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Jul 30, 2021, 5 tweets

At a buddy's restaurant in Zambia, this is how the staff would steal sausage. Larger items, like chickens, would be snuck out in the mop bucket, or shoved through the wall where an old AC cover hid an empty space

Native Americans lived in deep harmony with nature. When a Native American killed an animal, it was like killing an old friend, and he consecrated the act with piety and reveren--

Oops.

I'd assumed the insult "smooth brained" had been invented in the last few decades

But apparently the Bantu were using it as early as the 1950s?

Separately, imagine the familiarity you'd need with corpses to notice a 10% difference in brain volume

Japanese gun control. Elites don't like an armed peasantry.

In a striking parallel to COVID-19 lockdowns, nearly an entire Xhosa society starved to death when the women became convinced that the only way to stop a plague was to shut down society:

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