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stanky wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:15 pm High altitude frees potatoes from their worst pest.

Saw this field corn for sale in a local market today, called choclo here...

Where are all the trees? Cities should have trees! The Incas and the civilizations before them farmed and managed landscapes in what is now Bolivia and Peru on an epic scale. The potato was domesticated around here between 8000 and 5000 BC. The Spanish conquest decimated all that. Extensive grazing...

the truth comes out...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TqUhCK1S7TE

Did a circuit today on the tereferico mass transit system in La Paz. Amazing system, widely used, I rode five different lines, cost me equivalent 2 USD.

RIP John Mayall... used to love the album this came off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7-axJSe_0

form for asking suggestions I saw in a hotel room in Indonesia, their translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English:

Please complain

And in a Jakarta newspaper ad for an office supply store:

We will supply your deficiency

https://www.tasteatlas.com/caldo-de-car ... ver%20cure.

Walked a bit around La Paz today, highest city in the world with a population of over a million. Everywhere are many many Bolivian indigenous/mixed women ( cholas ) in their traditional wide layered skirts and little bowler hats perched on their heads. Really vibrant place, entertaining as hell. Had...