Roy

I'm a Catholic geologist in North Idaho, but now mostly Texas, it’s not nearly as bad as it sounds. Typos are the proof that my thumb is too large.

[Roy @moheroy]

"As a construct, history is too often revised to match contemporary views. It has been said that each generation must rewrite history in order to understand it. The opposite is true. Moderns revise history to make it palatable, not to understand it." - T. R. Fehrenbach

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@turdducken @simoniensis33 @tanjil_rashid_ Because librarians don’t understand the purpose of libraries

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@St_Rev Ugly business, the stuff is worse than mine waste in certain ways

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@St_Rev I have seen that sort of thing, but in a place like that it is even worse

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@St_Rev I am sure of it, it coukd go for dozens of miles in a place like FL

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@St_Rev If something goes on the site of a former dry cleaners and they haven’t completely replaced not just the underlying soil but the neighbors one has to assume somebody got away with something. If a cleaners is replaced by anything other than another cleaners I’m suspicious

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@St_Rev I used to do a lot of groundwater, and even just by basically existing a drycleaner is pretty much guaranteed to have an amazingly toxic plume in any soil it sits on even if they are reasonably careful and conscientious about it.

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@MaverickCA619 @j3lqingt0n Sometimes it just works out that way

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@vermontaigne @jk_rowling I believe that you are correct

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@vermontaigne @jk_rowling I, sadly, think you are actually living in it

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I kind of want to defend Jarvis here and point out that this spirit in a field grade officer is the sort of thing that has always given Britain a certain degree of glory: theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die, Into the Valley of Death rode the Six hundred

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

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@kisstheblade_ @HarrierMagnus What sin! It is very advanced Lutheranism and regularly gets said these days by self proclaimed atheists. It means what a shame or that’s terrible or even just Too bad!

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@kisstheblade_ @HarrierMagnus At least, as far as I know German doesn’t have a regular expression of regret like the Swedish “vad synd”

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@kisstheblade_ @HarrierMagnus My father was born in the US but he was practically a cartoon German of the old school. I remember him ince getting si angry at me he started shouting at me “ich bin dein Vater!” Anyway I am still not certain when the of unfun comes out whether it is from him or my Swedish mother

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@kisstheblade_ German hates fun, news at eleven

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@pitseleh_69 @mendo5an @BovrilG @SO3_Clausewitz Don’t be so sure about that, not a few were into foxhunting after all

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@SpencerKlavan Oh tbis is so true, give him good material he produces miracles, give him warhorse or that crystal dkull monstrosity…

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@eigenrobot Moebius may be aesthetically remembered when French is a dead language

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@eigenrobot In Alistair Reynolds rather good sublight speed sci fi novel “Revelation Space” Epsilon Eridani has a relatively awesome francofuturist phase in the 24th century, that is so far axay in the future that I could imagine a French comeback. One can always hope.

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@RichardBratby @lijukic Even ai makes jokes about this, I had an ai conversation around Christmas trying to identify some Czech statuary an the ai was: how am I supposed to know they all look alike