"All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them"
30+ years on Earth ~ she/her ~ NZ
sometimes im like “wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking” and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says “youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine” and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me
I just watched a man release every Pokemon he caught except for a level 5 Magikarp, waste all of his money and throw away all of his items at the Pokemon center just before the elite four in Pokemon red in order to trap himself in an unwinnable game. He couldn’t beat the elite 4 with a level 5 magikarp, and it couldn’t learn the hm moves necessary to leave victory road, and Magikarp only knew splash and had absolutely no chance of beating the level 40ish Pokemon there so… This guy wanders around victory road hoping a Geodude or Graveler would use selfdestruct or explosion in the first turn of an encounter and miss his Magikarp, which is technically possible because even moves with a 100% hitrate have a 1/256 chance to still miss. It happened eventually, and he beat the elite four with a level 100 gyarados
What the actual fuck
For some context, this is from a video series called “SoftLockPicking” where a guy’s followers come up with challenges to get him stuck in an unwinnable game and he tries to see if he can get out of them. Sort of a video game escape artist.
Im gonna shuffle my giant playlist of every song i like and if the very first one that plays isnt exactly what i want to hear right this second im gna lose it
I don’t have any glasses for the eclipse someone relay it to me when it happens
sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, less sun, no sun :(
more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, more sun, sun again
What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.
I’m gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don’t even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!
Former president of the Navajo Nation, Joe Shirley, giving an address in Navajo.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer telling a story, “Raven and Deer”, in Tlingit.
Albert White Hat, a well known Lakota teacher, translator, and activist, speaking Lakota.
This YouTube user, Grahm Wiley-Camacho, has uploaded a bunch of videos in Colville Okanagan Salish, but I’m not sure who all the speakers are.
Multiple people speaking Cherokee and talking about revitalization of the language.
This guy speaking Yucatec Maya (guest starring: adorable small child).
There’s a ton of material in Greenlandic on YouTube, but it’s hard for me to find, because the titles and other metadata are also in Greenlandic! Of course, this represents a huge win for the language, since this is a biproduct of being in vibrant use by a community of speakers. Greenlandic has been an official language of the territory of Greenland since 1979, and the sole official language since 2009.
Here are some proceedings of the Greenlandic parliament, the Inatsisartut, which are conducted in Greenlandic.
Here is a radio show in Greenlandic, from Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa.
And here is a video of Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, Greenlandic MP in the Danish parliament (Folketing), causing some upset by speaking in Greenlandic instead of Danish.
Conversation between Loran Thompson and Francis Boots in Mohawk.
Interview with Yup'ik elder Raphael Jimmy about qaneryaraq “words of wisdom/right living”.
taylor swift definitely shouldn’t be using a private plane so often she can produce 8,300 tons of CO2 every year.
however, i think she’s a nice distraction for megacorps because she is a real human person with a name and face, unlike a megacorp with dozens of different subsidiaries so no one realizes they own the entire market
in 2021, Berkshire Hathaway produced 72 million tons of CO2 pollution.
exxon mobil produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
blackstone produced 12 million tons of CO2 pollution.
the US government produced 44 million tons of CO2 pollution.
for reference, at her current rate, it would take taylor swift 120 years to produce 1 million tons of CO2 pollution.
>Japan bombs Pearl Harbor which brings America into World War II
>The draft for WWII creates a labor shortage in the US
>Because of the labor shortage, companies start significantly raising wages.
>FDR is worried that if wages go up too fast it could create runaway inflation, so he signs an executive order creating the National War Labor Board, which standardized salaries during the war in order to stabilize prices.
>Companies wanted a way to compete for talent in a limited labor pool despite not being able to offer higher salaries, so they started offering benefits packages to attract workers, the cornerstone of which was health insurance
>After the war, companies didn’t want to give up their role in providing health insurance because it served them well in terms of both recruiting and retention (i.e. you’re less likely to quit your job if it means losing your health insurance)
>This model becomes increasingly common across the US to the point where private health insurance companies are paying for the majority of healthcare expenses in the US
>Because the majority of healthcare costs were being paid by insurance companies rather than the people receiving care, hospitals began massively inflating the sticker price of their services with the expectation that the insurance company would negotiate those numbers down (as private insurance companies are want to do)
>Insurance companies take advantage of the increase in sticker prices by increasing premiums and passing off more of their costs to the consumer while continuing to negotiate down the actual price paid to hospitals
>This cycle repeats until the average hospital bill is completely divorced from any of the actual costs of the service
>In 2024 the average cost of giving birth in America is over $18,000
Fun fact this exact thing happened to an Allosaurus specimen, except it’s pubic bone was pierced by the thagomizer of a Stegosaurus. The wound additionally was likely what killed the animal so on top of being pierced in the pelvis by a massive spike it became horribly infected and likely killed the Allosaurus.
It’s also not the only thagomizer wound found on an Allosaurus as seen in this pierced caudal, Allosaurus fucked around and found out a lot by the looks of it.
Lesson of the story, don’t piss off a Stegosaurus.
when usamericans say they’re from the midwest they exclusively mean they’re from the central-eastern side of their country. yet another lie from their forkéd tongues
