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I spent a couple of weeks in Antofagasta, Chile a few years ago. Here's some pictures I took while there: Just outside the hotel we stayed at.  We spent the majority of the time we were there in the Atacama desert. The Atacama is the driest place on earth. It's eerily quiet there because there is virtually nothing alive. The view of the stars at night is also incredible.   A cemetery in the Atacama. This was from back when the majority of the worlds nitrate was mined there until the Haber process was invented. Most of these graves were from the late 1800s/early 1900s.   Also taken in Antofagasta: 
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The difference between Antofagasta and Mars is that Mars has measurable precipitation.
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Ka0 posted:Beer pedantery has taken off near to the usual places: universities, bohemian slums, etc. They're just as atrocious as the IPA-craze in the US, where each microbrewery is constantly striving to out-fruit and out-medicine syrup each other, so now it's no longer good enough to order a loving beer, it has to have X amount of alcohol volume, Y amount of fruit jizz and Z concentration of nutsack hops harvested from the last dying tree of the hopopeke people in the ungaughmagah forest. soy posted:don't forget it has to come in a weird can with that kinda sandpapery finish and a cartoonish picture of some random object like a saw or a train
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glowing-fish posted:
Once in a blue moon (literally) there'll be rain over the Atacama and every single square inch of land will be layered with flowers. I haven't seen this happen in the argentinian pampa, but then it's a completely different type of environment 
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Feb 8, 2019 05:48
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There was actually a 100 year rain event a few months after I was there. Everything was flooded. It was pretty amazing to see pictures from a friend that happened to be there again when it happened.
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Comrayn posted:Pizza, that beloved dish famous for being dry. but yes people wanting piping hot, fresh pizzas is a thing.
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Temaukel posted:And the Yaca: LOOK Look at this tiny bastard what a great creature gently caress y'alls this guy is awesome. If you gently caress with this rock ur fuckin' dead, game the gently caress over.
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Feb 8, 2019 10:43
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Antofagasta is in the part of the country that was captured from Bolivia during the War of the Pacific, right? I assume some of them are still salty about that. Are there any traces of Bolivia left there, is it different from the rest of the country in some way?
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Feb 8, 2019 12:54
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ok here's dinner, it's a very traditional plate from the pampas region (south brazil, uruguay, argentina) called throw huge slabs of meat and vegetables in the oven
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Historic city market, Porto Alegre, Brasil     just so i'm not only posting my food lmao bagual fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 10, 2019 |
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Feb 10, 2019 02:40
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Thanks for blurring out my face
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Feb 10, 2019 03:02
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I missed beer chat, but Pilsen Callao is really good for the price. I also know a guy who runs a small craft brewery (MAD brewing) down there and his stuff is really good, but probably impossible to find outside of Miraflores/Barranco.
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Feb 10, 2019 04:12
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wait so is this thread just jpgs of south america or south american discussion
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wookong posted:wait so is this thread just jpgs of south america or south american discussion yes
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Feb 10, 2019 04:34
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Nothing wrong with small talk, current events, etc. For example, everyone's favorite fascist has pneumonia: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1093603106582130690
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Accretionist posted:Nothing wrong with small talk, current events, etc. I saw that, quite the shame. But anyways, your thread, your rules OP. I’ve found it very entertaining fwiw.
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Feb 10, 2019 05:27
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Shame he got to go to the hospital 
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South America is rad as gently caress
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Feb 10, 2019 11:51
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Wanna travel there so bad, my gf is spanish tho and absolutely hates the idea of going there. Spanish vs latin america animosity runs deep.
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Feb 10, 2019 18:53
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Doesn't even make sense, she can speak the language and everything.
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Feb 10, 2019 18:58
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Is it because we're poor and smelly?
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bagual posted:Is it because we're poor and smelly? It's because we're brown 
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Temaukel posted:It's because we're brown they're the same thing in the colonizer mindset, which must be finally and permanently discredited and abandoned  here's a brazilian animation movie definitely worth checking out, it's a loving masterpiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7x8oi_1GBo there's no dialogue so it's accessible to you gringos as well, the art is absolutely gorgeous but coupled with the soundtrack it brought tears to my eyes in some scenes you can find it full on youtube in a lovely resolution but you can probably  it or check out if you can buy it anywhere, something I haven't found
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Son of Rodney posted:Wanna travel there so bad, my gf is spanish tho and absolutely hates the idea of going there. Spanish vs latin america animosity runs deep. I've met plenty of Spanish people here in Europe and I really didn't feel any animosity at all I think there's like a hundred times more animosity in latin america vs latin america also 
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https://twitter.com/YagamiShinji/status/1043166718225465346 Ha
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Illusion broken in the first 5 seconds - an expensive looking screen like that wouldn't last a blink in a latin american subway
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Feb 11, 2019 02:56
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Video of the Line 3 Santiago Metro, where it crosses Line 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DBQxpxE2Es Its a big station.
