HorikBrun

¿Porque no los dos?

I totally want one.

I mean…the short is answer is “die” almost certainly from unclean water, for at least 60% of the general western population.

Ok, guess who has 2 thumbs and is going to bring this out at my next meeting?

I love watching PWHL games. So much fun.

I always like watching the sport, but hockey players are all just frat boys, and it shows.

In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire’s end when it stops building public architecture, whether it’s art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it’s over.

Separate and complex discussion defining “empire” in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.

Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.

Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it’s a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.

I have a lot of specific arcana about geochemistry that may sound interesting. It’s not. I mean, it is to me and my small circle of nerd friends, but we can see the people within earshot go comatose when we geek out.

ETA: like how oxidation - reduction conditions can either mobilize or affix certain minerals (based on their valence state, and other available elements) into/out of groundwater.

Also how rocks are not fixed as what they are after they lithify. Water flowing through the pore space later on can nearly completely change the rock’s characteristics. Groundwater is freaky-magic.