kinda obsessed rn with the idea that on a super-earth like LHS 1140b, you could have continents too far apart to reach by sail. you'd need oil-burning ships to have a columbian exchange
Complete bullshit. Fear of Soviet subversion allowed the development of the most intensive anti-communist institutions in American history. Meanwhile the Soviets themselves defanged the American labor movement and delegitimized the left in general.
creepypasta where a guy posts on a message board like "somethings wrong with this star wars vhs tape i got at a garage sale" & the opening crawl is like
Episode IV
A New Hope
There is a guy behind you
Graeber claims on page 308 that the black death caused cities to default on their bonds in the 1400s, but he does not cite any source, and as far as i can find online, municipal bonds weren't invented at the time.
Remember that SNL sketch about Sydney Sweeney wanting to fuck a dog. Remember when Sydney Sweeney just looked at a camera and said she wanted to fuck Air Bud for five minutes. What was up with that
E.g. the state of France does not exist on its current boundaries because all those places were already filled with 'the French.'
Rather the French state already existed and made everyone in its borders *learn French.*
The state created the nation, not the other way around.
I have a running theory that what people think of as "Reddit" has become less connected to the actual forum site reddit dot com and more often the subtle cultural runoff of Mormonism