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They found that Hawaiians share the most Polynesian ancestry with people on Easter Island, followed by people on Mangareva, an island nearly 3,000 kilometers west of Easter Island. Though no one had connected these distant dots previously, it makes sense that an ultravoyaging culture capable of reaching Easter Island from Mangareva would be the one to then settle Hawaii, Ioannidis said. (An earlier study by the researchers found that members of the same ultravoyaging population also reached South America and came in contact with Native Americans.)

The team also conducted a more detailed genomic analysis of people from Tahiti, the island for which they had the most genomes. By comparing identity-by-descent segments within the population, they could estimate the size and date of the founding generation — a group of approximately 800 people who arrived on the island about 34 generations ago, around the year 1070. (The population estimate is of a single generation of reproductive age and doesn’t include children and elders they may have brought along.)

We give billions of dollars to Israel for defense and grants. They in turn funnel that back us via AIPAC.

Yeah, but you said “normal now,” as if this hasn’t been a thing for the last decade and more.

Where have you been since 2016?

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Yawn. Another day nothing will happen. Next.

GTFO with this slop.

ultimate ‘cmatrix’ clone… but it uses arbitrary Chinese characters, not kana-based characters.

Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!

The amendment.

That’ll teach 'em.

As I said to another just now, the lawmakers are not doing their job. They’re either ignoring or blocking the correct course. They’re obligated to follow their oath to the Constitution. If that’s not broken, then I don’t know what is.

Furthermore, yes, it’s an artful document that’s 250 years old now. It needs a little help. It needs an update. In our current state, I could see our government using Chat Jippity to write those updates.

I’m saying that the people who can and should enforce it are not only not doing anything, but blocking us from our normal measures.

We need to do extra.

Asking a bunch of open-ended what-if questions to contrast what’s actually happening is fine, but @underpantsWeevil@lemmy.world and apparently you aren’t seeing that these “things” aren’t doing shit. So, effectively, it’s the same stance I’m taking - just framed differently.

“What if X is done and Y is this?” That’s my point. If nothing is changing despite our efforts, then nothing is being done. The Constitution is worthless right now and no number rhetorical questions will change that. Isolated, low impact regional flare-ups won’t do much and can be locally suppressed and painted as disgruntled “ANTIFA” or whatever the state wants to call it next.

The Constitution is being ignored. We as a nation are failing to hold our government accountable in a meaningful way. If this election in November proves to actually unseat Trump’s coalition, then the next step will be for politicians to fortify against him and others like him, then codify the changes in a way that can’t be subverted by regular means.

Asking “What if” a bunch of times doesn’t do or say a thing to help fix the Constitutional crisis we’re now facing. So, get off your high horse and come down to earth with the rest of us who want to actually fight instead of casting unhelpful dispersions.

If you consider that “doing something,” then that’s part of the problem.

If nobody does anything, it shows the constitution is worthless. It can’t or won’t be enforced.

We get what we get until then.

Relatively the same.

When I explained X11 on FreeBSD to Windows users 25 years ago, I said, “you start from the pretty side and work towards the ugly. I start on the ugly side and make it pretty.”

Omarchy is turning a perfectly decent OS and putting a pig outfit on it and giving it lipstick, then calling it pretty.