Western history loves to brag about their geniuses, philosophers, thinkers, and innovators throughout history but as far as I know, nobody talks about geniuses in non western history. Why can’t an Aztec community have their neighborhood Einstein who loved to study engineering and physics and helped build an efficient-running town?
Reblog is you’re uncomfortable with how eurocentric our understanding of history is.
Numerous Egyptian murals: literally explain that stone blocks and large sculptures were transported using water
“Ancient Aliens” fuckos:
say it with me: it’s the racism
I agree with the stuff about history but those channels are known to be blatant cash grabs and they use machinery not just sticks
This guy is legit tho and the scale of what can be done with one guy should put things into perspective.
Love this guy remember when he moved out to the new property and casually filmed a cassowary grazing there from like 2m away and we were all like “of course you’ve got fucking cassowaries and aren’t bothered”
I do enjoy watching miniminuteman and his very obvious understanding of there being just so much racism. Videos like this comparing things built in the same century and one being “how did they do that? Must be aliens!” Whereas the other is just “well it was made by civilised people”. It really does just come down to racism once again huh?
Tumblr is odd because you’ll see a mutual post something really profound like “the birds still sing for those who listen” and you see them 5 minutes later saying something like “need to be pegged.grilled cheese style”
i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there’s a slug on their plant and so you’re like “Oh haha you’ve got a friend there let me get that for you” and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is “would you like this free slug with your purchase”
@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful
We need more honorifics for when you like get good at something like dr …like maybe if you, eat, 1000000 hotdogs you can be htdg. That’s a fucking stupid example but you’re not paying me to come up with posts now are you .
Bilbo barely passed Old Took’s record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do
I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.
Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.
Gandalf’s attitude towards Pippin just took on a whole new layer.
