So many horrible things have happened in the world, I'm not even feeling shock. Apparently having marvellous gdp doesn't work for people who face enormous bills. That bit came through loud and clear.

@TheDailyBurble We now know that the Amazon was once densely inhabited by an urban society that deliberately cultivated a garden forest. It’s not so much imagination as it is archeological fact.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/