Hopefully. They’re dead. “Ethics” around artifacts that are millennia old and wholly unrelated to modern persons other than geography is patently phony decorum kowtowing to modern governments, not some noble observation of historical and cultural protections.

The boundaries haven’t been changed. There are separate court challenges for both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments. How they turn out won’t just determine whether my favorite places in the US will still exist; the outcomes will set a potentially devastating precedent that essentially determines whether…

1,400 feet of water makes it pretty hard to get to.

They can’t really stop it. The best they can do is bring the matter to court. Though I hear that they’re planning to gift half of the gold to them voluntarily to avoid bad blood, and it’s probably a better deal than to sue and potentially lose. 

Yes, thank you. What we really know at this point next to nothing.

I’m sure that diplomatically they have plenty of leverage, but I doubt it’s so straightforward. The wreck is well within South Korean waters, so anyone wanting to access the salvage would need to work with South Korea one way or another.

Speaking of dinosaurs and Utah. We went to Dinosaur National Monument a few weeks ago. So, so cool. If you are ever in North Eastern Utah/North Western Colorado and can swing it, I highly recommend visiting.

ANCIENT TANKBOYE

Black granite sarcophagus that weighs 30,000lbs, 3 bodies, buried in 15 feet of dirt. Are they 3 adult males? I think these people were considered incredibly evil, and were sealed away with a double dose of mortar to keep them from rising from the grave/wreaking havoc. Maybe the sewage found in there was actually…

Nah, that would have to go to a predator that feasted on the flying dinos that were around by this point.

1st human centipede? 

Erm, it’s a coffin. What were people expecting? As a forensic anthropologist I find this fascinating. The bones can tell a lot.

As someone who was recently diagnosed with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NALFD) at age 30 (this year back in March), you should also watch your sugar(carb) intake and eat plenty of healthy foods (not talking about going organic, but leafy greens, moderate fruit, healthy proteins, 100-200cal in complex carbs), oh…

Starting to feel like everyone is against my outlandish drunken behavior around here. 

Stolen artifacts like this need to be given back to natives for proper burial.  I consider myself pretty liberal, but this is ludicrous. Everything mummified in the Atacama. Let the dead baby or whatever rest in so called peace.

Well, it’s worth noting that recessions and depressions never happen exactly when they’re finally acknowledged to have started by the government and economists that want to be taken “seriously”. It’s often 2-5 years in the making and in Bush’s case 7 years. Common people were getting fucked, entirely, well before Wall…

I’m a white male in this age group and I could see this progressing in me and a lot of my peers. Some people stopped partying after college but a lot didn’t, me included. Every event is centered around alcohol and no one thinks twice about it.

Turns out when people feel sad and hopeless, they turn to substances: opiates, alcohol, you name it.

As someone in the group they looked at (25-34) I can confirm pretty much everyone I know in that bracket is a borderline/full on alcoholic. I’m actually getting tired of the fact that 90% of what we do revolves around alcohol. For one, its costly and two, I know there are better things we can be doing.

We probably need to start treating alcohol like we treat nictoine, at least culturally. Alcohol consumption is so normalized that we don’t bat an eye at people over consuming booze but we treat smokers as villians. Yet with drunk driving and liver disease among MANY other ills alcohol is just as destructive and…