Cold War Twitter post

In the 70s and 80s the Soviet Union experienced what was known as a "gerontocracy", where a large number of officials were quite elderly. This was largely due to political purges in previous decades having cleared out most of the younger officials. One of the gerontocracy's effects was that multiple General Secretaries were cycled through in a short period because they kept dying of age-related complications.

u/IgnoreTh1sName — 8 days ago
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"The best care-killing scenery on the planet" - John Muir on Glacier National Park, Montana [OC] [4032 x 2268]

u/IgnoreTh1sName — 11 days ago

[WP] "You may have the odds stacked against us, but we'll still defeat you with the Power of Friendship!" The rest of the adventurers exchange glances, and then one walks up to the hero. "Hey, uh... Hate to tell you this, but we're not your friends. We're just doing this for the reward."

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u/IgnoreTh1sName — 15 days ago

TIL the King Fern is a species that provides a modern snapshot of ancient Carboniferous jungles. It has 30 foot leaves, the largest of any living fern, and belongs to an ancient family of huge ferns that dominated forests in the time before trees evolved and have barely changed since then.

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u/IgnoreTh1sName — 24 days ago