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Museum professional, Historian of Science, Teacher, and some other stuff.
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Different. Ground squirrels have fewer racing stripes and are larger than chipmunks along with other differences.
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Not arguing otherwise. Just pointing out that the US and its armed services got the skills to put on an impressive parade. That this administration squandered those skills to produce this orgy of militaristic conspicuous consumption is an embarrassment not least to the people forced to participate.
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Once you count all the bands it’s actually a sizable number. Even before the recent dogginess the US spent more on military music than the NEA. Anyone with some skill in logistics could have put on a decent parade. But competency is not our leaderships strong suit.
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US military has smaller units that do nothing but parade and ceremonies. You see them a lot living near DC. Even one that specializes in fife and drum music. Not nearly on the scale we are talking about though.
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My history teachers probably said similar, but they were just silly teachers.
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We are running out of Rubicons.
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I have a joke about Prometheus, it really brings the heat!
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I like it all as long as the chosen emphasis is done well.
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I've got a joke about Rhazes, but it really needs to be distilled to its essence.
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We'll have Willie Nelson for a little longer at least.
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Unsung? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
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It seems like an obvious miss.
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This encapsulates so much of white entitlement. He wants full freedom to do whatever he wants, like through trash wherever he pleases, but takes no responsibility or accountability for the negative consequences in which his actions will inevitably and predictably result.
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As long as they don't make a spectacle of themselves.
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2a. I kept expecting the lead detective to say Nanu Nanu and
2b. None of the other characters made that connection and used it to annoy him. A lot of characters disliked him and a quick nanu nanu or "f*ck of to Ork" would surely be a quick way to get under his skin.
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I loved the show but was constantly distracted by two things:
1. The lead Detective could not have fit the tortured crime fighter cliche more. (This was more than mitigated by Goode's and the rest of the cast's performance.) and...
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That's also me and all my musical heroes growing up in the 70's. Lots of love songs to young girls by men having sex with 12-14 year-olds.
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I can be wishy washy when it comes down to good art by horrible people, but when the awfulness can even mildly be connected to the content of the art....I just can't.
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Oooof. Glad the books were so ephemeral in my memory. I never had the desire to reread
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I read those like 40 years ago and lost track of Eddings. What's up with him?
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Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A graceful reworking of the Arthurian myth by the abettor of a pedophile and credibly accused of pedophilia and incest herself.
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Definitely going over Metro tunnels. Can’t avoid it downtown.
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youtu.be/qOkNCRScgZY?...
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There was a hyperbaric chamber in an episode of Shetland. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if it was Chekhov or a Sulu.
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What? No Space Force?
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And if Catholics are excluded from WASP-ishness (real head scratcher that) Then my point doubly stands because France, Spain, and Portugal were them, and are now, majority Catholic countries and had brutal slavery systems in the "New World."
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We can haggle semantics all day, but the original claim that I was rebutting was that we can blame WASPs from Britain for "causing" chattel slavery in America. My point stands.
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I have not watched 4 or 5....I am savoring. Once I watch them I'll never be able to watch them for the first time again.
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W for whiteness sure. But the rest stands for Anglo-Saxon Protestant and Spain and France were none of those things.
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For Spanish Colonies
Black Society in Spanish Florida
By Jane Landers
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Specifically French Colonialism and Slavery
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
By Brett Rushforth
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I'd recommend three books for general surveys
Alan Taylor's American Colonies and something by Ira Berlin either Generations of Captivity and/or Many Thousands Gone.
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I never said that chattel slavery is not historically different from other slave trades, I merely made the assertion that the roots of chattel slavery in the US was not the "fault" of "WASPS" from Britain but came from myriad sources including the colonial efforts of French and Spanish as well.
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libguides.utsa.edu/c.php?g=1112...
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You want so much to define complex, transnational institutions in simplistic terms and restrict causality to the smallest terms to identify specific villains. History doesn't work like that. It's a vast, dynamic complex tapestry of gradations with few clear beginnings ad fewer clear endings.
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Slavery in Spanish colonial Florida was American chattel slavery. Slavery in French colonial Louisiana was American chattel slavery….
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Maybe if one only counts the English colonies, perhaps. But there were also French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas as well and all established slavery and the slave trade in the New World.
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If you are looking to assign "fault" in such a complex, all encompassing institution such as slavery in the America's, you are doing History wrong.
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FYI: They erected a statue of her on the CIA HQ campus in 2022 to honor her espionage activities during the US Civil War.
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022...
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It's not a contest.
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I am half in this camp.
The other half remembers Trump getting in petty public pissing matches with celebrities and former cabinet members for decades from Rosie O'Donnell to John Bolton. Musk I've known a shorter but has a similar MO.
This is their nature.
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So the irony here, and the source of my original witticism, stems from the juxtaposition of Mr. Vander Meer's photo of bunnies with the intent of instilling calm with the same author's graphic and horrific depiction of rabbits in a different venue.
Now, do you understand?
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Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page about this book:
"The team then is attacked by a pack of carnivorous rabbits with cameras on their back."