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...you should appreciate all these modern inventions (and the modern people who helped create them) while appreciating a 9000 year old American culture that bio-engineered a native grass

The next time you bite into a delicious piece of corn, fill your car with fuel, notice your tires, swallow a coated pill, or use a biodegradable cup.....

Acknowledging our past doesn't minimize or degrade us. Acknowledging our past should deepen our appreciation for ourselves and where we are today.

Meriwether Lewis carried that Frenchman's book, based on Moncacht's journals, when Lewis and Clark undertook their trans-continental journey a century later.

Moncacht Ape documented Niagara Falls, the Great Divide, the Mississippi and the Pacific Northwest. A Frenchman named Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published Moncacht Ape's journals.

When I was in elementary school there was no reference to First Peoples explorer Moncacht Ape who explored the western United States a hundred years before Lewis and Clark became 'influencer' famous.

The Euro destruction of the Americas was so selfish that accepting that there were peoples and nations on this continent over 25000+ years ago was fiercely squashed even into the 1990's.

It was known to Euro manifest destiny colonizers but it wasn't politically correct to acknowledge that the First Nations of the Americas could be so grand as to make some Euro cities look small and unsophisticated. The first publicly funded archeology wasn't even started until the 1960's.

It had streets! It had public buildings! A government! It had courtyards and parks and religious centers. It had metalworking, pottery making, textile production and enough agricultural and trading logistics to support a city that size. It was named Cahokia.

The familiar corn we eat today is a global staple for thousands of products on which we all depend.
Around 1100 CE (or 1100 AD if counting in the then newly devised years of our Lord) there was a city in what is now Illinois that was 2.5 times bigger than contemporary London.

Around 7000 BCE, the people in what is now Mexico began selectively breeding teosinte. Teosinte, a wild grass native to Mesoamerica, has small kernels and looks nothing like modern corn. Over thousands of years, people cultivated traits like larger kernels, softer husks, and sweeter taste.

Corn! 7000 BCE. 9000 years ago! Before the great pyramids, before Rome, before European manifest destiny b.s. destroyed what they called the New World...there were entire civilizations and Nations in the Americas: (keep reading in the comments)

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed

Not yet but I still have the giant waste of space thumbnails on desktop. With a large monitor they are 5x7 notecard size. The only positive is now I can just click the audio on in the thumbnail and watch the video without ads.

waaaaittt....whaaat.....you are a god. Best advice I've had all year.

Congress and the Courts are meaningless to autocrats.

I once worked with a person who would intentionally break shit so they could 'fix' it and claim credit. We are seeing the second part of his modus operandi with this drug price EO. Void the previous Admin's EO, wait awhile, then un-void it using nearly the same parameters and claim novel invention.

ffs

So he thinks giving everyone chemotherapy is the way to make everything better. Have a cold, chemo for you. Sprain your ankle, chemo for you. Everyone gets chemo and we'll all be better for it.

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Now they just couch themselves in organizations like the John Birch Society

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Taking back our power starts now.

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

February 21, 2025 In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking.

February 21, 2025

Maybe if they hear it from enough people.

Everyone should start telling all of your House Reps and Senators how superfluous they are under President Musk and King Trump. You might want to use smaller words with the GOP reps so you don't sound woke. Congress and the courts are meaningless to autocrats.

Start telling all of your House and Senate Reps how superfluous they are under President Musk and King Trump. You might want to use smaller words with the GOP reps so you don't sound woke. Congress and the courts are meaningless to autocrats

none. Time to move on and gtfoi. Same with manual transmissions. Consumers moved on. I drove manual transmissions the first twenty five years of my driving life (including an E36 and E46) and loved them. I don't miss shifting with a foot powered clutch.

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'...but her emails': It isn't even funny that national security and privacy don't matter as long as it is President Musk doing the invading.