Geographer. Prof at Temple University. Author of 2 books. Elephants. Maps. Archaeofuturist Transportation.
Philadelphia, USA
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Jacob Shell retweeted
Something I'll add is that in my experience, academic conservatives tend to have instincts highly supportive of the idea of ultra-centralized prestige economies. They assume the problem is that the wrong ideas have hijacked the control points, and getting things "back to how they should be" would be a simple matter of enshrining "objectivity and standards" in the mission statement of the high-prestige journals. IMO, this is naive and actually pretty "unconservative" in its assumption that centralized command/control is the best way.
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America’s newest national park is rock solid!
Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."
ALT Lightning strikes beneath dark storm clouds over the rocky landscape of Chiricahua. Green vegetation surrounds clusters of towering rock formations, with a pink glow along the distant horizon.
Jacob Shell retweeted
My leftist mutuals who think that the French rioters are on their side really have to reconsider their LARP. Do you think these people feel any solidarity with you or "the proletariat"?
Even the Yellow Vests were more Marxist.
Jacob Shell retweeted
How do you even change the mind of someone willing to set their fsce on fire to not admit they are wrong
In solidarity with the African migrant who set a french lady's face on fire leftists are trying to prove it's not that bad.
Spoiler, it is! xitter.cf/silly_200/status/21096…
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Obviously I know the reason, but it's an omission that the Omani empire isn't discussed together with the European colonial empires of the same period.
First fighting, and then defeating, the Portuguese in the Middle East and East Africa in the 17th century, then establishing a colonial economy in East Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ruling places like Mombasa and Zanzibar, with the latter hosting a slave plantation economy (producing cloves), and being the entrepot for a vast trade in slaves and ivory from the East African interior.
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Hydra, Greece banned cars in 1955.
70 years later, the island still runs on footpaths, boats and donkeys.
No traffic, horns, or parking lots.
One of the Mediterranean’s boldest decisions somehow feels even more modern today.
Jacob Shell retweeted
The insane landscape of modern drone warfare. Including "dragon drones" dropping molten iron (thermite) onto structures and trenches.
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Because the last pandemic was so poorly handled, if this spirals out of control nobody will believe it. The public does not trust our institutions, and for good reason. There is a way to regain trust and accountability, but few want to pay the price to do so.
Russia's plague outbreak is getting worse, now with 5 hospitals in Irkutsk quarantined, universities canceling classes and accusations from healthcare workers that the government is attempting a media cover-up.
Nearly 200 contacts of a 28-year-old anti-plague laboratory worker who died last week are reportedly under isolation or medical observation.
Irkutsk universities are canceling classes citing a “case of pneumonic plague,” while an aluminum plant introduced mandatory masks. A local government warning advising residents not to travel to Shelekhov was published and later deleted.
Healthcare workers claim doctors are discussing plague internally while avoiding the diagnosis in official documents.
Russian health authorities continue to deny any plague outbreak, attributing the woman's death to “pneumonia of unknown origin.”
Pneumonic plague is far worse that it's Bubonic cousin as its transmitted directly between humans.
