lol personal freedom

This can't stay as just a tag I'm sorry but its true

happy ides of March

yo why is this on my dash its august

Yeah, why is this getting notes? It's August!

It's knife day

Oh

once again this has been getting notes for the past few days, and it's only knife day morning today!

Why Hawaii needs a break from tourism — perspective from local resident palanichang on tiktok

[VD: Video answering a comment from Jamesy asking, “Help me understand how a break from tourism would help Hawaii?” Local resident talking in the car answers, “Sure thing, so many people know that the Hawaiian Islands are located in the very middle of the Pacific Ocean, what people don’t realize is because of our location and how small our islands are our natural resources are limited. Especially water. That is why we use these natural resources responsibly and respectfully. Now you take that and then you add tourism. When people come to visit our islands, they’re going to need resources as well, and as more people start visiting our islands, the more resources we use up. Take Maui for example: Back in 2016, I think Maui was going through a drought, so the city and county asked for the residents in Maui to preserve their water, use as much as possible. We’re talking about showers, talking about washing clothes, washing cars, feeding the animals. Now why would they ask that? That is because of the drought that’s going on, they had to divert majority of the stream water to hotels, resorts, attractions, heck, even golf courses. Which is why, when you add tourism to the mix, our resources are being used irresponsibly. That’s only going to go to those who are only visiting the islands. Also, people don’t realize is that tourism has never helped the native Hawaiian community. They only supported the corporations that brought tourism in. Another thing that people need to realize that tourism was brought over by the United States military, not native Hawaiians, and what they would do is take our culture, fantasize it, sexualize it, and make it attractive, so that people can come and visit. When, during the Kingdom of Hawaii days, we never needed tourism. It wasn’t a necessity. As a matter of fact, the economy during the Kingdom of Hawaii days was solid. It only got worse when American businessmen took over, known as the Republic of Hawaii back in 1898, and the strong economy that the Kingdom of Hawaii worked so hard to build crumbled. And that’s why tourism started. I know many people argue quote, ‘well you guys should have a bunch of goods. Ninety percent of your goods are always imported’ end quote. Why do you think that is? A lot of our farmlands and properties, they got closed down and sold to make room for more houses. But it’s also so that American businesses and corporations can thrive here. Especially shipping their goods. Which also leads to another problem: real estate. But I’ll cover that in another video. The harsh reality is, tourism has done a lot more harm than good here. Our people in Maui, they need our help. We need to focus our resources towards them not you. That’s why I said we need a break.” End VD]

shit tier: “the queen your mother was always mindful of her duty” and also “‘we are [sworn to protect her] but not from him”

bad tier*: “though she turned a blind eye to most of the king’s infidelities, the queen did not approve of his ‘turning my ladies into his whores.’” 

top tier: stranded on dragonstone, pregnant, attainted, her entire family dead–yet proceeds to name her son king with her own crown and names her daughter after daeron the good’s sister who became one of dorne’s most beloved consorts

god tier: “when prince rhaegar returned to the red keep to present his daughter to his own mother and father, queen rhaella embraced the babe warmly, but king aerys refused to touch or hold the child and complained that she ‘smells dornish’”

#*you could of course interpret her sending them away (esp. joanna) because she wanted to protect them from aerys #but she couldn’t publicly SAY how horrible aerys was so she said the whore line instead #which is incidentally what i choose to believe but it’s not stated #but anyway why do people only ever focus on her being raped and ‘dutiful’ when she was so much more than that #fandom consistently is in the shit or bad tier and i hate it #where’s the edit or gifset or fic of rhaenys being presented to her and aerys #where she knew she’d undoubtedly be incurring aerys’s wrath by going against him #because she wanted her daughter-in-law and grandchild to know her love was unconditional and it didn’t matter that rhaenys looked dornish #or an edit or gifset or fic of how viserys loved his mother so much that #‘the last joy had gone from him leaving only rage’ when he was forced to sell her crown? #or how happy she must have been when elia was betrothed to rhaegar because elia’s mother was once rhaella’s lady-in-waiting? #or how free she must have felt when aerys left for harrenhal and she had the run of the castle with viserys at her side (rhaenys too probs) #like??? why do you have to define her life solely by the horrors she endured? (via @samwpmarleau)

I want a variant of this

But I did not say any of this to you, Dr Jordan.

