While I’m familiar with the east coast and have visited some older structures and monuments there, it still leaves me in awe. I’m from the new new world so even our historic buildings are maybe a century and a half in age. Maybe. Indigenous structures didn’t survive for the most part.

What’s also fascinating is how people can be incredibly blasé about a 500 year old building they drive past on their way to work every day. Incredible.

Neat. Europe having so much history is bizarre to me. I can’t fathom living in and walking amongst buildings that are multiple centuries old.

In Oregon the fire suppression worked but apparently in Washington it didn’t and they lost hundreds of ballots.

Actually, they have thought of this. Most ballot boxes have a fire suppression system. It’s curious these ones didn’t.

When it was in print I used to read it every day at work since it was in the break room and this was before I had a smart phone (they were around, I just didn’t have one). I miss it, I always preferred it over the Seattle Times though I couldn’t tell you what about it was preferable.

Jesus fucking christ.

Yeah they’re: “Quiet down now. It is time to watch the show, yes it’s started, don’t be lickin’ me no mo’, matter 'fact could you get me a handiwiiiiiiipe?”

https://youtu.be/XwsZOkdlqIw?si=94xIqIdrJgmKVH-y

Tl;Dr: transplants withering in the cold, wet soil having difficulty with the Seattle Freeze.

So does the US on the West Coast.

The committee recently pulled the plug on the Anthropocene unfortunately. It was never official and they just rejected it this year.

Ahhhhhhhhhh

My two nearest local papers are run by one company (I think) and their tech people are savvy as fuck. None of these paywall bypass sites work more than once, EVER. Archive doesn’t even work.