I particularly enjoy the bit about how after the French helped us win our revolution and took some revolution home in a doggy bag. We reneged on our debt claiming “Our deal was with the king.”

Fuck your goods I wipe my ass with your services.

By weight probably, for it to be a perfectly symmetrical cube would likely cost you double that.

Happily, when Helen was a young woman she assumed blindness to be a misfortune. A cruel test from God that nobody could control. Then she was appointed to a body that advocated for the affairs of the blind. And was faced with the stark reality that much of the blindness in the world was caused by people. Industrial accidents and chemical exposures often caused by the greed and selfishness of the owning class and the minimal protection afforded to citizens who didn’t merit the governments protection. So she joined the wobblies, the IWW.

From which she soon became one of the most radical members.

In her own words from an interview with Barbara Bindley with the New York tribune, 1915

“What are you committed to - education or revolution?”

“Revolution.” She answered decisively. “We can’t have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now.”

“I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war, but I never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches. Generals testify to the splendid initiative the workers in the trenches take. If they can do that for their masters you can be sure they will do that for themselves when they have taken matters into their own hands.”

“Don’t forget the workers are getting their discipline in the trenches,” Miss Keller continued. “They are acquiring the will to combat.”

And thus her statue

Same reason we immortalized the child version of Helen Keller. Though she lived to 87.

Are the tankies in the room with us now?

Thousands Standing Around

I specifically remember doing this with one of the goosebumps choose your own adventure. There was a good ending page that referenced nirvana (the idea not the band) and I read that thing end to end choosing both choices for everything. No page ever sent you to it. It was just a contrivance that you were sent to glance at while flipping through.

The woodchipper calls to me. It’s starving it says. Feet. It wants feet.

Yes but they still have interior and exterior moisture, and evolved from plants that weren’t always in a lake. And I suppose occasionally grow in temporary bodies of water.

Surface area is evaporative exposure and frost exposure, might not matter much to temperate acclimated plants but it may be an evolutionary holdover. Also plants don’t really expend energy to modulate their bodies. It’s more about moving water around their internals.

Moving may also prevent some fungus or algae colonization.