ALIAS GRACE (2017), Episode 3
Directed by Mary Harron

everyone celebrating india's mission to the moon's south pole i love you and im with you but this is NOT india's first accomplishment in space!! im seeing a lot of people saying that but its not true. some other things we've done:

• confirm the presence of water and ice on the moon
• was the first asian nation to reach mars orbit, and the first nation IN THE WORLD to reach it in it's maiden attempt
• saved thousands of lives from cyclone phailin in 2013 over the four days, resulting in 45 deaths when without them, would have been in the thousands at minimum
• launched the first successful flight using the indigenous cryogenic engine
• successfully neutralized a satellite in space with an anti-satellite (mission shakti, anyone?)
• launched 104 satellites with one (1) rocket
• THE VIKAS ENGINE??? HELLO?? NAMBI NARAYANAN??? even if you didnt know him before, surely youve seen the movie rocketry?

not to mention everything we've done in coordination with other nations, and achievements from Indian scientists and astronauts that were then taken by other nations, usually during war. plus, we've always been much more cost efficient than our space-faring peer nations

all to say!! we've always been there, and we've always been strong. our mission now only proves that, and we should scream it loud and proud for any westerner who ignores us again

India has done so much cool stuff in space but also this is the SOUTH POLE of the MOON and that is just conceptually extremely charismatic

It is the charismatic megafauna of space science

I’m going to scream. Pushback on the narrative that climate breakdown can be averted by individual decisions centres around the fact that NORMAL PEOPLE do not contribute to a significant amount of carbon emissions cos the average NORMAL PERSON emits 7 tons of CO2 a year. Not Taylor fucking Swift who has emitted over 8000 tons of emissions this year SO FAR. Her CO2 emissions from private jet use alone are equivalent to that of TWO THOUSAND normal people. We absolutely should be blaming individuals if those particular individuals are emitting two thousand people’s worth of emissions.

“We should be addressing structural issues” my brother in Christ widespread private jet use is a structural issue. Celebrity culture and the extravagant lifestyle that comes with it is a structural issue. These are whole industries that are massively impacting climate breakdown but because Taylor happens to be the most egregious case her stans want to pretend it’s not a problem. Stan culture really is a disease

Private jets should not *be* a travel option and we absolutely should be criticizing all celebrities and 1%ers who use them, not only Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner

what's killing me about cicero is that his letters are like...a substantial portion of what we know about the roman republic.

imagine having to reconstruct the history of the past century from like, i don't know, oprah winfrey's autobiography or something

1. no idea why my brain went to oprah winfrey as the modern day equivalent of cicero
2. ...i'm going to pick out a book at the library and see what I can find out about our time from only that book.

I hate this I hate this I hate this I hate this

I'm significantly distracted from my task, as a Future Historian, by how bad this book is.

...

Here is what we have learned about The World after........two pages.

• The presentation of hair in this society is really, really important, although there's very little information on what the hairstyle is supposed to look like.
• people attend educational institutions called universities
• It's possible to travel 165 miles in a single afternoon, using something called a "Mercedes CLK." Doing this involves "hit[ting] the pedal to the metal." I, as a Future Historian, do not know what this means.
• Journalist is a job. It means you ask important rich people questions.
• There's something called a "digital recorder." There are no instructions on how to use it other than "press record."
• Buildings can be twenty stories tall and they're made of glass, steel, and sandstone?? What the FUCK does that even look like

Things we have not learned about the world in 2 pages:

• What is NyQuil????

