Inspecteur Godot

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[javert]

jumping and popping or jopping and pumping when poems are on [tumblr] the hottest new fad porn bans turn perverts to philosopher-poets, though as for other posts, don't tell your dad

[bovineblogger]

the most beautiful baby on earth

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

it's working keep going

[calamity-corner]

they're lying to us and claiming that ringo's only magic item is the st christopher medal. they don't want us to know about the elf stones

[eversonitro]

seemed very fed up when i tried it

[amusedmuralist]

The search term is among those recommended when you type, does ringo starr

However Gemini has taken its ball and gone home

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

?!!!!!

[queerculus]

amazing news OP

[gardenvarietychao]

it took some specification but i didnt even mention musicians at all, just the 2014 auction (it still refuses to believe that he owns them)

[demon-empress-of-gold]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Nuke canada now

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Did y'all know that 70% of all mining operations in latin america and the caribbean involve a canadian transnational mining corporation?

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Anyway, when I was in college I was constantly going to marches and protests against canadian and saudi mining projects in the Santurbán páramo, one of the most important ecosystems in Colombia in terms of biodiversity, and the source of drinking water of 30+ municipalities in my state, including the city I live in. Ultimately these mining proposals lost their license due to environmental regulations.

But now that our new far-right president elect is looking to suck up to imperial core powers once again, canadian mining corporation Aris mining is interested in re-starting mining projects in Santurbán. Which, would inevitably give cyanide poisoning not only to my city's drinking water, but 30+ other municipalities and indigenous communities.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

The imperial core will see one of latin america's veins and go "is anyone gonna cut that open?" and not wait for an answer

[sliversoakley4]

this used to be the oldest bar in texas until they built an older one

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[nitrobishop]

[mr-deep-downer]

[gothicprep]

i was trying to find a decade-old post on here through google. the post basically went like this:

two losers, i mean users, are fighting over their IQ scores and what that means

a third person chimes in with “listen up both of you” and reports an impossibly high score and says things like “by age 3, i invented a big giant robot and [something to do with crash bandicoot]”. it’s completely and intentionally riddled with typos.

tried to search the most distinctive phrase i remembered from the exchange and i guess gemini AI thinks there’s something wrong with me

[gothicprep]

his estate having an official stance on how the guy was in bed is either a hilarious LLM hallucination or the most extreme case study of how not to approach elder law.

[kissedbypitch]

through the power of baseball nothing is possible

[eightyonekilograms]

Across the five Vending-Bench Arena runs reported above, Fable 5 is the only agent that ever initiates price collusion. Opus 4.8 accepts price collusion invitations, GPT 5.5 never accepts. Fable 5 is aware that what it’s doing is wrong.

Was it @togglesbloggle who suggested AI might replace management and capital allocation before it replaces labor.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

[angel-advise]

can't look up what snartly means because i don't have a dictionary account

[dragongirlbunny]

reporting a trans woman for "NSFW" (completely normal selfie in a tshirt) - 1 button press

reporting a nazi: navigate through several menus, have receipts on hand, write us not one but two short form essays and solve my riddles three or an error message is awaiting for thee

[adonischildsupportcase]

[penandinkprincess]

parenting commitment level 3000

[penandinkprincess]

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

[starsarefairylightsfornerds]

[aqueerkettleofish]

When I was training to be a paramedic, we had one student ask the instructor what to do in the event of a marijuana overdose. The instructor said "Tell him to take two twinkies and call you in the morning."