Most random thing that annoys only me is when people post a bird as proof that spring is back with some gay caption and its a non migratory bird thats been with them all winter long but they didnt notice of course they didnt notice
the contemporary “noble savage” view many have of poor/rural whites does a disservice to us all. Reality is that “real” rednecks are often a much more confusing, complicated mixture of these ideas.
Once you understand that white supremacy is not just an ideology but also a system, you won't be surprised when some murderous ICE agents are Latino, just like some murderous police officers are Black, just like some victims of state-sanctioned violence are white
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents.
Understand this as the work of the ranching industry.
The price of USA/grass-fed/“regenerative” beef is the displacement and starvation of the last wild bison.
If not the Great Plains, it’s the Amazon, the Pantanal, the Australian bush…
This is an industry that devours land.
In case you’re distracted by the shiny buildings in Kushner’s vision for Gaza, their plan is keep Palestinians in hyper-surveilled prison camps where they’ll eventually provide cheap labor for the resorts/high rises they won’t be allowed to live in, all built atop a mass grave.
This is really one of the more galling parts of this discourse every time it pops up; random American civilians are supposed to be calm, disciplined, ice-water in their veins, but armed agents of the state are entitled to take life on the basis of “feelings”
ice shot a woman in the face then denied her life-saving medical care. this is the shit you see daily in Palestine. ice is an occupying force in our communities and must be disbanded and prosecuted
Facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and a female outlier from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan
The man and woman, approximately 30-55 years old and 18-25 years old, respectively, were buried in the same kurgan, richly furnished with grave goods. Morphologically, the two individuals differed: the man displayed a mix of Caucasoid and East Asian traits, with a stronger leaning toward Caucasoid features, similar to other cranial remains from this set, and was likely of local Pazyryk Iranic Scythian elite origin. In contrast, the woman exhibited more pronounced East Eurasian features. Individuals with such traits appear in both common and elite burials, such as at the Ak-Alakha-3/5 cemetery. Archaeologists and anthropologists have speculated that the female outlier may have been incorporated into the elite stratum of Pazyryk society and is possibly associated with the Korgantas culture.
Both skeletons show evidence of post-mortem trepanation. The male skull bore an irregular perforation resulting from blunt trauma, later refined with a sharp tool. The female skull exhibited a rectangular perforation (64 × 35.8 mm) with cut marks, along with the excised fragment (42 × 33 mm), suggesting a deliberate opening after death, likely as part of the mummification process.
Cranial measurements indicate that the man had a medium-large cranial length of 185 mm, a medium-large cranial width of 147 mm, and a large cheek width of 139 mm. The woman had a large cranial length of 182 mm, a medium-large cranial width of 143 mm, and a large cheek width of 135 mm (Kitov, 2023).
In Caracas: “We want to live in our homeland, with our president, with the men and women who love this country. Leave us in peace. We want peace. You want to lead us to war. We want peace. But we are already in the streets, ready to give our lives if necessary, to defend our homeland and our president, Nicolás Maduro. Long live Maduro! Long live! And we love you, Mr. President. And we love you too, Cilita.” (from @nawseas)
I've been annoyingly saying this on X for years and people never believe it
Most people are still fat or cardioholics and only run or play padel
You have to lift weights, it improves your nervous system, it stops or reverts guaranteed (!) muscle atrophy and bone density loss after age 30 meaning you will AGE LESS FAST and age more healthily
Which is why I, as a not really athletic person (was just skinny 50kg/100lbs) started lifting around that age
Now I try lift 4x per week, I'm not skinny anymore, close to 80kg/160lbs, so I gained 30kg/60lbs (almost doubled in mass, so there's 1.6x Pieter's now!), much more muscle and 15% fat (now I wanna try get that to I don't know 12%?)
And the biggest benefits are mental: I'm not anxious anymore, not depressed, not neurotic, just mostly chill and zen
When I stop going to the gym for a week or two they come back fast though!
I'm not a ripped super chad, and you don't really become that so easily but I am very fit and healthy now and can carry lots of stuff
And everyone I meet thinks I'm in my 20s, so the anti-aging part worked
Start lifting (and cardio too of course you need both)
Future you will THANK you as I thank Pieter from ~8 years ago 🤝