On the bright side, because it’s a good four hours from any major city, there’s Great Basin National Park.
On the downside: The beauty is straight downwind from decades of nuclear bomb testing craters.
We made this a subtly horrible place, on purpose, this time because rooskis so evil.
If you look closely enough, and actually learn about anything around you here, you won’t be able to unsee it.
I can promise you that much from personal experience.
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The sense of “an instance of great change in affairs” is recorded from mid-15c.
This sense becomes your solemn duty, and you won’t get there by staying in school and graduating into a good job.
Sorry.
For all of us.
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And, oh, this.
Forward in time from the bombs, back in time from here.
Fear and Loathing, 1971.