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I'm not sure why this is being claimed as the first time chimps have made weapons to hunt with. It's well known that they fish termites out of mounds using sticks or straw fashioned for that purpose. I guess it's not really hunting unless ultraviolence is involved or the prey is cute.

The idea that human tool use is devoid of analogues anywhere else in the animal kingdom has been repeatedly dashed - definitively. I assume it is perpetuated because of our conceit. It seems unlikely that everything we think of as uniquely human - language, forethought, logical reasoning, social morality, technology, the insane belief that we are not mortal - is encoded in that 1.5% of the genome we don't share with the members of genus Pan.

From the "There's no Prick like a Cop whose a Prick" file. We have Lee and Teresa Sipple being threatened with legal action for complaining about a police officer they photographed going up to 17 mph over the posted speed limit in front of their house.

The prick eventually withdrew his complaint...I would guess shortly after his lawyer explained to him that it was baseless and illegal.

Ok, it's not actually all posted in a single night. More like Good Past 3 Months, but I'm reading it all in one night, so fuck you.
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it's kind of a long way to go for a Duke Nukem Forever joke, but I chuckled.