I wanna be a maelstrom in 1714 C.E.

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• Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perhaps they grew tired of the Brits starving and killing them?

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• sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe they went there the same day I did.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Breathtaking

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still pretty cool. The mist gives it “we could dump a body here” vibes

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    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My thoughts exactly.

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Got the same view last week, haha!

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The fog gives it ambience, I don’t want all my hikes to look like shutterstock images

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It can be hard to live in places where there’s little wood for heating, only a few crops for food that are subject to random blights, and an oppressive power next door stepping on your neck and trying to divide you from opportunity or independence.

  Ireland is a beautiful place with a harsh history.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    only a few crops for food that are subject to random blights

    Not-so-fun-fact, ireland always had plenty of crops. It’s just that the English stole them all and only let them keep the potatoes. The scarcity was manufactured, and the blight wouldn’t have been as devastating if the rest of the crops weren’t being extracted.

    The Ottomans tried sending food but the English rejected it because they thought it would make them look bad if a foreign government was helping and not them.

    there’s little wood for heating

    Plenty of sheep’s manure for that. Or peat.

    and an oppressive power next door stepping on your neck

    Got no argument there, but it does result in some kickass folk tunes.

    Ireland is a beautiful place with a harsh history.

    Yes, yes indeed.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Ireland used to be quite well off for forests. But the English happened to them, and bit by bit, we successfully deforested 98% of the island.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    places where there’s little wood for heating

    I wonder how that happened.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Boats boats boats!

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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My Norwegian great-great-great-grandparents saw this and said, “Let’s move to North Dakota and live in a sod hut.”

  Actually they were fleeing a famine. A sod hut on a remote homestead was an improvement.

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  • Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This was widely considered a bad move.

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey now, that’s a nice view

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• ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  After the 5th year of eating maggotty potatoes they went somewhere to give their great-grandkids a future.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In springfield Missouri

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• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re starving you’ll move to anywhere that has food.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. They didn’t move for the scenery – they moved to get away from the man-made famine put upon them by the English.

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• some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can’t eat the scenery.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, you can, but it doesn’t taste as good as it looks.

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe they were big fans of meth.

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• VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not having eaten in a week will do crazy things to you

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All depends on how the potatoes were doing that year.

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• WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably more to life than grass, rock, and water.

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  • DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah that’s just what capitalism wants you to think. Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  My English great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents saw this and thought, “Let’s move to Newfoundland”.

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• thorhop@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where the locals eat steamed hams.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, it’s not all about the view, otherwise Elon would be living on Mars.

  Let’s send him to Mars, though.

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• MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair the place was full of drinks.

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  • Maiq@piefed.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On the night of 18 June 1875 a fire broke out in a whiskey storehouse in the Liberties area of Dublin. The escaped whiskey formed a burning river six inches (15 cm) deep that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe, destroying 35 houses and killing several pigs. While there were no human fatalities as a direct result of the fire or flood, 13 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking from the stream of whiskey, which was of undiluted cask strength.

    Funny personal note, I can barely drink three bears without getting sick but I can drink whisky like a fish.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fish and bears are natural enemies.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You been to St. Louis?

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      French and German city heritage checks out.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And took forever to get to the beach.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Needs more b&t’s

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