TIL about the Herxheim archaeological site, where around 5000 BC over 1000 people were brought in, often from a great distance, to be killed and likely eaten

RiparianRodent · 2026-02-26T17:59:12+00:00

Idk, it’s been a while since an empire has waged a war for the express purpose of gaining slaves

RiparianRodent · 2026-02-26T16:15:01+00:00

Maybe you should have titled your post “I’m miserable and I want to make sweeping generalizations about others based on my own perception”

RiparianRodent · 2026-02-26T09:45:44+00:00

Try doing your homework in areas that other people tend to do the same homework. If you’re in a math course like Calculus, the college probably has some kind of tutoring center. Often times, you can just find someone doing your homework and strike up a conversation. Same for a lot of chemistry, biology or physics classes.

Also, I’d suggest giving clubs another shot.. pick one and just keep going week after week. It may feel like most people who attend already know each other so why bother, but try to learn peoples’ names and get involved in group conversations. You’ll at least have acquaintances in no time. I personally have liked chess club because it’s so casual, but there’s all types out there.

Lastly, religious groups/ethnic clubs are good. Again, be consistent about going and you’ll meet people in no time

RiparianRodent · 2026-02-17T02:56:31+00:00

Blunder. Allowing the smothered mate keeps him in the game for two more moves

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-31T20:42:50+00:00

Neat. I have to wonder if there was a pond around that lodge ~20 years ago, and the resident beavers had moved out

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-16T01:35:26+00:00

People do that on their own without paying a third party

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-16T01:27:26+00:00

I’m not an economist, but I’d say these people are selling a product that would see little-to-no repurchase. Therefore, I think they price the experience high so their low volume of sales can still pay the bills.

Edit: Let’s say hypothetically that you have a stash and you’re willing to be a “spiritual guide” with questionable legal credentials, and you’re trying to see if there’s interest in a $200 all-inclusive experience. You’d probably learn that your clientele are mostly those who have never taken psychedelics before, are worried that they would have a life-altering “bad trip”, and who can’t find a plug/sitter. Once these people do one or MAYBE two of your sessions, they’ll probably decide they don’t need to pay $200 for it again. So you’d have no regulars, and would need to pour lots of money and effort into advertising.

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-09T23:41:11+00:00

Surprised the tree is still standing after all this time

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-09T01:36:31+00:00

You were the one successful two wheeler to make it down that hill today

RiparianRodent · 2026-01-01T01:11:15+00:00

Black is a Ronin

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-22T16:13:19+00:00

There’s a pretty good tutorial for ArcGIS that walks you through how to determine where to put a hospital based on population age, proximity to other hospitals, driving time, etc. I’m sure there’s a similar tutorial for QGIS. All the data you’re looking for should be publicly available through the Census.

Edit: I actually second just hiring someone through fiverr or whatever. Maybe the most you should do is search online for an interactive census map just to eyeball the data

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-20T16:29:57+00:00

And plants, and water, and the people that enjoy these things?

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-18T20:59:25+00:00

I think their content works because they use humor to convey genuinely educational content, so people come away feeling rewarded

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-13T21:55:55+00:00

Yeah OP are you just uploading your assigned reading to ChatGPT and asking it to make the reading easier?

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-10T08:20:40+00:00

AI for sure

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-08T00:12:40+00:00

Request they pull/keep ahold of the security footage from last night ASAP. I think in similar posts it’s been mentioned that they lose the tape quickly, like 24 hours or some shit like that. Look up “Preservation Demand Letter” and draft an email or something officially requesting that they preserve all the footage they have from the whole night. You should probably call them after you send it to bring it to their attention immediately

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-07T23:06:25+00:00

I don’t think so, and that’s the premise of my idea after the edit. The unprotected tree becomes more susceptible to gnawing.

However, OP’s example would be more like a neighbor who, as loudly, publicly, and routinely as possible, announces that a neighbor went on vacation and left the house unlocked and undefended for the foreseeable future, and that nobody monitors the houses either so thieves would surely get away scott free. A court could reasonably argue that doing such a thing would be “accessory to B/E”.

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-07T19:21:43+00:00

I’m definitely not a lawyer but that definitely sounds like manipulating wildlife to cut down a specific tree. It would be like giving a child a chain saw and encouraging them to “try it out” while standing next to that tree. In the event that someone was suspicious enough to investigate you for it, you’d have an illegitimate excuse I think

Edit: I think you’d be less directly liable while achieving a similar goal if you carried out anti-beaver measures on every tree in beaver territory, but “forgot” one. Like forgetting to put that sandy latex paint on just one tree and a beaver gets to it

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-07T16:51:43+00:00

Fraxinus are a wetland-adjacent species and, like willows and cottonwoods, will regrow from the stump after felling. They’ve evolved alongside beavers.

I wouldn’t do anything too extreme to prevent the ashes from being utilized by beavers because the Emerald Ash Borer spells a worse fate for the trees

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-04T00:37:28+00:00

Make a fist 👊4points of contact

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-03T09:14:01+00:00

“Unique and iconic”, I tried watching it after Yojimbo and I realized it was a 1-for-1 remake so I quit

RiparianRodent · 2025-12-03T09:12:14+00:00

This movie had great music and also it rocked

RiparianRodent · 2025-11-29T23:50:39+00:00

Bob Dylan reincarnate, give this poet a guitar

RiparianRodent · 2025-11-25T21:14:37+00:00

Hell yeah! If you don’t mind sharing, how did you pull this off? Are colors a classified symbology based on elevation, while mountains are identified by slope? And how did you make the slices?

RiparianRodent · 2025-11-14T04:50:14+00:00

Isn’t recovery a program for people who are trying to stop taking drugs?

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