I’ll probably sound like every other young adult/ kid talking about “escaping the matrix” but I don’t want to live a “normal” life if that’s the right idea.
SAs the tiny light flickered out and my eyes closed, I accepted that no one was coming back.itting alone in the pitch-black quiet, I stared into the fading candle flame and waited for someone or anyone to call out for me.
Colombia just protected 42% of its territory from new mining and oil and gas projects, placing 483,000 square kilometres of the Amazon under permanent protection. More than half of the area is already Indigenous territory, where 99.5% of the forest remains intact.
TIL about the butt, an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equaling 2 hogsheads. A butt of wine held about 126 US gallons (477 litres), while a butt of ale held about 130 US gallons (491 litres).