Fun fact.
Modern humans first appeared about 250,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't began until about 6,000 years ago.
That means, about 97% of human history is lost forever.
[✏️ @waitbutwhy]
@EricLDaugh Speaker Thune is totally wrong claiming proof for rigging is required before putting up for vote a law to pass the Save Act, the save Act is about fairness for all legal citizens.
With Pratt's elimination, L.A. voters have again guaranteed the status quo and that city will continue on the same downward trajectory. https://t.co/Bo4x99VDgS It is the ultimate expression of the politics of low expectations. https://t.co/Xzw95HsZxB U-Haul stock must be soaring.
@AmbJohnBolton Unless Islam leaders admit to change their ultimate goal is to destroy non-believers. Therefore if President Trump reaches a deal with them it will be up to the next administration to make sure Iran does not cheat. But, I have no faith of that happening.
George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Without our extraordinary capacity for cultural transmission, the ability to rapidly share knowledge, tools, and technologies, humans would have required roughly 88 million years of biological evolution and would have diverged into more than 2,200 distinct species to achieve our current global distribution.
Since emerging in Africa around 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens rapidly spread across every continent, adapting to extreme environments from Arctic tundra to scorching deserts. Rather than depending on slow genetic adaptations through natural selection, our species leveraged a powerful shortcut: cultural evolution.
A groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that by accumulating and transmitting innovations socially, humans expanded across the planet at a pace approximately 300 times faster than would be expected under typical mammalian genetic evolution.
To reach this conclusion, Arizona State University anthropologist Charles Perreault compared humanity’s geographic range with data from nearly 6,000 mammal species. His analysis shows that if we had relied solely on biological mechanisms, achieving our current footprint would have demanded tens of millions of years of lineage splitting and vast differences in body size. Instead, all eight billion humans remain a single, highly adaptable species that collectively occupies a land area comparable to that of all other terrestrial mammals combined.
This research highlights that humanity’s success stems not just from being generalists, but from our unique ability to develop localized cultural expertise through cooperation and social learning, our species’ greatest evolutionary superpower.
[Perreault, C. (2026). Cultural evolution accelerated human range expansion by more than two orders of magnitude. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(11), e2523038123. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523038123]
Nebraska achieved a historically low unemployment rate while I was governor.
We led the nation in economic development projects per capita. Three years in a row. We cut the growth of government spending in half.
Less spending. Less red tape. More jobs for Nebraskans. I'm bringing those proven solutions to Washington.
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We always think the problem in America is the right versus the left.
That's not true.
It's no longer conservatives versus liberals.
The battle now is between globalists and nationalists. Nationalists are America first. Globalists are America last.
What makes a RINO a RINO is that they are conservatives who are also globalists.
And that's the problem.
If this was just conservatives vs. liberals, we could beat them every day.
But we have these globalists within our own party that are sabotaging everything we do.
@elonmusk Trouble is most of us with good sense are ok with other cultures as long as they are not forced on us. but the left forces their cultures and leftist agenda on us at the same time the left tears down ours.