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Nathan
@_ntj
forest green | noir editor, pitch me: nathan at lareviewofbooks dot org | all views my own
"pilgrim from the pope's hometown brings him hat with hometown insignia stitched on it" is a sentence easily understood by any christian going back 2000 yearsImagine explaining this picture to a medieval peasant
- precolumbian coastal california was so temperate and abundant that the indigenous tribes had no agriculture or domesticated livestock yet were still the densest population north of tenochtitlan. little wonder europeans thought they'd discovered the garden of edenbest quality of life in all of human history was precolumbian coastal california and the pacific northwest
- Replying to @_ntji think the lushness of the premodern americas is basically impossible for a 21st c reader to understand but descriptions of coastal california are unique in that europeans are just astonished that such a place can exist with zero tradeoffs
- Replying to @HaroldBingothis whole thing has me grateful once again that DOOM's family got to process/release info on their own terms
- Had a feeling my roommate was eating one of my gala apples, went downstairs and he was eating one of my gala apples
- Replying to @PFTCommenter@PFTCommenter pushing my 9 month son backwards every time he's about to take his first steps so he becomes an dropback qb not a running qb
- Replying to @GRoditiDfun think i learned was that the los angeles basin had abundant subterranean water, you could tap artesian wells basically anywhere... so late 19th c farmers tapped thousands of wells as the region grew, lowering the water table and depleting the supply in a single generation
- genuinely fascinating how her whole deal can be so clearly traced back to her upbringing in a fundamentalist sect, like one-to-one explanationsfor the record, im currently at ~70% that we're all dead in 10-15 years from AI. i've stopped saving for retirement, and have increased my spending and the amount of long-term health risks im taking
- there are 17(!!!) bloomberg terminals in the vatican and i need to see all of them immediately, i just know the aesthetics are sublimeThe Vatican has more Bloomberg terminals than the UK Treasury I believe ?? (Post from LinkedIn)
- unqualified support for the uber driver who took this guy over three different bridges so he could get as much money in return tolls as possible, the out of town surcharge doesn't come close to covering the opportunity cost of driving back to nyc from phillyI just took an Uber from Manhattan to Philadelphia. In one hour and 45 minutes different governments charged me $140 in various tolls and taxes.
- peru's beating france on thursday and making it out of the group, you heard it here first
- the gap between what online adult catholic converts are like and what all my irl friends raised in the catholic church are like just kills me
- Replying to @kzwh_ and @Nicole_CliffeSCOOP: She Claims to Be Anti-War, But I've Obtained Footage of a Bikini-Clad AOC Yelling "Cannonball!" and Then Jumping Off a Diving Board
