“It has lousy swimming capabilities and gravid females — females with eggs and juveniles in her pouch — are especially non-agile. This is in contrast to some species [of the same family of isopods] which are free-living and can occur in such large numbers that they can deflesh a fish or body entirely.”
Solid louse joke…although technically an isopod. I’ll never look at a rolly polly the same…
I hope this gets incorporated in a College Humor font wars sketch…
Must be a slow day in the state department…
I was disappointed at first, but other comments in the thread acknowledged its shortcomings but also its place in history as a still-important work of literature. The danger is in taking it as the definitive source of information on the Third Reich. It sounds like Evans’ trilogy on the Third Reich is the much better info source while still being engaging. I guess the right answer is to go ahead and read through both, but take the Trilogy more seriously. Shirer’s work is still engaging and moving and there’s probably still a lot of value in its retelling of events from primary sources, but his analysis of the politics and economics is oversimplified and American-biased. For example, he includes a testimony from a German engineer witnessing a massacre by the SS that will probably haunt me forever in a poignant and meaningful way…the kind of way that steels my resolve to forever oppose autocratic regimes and those who support them.
I just encountered another review of Rise and Fall that’s probably worth considering. While I think it’s probably still a good idea to read/listen to Shirer’s book for cultural literacy purposes, it apparently is severely dated in its retelling of events in Germany. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7kld0l/comment/drfa12x/
Thanks for the recommendations! Putting them on my list.
I am enjoying it. It’s fascinating. Fascistnating…
I wish I were reading it because it’s so detail-rich and I really need to take my time in some spots. Were I studying it for school, I’d certainly be intending to pore through its pages while referencing maps and portraits of its main characters. As it is, it’s fairly decent for low-stress driving.
This guy’s YT review provides a pretty summary of why it’s a worthy read (or listen). But it is 57 hours long, so quite a heavy time commitment. But definitely a book that should be mandatory for everyone on earth to read at some point.
I also highly recommend watching HBO’s Conspiracy with Kenneth Branagh, Stanely Tucci, and Colin Firth. It complements the story in Schindler’s List incredibly well.
Agnostic or atheist or Scientologist techbro grasping at straws to clumsily influence Christians to do what he wants them to do.
So I’m like 45 hours into the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich audiobook and it’s really amazing to see how much an obviously crazy person can get away with, even when everyone around him is like, yeah, that dude is totally batshit and probably going to get us all killed, but idk, I guess we should still do what he says?
As long as the apocalpti are agnostic to wealth, I’m all for it…although I would prefer for it to target only humans. All the other flora and fauna should get a free pass.
Now it makes sense why they’re called carpal joints, although I guess the metacarpal bones are closer to home on this one…but only the most anal would care about that.
*Privateering (a legitimate and respectable profession)
Let’s keep the standards high…and the cutlasses sharp.
According to Tim Urban’s blog article on Tesla and Muck from 2015, one of Muck’s stated goals was to jumpstart the other auto manufacturers into producing their own EVs to accelerate the trend toward a more sustainable energy future. Whether that was true then or now is irrelevant, but it is nice to see EVs of many brands being made and purchased. Obligatory Fuck Muck, existential disappointment that he will forever be.
Good ol’ wank-o-clock.
If only there could be any alternative sources of energy out there to discover and develop to diminish the dependence on petroleum. If only :(
Oh well, at least there’s an infinite supply of crude oil along with an atmosphere fully capable of absorbing all that liberated carbon without any adverse effects.
If he were to bomb a nuclear facility in Stockholm that then experienced a catastrophic meltdown, but for some reason the residents supported the action against them, would it be called the China Stockholm Syndrome?
I believe this motion was seconded by a B-2 Spirit.
I saw this Black Mirror episode…
You’re from Alaska, too??!
CO2 is a nice substance for this due to its relatively high temperature of fusion at modest pressures (and cheap ubiquity). I’d wondered why this wasn’t more of a thing with air, using excess energy to liquefy it, to later let the LN2 to be vaporized/expanded in a turbine and the LOX to be used in rockets or something. But deep cryogenics are more challenging.
Or maybe use excess power to electrolyze water for fuel cell use later?
But yeah, CO2 makes a lot of sense despite its relatively poorer specific heat ratio for adiabatic expansion compared to mono and diatomic gasses.