Seeing, still working on believing

This blog may contain traces of different movies, books, games and other products of culture. Mainly it's a dumpsite to save things I like. I take no responsibility for the quality of the content, but that's just how I approach life in general.

[charlesoberonn]

Some of my favorite variants

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[undeadentropy]

This is diabolical. Loud enough to notice, but virtually unidentifiable from a truck in motion. You pop the hood to see what's up and find nothing. You start it up and it doesn't make the noise. You go for a drive and it's fucking back. Psychological torture

[gunsandfireandshit]

[yorgen-sh]

[alexaloraetheris]

[empress-of-dark2005]

[pseudophan]

mads mikkelsen and robert pattinson need to do a movie together just because the promo interviews would be chaos personified

[pseudophan]

don't hide this in the tags say it loud and proud

[smilingformoney]

Interviewer: So what makes this film good?

Rob: It sucks.

Mads: I haven’t seen it.

[uncertainlys]

it will pass but like can i at least get an eta

[goodzillo-deactivated20220127]

Mushrooms are objectively the funniest thing on gods green earth like this one destroys your liver and kidneys and kills you this one makes a fine cooking oil this one introduces you to the machine elves this one grows in your shower and slowly destroys your lungs this one is delicious in a stir fry. Who else has the range

[purplebuddhaquotes]

[isawken]

4chan memorial post. rest in hell

[targetedknowledge]

[kittyhawk8900]

tags from @greenrose-witchdance

[technofeudalism]

[technofeudalism]

[mouth-less]

[vitabreva]

[ralfmaximus]

Tesla is tanking so hard it is dragging the entire EV segment's sales down into the negative. When you omit Tesla from the equation, EV sales are up 13% across the board.

Don't let anyone tell you EV sales are in a slump.

[teabree-shark]

[homunculus-argument]

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

[maybe-veves]

I mean honestly everything that Arab traveler said lines up with the Arctic areas, except the white hair part, I don't know where that originates from, or if it's accurate

[xenotiic]

If I had to guess, maybe they had albinism? Or maybe it's one of those cases where kids sometimes start out with one hair color and develop a different one when they get older. This is all conjecture, but something to consider.

Still really cool tho

[emma-d-klutz]

guys, the traveler just wasnt used to blondes

[choccy-zefirka-deactivated20251]

[neoladyapollonia]

Also, languages develop words for colors over time so they get grouped with the closest one. That's why people with orange hair are called redheads. The word for red is generally the third color that gets a name. There wasn't always a word for the color orange, but there have almost always been people with orange hair.

And the Romans in Rome were fascinated by the Celtic slaves brought back from the British Isles because of their fair hair and skin.

[homunculus-argument]

For the sake of "I would not believe it either if I didn't live here" kind of context, this is a perfectly normal hair colour for children where I'm from. It darkens to a dark ash blond/sand brown when they grow up.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

So what I learned from this is even in modern times, people don’t know or believe that Scandinavians are just that pale and blond without jumping to “albino” first

You wouldn’t have believed the 10th century Arab guy either.

[maybe-im-immortal]

Just a few more hours

[eliotquillon]

if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

[homunculus-argument]

"Se on hyvin jännä... Biologian ja kulttuurin intersektionaalisuus ihmisen identiteetin muovaavina elementteinä, niin, ja sitten vielä itse intersukupuolisuus, ihminen syntynyt kahden binäärisen kategorian hämärälle rajalle, veteen piirretty viiva..."

"Eikö sen saatana pitäisi olla jo itsestään selvä asia, ei ole olemassa kuin yksi sukupuoli, kaikki muut on luettava mielenterveyden häiriöiksi."

"Ennen vanhaan kun minä olin nuori, muistan vielä kuinka kyläkaupoissa oli tasan kahdenlaiset tossukat, ainot ja reinot, ja jompaakumpaa käytti kaikki, ei kukaan valittanut siitä - myllytettiin oikein porukalla jos joku valitti. Oikein tyytyväisiä oli kaikki."

"Sitten tuli kauppoihin nämä vaaleanpunaiset reinot! Kaaosta, anarkiaa! Ihmiset saavat liikaa valinnanvapautta, saattavat valita väärin! Kolmet kengät rivissä, reinot, ainot, ja vaaleanpunaiset reinot siinä keskellä! Polyamoristista kaaosta, perheet musertuu, laitostuu, mummot hoitolaan, lapset vankilaan!"

"LÄÄKKEET!"

"Hetkinen mistä ihmeestä täällä nyt vouhotetaan?"

"Kai sä olet nyt Neponen sentään siitä tietoinen ettei ole Suomen poliisilla yhtään mitään tärkeämpää tekemistä kuin väitellä siitä kuinka monta sukupuolta on olemassa."

[homunculus-argument]

Ei hitto ton tägin kommentin pohjalta osaan hahmottaa koko jakson juonikaaren. Transihmisten oikeudet on tullut mediassa puheeksi ja Kyösti Pöysti huomauttaa välittömästi ettei Kontiovaara ole ikinä ennen ollut avoimesti minkään vähemmistön oikeuksien puolesta ennen kuin se on ollut julkisesti hyväksyttävää ja mediaseksikästä. Kontiovaara on huoneenlämpöisesti eri mieltä, ainahan hän on ollut vähemmistöjen puolella, love is love eiks jee.

Pöysti muistuttaa että etkös sä joskus 90-luvulla antanut sille yhdelle kameramiehelle potkut homoilusta. Kontiovaara ei myönnä muistavansa mitään tällaista koskaan tapahtuneen. Pöysti lähtee selvittämään ja etsii käsiinsä kyseisen kameramiehen, joka kertoo ettei edes ole homo, hän ei ollut koskaan ennen rakastanut ketään toista miestä kuin tätä Armasta. Ja vuosia tapauksen jälkeen Armas itse tuli kaapista, ja on nykyään Irmeli, eli kameramies on itse asiassa umpihetero joka ei ole koskaan ollut kiinnostunut toisesta miehestä. Asiaa ruvetaan märehtimään mediassa koska mielenkiintoisempia uutisia ei ole tapahtunut vähään aikaan.

Pöysti tutustuu eri kantojen ihmisiin, ja tulee siihen lopputulokseen että ainoat vaihtoehdot on se, että on teennäisesti ja tekophyästi tukevinaan ihmisoikeuksia vaikkei oikeasti tee mitään (mitä Pöysti vihaa), ja että ihmiset jotka ihan oikeasti vastustaa muiden ihmisten oikeuksia on muutenkin elämässä luusereita ja aivan saatanan noloa porukkaa. Eli jäljelle jää vain kolmas vaihtoehto: Epäironisesti kannattaa muiden ihmisten ihmisoikeuksia ihan oikeasti. Jakson lopussa keskustelua Neposen kanssa.

"Sä siis päädyit kannattamaan transihmisten oikeuksia julkisesti ihan vaan sen takia että sä vihaat Kontiovaaraa niin paljon?" "Joo näin tais tosiaan päästä käymään." "Mä halusin olla susta niin ylpee tästä mutta nyt oli kyllä tunnevammainen veto." "No onhan se vähän juu. Äläkä vertaa mua vammaisiin, se loukkaa vammaisia."