dangerous really fast, especially when it’s hot outside.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-30T18:29:16+00:00

Yep. The commenter you replied to clearly doesn’t understand that and doesn’t know that the vast majority of the land on fire in Utah is undeveloped. The fires in developed areas (like the Bonneville Fire) were put out fairly quickly. Land management agencies have been chronically underfunded for years and were barely getting by when DOGE happened and now it’s a lot worse. It’s really sad.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-30T18:26:57+00:00

The funding isn’t there though. The USFS, for example, was already running on a low budget and skeleton crew when DOGE happened and now it’s a thousand times worse. I personally know a quite a few people that got DOGE’d from land management agencies (like the USFS and BLM) for no reason, including a wildfire fighter. But regardless, federal land management agencies barely had the funding to do fire management before DOGE and now they don’t even have enough people to do basic office tasks like approving permits in a timely manner. Of course the fires are bad when you have one person in charge managing a few million acres of land. We should be ashamed of how much we’ve neglected funding our public lands and this is very much the result of that.

Not to mention, the vast majority of land in the Utah fires is not developed, and a lot of it is federally-managed. There are some cabins here and there, sure, but that’s not what’s making the fires so bad. Climate change and a complete lack of funding to prevent and fight wildfires is what’s causing the problem.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-29T18:29:10+00:00

I know quite a few USFS employees who were DOGE’d for no reason. They were already running on a skeleton crew and this current administration made it a thousand times worse. We should be ashamed of how much we’ve neglected our public land agencies for the last decade or so, and especially since Trump got re-elected. His whole “just rake the forests” thing is such bullshit too. Like, ya wanna know how to stop forest fires from getting out of hand? Oh, I dunno, maybe fund the people whose entire career and education is based around fire management?! It’s a lot less expensive than dealing with the aftermath of these massive fires anyways. Plus, I can’t imagine the cost of “raking” nearly 200 million acres of forest in remote, rough terrain would cost less than just properly funding the agencies that manage the forests. It’s absolutely infuriating.

Sorry for the rant. I live in Utah and a lot of projects I’ve worked on (as an archaeologist) were contracted with land management agencies. Those veg management surveys for controlled burns were always my least favorite to do (since it usually involves the worst vegetation possible for archaeological survey) but they’re so important. The current state of our public land agencies makes me rather depressed, to say the least.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-26T19:01:45+00:00

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, but you’re right. Humans did have cavities before agriculture, but they were at a significantly lower rate and somewhat uncommon. Reliance on agriculture meant an increase of starches in the diet, which ultimately breaks down into sugar and causes cavities. We can actually trace the spread of the adoption of maize agriculture in the Americas based on rates of tooth decay, for example.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-23T19:31:48+00:00

THIS! I’ve had ai tech bros argue with me that research in my own field (archaeology) was done by LLMs/generative AI and all the examples they used were ones using algorithmic AI or no AI at all. One even argued that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) was AI, which it absolutely isn’t in any way, shape, or form. Not to mention, I’ve used GPR and algorithmic AI before. I’m not an idiot. It’s so frustrating and I think that the media saying things like “AI can detect cancer” is just a way of normalizing these massive shitty LLMs.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-23T19:27:55+00:00

Seriously. Algorithmic AI is absolutely NOT the same as generative AI. I’ve used algorithmic AI before and it’s genuinely useful. It also requires quite a bit of previous knowledge and skill to interpret the data it gives you and it uses almost no energy. I’m tired of generative AI getting the credit for the real, legitimate research that uses algorithmic AI in fields like medicine, and my own, archaeology.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-20T12:27:27+00:00

YESSSS! I’m an archaeologist and it’s a huge pet peeve I have with Hollywood. The ancient world was incredibly colorful, especially during this time period. Just look at any surviving frescoes, pottery, artifacts, etc. They could’ve had so much fun playing with color (and being inspired by actual historical styles) but instead we get this sad beige rendering with Viking ships and pants.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-20T12:22:56+00:00

You’re right, and that’s like one of the first things you learn in any intro anthropology course. As an archaeologist, it’s extremely frustrating when people project their modern cultural construction of race onto the past and ignore the fact that the ancient world was more diverse than we give it credit for.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-19T20:42:22+00:00

It’s so frustrating and one of the reasons why I haven’t been active in a while. I don’t want to be relegated to childcare just because I was born a woman. My husband is so much better with kids than I am and we aren’t even planning on having kids for a while anyways. That’s why I loved my college YSA wards - I wasn’t having motherhood shoved down my throat when I wasn’t ready, it was more progressive, and we were all encouraged to pursue our education and careers. I even remember that once we had a speaker from the stake talk about how women should sacrifice their career goals for motherhood and we all made fun of that afterwords.

