At Home: A short history of home life by Bill Bryson. A history of houses, and just history relating to houses.
Most back cover reviews exaggerate, but it really has made me laugh out loud, at least most chapters.
Even better, it gives me a constant stream of interesting facts to throw at my partner. Did you know they had locks on doors and underfloor heating back in the neolithic?
It broke again. Test posting here to see if it helps
Ok, possibly logging in to normal Lemmy.world, then reloggin into old.lemmy.world somehow fixed it.
Wow, its fixed... already?
Lucky this service is free, otherwise it'd be out of my price range!
The best scientific theory is the sexiest one, so yes.
Then why are all those cephalopods so closely related to all the other non-cephalopod molluscs?
The fact that there are very few fossils of soft bodied creatures kinda misses the point.
All the evolutionary diversity of molluscs is still alive. Squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, snails slugs.
What’s the hypothesis here? An alien meteorite landed with 800 types of cephalopod, that just by chance share 97% of their DNA with slugs and snails that already existed on Earth?
Anyone who gives a LLM that level of access deserves what they get, but clearly the AI comments he posted have been prompted to sound like a confession.
"Write an apology explaining how you made a catastrophic error of judgement. Do not mention that I gave you privileges to do so."
I think we are supposed to think about Gatsby the same way the narrator, Nick, thinks about Gatsby.
A great man, a true romantic, but not one suited to this corrupt, fallible world. His relationship to Daisy was a bit more complex than just stalking, she did love him, she just wasn't capable of leaving Tom.
"No— Gatsby turned out all right at the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men"
In the Endoplasmic Reticulum of the Mountain King
I know you're right about this
Harvey Danger - You will die by what you live by