It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.
Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo
And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.
The petition has to reach not only 1 million statements of support, but also a minimum threshold of support in at least 7 EU states. If you have citizenship for an EU country other than Germany and France, your country has yet to meet the minimum threshold for this petition.
It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.
Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo
And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.
The petition has to reach not only 1 million statements of support, but also a minimum threshold of support in at least 7 EU states. If you have citizenship for an EU country other than Germany and France, your country has yet to meet the minimum threshold for this petition.
I’m just thinking about how many times I’ve heard my dad on a long call with an obvious scammer and I’ll start begging him to get off the phone because I always think he’s a very easy mark and he’ll just keep going and then after a while he’ll say something like “I died 20 years ago” and hang up.
Virgin Millennial Daughter with 20 hrs of screentime a day: Dad! They’re scamming you! Dad! Stop! They will take your savings and your identity! Hang up before they SWAT you!
Chad Boomer dad with a flip phone he has not recharged since 2014: Well gee I wish I could give you my bank account number after you spent all this time on the phone explaining this car deal with me but I don’t have access to my finances because I am in Rikers for felony murder.
I haven’t actively used this site in years but this grabbed my imagination so thoroughly I had to draw it
I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you’re unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you’ve put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I’m not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.
but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.
telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they’re safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it’s safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you’ve never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.
If you need a discount code, please check out my tag #esim for multiple different ones from different carriers.
If you have trouble navigating the esim purchasing process, or if you want to help fund esims but don’t have quite enough money to buy one outright, you can also donate through the Crips for eSims for Gaza fundraiser, an initiative started by disabled activists to raise funds for esims.
I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you’re unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you’ve put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I’m not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.
but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.
telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they’re safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it’s safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you’ve never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.
If you need a discount code, please check out my tag #esim for multiple different ones from different carriers.
If you have trouble navigating the esim purchasing process, or if you want to help fund esims but don’t have quite enough money to buy one outright, you can also donate through the Crips for eSims for Gaza fundraiser, an initiative started by disabled activists to raise funds for esims.
- her parents didn’t belive she was hearing “monsters” in the walls. it was 60,000 bees
- she is 3 years old
- her parents gave her a spray bottle to “spray away the monsters”. it was 60,000 bees
- they didn’t belive her for 8 minths
- removal cost them $20,000 BECAUSE IT WAS 60,000 BEES!!!!!!
Ok ok MUCH smaller version of this.
When my daughter was like two and a half years old she started getting anxious whenever we’d go to the front yard. She wanted to hold my hand, or she’d hesitate to go at all, and she kept demanding “what’s that noise?!?” All the time.
And I’m trying to be reassuring going “that’s a birdie singing to us’😊” or “yeah look at the air plane way up there!😊😊😊” and sometimes I wasn’t really sure what sound she meant but I mean I’m in a city so there’s always something so it’s a car, a motorcycle, whatever.
Meanwhile every time I answer she looks at me like 😒😒😒and she doesn’t get any less nervous.
Anyways after like a month of this she’s only more upset, and has started insisting there’s a ghost outside. I figure she’s been watching too many scary Halloween cartoons and double down on my reassurances.
Anyways long story short I needed hearing aids and this poor kid had been hearing the neighbors Halloween decorations cackling in a scary voice every time the wind hit it while her mom kept insisting it was birds or an airplane or whatever.
I figured out which decoration made the sound and let her poke it and see it was a noisy toy and after that she loved it and stopped being nervous and I apologized and explained to her what happened.
And the moral of the story is to listen to kids and to remember to get your hearing checked regularly in case of childhood phobia development or 60,000 bees.
- her parents didn’t belive she was hearing “monsters” in the walls. it was 60,000 bees
- she is 3 years old
- her parents gave her a spray bottle to “spray away the monsters”. it was 60,000 bees
- they didn’t belive her for 8 minths
- removal cost them $20,000 BECAUSE IT WAS 60,000 BEES!!!!!!
Ok ok MUCH smaller version of this.
When my daughter was like two and a half years old she started getting anxious whenever we’d go to the front yard. She wanted to hold my hand, or she’d hesitate to go at all, and she kept demanding “what’s that noise?!?” All the time.
