I've always had complex thoughts about both the book & the movie and the relationship between the two, which've all evolved over time. Saw the movie first, then read the book because I was a private in the army & it was on some Sergeant Major's reading list.

No matter what, both are *illuminating*

and land stolen from the US, as if that's not literally what the United States is built on and with.

Give me a fucking break.

too, after being bought from Russia, who didn't have legitimate claim, either. The gold rushes in the Black Hills, California, Alaska, all likewise enforced by removal and murder, massacre after massacre.

And now, the US president is saying that a regime is illegitimate and must return resources

We never got a penny from that gold and a quarter of our people died on the way to Indian Territory.

It's a story that's played out literally everywhere the United States exists today. People lived here, were rounded up, murdered, or both, and the US took over.

Hawaii was simply annexed. Alaska

literally "yellow money," the term we use for gold), they violated their own law by making a false treaty with people who were not authorized to negotiate for the Cherokees, then force-marched the entire Nation to what is now Oklahoma. The Georgia Capitol dome is plated with gold from Dahlonega.

Haha! But that's... Appropriate, isn't it?

I'm curious now about the idiom...

So basically a husky? 😅

(For all their parkour genius, my huskies do not have the greatest sense of space or proprioception)

I only use Fahrenheits when talking to other people (in the US). The rest of the time, I've trained myself to think in Centigrades.

But seriously, for the most part, I became fluent in SI units without worrying about conversions, years ago. And it's been weirdly liberating.

I think I might also be down with this.

That episode is just starting on my long weekend binge-watch.