Pages 3-4 update to things we know about The World:

• Desk is sandstone?? Sandstone desk??
• The effect the architecture has is "intimidating" and "clinical."
• The woman at the sandstone desk is wearing a "charcoal suit jacket" and "white shirt." I assume charcoal refers to the color. She is well-dressed.
• The speaker feels underdressed because she is in a "navy-blue jacket," her "one and only skirt," "sensible brown knee-length boots," and a "blue sweater." She wishes she had worn one of her roommate's "formal blazers."
• There's a thing called an elevator that's capable of "whisk[ing]" you at "terminal velocity" up to the twentieth floor.
• Chairs are leather??
• The city of Seattle overlooks a sound, important enough to be called THE Sound. It is a really impressive sight.
• The protagonist likes to read "classic British novels."
• People drink tea, coffee, and water.

Things we don't know about The World:

• In reference to all the people in the building being blonde, the speaker says, "It's like Stepford in here." It is unknown what this references.

...Please, for the love of god, don't let Fifty Shades of Grey be all that future historians can recover from our civilization...

this book is so fucking bad y'all i'm trying to gather myself to read another page

fuck

Okay

Pages 5-6 update of what we, as Future Historians, can learn about the world from Fifty Shades of Grey:

• the woman's heels are "clicking?" presumably she's wearing shoes?
• the speaker is not sure if it is legal for Grey's building to be full of exclusively blondes. (There are laws about that?)
• the blonde women are said to be doing some kind of "work," but there are no details. (Weaving?)
• "african-american" is a category of person
• "dark copper" hair is attractive
• The speaker curses to herself by saying "double crap."
• She also says "holy cow." Since we know very little about The World, maybe she's invoking a cow god?
• If Grey is over thirty, then the speaker is "a monkey's uncle." It is unknown what this is supposed to mean.
• People hold hands as greeting. There is also shaking involved. It's unclear.
• There are tables specifically for coffee? Coffee tables?
• Windows can stretch from floor to ceiling! They're made of glass?
• The speaker is studying "English" literature at "WSU Vancouver," presumably the name of the university she attends.
• Grey's desk is made of wood, not sandstone, and it is "modern."
• The office is decorated only with a "mosaic" of small paintings of "mundane, forgotten objects" that are so detailed, they look like "photographs."
• Mr. Grey is referred to as "an Adonis." It is unknown what this references.

You know what, I'm going to make sure every copy of this book is annihilated so future historians can glean nothing from it.

i think i'm mostly impressed by how this book manages to be misleading, wrong and unrealistic about so many things even though it takes place in the contemporary world the writer lives in.

I'm still stuck on how a random college student who is not even studying journalism gets an interview with a CEO because her roommate had an interview with him. And how they just...let her in despite the fact that she obviously has no fucking idea what she's supposed to be doing???

And on how a blue jacket, a blue sweater, a skirt and brown knee-length boots is supposed to like...look like something a person would wear to a formal interview with a CEO.

Um. The place with the chairs is called a "seated area" on page 4.

the library closed at 1am, so i was unable to do further inquiry. we will see if i have the mental fortitude tomorrow.

I did not look at the sex scenes. I have an extremely hard time imagining they are sexy. However i opened the accursed tome to a random page, and saw...

Way down low. Down There. You know. Down There. In the Low Place. The Bottom Area. You know, my Underneath Parts. Way down in my Deep Organ. My Sensual Basement. My Arousal Trench, if you will.

You know. The Pink Underworld. The Love Fissure. The Salacious Tunnel, if you get what i mean. The Pleasure Catacomb, if you catch my drift. My Southerly Sinkhole. My Low-Lying Wetlands. You know. The Throbbing Coastal Floodplain. My Erotic Basin. The petals of my Abyssal Flower, you might say. The Deep-Ocean Habitat where the Slimy Hagfish of Pleasure Feast on the Dead Whale Corpses of Desire. My Abandoned Uranium Mine of Carnal Knowledge. You know. There. That. That body part, yup, that one.