And I’m trying to be reassuring going “that’s a birdie singing to us’😊” or “yeah look at the air plane way up there!😊😊😊” and sometimes I wasn’t really sure what sound she meant but I mean I’m in a city so there’s always something so it’s a car, a motorcycle, whatever.
Meanwhile every time I answer she looks at me like 😒😒😒and she doesn’t get any less nervous.
Anyways after like a month of this she’s only more upset, and has started insisting there’s a ghost outside. I figure she’s been watching too many scary Halloween cartoons and double down on my reassurances.
Anyways long story short I needed hearing aids and this poor kid had been hearing the neighbors Halloween decorations cackling in a scary voice every time the wind hit it while her mom kept insisting it was birds or an airplane or whatever.
I figured out which decoration made the sound and let her poke it and see it was a noisy toy and after that she loved it and stopped being nervous and I apologized and explained to her what happened.
And the moral of the story is to listen to kids and to remember to get your hearing checked regularly in case of childhood phobia development or 60,000 bees.
Prevaricating for a two state solution is meaningless if you’re still funnelling arms to Netanyahu. Harris has not broken with Biden’s Infinite missiles for Bibi policy in any meaningful way. If she comits to halting arms shipments to Israel, I would happily go door knocking for her tomorrow.
If the percentage of LGBTQ people will continue to double every 10 years and the current percentage is 7.1 then the equation for when everyone is gay is this (with x being the number of decades)
7.1 * 2^x = 100
x = log2(100/7.1)
x = 3.81604 or about 38 years.
Since the tweet was made in 2022, the current trend would suggest that everyone will be gay in 2022+38 = 2060, not 2047.
Skibidi Toilet doesn’t confuse me because like 80% of the artists I was following on Tumblr in the mid 2010s were super into objectheads, so a machinima series about an interstellar war between objectheads and the ideological opposite of objectheads is normal to me.
Yes, it’s literally just a show about evil cyborg toilets with human heads (i.e., the head is the only human part of them) fighting a war against a race of ambiguously benevolent humanoids with cameras, speakers, televisions, and other audiovisual equipment for heads. In most episodes they don’t even do anything particularly weird – they just shoot lasers at each other and shit.
(I’d encourage you to give it a watch if you’ve been wondering what the big deal is; the first fifty-ish episodes are mostly less than a minute long, so you can shoot through the bulk of it in under an hour. After episode 50 it starts to get more long-winded, but I don’t think any complete season has cracked the 30-minute mark – it’s very bite-size.)
Three of the four elements are represented in types of hockey; Air hockey (air), field hockey (earth), ice hockey (water). Fire hockey needs to be a thing.
fire hockey 100% does not need to be a thing
Yes. Yes it does.
Fire hockey already exists. Welcome to pelota purépecha, or Mayan Fireball hockey.
If you are going to speak about other cultures, at least have the decency of getting your facts stright: Maya =/= P'urhépecha, nor any of these cultures are interchangeable with other Mesoamerican/Prehispanic cultures (like the Aztec/Mexica). Just so you understand this better:
P’urhépecha
Maya
Ok. Having said that, let’s move on to the “fire hockey” game itself.
The game is called Uárhukua Ch'anakua, meaning “stick competition”, although the name can change depending on the region were it’s practiced.
The ball, or zapandukua, is made of wood, stone, or rubber wrapped with cotton fabric that is left soaking on petroleum for a few days before the game, when it’s ignited.
The sticks, or uárhukua, are also made of wood. Their size and weight varies depending on the player preferences.
Originally there was no time limit, so one match could last for days. Nowadays they last about half an hour (or until the first score is made).
Each team has five players and at least three reserves. Substitutions are unlimited but have to be notified to the judges so they can decide when it’s pertinent to make the change without interrupting the game.
It is a game of honor. If a player gets penalized or expelled, it not only means dishonor for them, it means dishonor for their team.
It is kind of a Big Deal, with actual tournaments taking place on the P’urhépecha region and other places like México City.
The Uárhukua is usually played at night because the fiery ball symbolizes the sun moving through the sky. You can imagine just how impressive it looks to have a literal ball of fire bouncing across the field.
