Preach I guess

OH I HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD

November 6 / 7, 2024 - Far-right Israeli hooligans of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam for a match against Ajax, and went around singing their fascist songs about killing arabs and destroying palestine, attacking random people's houses, ripping down and burning palestinian flags and attacking random people for looking like palestine supporters, feeling untouchable. After an evening of this, with Amsterdam police just letting it happen, people had had enough and mostly Moroccan dutch people organised to hunt down Maccabi hooligans throughout the city. One of the Maccabi hooligans jumped in the canal to escape a beating. Passports were confiscated showing that several of the hooligans were IDF soldiers.

The Israeli government has responded by calling this a pogrom and sending two planes to Amsterdam, presumably to bomb a hospital or school in retaliation.

during several of the beatings the israeli hooligans were told "this is for the children of Palestine!". The Maccabi fans were singing songs about how there are no schools left in Gaza earlier in the day.

England is a place

Btw near-ish magpie lane is a street called Pusey street

There are many similar street names related to this.

My favourite is one near my called Trade Street. Now at a glance thats perfectly normal. Could have been a market right?

Well the streets it connects to are called Consort Street, and Strumpet Street. So it seems clear what the Trade was.

Why do we have so many streets named after prostitution?

Historians talk a lot about how it’s an easy way to tell people where to find the service they’re seeking without literacy and maps like we have now.

I am once again thinking about how batshit crazy it must've been for paleolithic humans to encounter kangaroos for the very first time

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.

Every time I see this post I’m obligated to reblog and make it your problem too!

I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?

The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.

link to source:

“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

holy shit read the article. it’s short but wild

We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.

Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?

#i've definitely read this before and i've probably reblogged it before but like.#no one in this thread is mentioning that they actually shot someone with an actual arrow in this armor.#they were like 'we've got to test this in practice' and instead of getting a mannequin or something they had an actual person wear it.

They what?

from the article:

a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would've cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.

I absolutely think adults, especially parents, ascribe manipulative intent to children when they shouldn't and it's absolutely a problem but it's always kind of funny to me when people go online and proclaim that children are incapable of manipulation. When I was three I asked my mom to get my older sibling their favorite candy bar at the grocery story because I knew she'd get me mine too as a reward for being thoughtful and that was way more likely to succeed than if I just asked for a candy bar for me. And it worked. Children scheme at a developmentally appropriate level the trick is not assuming children scheme at an adult level.

Hi! This is not an example of manipulation, this is an example of a developing understanding of cause and effect, which ultimately is foundational to how EVERYONE makes decisions about their interactions.

It's really commong for people to use the term manipulation to any need-/support-/attendance-meeting behavior where the person does not explicitly say "this is my desired outcome please help me obtain it", but most of those are common and reasonable forms of communication! They may not be EFFECTIVE with every person, because different communication styles may not be complementary with each other. But that doesn't make them bad or immoral or in some way malicious.

The thing is, "manipulative" behavior is typically a term applied to "behavior that I believe I would respond to differently had I known its intended outcome" but that feeling of being "tricked" isn't necessarily something we need to react to. It tends to sit on a spectrum, and while in some cases, we may be briefly annoyed or frustrated, we ultimately weren't harmed or inappropriately restricted, there will be times when the feeling comes from the awareness that we were put in a position that doesn't allow us our no. As with all consent, there is no yes without access to no (and vice versa), and if someone has "been manipulative" by restricting our access to our no, that is harm, regardless of intent.

When people say "children can't be manipulative" what they're typically communicating is "children are rarely (maybe never) empowered to restrict the no of the adults in their lives, meaning their behavior, while potentially not the most effective forms of communication or seeking of need-meeting, this is a teaching opportunity, not a discipline issue." But a lot of people who have spent their lives having any indirect need-meeting method labeled "manipulative" hear it instead as "children can't lie/be passive-aggressive/try to configure their environment and actions in ways that increase the likelihood of the need being successfully met." Unfortunately, these are two very different conversations! So it can be easy for this discussion to turn into people talking past each other due to dual-context verbiage.

Hopefully that helps clarify that you are actually not disagreeing with anything people are saying, even tho it may feel like the language used is mutually exclusive to what you've said here about your context for manipulation

I wasn't seriously disagreeing with the underlying point, I just see posts that stray into "children are too innocent to do this" territory and I wanted to share a funny story about me scheming as a child. Clarification is good though!

This is the funniest shit I’ve read all day

People who talk about what population density is necessary to "justify" a rail system are wrong but they're wrong in the opposite way from how they think. Even in Japan which has more than twice the population density of China the rail system is not profitable. JR makes most of its profit by operating malls and collecting rent from vendors. If you blindly follow profit instead of considering the broader social benefits the result will always be putting your rail system into a death spiral of rationalization. Stop expecting public transport to turn a profit that's not what it exists for.

"But how can you justify a player character with a (non-disinherited) noble background in a dungeon-crawling fantasy game" well, the most obvious approach is a fantasy setting whose nobility practices cognatic primogeniture where, instead of "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes a priest", it's "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes an adventurer". From the player's perspective, it handily explains why the title comes with little material support from the family; from the family's perspective, there's an unspoken understanding that most of the spare heirs will be eaten by a dragon (or whatever), thereby simplifying the inheritance situation, and the few survivors will become great assets.

(There is, of course, the possibility that a surviving third son, having grown powerful and understandably harbouring some slight resentment, may return, kill his elder brothers with dark magic, and take over the dynasty, but in practice this almost never happens.)

I don't know what this is from, but I thought it was Sam and Frodo.

idek what this says i just pressed post immediately after seeing the word 'blessica'

me reading this post

the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe