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Re: Odd Wikipedia articles for the terminally bored at work

Did anyone know there used to be a nation called Dahomey in modern day Benin? It reads like a Jorge Luis Borges story: The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the F...

Re: Bizarre Japanese guitars

The Beautiful Guitars thread reminded me that I needed to start preparing for a trip to Tokyo this spring. Will be there for less than a week on a longer family trip to SE Asia to see our in-laws. So I can do a little scurrying away here and there, just not sure how much. Ideas for gear scavenging ...

Re: Word - Woke

It's useful in the current U.S. context in that it signals something more about the speaker's character than the speaker can comprehend. On this topic, I think "based" takes first prize for neologisms that are meaningless without the context of the speaker's alignment. It can be used to r...

Re: Doechii

I wasn't sold on her records but she's a fantastic performer and the Tiny Desk Concert was great. I feel like she's on the verge of figuring out her aesthetic. Big things imminent.

Re: Politics

I do not give a shit that he pardoned his kid, who definitely was targeted unfairly, but his taking that step while failing to act on the thousands of pardon applications on his desk or to remedy the crack/powder disparity or to commute federal death sentences just makes it fucking disgusting. He's ...

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