So now that you understand fire hockey a little bit better, you can go make your Avatar Hockey AU in peace, I would actually like to see how it turns out :)
Self-reblog to share the info again, because people in the comments keep thinking this is a Mayan game when it’s not 🤦🏻♀️
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
She’s getting cooked on twitter but she’s entirely correct
idk dude the Jack Daniel’s logo is bigger than the Coca-Cola logo, I think this is a case of if you idiot-proof something nature makes a bigger idiot
Cannabis alcohol and caffeine are all regulated with labels on the packaging, and so long as they take a second to read instead of guzzling at random like a wild animal they should be fine.
people literally died because of a beverage that did not prominently display its (absurdly, dangerously high) caffeine content, and that’s just the most recent example. OP is correct and saying “lol consumers are just dum-dums” feels like the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit all over again.
Also maybe not everyone knows Jack Daniel’s is an alcoholic company.
Plus the eye may be drawn to the pop of Red coloring (The Coca-Cola Logo) on this Monochrome Black and White Can first
It would literally be so easy to standardise this from a design perspective. All you need to do is add a coloured band around the can, for example cyan for alcohol, yellow for caffeine, magenta for CBD or THC (with lettering telling you which is which). Badly drawn with finger on phone vision below:
ALT
The bands could state the dose too.
The eye is naturally attracted to color against a monochrome black & white background. In this case, they saw Coca Cola instead of the Jack Daniel’s logo. Coke Zero has an entirely too similar design, making this easier to mistake for it.
It’s a design failure based on aesthetics rather than logic. All that visual noise becomes static with that little bit of color standing out because of it.
Finding the caffeine and dosage on a drink is difficult because it’s rarely bolded, and it’s often the same size as the rest of the information. Not all drinks even I clude the dosage. I can manage up to 40mg, any higher results in Problems, like seizures. I shouldn’t have to search online for the dosage nor eto even find out if it contains caffeine.
The strips of color at the top of a can or bottle is perfect, but must include the dosage for caffeine, CBD, and THC. Alcohol percentage is always at the bottom and should have a bright strip of color as well. These are a simple solution and will save lives. Especially for those with poor eyesight, folks with allergies to these specific ingredients (I know several people allergic to cannabis and hemp) or sensitivity (me and caffeine), and/or using meds that don’t play well with these additions.
Also I know this is controversial with many many people but people who you consider idiots for not reading the label more carefully also don’t deserve to go into diabetic shock / have an intolerance reaction / have a dangerous blood pressure drop / be drunk or high if they don’t want to be. Like idk if people just aren’t catching this part but the person in the original screenshot was looking for coke ZERO, got a big swallow of sugar and alcohol, and almost called 911. They are very clearly diabetic and this is an extremely serious mistake to make.
I dunno how many times we have to have the “should I care about disabled people even tho their problems don’t affect ME” conversation but it’s getting real old. If your solution is ever “just be smarter”, there is someone vulnerable that you are forsaking.
I saw your post about estrogen and nicotine. Do you know if there's anything out there about other forms of smoking (weed is the one I'm specifically curious about). Thanks 😊
this one seems to be a toss up, however the endocannabinoid system is closely linked to and affected by hormones, and vice versa. it would seem as for some people, using estrogen hrt can cause the body to become more receptive to the effects of cannabinoids, whereas others find that using cannabis may make them more or less susceptible to processing estrogen HRT.
however, there are a very small amount of studies being done on this, and some of them seem dubious at best or rather flimsy. many of the studies i read have inconclusive answers, whereas with nicotine, there are a lot more studies being done on the matter. it seems that for most people, using cannabis will not affect estrogen HRT anywhere near as much due to nicotine as a substance neutralizes estrogens and dilutes the amount of them that you have in your body.
here’s some information on the matter, which shows the subjective and inconclusive results, ranging from person to person, study to study:
I saw your post about estrogen and nicotine. Do you know if there's anything out there about other forms of smoking (weed is the one I'm specifically curious about). Thanks 😊
this one seems to be a toss up, however the endocannabinoid system is closely linked to and affected by hormones, and vice versa. it would seem as for some people, using estrogen hrt can cause the body to become more receptive to the effects of cannabinoids, whereas others find that using cannabis may make them more or less susceptible to processing estrogen HRT.
however, there are a very small amount of studies being done on this, and some of them seem dubious at best or rather flimsy. many of the studies i read have inconclusive answers, whereas with nicotine, there are a lot more studies being done on the matter. it seems that for most people, using cannabis will not affect estrogen HRT anywhere near as much due to nicotine as a substance neutralizes estrogens and dilutes the amount of them that you have in your body.
here’s some information on the matter, which shows the subjective and inconclusive results, ranging from person to person, study to study:
Well ladies and gentlemen and horrors beyond our comprehension I have bad news.
