Einar Einarsson

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

A classic by now, so perfect lol

[How-Sen @HowSenChong]

In the 00's, a car company made this commercial that accidentally exposed how much space is wasted by car-centric road design.

What’s crazy: The most unrealistic part of this video is how it shows *too many people* — because the average car on the road has just 1.5 people in it.

[FuckCars @FuckCarsReddit]

In a sane world we would be asking the people in rolling metal boxes of death to slightly inconvienience themselves for the safety of everyone else.

[FuckCars @FuckCarsReddit]

No other mode of transportation rivals bicycles in minimizing our impact on the biosphere.

The fact that a machine allows you to effortlessly travel 20 kilometers in an hour without needing an external power source is simply incredible.

[Einar Einarsson @Castor_Pollux]

@Stebbip @BjornBergG Þetta er á öllum treyjunum, ég geri ráð fyrir að þetta sé síðasta útgáfan af merki félagsins!

[Einar Einarsson @Castor_Pollux]

@Stebbip @BjornBergG Það vill svo skemmtilega til að ég er með tengingu bæði í Hrönn og Hvatbera. Spilaði eitt tímabil með þeim seinni og á allt búningaaettið hjá þeim fyrri..

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

The usual geniuses keep using this photo, to make their usual dumb/hateful anti-immigration arguments.

Quite ironic, to say the least.

A few facts about this photo, for anyone interested in who those women were - and what their stories might tell you about Ireland. /1

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Calling in sick to work is apparently an ancient tradition.

This 3200-year-old tablet is an attendance sheet.

Reasons for worker absence include "embalming brother," "brewing beer," and "bitten by a scorpion".

Ancient Egyptian employers kept track of employee days off in registers written on tablets. Known as ostracon, it's labelled 'Year 40' of Ramses II, and it provides a workmen's register for 280 days of the year.

There are twenty-four lines of New Egyptian hieratic on the front and twenty-one lines on the back. A list of forty names is arranged in columns on the right edge of each side, followed to the left by dates written in black in a horizontal line. Above most dates is a word or phrase in red, indicating the reason why this individual was absent from work on that date.

[📸 The Trustees of the British Museum]

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

What do tax cuts for the rich do?

They increase inequality.

They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment.

"Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does. By cooking so many cows, humans are cooking themselves, too. Forgoing steaks may be one of the most efficient ways to reduce our carbon footprint https://t.co/9xBcmhiPla 👇

[Clinton Yates @clintonyates]

over the years, some have been better than others, but for me, that particular year set the standard for pictograms that were life-changing.

this year? we've gotten back to something with unmistakable style and communicative messages.

[Mungo Manic @MungoManic]

Wow. A recent paper suggests modern humans migrated from Africa ~125kya and then L3 mtDNA carriers went BACK to Africa ~70kya

It'd explain the pre-70ka AMH fossils in Asia and why the M & N lineages in Southeast Asia are older than those nearer Africa

(Cabrera et al. 2018)

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

I think about this G.K. Chesterton passage a lot.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Will Durant reminds us that people we consider to have lived during the Middle Ages thought of themselves as living in modern times, with the Middle Ages in their past. Likewise, people of the future may view today as part of what they call the Late Middle Ages:

We are tempted to think of the Middle Ages as a fallow interval between the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (476) and the discovery of America; we must remind ourselves that the followers of Abélard called themselves moderni, and that the bishop of Exeter, in 1287, spoke of his century as moderni tempores, “modern times.” The boundary between “medieval” and “modern” is always advancing; and our age of coal and oil and sooty slums may some day be accounted medieval by an era of cleaner power and more gracious life.

[from The Story of Civilizations, Volume 4]

[Karl Brophy @KarlBrophy]

Ok, here goes....

This is a live thread about driving from Liguria in Italy all the way to Dublin in a really terrible electric car with a yellow dog called Honeycomb and some other people.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Parrot brings all its friends after recovery. 😂

[B&S @_B___S]

This dog loves playing pranks on his owner.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Car Brain is the urge, habit, or tendency to justify antisocial behavior when a motor vehicle is involved.

e.g. "Just walk around it and move on."

[Francisco Fonseca @_Francis_co_Art]

Inside my Murals 🏚

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It's conventional wisdom that focusing too much on work / ambition / wealth isn't the optimal way to live a happy life. Turns out there's an actual chemical explanation for why:
@maxjoseph