The Ravages of Global Cooling

As the population of the Americas collapsed from European diseases so did any kind of land management by human hands.

Vegetation went wild and drew down such amounts of CO2 that atmospheric chemistry changed. So much so that Europe itself froze in what is now known as the Little Ice Age (from approximately 1500 to 1750 AD). This era ended the Medieval Warming period when the Amazon was not a jungle but a savannah.

The force of growing things tore through the wide highways Orellana spoke of and engulfed facades of any buildings. Rain soaked through any roof timbers and fungus rotted them away. It all happened so fast that by the time the Amazon was explored again, nothing that had been described remained. It would be centuries before modern technology such as LiDAR could "see through" the jungle to find what Orellana saw.

(A 3D render created using data from LiDAR shows the urban center of Cotoca.)

(a, Location of lidar transect for the El Cerrito area. b, Canals (blue) and causeways (red) found in the area, some of them connecting the pre-Hispanic sites (red triangles). c, Lidar image of El Cerrito.)

oh shit let's gooooo

March 22nd I believe

no Tix yet but will be posting them

Glorious piece of fatty tuna. 🍣

I've noticed a major difference between X and Nostr.

People here don't seem too bothered when one talks about spending Bitcoin, in fact, here it seems to be encouraged.

Whereas on X... Holy shit! People get soooo triggered if one just dare mention that sats may be spent.

Dave Portnoy has been on my "suggested follows" list for 3 days straight.

Getting on a plane tomorrow. Any movie suggestions?

I couldn't care less🤷🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️.

The word you are looking for is COULDN'T. You couldn't care less!

If you COULD care less it means you ARE sufficiently bothered about it, when you are trying to imply, that you are not.

There are no rules with the value for value concept. People can zap whatever they want. This includes nothing at all.