KOSA may be coming back.
Last time on dragon ball z KOSA passed senate and is now in the house of representatives. It was basically sidelined but now it’s picking up speed again.
story about a heist team doing a heist of colonial museums and returning unethically stolen sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to their original communities
but the story isn’t about them
the story is a legal thriller about the repatriation coordinator and the pro bono lawyer who get frantically called in by that community when an artifact goes missing from a museum and shows up unexpectedly at their doorstep and now they are in a shit ton of (potentially international) legal trouble because the heist team did not take the legal ramifications into account, and no one else believes them that they didn’t steal it, and The Law is saying they are legally obligated to return it to the museum and are also probably going to go to prison for this, and activists are protesting, and it’s rocking the repatriation world, and it’s turning into a huge Thing
But is there a UNESCO rep???
ABSOLUTELY there’s a UNESCO rep
Tbh I’m kind of endeared by the idea of a reverse heist team. Like the tropes of the heist team but they’re all members of the rapidly assembled legal team instead. The lawyer. The museum repatriation coordinator. The UNESCO rep. The Indigenous historian. The local community liaison. All working together to solve the problems the heist team left.
Yess yess I neeed this. I fucking love movies where a group of experts etc sit together and try to Get To The Bottom of It, with most of the tension stemming from research, and the intellectual, philosophical, and legal issues at stake. (All the President’s Men being the Ur example of this specific genre.)
story about a heist team doing a heist of colonial museums and returning unethically stolen sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to their original communities
but the story isn’t about them
the story is a legal thriller about the repatriation coordinator and the pro bono lawyer who get frantically called in by that community when an artifact goes missing from a museum and shows up unexpectedly at their doorstep and now they are in a shit ton of (potentially international) legal trouble because the heist team did not take the legal ramifications into account, and no one else believes them that they didn’t steal it, and The Law is saying they are legally obligated to return it to the museum and are also probably going to go to prison for this, and activists are protesting, and it’s rocking the repatriation world, and it’s turning into a huge Thing
But is there a UNESCO rep???
ABSOLUTELY there’s a UNESCO rep
Tbh I’m kind of endeared by the idea of a reverse heist team. Like the tropes of the heist team but they’re all members of the rapidly assembled legal team instead. The lawyer. The museum repatriation coordinator. The UNESCO rep. The Indigenous historian. The local community liaison. All working together to solve the problems the heist team left.
Yess yess I neeed this. I fucking love movies where a group of experts etc sit together and try to Get To The Bottom of It, with most of the tension stemming from research, and the intellectual, philosophical, and legal issues at stake. (All the President’s Men being the Ur example of this specific genre.)
My throats fucked but I like inhaled toothpaste and my throat seized up and I couldn’t breathe worst part is I spat toothpaste everywhere trying to get it out of my mouth and my throat is like fuzzy now?? Water did not help honey tea might
Dude I was dry heaving into a sink barely breathing and my brain went “this is gonna make a sick ass tumblr story”
did you know theres a automatic clutch in helicopters that connects the blades driveshaft to the engines driveshaft made of tiny little bones that sit diagonally at rest but when the engine starts spinning it the centrifugal force makes them point toward the blades driveshaft and engage with it allowing the engines rotation to transfer to the blades and when the engine fails or starts spinning slower than the blades are spinning the clutch automatically disengages purely thru the physics of the bones inside of it not having the force needed to bite down meaning the blades will continue spinning without getting slowed down by a malfunctioning engine and theres a way u can land a helicopter whos engines failed by nosediving on purpose so that all the air rushing past makes the blades naturally start spinning and then pulling up at the last moment to get the now sped up blades pointed at the ground again to make a cushion of air to land safely with and did u know each blade on the helicopter rotates freely on its own on a ball joint like they dont all just move around as a single unit theyre literally all doing their own unique pivots and shit to get the helicopter to move in any possible direction
