grateful pessimist

[vinegarvic]

I put so much of my heart and soul into our relationship.

[gratefulearthling]

today's installment of "I'm a douchebag..."

[gratefulearthling]

lol someone put this on Adam's trash box of a car

[gratefulearthling]

at Silver Lake, Los Angeles

[ofools]

when your new age friend starts acting up so you decide to bring out the big guns

[iamonlykidding-deactivated20210]

Imagine how many friends you’d need to charge this

[traptacular-deactivated20180125]

time for me to get off ig

[traptacular-deactivated20180125]

the moment we’ve all been waiting for

[liferuining-soulsnatcher]

L M F A O

[grawly]

[newrider]

[pozzumcrossed-deactivated201904]

I had to leave my lab computer for a bit while working so I posted this

[lainsim-deactivated20251111]

did they log you out

[pozzumcrossed-deactivated201904]

No the possum said not to.

[unexplained-events]

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

[smileforthehigh-deactivated2017]

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[pearlsnapbutton]

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

[kiwianaroha]

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

[theopensea]

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

[thegirlthewolfate]

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. 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 “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

[archaeologistforhire]

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 didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit 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.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

[crazythingsfromhistory]

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 wasn’t 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 ago… 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.

[fluffmugger]

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

[ironbite4]

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

[gluklixhe]

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

[mrsokiedoke]

Yeah and in Jewish texts, and many near eastern texts, we have mention of a great flood, and for years it was written off as hooey religious mumbo jumbo, but after doing scientific research by drilling out layers of sediment and dirt in Egypt they were able to determine that hey, there was a period of great flooding and raining right about the time many Near Eastern accounts claimed, and they all matched pretty fairly with each other.

[melodyburst]

I had to save these because he’s deleteing his entire tag soon. I can’t let these gems be lost forever.

[thaunderground]

“He got a gun”

[tvlkinghevds]

i cant stop thinking about this

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

it was called ninteno 64 because there were only 64 of them

[rainbowgazes-archive]

it was called nintendo 64 because when you see it you turn 360 degrees and walk away

[iamoutofideas]

it was called the n64 because it was made in 1964

[mediumsizedboy]

It was called the Nintendo 64 because it’s Nintendo’s 64th console

[metroidprime2-echoes]

It was called the N64 because of its 64 bit processor, which was capable processing 3 dimensional graphics, which was the main selling point of the console, due to the rarity of 3D systems at the time

[diesetdown]

It was called th N64 because the souls of the original 64 Nintendo employees are trapped inside it.

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

it was called ninteno 64 because you can install up to 64 games into it

[grandmaestheticc-deactivated201]

it was called ninteno 64 because it took 64 people to hold the controller

[drcyan]

it was called ninteno 64 because it was to honor the 64 employees that died making it

[dunkleosteusssss]

it was called ninteno 64 because you could only play it from the hours of 6am-4pm

[rannorkiki]

It was called Nintendo 64 because you could only play it for​ 64 hours before it self-destructed.

[voguethehousedown-deactivated20]

It was called Nintendo 64 because it’s 64 calories

[meme-theft]

[mrrrrps-deactivated20201225]

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