Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.
I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.
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mmm he exists.
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HUH
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Guy came up to me and yelled so loudly that it made me jump. All caps isn't enough I need wordart to describe how loud he was. This was not "I can't tell I'm being loud" this was "In another life I was the town crier" loud. Hear ye hear ye loud. He was friendly, but holy crap
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i deserve to be an eel. in a crevice with a bunch of other eels. opening and closing our mouths over and over
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Money can’t buy the top three tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Make no mistake, it can ABSOLUTELY buy the bottom two.
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I wish when I laid with you time would stop.
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If I had mandibles I'd clack them together like tongs all the time
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Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles
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I don't think those young men were remorseful about their party rocking
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The police almost certainly handcuffed the bystanders they shot so witnesses wouldn’t realize their mistake.
They’re also trained to yell “stop resisting” as they handcuff dead bodies
the nypd doing a mass shooting over a $2.90 fare evasion truly is the inevitable endpoint of the police as an institution and also just the encapsulation of how everything we're fighting is all the same fucking thing at its core. nypd kkk idf you're all the same.
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