I'm not getting one until it's AI-powered. So I can get it hooked on drugs like in Transmetropolitan. You can't trust a straight-edge printer to not rat you out to the cops.

Well seeing as the Sumerians are about six or seven THOUSAND years older than the Norse I think we can presume their thunder god doesn't trace back to Thor.

Not only was it okay, it was standard practice around the world. That's why you should never put a piece of amber in your pocket if you find it on some German or Danish beach. There were tons of white phosphorus dumbed into the sea after WWII because they needed to get rid of it and it looks kind of like amber when it washes ashore. Then it dries out in your pocket and sets you on fire, giving awful burns. Always store any found amber in fireproof containers until you can make sure it's the real deal.

Not just decades, the Kensington Runestone was "found" in 1898. It was just pure coincidence that it was a Swedish immigrant who happened to find it in his field, during an era when people were romanticising the vikings and tying ancestral pride to their travels.

No real scholar has believed in its authenticity for over a hundred years, yet you still get the tourism spiel about "it totally could have happened tho and someone once heard a story about their grandpa seeing blue-eyed natives, come check out our stone". Peter Stormare even made a recent documentary about it where he really seemed to want to believe in it. It's weird how the obvious fakes seem to get more excitement than L'anse aux meadows gets.

>The language of the runes remains in question too. "The inscriptions are not a Viking script, but a combination of [runic languages] Elder Futhark and Younger Futhark, which predates when the Vikings would have been traveling," said Dennis Peterson, archaeologist and manager of the Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center, the source of America's largest collection of prehistoric Native American relics, not far from Heavener.

So some vikingaboo carved it and now the locals want to keep the belief that it was done by Norse traders going because it makes them money from tourism.

>"The 235-metre-long Shofu Maru will transport coal mainly from Australia, Indonesia, and North America as a dedicated vessel for Japan’s electric services company Tohoku Electric Power."

Well thank goodness the sail is there to reduce "GHG emissions by about 5-8%". What a strike for a greener future!

Her brother however.... What a creepy asshole.

It depends on what species the father is. Same as with tigons/ligers, where the difference in the offspring is quite striking. Grolars would be the ones with a grizzly father, which I think is more common so far and why it's used the most. Personally I prefer Nanaluk/Aknuk because then you circumvent the pizzly bit.