While the Spanish were baffled by Andean khipus (knot-based writing and accounting), the Incas were likewise baffled by writing.
Apparently some Incas saw the Spaniards learning things from merely staring at papers or "white cloths" and word began to spread that the Spanish had magic talking cloth.
A couple stories I read about today:
An Inca man came across a Spaniard reading a book and asked to read it. The Inca man held the book, flipped through the pages, and asked in confusion why it wasn't saying anything to him.
Another time, some Spanish hired a few Inca peasants to haul a wagon full of melons to a nearby town. They explained that they were not allowed to eat any of the melons, and that a paper receipt carried in the wagon would alert the recipient if any had gone missing. The Inca men decided to solve this problem by placing the receipt on the other side of a wall so that it would not see them eating any melons, and thus could not snitch on them.
We've come full circle to radical feminists arguing that women are driven psychotic by female hormones, and therefore can't be expected to have agency
100 years of women's rights, up in smoke
Just like that
I've always thought it was interesting that a big issue for millennial men was we saw our dads do the 9-5 office life (more like 7-6 really) and realized through watching how shitty it was, how it spiritually drained you, not to mention witnessing 2008 and how quickly men were tossed aside, and as a result so many men this age and younger have been avoidant of this lifestyle, but women seem to be one generation behind, putting an enormous amount of their self-worth and deriving unhealthy amounts of ego from their ultimately pointless careers... though the big difference was our dads were doing it to support families, it's not really clear what these women are getting out of it other than a vague sense of independence
“am i crazy or are parents doing a self-own by ignoring their kids until eventually snapping and yell at them?”
“you’re the sane one, actually. it’s the parents that are crazy. and they were once sane too, you know! see, you still have the luxury of assuming that sanity is a natural default state for you, rather than a resource that needs time and space and rest to recharge. you think you have patience because it’s never really been tested. you have been drinking from a cup of peace that has never gone dry. In truth you have maybe 500 units of patience before you lose your shit. anybody can be a wonderful parent for 72 hours. but then you think, surely I can take a break now? surely I can recharge now? you should certainly try. you should certainly try…”
The fundamental error of the New Atheist movement was to treat religious zeal as a peculiar feature of religion, rather than recognising zeal as a feature of human nature. Remove religion, and the impulse does not disappear. It simply finds new objects of devotion.
If you haven't watched Boondocks please do.
It really helped me understand poor black culture and how similar it is to poor white culture
Change rap to country, weed to beer an opioids and were living the same way
This is a dangerous man
His only problem is the fact that the political class is being prosecuted
He is resorting to threats etc to express his displeasure with the fact that the political class is being prosecuted.
This man is a dangerous politician!
@JoySportsGH You see how he didn’t mention any European or American countries as examples, he used our own fellow African countries, including our next door neighbor Cote D’Ivoire as examples of excellent pitch standards. Ghana has no excuse. The @ghanafaofficial & NSA have been a disgrace!