Chewbacca is buck wild as a character concept but so ingrained in the cultural canon that the full absurdity of him is often overlooked. Here’s a middle-aged 200 year old space fellow who’s eight feet tall with a full body perm, naked except for a bandolier he never uses, knows the local lingua franca but exclusively communicates by screaming and growling in his own language, has adopted Harrison Ford as a pet, will rip your arms out of their sockets if you beat him at chess. Go into any dog park and you’ll bump into at least one mutt bearing his name. Roger Ebert despised him. In 1997 MTV gave him a Lifetime Achievement award.
Whatās really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans āthey walkedā when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like ālol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess itās gonna always be a mystery!ā
Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it
Roopkund Lake AKA āSkeleton Lakeā in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldnāt figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the āmysteryā went unsolved.
Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said āYah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill themā. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/
Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to āfigure outā the āmysteryā. š
Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didnāt even bother consulting them about either ship until likeā¦last year.Ā
āInuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.
In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.
āIf Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge ā this is our backyard ā those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. Iām confident of that,ā she said. āBut they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.ā
āOh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada donāt listen to people,ā Kogvik said. āThey just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.ā
Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.
āThe community knew about this for many, many years. Itās hard for people to stop and actually listen ā¦ especially people from the South.ā
Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.
Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasnāt until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years agoā¦ aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.
itās literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world. Ā
Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with Ā the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. Ā So aroundĀ 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago
These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least
Donāt mind meā¦Iām just thinking about how spiders are naturally talented and skilled weavers and they know how to weave their webs and even make functional, stylish homes and nests and whatnot.
So maybe thatās why Spider-Man knows how to sew his suits. He inherited that trait from the spider and just instinctively know how to weave his suits. Maybe. Thatās my explanation for it.
Aunt May: Youāre buying an awful lot of yarn lately. Are you making something?
Peter, who after getting bit by a spider has felt an inescapable need to knit and now his room is covered head to toe in yarn: Nope. Itās just new hobby.
yknow what. i complained a lot about how it was unrealistic to suddenly know how to put together stretch knits and a perfectly fitting, absolute banger of a suit, but this is an explanation iāll gladly accept
#contemplating peter with superfine yarn and tiny double-point needles #speed-knitting up the length of a spider-suit leg so fast his hands blur #this makes so much sense actually #itās on-theme and the suit is NOT usually drawn with seam lines
āa pharmacist at a Walgreens chain in Oakland refused to hand over his hormone replacement medicine due to their āreligious beliefsā.ā
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Iām sorry
He did what now?
Perhaps someone should explain to this hateful little cunt what being employed in the service industry means
It means you do what your fucking told
When I walk into McDonalds I donāt expect to have some whiny little cunt tell me āIām a vegan so I canāt morally sell you a Big Macā
If this brainleess cross burning little dipshit wants to bitch and whine about his āMoralsā and āReligious beliefsā he can fuck off to whatever sub-reddit he and the rest of his basement dwelling nazi buddies hang out in and cry his eyes out about it there to the rest of the snivelling little dateless wonder fuckboys that make up his pathetic friend circle
Heās employed to do a fucking job. If he wonāt do his job he should be fired immediately and replaced with someone who will do what they are being paid to do
If his āReligious beliefsā dictate that he canāt do said job he can fuck off to the unemployment line and have fun waiting to see if his imaginary friend shows up with bread and fishes to feed him while heās out of a job
I absolutely encourage anyone who encounters worthlss transphobic trash like this pharmacist to do everything in their power to get these little cunts fired from their jobs because āpeopleā like this bigot shouldnāt be allowed to work in pharmacies
Or anywhere, really
Thereās only one Walgreens on Telegraph in Oakland: 5505 Telegraph. Itās this one.
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Not far from Childrenās Hospital. Part of a shopping center with Noahās Bagels, Round Table Pizza, and a post office.
If youāre local, itās definitely worth calling or stopping by to ask which of your normal purchases, especially medications, might not be available based on the religious biases of some of their staff.
And keep pestering them until that pharmacist is fired. And they say so publicly.
The news article mentioned the victimās name but not the pharmacistās. (This is a liability thing; journalists have to be very careful about whose names they throw around or they or their news host can be sued.)
Walgreens needs to become aware that (1) they are going to be subject to a whole lot of very annoying calls (and possibly visits) until they declare that bigotry in their staff is not welcome, and (2) itās a really bad idea for patients to be unwilling to tell pharmacists anything about their condition, and this guy is undermining public trust in the medical profession as a whole.
A medical professional who canāt do their job for āreligious reasons,ā if they canāt just fire the person, should have to make it very very clear to customers that they provide limited services.
Maybe they can wear a button that says āI WILL NOT HANDLE SOME MEDICATIONS,ā possibly with a nice list that can be handed out on request. Of course, the pharmacy would need to always have another person on hand for their shifts; they canāt have someone working alone who canāt serve the customers, but as long as theyāre always paired with someone who can, itās not a problem.
(āJust fire the assholeā is by far the preferred route. But he may actually be looking for that; he may have a neo-nazi legal team ready to jump in and sue the company for firing someone ābased on their religious beliefs.ā)
Iām trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
And for the people askingĀ āWell if you donāt support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!ā Because when itās happening irl real people are suffering and dying and thatās horrible and Iād never want that. But when itās fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, itās interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.
Seriously, the easiest way for a time-traveler to make present-day money completely untraceably would be comicbooks.
Go buy yourself a US 10c coin from 1935, which will apparently set you back around $8.50; set your time machine for New York, April 18th 1938; walk up to a newsstand and buy a copy of Action Comics #1 with your dime.
Come back to the present, send the comic off to be professionally graded, tell everyone you found it in a yard sale, sell it at auction, and congratulations: your $8.50 is now $3.25 million.
Repeat with Detective Comics #27, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc.
Hell, if you don’t wanna draw attention to yourself, just pick less expensive comics! Need $600 quick? Go to February 1991, pick up New Mutants #98 for a dollar, and a Deadpool fan will take that off your hands really quick.
Comics are mass-produced, so history won’t miss a copy or two going missing; basically untraceable once sold; and can easily be claimed as something you found in a yard sale or charity shop.
Make sure to stick it in an archival lockbox and then pick it up later, especially if it’s something that was made before the Trinity test; if it doesn’t have the right nuclear isotopes, you might be SOL.
Image description: āReflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because itās such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just DIDNāT happen?ā We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGateās underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isnāt merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.
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