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history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

kayforpay

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

archaeologysucks

You mean like this?

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.

Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:

World History Timeline

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

mckitterick

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!

lepetitpoete

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️

You can spend hours upon hours exploring this

attorneytrash

to this day possibly one of my best ideas. someone get me a pitch meeting with the hallmark channel

should-be-sleeping

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

should-be-sleeping

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

should-be-sleeping

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

should-be-sleeping

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

nemo-in-slumberland

Aldi’s (USA) put out a statement that effective 10/15-12/24/25 they’ve lowered prices even further on select holiday meal items so that a group of 10 could be fed for $40

Thanksgiving Press Release

They even have a printable list for folks

bone-trash

Hey guys! I just wanted to jump in as someone that works at an Aldi with some extra info that people have been confused about. Some of my customers have come into the store assuming that this is a preshopped package that you can request, it is not. Someone else asked me if it was all precooked and ready to be picked up, it is not.

This is just a list for your reference. We actually do this every year and Aldi even provides its employees with gift cards to be able to buy our holiday dinner items in the store (which has been really helpful to my family)

All this is to say, it’s a great thing that they always do, and if you come in and ask the workers there will help you find all these items, just know it’s something you have to go and seek out on the shelves ✌️

byjove

dudes are like “I’m a 34 year old promising young doctor with a beautiful wife and 2 precious children, I have my entire life ahead of me and can do anything! I’m going to go hike in 8 foot snow in the Rocky Mountains and never be seen alive again and die very badly and my beautiful wife will have to identify my skeletal remains by my backpack.”

byjove

frankly, I think wives should be allowed to lock their husbands in the basement if they express their plans to go mountain climbing in subzero temperatures or cave diving in an illegal diving zone or whatever. you should be able to chain that guy up at that point.

byjove

also, just remember, if you’re doing this shit you’re not just endangering your own life, you’re endangering the lives of the search and rescue personnel who may have to come look for your egotistical adrenaline junkie self

gorps

what-even-is-thiss

One of my neighbors a few blocks down has a pomegranate tree in their front yard and they never eat the pomegranates so I decided I’d take some because frankly if they’re not using it then it’s free real estate but that’s when I learned why they don’t eat the pomegranates because every single one I cut open had a fungus infection.

It was such instant regret the second I cut one open. I felt like some sort of protagonist from a fable about why you shouldn’t steal off your neighbor’s fruit trees.