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"Why would anyone in the EU invest here? The people are too stupid. There are maybe 100 smart people in the whole country. The only way to get something to work in this place is to send in a bunch of Germans to run it." (Sounds like Texas actually.)

"Frustration aside, Rimbaud’s procurement of weapons for Menelik II may have been his greatest contribution to modern African history. Scholars reckon that the guns he sold in 1887 likely helped the emperor defeat Italy in 1896 when the country’s troops tried to invade Ethiopia. As a result of the rout at Adwa, Italy signed a treaty recognizing Ethiopia as an independent nation."
—BuzzEthiopia via

"Oil is dead biomass in the same way that value is dead labor."

"urgentissimo"

pressure of crass pilcrow
plink stillicide roster
weathered wood fence angstrom

aware of spare changes
& the skyhigh fishhook

"For roughly 300,000 years, we lived in relatively small, highly egalitarian communities in which group decisions were made democratically."