“You fought in the Granny Wars?”
“Sitting Bull, whose real name was Tatanka-Iyotanka, famously led 1,500 Native American warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, wiping out US General Custer and five companies of soldiers.”
“He was shot dead in 1890 by the “Indian Police” acting on behalf of the US government.”
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Billionaire amateur architect? Windowless rooms? 4500 people and 2 exits? What can go wrong?
This tweet was on point:
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Wow, America is still playing catch-up to the Soviet Union after all these years… 
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I’m sure that local building codes require both more ventilation and more fire exits. Billionaire or not, you don’t want a fire Marshall refusing to sign off on your plans.
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Remember when you thought fax machines were dead-matter teleporters? Ah, just me, then
No, things were NOT better in the past, so leave them there
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/29/something_for_the_weekend
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If I was to pass on one tip – er, sorry, “life hack” – to a younger generation, it would be that they should not pine for the past when they get older. What you do right now has context; it’s only when you’ve forgotten that context that you begin to experience nostalgia. Nostalgia is memory gone wrong.
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Does Charlie the Unicorn’s latest adventures count as odd enough?
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The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague with the largest vertical letter file in the world, 1937
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I hang a print of this (with a BRB caption) on my office door when I’m downstairs in the archives.
ETA: must try to find a newsreel or something about the Prague archive - there should be a GIF of that.
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perhaps a bit more fiber in the diet?
(sorry, didn’t actually watch, yet could not resist a poo joke. way to stay classy, Jefe 
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* May contain Hansel and Gretel.
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with mustard? saurkraut? sweet pickle relish (the neon green kind you get on a Chicago)?, Sonoran style wrapped in bacon, slathered with mayo and topped with pico de gallo?
just how the hell would you do it?
hard pass, even though I was intrigued by Tiger Ice Cream, really.
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So funny, until that last line…
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Hey now, no making fun of our neon green relish! Some folk may want to know when their condiments have gone bad, but not us!
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