Mister Neon

That hit a little too hard.

I love how Sony learned nothing from the PS3 launch price.

Rookie mistake, you need to increase your fiber intake to counter the increase in bowel movements.

I’m jealous, old wizards while powerful are always cringe. This will be my fate.

Wasn’t Russia throttling YouTube bandwidth before hand to prepare for this? Along with banning cell phones for their soldiers, I guess they’re going for complete media blackout and control.

Edit: I guess they announced 70% slowdown a couple weeks ago and just went straight to full shutdown.

I do cold brew so I get everything done the night before.

At this point coffee in me is like oil in a car.

Without access to large livestock the inhabitants of Lake Texcoco needed a source of fertilizer. The only available option at scale was night soil (human dung). This led to a contender for the worst job in history, dung collector. Dung was collected at designated sites (public toilets) and transported via canoe to either farms or at large dumping (pun not intended) sites to be purchased at market.

Some topics would be chinampas, their use of obsidian for tool making, the evolution of the teosinte plant into multiple maize varietals, farm forests, dung canoes, maguey plant cultivation, lake ecosystem for food (from axolotls to lake skum tortillas), dual canal aqueducts, three sisters agriculture, and the methods of distribution via marketplace & the royal state.

As far as YouTubers I enjoy Ancient Americas and Aztlan Historian.

I suggest “Handbook to Life in the Aztec World” Manuel Aguilar-Moreno. It has a couple of outdated facts and has some misconceptions of how some of the religion worked (Ometeotl is a mistranslation and ongoing point of contention). Other than that it’s a good textbook for getting a solid foundation of understanding on the subject.

The way that Mesoamerica built their civilization in isolation from the old world is intensely fascinating (example: making farm land in the middle of lakes). The uniqueness in the way they extracted resources to what was considered valuable gives insight into the way humanity develops. The Mexica Empire/Valley of Mexico Triple Alliance/The Tenochca Empire/Aztec Empire is particularly interesting due it’s success being derived from an abundance of practices already in place rather than innovation (they revved up everything to an 11). Their approach to warfare emphasizing one on one combat was dramatic. Finally their methods of human sacrifice are some of the most metal things I’ve ever heard to the point where I find violence in fiction to be banal by comparison.

Good lord, I wonder if the character is public domain now?

I guess that’s the other side of the coin. I’m a Mesoamerican history nerd and a lot of the articles on Wiki are sparse at best on the subject or outright misinformation (repeated misinformation I see almost verbatim copied and pasted). I see your point though, without an easy way of archiving information a lot of subjects would and have fallen through the cracks in humanity’s notice.

Out of all the dudes that are nearly a 100 I think I would like to hang out with Everett the most.

Depends on the subject matter. The less popular subject matters still should be read in books.

I’m damn near 40, can I please talk to you about the Aztec Empire for an hour and a half?

I’m almost 40, can’t I just have a juice box?

I do know that they were sacrificed as part of burial rituals. The dogs were believed to help souls cross a river in their journey through Mictlan.

Modern day chihuahuas are thought to be descended from the now extict techichi dog which were bred for livestock and ritual purposes.