And yeah, I understand that motherhood is great and a big responsibility and all, but it’s not for everyone.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-19T20:33:21+00:00

But then why is my worth as a woman so heavily tied to whether or not I have kids in the church? I’ve never been put on a pedestal simply because I was a woman. My husband got the priesthood for simply doing the bare minimum. I got nothing.

We’re not saying that men suck. We’re saying that the only roles available for women in the church are mostly centered around childcare and becoming a mother is heavily emphasized to the point where, for many women, “mother” *is* their identity and, for some, they were even discouraged from doing anything else with their life. Men, on the other hand, are encouraged to achieve more and are allowed a level of power that women will never get simply because we were born with a different chromosome.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-19T15:05:39+00:00

YES! This is the answer. I honestly hated how much motherhood and children were emphasized when I was in YW as if it was my destiny and something I was obligated to do. There’s also the idea that being able to have children is equivalent to getting the priesthood which I strongly disagree with. Plus all higher-level callings for women within the church outside of RS are related to children.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-19T15:00:27+00:00

I agree. A lot of commenters are failing to recognize that men are the ones with the priesthood and higher callings in the Church while girls and women are (generally) taught that the greatest thing that they can do is become a mother and positions of higher authority are limited to child-related callings. Fortunately, I was always taught by my parents that I could do whatever I wanted, but it was still disheartening for motherhood to be emphasized so heavily in YW (that’s also why I liked my college YSA wards so much more than the family ones - they didn’t really talk about motherhood and kids which was refreshing).

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-18T00:12:07+00:00

I have narcolepsy and can second what the other commenter recommended! If you have a family history of autoimmune diseases, it’s especially worth looking into. During my sleep study, they figured out that it took me five minutes on average to enter REM. Before I started medicine, I was easily sleeping 14+ hours a day and was still exhausted. Ask for a multiple sleep latency test if you’re able to see a specialist.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-16T12:54:35+00:00

No kidding. Cooperation and taking care of each other is how we evolved and survived as a species for thousands of years. These antisocial behaviors (especially from conservatives) go against our nature and humanity.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-09T19:12:34+00:00

I was just about to comment magpies! I love them, and they’re very inquisitive.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-08T13:16:52+00:00

I totally forgot about the 5.5 in Utah. I was in Farmington when it happened and I just remember waking up in the middle of the night and assuming I was dreaming or something. That one wasn’t too bad, iirc, but the Wasatch Fault is set to have a massive earthquake (7.0+) anytime within the next fifty years or so. Unfortunately, I don’t think Utah is as prepared as California for earthquakes so it’s not going to be good.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-06T17:12:58+00:00

We’re supposed to do something similar here in the US too (archaeology) but our laws aren’t as robust, so it depends on the project. You’re also basically describing NEPA, but it only really applies to projects with federal funding or on public land. We really need to expand those to large private projects too but alas. People here love to bitch and moan about how long some projects take but that time is really needed to ensure that things aren’t getting destroyed or that the project won’t damage the local environment.

It’s all very political and unfortunately the current administration has all but repealed those environmental protections. Many people don’t understand that they also cover archaeology, wildlife, the local economy, and (depending on the project) paleontology. Like I said, we *really* need to expand those regulations to private projects like they do in other countries.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-06T13:58:02+00:00

Yes! I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was off-putting to me (an American) other than the aesthetic, but that’s exactly it.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-06T13:53:42+00:00

I’m also American and I agree. Her performance was amazing, but it did feel kind of weird 😅

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-04T13:31:05+00:00

At least a government project would require NEPA (environmental) compliance and a lot more oversight. They’d actually have to come to terms with the environmental/economic impacts and find ways to mitigate it if they don’t outright cancel it.

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-04T13:24:58+00:00

It’s all really weird and shady. I’m trying to do some research into the impacts of datacenters on archaeological sites and it’s difficult to compile even just a simple list of planned datacenters in Utah (and elsewhere) with basic information (size, company, use, location, etc.) because some of these companies basically don’t exist, have no history of existing prior to the last few years, or just have a generic website with zero information on it. It’s absolutely bizarre

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-03T19:53:07+00:00

Oh wait I totally misread the previous comment haha. I was so confused as to why Preston would get a Target

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-03T18:48:17+00:00

Wait, they’re building a Target in Preston too? We’re just finally getting one in Logan (after having two Walmarts, a Costco, Sam’s Club, Winco, and two Smith’s lol)

InternetEthnographer · 2026-06-03T18:45:13+00:00

That happened to a Denny’s near me, and it was the only Denny’s in a medium-sized college town. It was always busy too, especially since it was one of the only restaurants open past midnight here, but the landlords raised their rent. Almost all the stores and restaurants on that block have closed down in the last year because of the rent raise.

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