thebartermyth

I explained the gist of it to some people, and they were like "Is this from a book?

I'm pretty sure I learned about it from posts or maybe a podcast or something. I said it's from World Systems Theory - Immanuel Wallerstein, but I'm 90% sure it's not in there.

important question imo

"the nypd have detained a Pennsylvania voter in connection with a high profile murder case." - would read very funny. "Taypayer" works too, I guess.

sorry for the late slop-post, I've been less online lately

How commie should I be? We're supposed to have a book swap and idk if it's NYT bestsellers or Lenin. They've got a lot of "we'll take your name off if you're scared to associate with our group", but looking through the docs and all seems like completely normal stuff.

So I've gotten really into this board game and after many plays with varying difficulty and number of people I'm settling on this as my circle of fifths for the game. Also I've decided people should make circles of fifths for things rather than tierlists.

Lmk if you agree.

You can't literally see lights from space or whatever. If somewhere had less coverage on google maps you wouldn't think it's uninhabited, but for some reason, people irl seem to be constantly referring to this image as though it's a literal picture. Mostly for 'civilized' reasons, but also light pollution and just other stuff. Maybe this just made the rounds on reddit or something?

My library carries it apparently so I might start reading it.

You all went to fancy prep schools?? nobody taught you about Icarus?? The SUN???

it makes sense that this exists, but damn