There are some pretty big buildings in there! Apparently the site (the Mummy Cave ruins in the Canyon de Chelly park) consists of about 70 rooms between the different buildings. Not sure how many buildings there are, I can see three distinct ones in this pic but since only one of them is still mostly standing I can imagine there are others than are harder to see

I hope this can bring you some measure of joy and isn’t too silly for the context https://youtu.be/7JkrJUAg8aI

It’s normal for CG artists to do their best to make their work look like real life and not CG, though. Death Stranding is clearly attempting to look as realistic as they can manage

I’d guess pilot goggles rather than VR

No, not quite. Cargo cults didn’t worship the vehicles, rather the notion of the abundance that they brought. The famous Melanesian ones in WWII happened in societies in which gift-giving was already the key to social power; when WWII came along, both the Japanese and Allied forces brought unbelievable quantities of supplies to the islands and then also intentionally handed out a lot of stuff in order to play into that social practice. It was enough that some locals interpreted it as a sign that they could return to their old ways that had been suppressed under Christian colonial rule, the first signs of a coming new age of prosperity

Anyway all that is to say that no, uncontacted tribes can’t have cargo cults because part of the formation of a cargo cult involves contact

I used to live next to some folk who would drive 300 metres to the gym

We can visibly see in this video that there’s nothing in the way of rounding this junction off

Seems like we’re not entirely sure, but the most widely-accepted theory is that Portuguese sailors heard a Sinhala name and got it a little muddled when telling others Europeans about it

One British guy who got captured there while working for the East India Company wrote that it was this, except for that Europeans intentionally named it after Christopher Columbus because it already sounded really similar

Is that not the suspended deputies describing the act as incompatible with Jewish values? I’m not sure whether “the act” here is the attack on Gaza or the suspensions, though. It’s a very poorly-written sentence on the part of the article’s author

Oh okay, I understand now. Thanks

What do you mean? There are people attributed as saying it in the article

Wikipedia has a couple of them! Sigourney Thayer was an American theatre producer born 1896, Sigourney Trask was an American missionary born 1849, and Sigourney Bandjar is a Surinamese footballer born 1984

JDAM is supposed to have a circular error probable of 5m and it’s an upgrade kit from 25 years ago. I can definitely believe that a much newer purpose-built weapon can do better than that. The idea of hitting the same spot with multiple bombs might not actually be that unlikely

A bit of a niche one: I am a big fan of the TTRPG Lancer, and a popular meme format is describing things in the game by cutting and pasting bits of the rulebook like a classic ransom letter

Based on measuring the images, they seem about right. The F-250 is the full width of the image (1,002 px). The MX-5 is 605 px, so just over 60% of the length of the F-250. If we do the same maths with the lengths provided in the image (6.35 m and 3.95 m) we get 62%. If the scale is wrong it’s by a pretty negligible amount

Regarding the door handles, the MX-5’s door handles aren’t made for hands. Their hinge is parallel to the actual door hinge and they’re made to be used with one finger instead of a whole hand, so while you were right to notice the difference it’s actually because the MX-5’s door handles really are very unusually small

The sand which Sam the Witch panned for riches on the strand which spans, to wit, from headland to ridge

It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though

They’re closely connected with the other countries that have been powerful and influential in recent history (as in the past couple of centuries), most of which actually are grouped more northerly than other countries. It’s a cultural and diplomatic term rather than a strict geographic one

To be fair those dwarves really could do with this Karl as well

That’s fair enough. While I’ve seen a lot more of the insides of self checkouts than the average person, I definitely don’t know the ins and outs of every model out there, not even close