colonial spanish art in the 1500s is this fascinating incipient cultural synthesis and then in the 1600s they just go 'lets do counterreformation baroque but worse'

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'Analysis by the founder of the Widening Participation Languages Network, Becky Muradás-Taylor, shows that students can take a languages course at just 22 of the 73 universities (30 per cent) with entry requirements below AAB at A level after a spate of cuts in recent years.'

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🤣 I'm New Mexico born & reared happy trucker trash, and my parents grew up in west Texas during the 1930s Depression. My mom went to work at age 15 to afford eyeglasses her family 'wouldn't buy for a girl'. She became an amateur cactus botanist. 2000 books in her home library before she passed.

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This feels like someone working backwards from “I hate bike lanes” to try to come up with something that sounds like a left shaped justification.

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Literally, yes. Citizen’s time is finite, there’s nothing inherently representative about the people that show up to the meeting, and delay has real and tangible costs in terms of what gets built. A project millions will benefit from being held up by some random cranks is not meaningfully democratic

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