Hey, have you seen those Japanese? They have curved swords. Curved… Swords…!

Considering how this graph… Hmm… Shall we say… Takes a number of creative liberties with actual history surrounding these great women, doesn’t this graph undermine its own message?

Don’t. Because this graph takes more than just a few liberties with history, specifically for the sake of creating some kind of outrage.

Of course! Because otherwise it would mean all the mystique is gone! And if the mistique is gone, people can’t imagine they’re supposed to be starship landing pads!

Or lay-line powered aura cleansing structures.

Or part of an ancient technology global warning system.

Or a physical star chart pointing to the origins of the Egyptians.

Or hydrogen fusion power generators.

Or piezoelectric resonance generators.

Or… Some… Other things I probably forgot about. But it’s certainly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, NOT a tomb of some egotistical man that believed himself a god on the Earth!

No, that knife isn’t made of atoms, that knife is made of pure solid quarks. That’s why it can cut atomic nuclei.

“Please make Gimp relevant” would be a pretty interesting pull request.

Ah. So gimp is going to stop being 15 years out of date and instead going to be just 10 years out of date. Cool.

Huh…

This news article is just a transcript of this YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/gRY8SANx7AM

Just because Russia is doing it doesn’t mean it’s fine for Ukraine to do it too. Bad guys target civilians.

Isn’t Sims 2 still the most robust and fleshed out Sims out there?

Ah, so your average Caitian.

Now that is something that needs a whole lot more attention.

Yeah, but when people get dramatic about bees dying they’re almost exclusively talking about the honey bee. A lot of people don’t understand there are other kinds of bee.

When I look up metrics for bee populations dying I’ve not found anything that talks about bees outside of the honey making industry.

Only because you know so little.

Yeah, there’s that too. Honey bees are native here in Europe, but they’re foreign to America. America has their own bee populations, but they don’t produce honey. Or at least, none of the native species are the kind of bee the industry used for honey production.

No, the US government didn’t. There were some guys who allegedly heard some other guys talk about a crash that allegedly was a UFO. They all happened to work for the American government.

There were also a group of guys that wasted US government resources on just plain bullshit for literal decades.

It’s not because of a lack of interest. It’s not because we “get used” to things to quickly. It’s because it doesn’t matter. Like, alright. So aliens are real. Aliens have secretly been communicating with all the world’s government.

So… What actually changes?

Is this new information going to fix the housing market? Is capitalism going to change? How is this information going to change corporations squeezing everything dry? Aliens being confirmed is awesome, wondrous news! But… How will I, an average dude, be part of it? What is the point if I wake up tomorrow and everything around me is still the same? Wars are still the same, religions are still the same, the economy, hell, even the information these aliens bring to Earth, only benefits the top 1%.

If I still have to work a shitty job just to barely afford living in a single room, what difference does knowing aliens exist make?

It’s a rather large misconception that bees are somehow required for pollinisation. That’s completely underestimating the value of butterflies, and how much they contribute to pollinisation. Even if all bees were to disappear overnight, the impact will hardly be Earth shattering. The most drastic thing that’ll happen is Humans losing an industry.

Without bees there will be a minor blank spot in a niche that already has other insects doing the same.

But that’s assuming that bees are actually dying. There are thousands of species of bee in the world, or even on just a single continent, and they’re doing… Fine… Ish. About as fine as any other creature on Earth being effected by Humans and climate change. The ones everyone is so concerned about is specifically the honey bee.

Honey bees are not even the best pollinators. No, the real concern with the dying of honey bees is that the honey industry will lose money. So honey bees dying is a corporate fear!

Eyup. That was a really big one. Birds of Prey came after. All those outlets crying everyone was a woman hating asshole were mysteriously silent when loads of people liked Wonder Woman.

Remember what the news was all about when Baldur’s Gate 3 came out?

Oh but that’s the fun part; people criticise that a game or a series or a movie prioritises D.E.I. over telling a good story and then they get lumped together with the few who are actual bigots. It’s easy to pretend that all the failings of something is because of nasty people rather than it just sucking.

So, examples?

NuTrek, especially Discovery and Picard. The Acolyte. Rings of Power. The Marvels. Black Panther 2. She Hulk. Wish.