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The asteroid that hit Vredefort is estimated to have been one of the largest ever to strike Earth since the Hadean Eon some four billion years ago. The crater, which has since been eroded away, was around 200–300 km (100–200 mi) across when it was formed. The remaining structure, comprising the deformed underlying bedrock, is located in present-day Free State province of South Africa. It is named after the town of Vredefort, which is near its centre. The structure's central uplift is known as the Vredefort Dome. The impact structure was formed during the Paleoproterozoic Era, 2.023 billion (± 4 million) years ago. It is the second-oldest known impact structure on Earth, after Yarrabubba (Australia).

This impact was 3 times more energetic than the Chicxulub impact. Unlike this one, the consequences of the Vredefort impact on Life were never been quantified, because of the lack of fossil records of that epoch, 30 times older than the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

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I actually work in an area where a lot of people still use bio-fuel for home heating, and where I work sells these blocks of compressed byproduct of the timber industry and it sounds very similar to these olive oil byproduct pomace blocks used for fuel in Rome.

This mirrors every exchange I've had with ChatGPT, except I'm far more angry that ChatGPT has been bullshitting me and that it has been morally inconsistent.

Pretty incredible that the only person willing and/or capable of showing to the Anglosphere the Russian perspective on this ongoing war is a reactionary sophomoric dingus with a high-school-level understanding of politics.

During the Cold War immense resources were spent by the yanks on trying to understand the Soviets, what made them tick, their perspectives on things, how they thought, etc, all in the interests of averting nuclear holocaust.

Now, there is no line of communication between the West and Russia, period. We are sleepwalking into nuclear hellfire.

I actually thought that Carlson's interview with Putin was outstanding and historically significant. Not because I like Putin (I don't, obviously) but because it was so refreshing to actually hear the other side of this conflict for once, and to hear an experienced and established statesman speak his mind at length (who, bonus, isn't a dottering old octogenarian walking crypt keeper who can't speak full coherent sentences).

All I hear from Western media and the gullible fools who actually watch and believe it is psychotic RUSSIA BAD RUSSIA BAD RUSSIA BAD!!!!!!1 and anybody who even acknowledges that Russia is, in fact, its own country with its own security interests, is branded as spreading Russian propaganda (this has happened to me, personally, multiple times. In fact, I think that is just about the only thing that libs have on Tulsi Gabbard to accuse her of being "Putin's Puppet" - god even typing this has me rolling my god damned eyes).

Also, during the Putin interview it was pretty funny to see how politically illiterate Tucker Carlson actually is, and what an incredibly short attention span he has. Pretty sad state of affairs when this is the only person willing to even show the perspective of the other side of the war in Ukraine.

In any event, I look forward to this interview when it comes out in the coming days.

Matt Christman was a host of Chapo Trap House. He had a stroke in September 2023. Matt Christman is now making a poem series called Strokes of Genius.

Will Menaker said "I promised we got another Matt Christman poem for you. Now this poem, I gave Matt some ideas for the holidays and I said 'You know thanksgiving is coming up, why don't you do a poem about what you're thankful for?' He was very enthused by that idea. So we have a Matt Christman Thanksgiving Poem for the second official entry in Matt Christman's Strokes of Genius."