Speaking as a politics junkie, please just lay the fuck off for a couple of days.

Dog cognition. How hot is David Gyazi, or Gary Oldman. Smart corvids. Is analysis dead? (Inside joke.) Why 4 spaces is better than 8 spaces and 2 spaces both. Stamp collecting. Making literally *anything* that isn't more hate. The history of science. The *insane* active immune system. World famous musicians who are still underrated. Categories of song that only have like 3 entries. How many fucking varieties of potato there are.

*Anything*. But let politics rest until Monday.

@GeePawHill but wait tho, how many varieties of potato ARE there?
@RonJeffries By my reading, ~300. There are people living in the Andes who can easily recognize 80 of them, and tell you what they're good for.

@GeePawHill @RonJeffries 300 feels low. I'm pretty sure I've been in a room with that many, and they were all from the UK, and that was a pretty low key affair. (Yea, I went to a potato event, shut up.)

I'm guessing but there must be thousands of potato cultivars, still, even in this age of vast commercial monoculture

@jezhiggins @RonJeffries Wikipedia backs Jez here. ~5,000 varieties.