Notices by Creature From The Dad Lagoon (thomas@laserdisc.party), page 3

@Gargron did you enjoy NYC? Did you see any celebs or notably big rats?

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see

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@siege it’s actually short for Burtram

Do people know about the Peabody duck march?

Steve Cohen has responded to me every time so far. Let’s see if he does this time!

This mf thinks he can simply have a wonderful Christmas time lmao

I just found out “jumbo” means big because of Jumbo the elephant and Jumbo was not named Jumbo because he was big, it was just his name. Jumbo.

Another fucked up thing is that in 2023, when you can instantly transfer money anywhere on the planet, your employer holds your pay for two weeks. There is no reason at all why you shouldn’t get paid every day

Check against your hours for the previous day, deposit the money. There are 3rd party companies that do this but have to be invited to do so by your employer

Met a couple icons

Idk, I think it’s really worth learning about. Their skill in building and engineering was incredible. They were all built by human beings. People look at Tenochtitlán and say “no way they built that on their own”

Just want to point that out so people remember “ancient alien” stuff is super racist. Oh, they couldn’t have cut stone that perfectly? Well guess what, they did. This was an incredibly advanced civilization. Get with it asshole.

The Aztecs built a city just as advanced and vibrant as anything in Europe. Maybe more advanced given that Tenochtitlán is built on a fucking lake, controlling the water to create manmade fields to grow food and make beautiful gardens.

Conquistadors murdered and stole an incredible culture from the world

Actually, it’s important to note that there are still Mayan, Aztec, Pueblo and other indigenous people. Too often we talk about indigenous communities as if those people no longer exist.

We know a bit about those huge cities in Mexico, Central, and South America There are also a ton of sites in North America like Cahokia where tens of thousands of people lived. There just aren’t stone monoliths or pyramids remaining so we don’t ever talk about them

It was a trade and cultural center built by the Mississippian people. They had many other cities, but Cahokia was the largest

I hate AI art, but I couldn’t find what I wanted elsewhere, so here’s some ideas of what Mesoamérican futurist architecture might look like. I like the absurd Aztec pyramid. I included “colorful” in the prompt.

This isn’t to say there’s not representative architecture out there, because of course there is. The idea is like, without colonial influence, what might it be

More fun Aztec facts: they were a nearly 0 waste society. There were public toilets all over Tenochtitlán where they collected excrement to use as fertilizer. Food scraps went right back into the fields or to feed animals.

Things that could be burned, like old rags or whatever, were used in Rie he’s that illuminated the city. All of this helped to keep the water of the lake clean for drinking and irrigation.

They deeply valued their children and all kids, rich and poor, attended the same schools.