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Feb 11, 2019 03:24
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 The quickest way to get fat in Venezuela is to engorge in tequeños, a phalloid-slab of llanero cheese wrapped in thin crust pastry and deep fried for 2 minutes. They are as ubiquitous as corndogs in Ohio state fairs.
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glowing-fish posted:Video of the Line 3 Santiago Metro, where it crosses Line 1: What in the hell? That’s reallly big and cool, but I saw like one overweight person, maybe.
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glowing-fish posted:Video of the Line 3 Santiago Metro, where it crosses Line 1: That's a nice underground bus system.
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Baronjutter posted:That's a nice underground bus system. Better than DCs. Escalators work
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Pochoclo posted:I've met plenty of Spanish people here in Europe and I really didn't feel any animosity at all Tbh I was joking mostly, it's more of a friendly rivalry akin to us and Canada, English and Scottish, etc. My girlfriend is mostly concerned with danger as she's convinced s. America is super dangerous, and also she has ants to visit other places first. I'm working against this by showing her cool documentaries and pictures from s. American places. A work friend went there for 8 months last year and I'm so jealous.
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To be honest, I have no desire of visiting countries like El Salvador, Venezuela or Honduras where rule of law basically doesn't exist and the murder rate is through the roof. Chile or Costa Rica though, who cares. There are plenty of options even if you're not the adventurous type.
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Son of Rodney posted:Wanna travel there so bad, my gf is spanish tho and absolutely hates the idea of going there. Spanish vs latin america animosity runs deep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Valdivia "There are many versions of how Valdivia's killing took place. According to Jerónimo de Vivar, an author contemporary with the events, the execution of Valdivia was personally ordered by Caupolicán, who had him killed with a lance and later his head, along with those of two of his bravest companions, were put on display.[18] Another contemporary chronicler, Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo writes that Valdivia offered as a ransom for his life the evacuation of all the Spanish settlements in the Mapuche lands and to give them large herds of animals,[19] but this offer was rejected and the Mapuche first cut off his forearms, roasted and ate them in front of him before killing him and his accompanying priest.[20] Alonso de Ercilla refers that Valdivia was killed with the blow of a club, then with a knife a warrior cut open his breast and ripped his still quivering heart which was then handed to the toqui, who sucked its blood. The heart was passed round from one to another, and a drinking cup was made from his skull. The warriors keep running round the corpse brandishing their lances and uttering cries, while the rest of the assembly stamped with their feet until the earth shook.[21] Yet another contemporary chronicler, Pedro Mariño de Lobera, also wrote that Valdivia offered to evacuate the lands of the Mapuche but says he was shortly thereafter killed with a large club by a vengeful warrior named Pilmaiquen, who said that Valdivia could not be trusted to keep his word once freed.[22] Lobera also says that a common story in Chile at the time was that Valdivia had been killed by forcing him to drink molten gold.[23] According to an even later legend, Lautaro took Valdivia to the Mapuche camp and put him to death after three days of torture, extracting his beating heart and eating it with the Mapuche leaders.[24] The fact remains that probably all the stories about his death are apocryphal, since none of Valdivia's party survived the battle, and the only witnesses that could be found were Indians that were captured in subsequent battles"
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DoctorGonzo posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Valdivia Visit Chile! See the sights! also, we'll eat you with pebre on the side.
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Seems like the Mapuche wasn't too fond of that Spanish colonization idea after all huh. I mean, the diseases and massacres against them might have influenced their opinion about it I guess.
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gently caress why did I get assigned to Chile We joke but the various Latin American independence movements were all headed by criollos and nothing's really changed since then, except maybe in Bolivia. The average upper-class Latin American is almost certainly much more racist than that guy's Spanish girlfriend.
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José Miguel Carrera and Manuel Rodriguez were cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Miguel_Carrera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Erdo%C3%ADza
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