I don’t think that’s right, actually
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Herb and Jamaal, 11/9/26

Is it, Herb? Is it? Is that what watching for a single kernel of corn to pop is like? It’s like waiting for the next news cycle to occur? Is that right? Is it really?
Hagar the Horrible, 11/9/26

There were two small Norse settlements on the western and southwestern coasts of Greenland in the early middle ages, but they drop out of written historical records by the mid 1300s and archaeological evidence shows that they had ceased to exist by the mid 1400s, and there is a lively and vigorous debate as to what exactly happened. Did the lowered temperatures of the so-called Little Ice Age make it impossible for the Norse to maintain their agricultural way of life? Were they overrun or displaced by the Inuit, who were better adapted to the Arctic and who arrived from the north around the time the Norse settlement declined? Did Europeans find cheaper sources of ivory, which had been the Greenlanders’ main export, making it impossible to import wood and iron and leaving the colonies economically unsustainable? The answer is probably some combination of the three, and we have to imagine that the decline might have produced a scene very much like this, in which, in the absence of native firewood, the Greenlanders burned their own infrastructure, built from materials imported at great expense, to keep away the bitter cold for at least one more night.
Alice, 11/9/26

Hey, did one of you get an email from Alice and not reply to it? Uncool, man! She’s honestly kind of bummed about it.






