#and History: Past

[laddersofsweetmisery]

I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

[suntails]

true love

[reality-detective]

When general motors built refrigerators 🤔

[maskedteatime]

'you're a good man, 7n7'

everyone hates you, everyone except one

[earlgraytay]

I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.

The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.

The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)

The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.

The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.

I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.

How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.

...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm not going back to Gusu with you.

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[priceofreedom]

The yellow flowers symbolize reunion ♡ New Zack x Aerith wallpaper (Ever Crisis)

[thesilicontribesman]

'Vikingar!' Viking Experience, Largs, Scotland

[emipon]

“…the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded... Never forget them.”

[rakiloveslewis]

lost the bro and now losing the cedes

[blackstarlineage]

[ailabyuwu]

*cough* i mightve uh.... i mightve gotten too obsessed with @the-b1ah's AU and needed to draw danny (AND HIS SUPER DUPER CUTE JACKET LIKE OMG???? i want it so bad) bc i couldn't think of anything else jaskjdflasdfks;af

[unpersoniverse]

heard a British guy on tiktok casually refer to the Malvinas Islands as a part of "British colonial PAST" and I had to stare into the camera like in the office like brother that is the cognitive level we are dealing with today *sighs*

[reality-detective]

OH SHIT‼️I am 100% now certain, this is not a coincidence.

Obama was the first President to use autopen to sign a law, in 2011.

He used the autopen to sign the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 while he was on vacation in Hawaii.

He also used an autopen to sign a four-year extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act in 2011.

Republican Tom Graves argued the constitutionality of this action, specifically Article I, Section 7 when he signed the NDAA… citing what if the President was hospitalized?

—— What would stop a group of radical cabinet members using autopen to push forth a separate agenda?

The DOJ determined it was ok to do at the time.. so OH HELL YEAH, this will definitely go to SCOTUS. 🤔