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people who say mahjong only exists to cause misery are somewhat correct but that doesnt mean it isnt fun. the misery comes from torturing the other players at the table
mahjong is about holding on to the green dragon you know somebody is holding for even though it means you cant win out of sheer spite. mahjong is about calling pon just to skip somebody's turn. mahjong is about having a one night stand and not even leaving a smell of your body fluids on the sheets as you leave silently in the middle of the night
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The people using this expansionist rhetoric, and those in the media who are downplaying its use, should be wiped from the face of the planet.
No peace for tyrants.
for those unaware, the us has a long history of imperialism and control in panama. the panama canal was built by the us army corps of engineers between 1904 and 1914. the us didn't transfer full control of the canal until 1999.
one ship passing thru the canal wastes as much fresh water as 500,000 days worth of drinking water. it all comes from lake gatun, and with climate change the lake has been draining faster than it can be replenished. the people who live there depend on these waters to live. this has caused the government of panama to slow down cargo traffic thru the canal, as well as increasing costs for those who do go thru. most ships decide to wait it out, because its faster and cheaper to wait in line for a week or more and pay up to a million dollars to go thru the canal than it is to reroute around south america. between the savings of shipping thru the canal and the roughly 4+ billion revenue of the canal, there are some big material reasons for us imperialism to return in a naked fashion to fuck over the residents who live there.
Imperialism didn't ever really leave, it's still a tax haven and controlled by the US via neocolonial rule. In addition, construction began earlier this year to dam the Indio river and create a new reservoir to supply the canal, despite everyone actually living there opposing it. Given it's located outside the Canal's watershed,it's going to have downstream effects and further fuck up the river system/water cycle
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I often think about the remains of a Neolithic woman found at a Prehistoric site in Scotland who was isotope tested and found to have been born in southern England and lived there for a significant portion of her life before relocating to northern Scotland. Her life predated the introduction of horses to Britain so she would have had to walk 700+ miles during her life to get to the place she was ultimately buried. What motivated her to do that? What drove her from her home and to a colder and harsher climate? Was it conflict? Was it wanderlust? Was it love? I can’t remember the name of the site but I think I remember other nearby remains in the group tomb had been tested and found to have been lifelong locals so she was probably an outlier in her new community.
I enjoy prehistory for this reason. The not knowing is excruciating but in that it is wonderful. So much of human history is lost to us but our ancestors existed and did fantastic feats we would not dream of for reasons we do not know but would probably make sense to us if we did understand. Also I bet everybody was so envious of her muscular legs and fantastic tales. She was probably really cool.
I hate to burst ur bubble bc this does sound like a very cool life!!! but that is not unthinkably far my friend. The appalachian trail is over 2,000 miles and ppl regularly make it on foot in abt 5 months. Now, most ppl who hike the appalachain trail are not coming up with food on the journey; so i assume a prehistoric trip is gonna take longer, and/but/also i feel like it is entirely feasible to spend, say, ur early 20s wandering around, hanging out with different people and living different places, and cover that much distance in a few years without even really feeling like you made an exceptional journey (at least just on the walking front) cuz like...I can't fully back this up but I'd be shocked if prehistoric hunter gatherers weren't walking hundreds of miles a year even w/o traveling great distances; just in the course of Living Life.
Lots of modern people live traveling long distances and hopping from place to place and while we're never gonna know exactly why someone did what they did thousands of years ago, I tend to think the reasons stay pretty similar. I remember reading a while ago abt how it's actually been really common in tons of cultures across time--including lots and lots of places without aided transport--for young adults to leave their families, locations, & even local culture of origin to go do Something Else with their lives... I'm sure this person was not the Only person to make a journey like this in her time and she probably heard stories from others and decided she wanted to try it out. Some people are Road People, today, back then, and every time and place in between.
Edit: i also think its unlikely that, like someone in the notes is suggesting, her family/home of origin Never Heard From Her Again. This happens all the time and is definitely possible but, even without phones or organized information sharing networks, even with modern population sizes! you might be surprised abt how easy it can be to get news abt a loved one/ex/enemy/etc you ain't seen in years from a traveler who happened upon both them and you. Its a small world, after all, and I think its more fun and lovely to remember that humanity has always been capable of navigating it.
from the Swiss Alps to Outer Mongolia, they were often using remarkably similar tools, playing remarkably similar musical instruments, carving similar female figurines, wearing similar ornaments and conducting similar funeral rites. What’s more, there is reason to believe that at certain points in their lives, Individual men and women often traveled very long distances.2 [Schmidt and Zimmerman 2019]
Much of this seems counter-intuitive. We are used to assuming that advances in technology are continually making the world a smaller place. In a purely physical sense, of course, this is true: the domestication of the horse, and gradual improvements in seafaring, to take just two examples, certainly made it much easier for people to move around. But at the same time, increases in the sheer number of human beings seem to have pulled in the opposite direction, ensuring that, for much of human history, ever-diminishing proportions of people actually traveled – at least, over long distances or very far from home. If we survey what happens over time, the scale on which social relations operate doesn’t get bigger and bigger; it actually gets smaller and smaller
David Graeber, from The Dawn of Everything (page 133 in the pdf version). If you're interested I could give a few more examples from this book, I think I made notes on this in my annotated copy
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i have no ideas for drawing lately
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On an August afternoon, Pablo stared down at a foam plate sloshing with flavorless pinto beans and a particularly bad version of huevos a la Mexicana. The simple, usually delicious scramble of eggs, tomatoes, onions and jalapeños is difficult to mess up. But if anyone can find a way to make it unpalatable, it’s the cook at his labor camp. Soupy eggs are the last thing the 42-year-old from western Mexico wants to eat. But after a 12-hour day harvesting tobacco in the brutal and sometimes deadly summer heat, he must eat – and this was far from the worst meal he’s been given. A few weeks ago, fellow farm workers got sick due to raw and moldy food they were forced to purchase. On days like this, Pablo can’t decide which is worse: that he’s forced to pay $80 a week for this slop, or that everything about what he eats, when he eats and how much he eats is tightly controlled by his employer. Pablo, who is using a pseudonym due to fear of retaliation, is one of more than 35,000 migrant workers in North Carolina this year as part of the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program, a guest visa program overseen by the US Department of Labor (DoL). The program enables American employers to hire foreign workers to perform seasonal agricultural work. Employers in the program frequently exploit their migrant employees, and the structure of the program makes easy work of it. Visas are tied to a single employer who must also provide housing, transportation and access to food, creating a crushing power imbalance between American employers and migrant H-2A workers.
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Marisa I love you
This entire conversation is a trainwreck LMFAO
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LMAAAAAOOOO
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they need to invent a special emergency glass that you can put over future grief so you cant get into it before its time. and maybe it wouldnt break even then