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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy Combining immense erudition with an engaging style, Karp sheds light on an important but poorly understood era in American foreign policy and provides much food for thought about the ways in which the...

notes on THIS VAST SOUTHERN EMPIRE by Matthew Karp

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Woke google maps defaulting to "south-up" orientation

immediately unsettled by THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION [print][old] by qntm starting on the verso page.

who am I kidding, im going To the tick tock on route 3.

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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (2016 Stereo) - YouTube

Ok this is pretty good

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never listened to it all at once before

"1930s imperial japanification" intensifies

Time the tides and seasonal currents, float it out in those Sea Slug bulk bladders.

No French orders? Odd.

is/ought
necessary/sufficient
base/superstructure

He can do 'hypercompetent and put-upon' well

And made a great Vladimir in WAITING FOR GODOT.

And TARS in INTERSTELLAR (voice and puppetry)

I miss okra and the prices here are absurd - oxtail prices on a per-lb basis!

I don't remember much except the premise, which is more than I can say for a lot of things. It's kind of a more modern F451 - the MC has a job making way for new art, by destroying old (originals, copies, recordings, etc.)

it's tempting to put in corn or potatoes for the kcals, but the commodity farms here do plenty.

Tomatoes, okra, amaranth. Eggplants? Squash (pumpkins for fall)

Tepary Beans - Growing and Cooking Tepary Beans | Hank Shaw How to grow and cook tepary beans, with a recipe for Mexican frijoles fronterizos, a recipe with tepary beans or pinto beans from Baja.

thinking about the garden for this season. I put in a lot of flowers by request, but I should start edibles too.
I've set up a lot of pots on a bright southern exposure, 7b, no spinkler, so: tepary beans [per @billhookunion.beanyear.com 's box & newsletter]

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it won't be fig season before the crucifixion. He knows he's gonna die before he gets to eat another fig.

"Did the Romans murk Josh, suspected rebel?"

they probably did one a week.

is Doing Something The Same As Not Doing Something?, an adventure in moral intutions.

I can't believe how much value i get out of this meme. Truly an evergreen

Ultra-processed foods have one or more ingredients that wouldn’t be found in a kitchen, like chemical-based preservatives, emulsifiers like hydrogenated oils, sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup, and artificial colors and flavors. UPFs undergo processing techniques like pre-frying, molding, extrusion, fractioning, and other chemical alterations that leave the final products bearing almost no resemblance to the original ingredients.

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Simply put: skill issue. The food dye, the Karo syrup, the coconut oil, the Cuisinart, the instant pot, heck, double-frying potatoes or making pate de campagne all count as ultra-processed.

hmm, I probably don't know you well enough to make that kind of reference and assume it will be understood.

spaced repetition is a particularly effective form of learning.

A Shaheed &c. is a kind of variable-ratio positive punishment.

public demesne

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Look at these; they were even more stunning in person.

Jeremy Frey: Woven - Portland Museum of Art www.portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Portland Maine, nice town.

There's a handful of beautiful JSS portraits at the Portland (ME) Museum.

Also when I was there they had an incredible display of Jeremy Frey baskets.