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King of Games
Sweet!! An undergrad student and a professor have figured out how to transcribe Incan knotwork:
King of Games
This is fucking rad.
King of Games
When I lived in Peru every museum had one of these where they're like: we think it's a population counter or inventory but kanyeshrug.gif
Lauren
oh wow, this is super cool
Lauren
also, so jealous you lived in Peru
Lauren
that's somewhere that's definitely on my list to visit
Null
That's so freaking cool
King of Games
Peru is great. Highly recommend. I lived in Cuzco.
King of Games
that millipede with the pink leggies I posted in your plurk Lauren, is from Saqsaywaman
King of Games
which yes I had to look up how to spell. <.<
Lauren
omg a good peruvian millipede
King of Games
Living there is the reason I can't eat Quinoa now. Because it was in everything. I never want to eat quinoa again ever.
King of Games
except now it's too expensive for the locals to buy cuz all the vegans in 1st world countries want it.
King of Games
so there's probably no quinoa in everything there anymore.
King of Games
why would you put quinoa in mashed potatoes. they're already potatoes you don't need to -stretch it-
Lauren
yeah it's a bummer. I love quinoa and eat it regularly but the stuff I buy is grown in Canada
King of Games
even when I was there in 2007 little towns were having the water from their wells diverted to quinoa farms.
King of Games
i guess they're just supposed to .. not.. have water.
Lauren
nowhere is allowed to have water now, like how Australia went through that epic drought with all the wildfires meanwhile they were selling their water to China
Lauren
or Fiji water which not only deprives locals on a tiny oceanic island of fresh water, it also props up a tyrannical dictatorship
Lauren
the world sucks sometimes
King of Games
right?! I hate all of it
sarkat
oh man, the water thing. I think it's similar in ... I think Colombia? with avocados. they divert the water to the avocado farms, while the people get water delivered once a week or so
Lauren
It's definitely like that in Mexico now since the cartels make more money off avocados than drugs these days
sarkat
I talked about this at work and wanted to shank an asshole, when he just shrugged and said "well, people need to learn to deal with it"
sarkat
like, the fact that they're less fortunate is all their fault
Lauren
let's burn down capitalism
Lauren
economic colonialism is trash
sarkat
(while earlier he was bitching up a strom how cruel EU is towards farmers in Europe, because they regulate quotas of milk or w/e they're producing)
King of Games
people who say "deal with it" have never once in their lives dealt with it