The Penultimate Starfighter

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
neverwhere
hosseinis

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

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are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

kommgehwech

Anonymous asked:

The ease of nudity in Finland is something I'm super jealous of, I think it also promotes people being comfortable in their own body, if body's aren't so sexualized and taboo. The only bodies i really saw were in movies, and indeed kids changing on the beach or baby's in diapers. I'm not even from the USA, the Netherlands, so close yet so different!

valilihapiirakka answered:

I think you’re right - while I have of course met Finns who are deeply uncomfortable in their own bodies and unhappy about being seen, the absolutely constant, default, “this is considered healthy actually” cultural background radiation of “nudity is always a precursor to sex! nudity is always a precursor to sex!” in many other places does really do a special kind of damage to people’s psyche.

I always think of one of my co-workers at a husky farm near Inari, who told me apropos of nothing while we were clearing out dog shit together that he thought the reason Americans are “like that” (“like what, Veikka” got the response “you know what I mean”) is because “they never see their grandma’s tits.” His logic was that “in Finland, you go to the sauna with your grandma from when you’re a baby, and you see her naked, and this is years and years before you ever see any porn, so you know before you see any of it that it’s temporary and fake. And when you get a girlfriend later, you know it’s only a matter of time before her tits look like that too, you accept this. And Americans don’t know that! They don’t! They look at porn, and then they get a wife, and then they’re surprised and bitter when she gets old - it’s true!”

Like, to be clear, I think Veikka’s analysis might have been missing more than a bit of nuance, this is the same guy whose motto was “Driving 600km south to Rovaniemi to get therapy is expensive, chopping wood till you don’t care about it anymore is free”, but I do occasionally still look at some British or American take online and think to myself, in his voice, “they’ve never seen their grandma’s tits”

baixueagain

quick question op is Veikka single

fiction-is-not-reality2

Some of you have never seen your grandma’s tits and it shows 

maryaustria

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kommgehwech
mariacallous

It’s almost like most women don’t hate trans people. https://t.co/oTAQI6fi0D — Rebecca Jones 🔶 (@RebeccaJones_03) October 26, 2024ALT
fluorescentbrains

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terfs posting their Ls

pezpenser205

its nice to see stuff like this because it reminds you that theyre actually the weird ones. their rhetoric just relies on them portraying themselves as "voices of the people" fighting for what no one else will stand up for, despite most people probably thinking their behavior is embarrassing and not worth it. open terfs, racists, nazis, homophobes, misogynists, general transphobes- are all just extremely pissed off and angry minorities that make it everyone else's problem as much as they possibly can so that they seem bigger than they are. that doesnt mean they arent dangerous, it just means we can win. we've got a fighting chance against these losers.

fuck the fucking fuckers
lazytechsupport
chazkuangshi

I think there's something to be said that saying the words "Deny, Defend, Depose, you're next" to an insurance sales rep can get you arrested for 'threats of mass homicide' or whatever with a threat of 15 years in prison

But when I was a manager in a fast food restaurant I've had customers throw food at me, demand for my personal phone number with an added threat of "Well I'll just have to FIND it", customers charging past the front counter to physically intimidate me and my coworkers, screaming and swearing, demands to know what time I get out of work, demands to know when my manager would be at work as a threat, people sitting in their car waiting for me to finish closing because they were angry at me, causing me to stay in the office watching the camera waiting for them to drive away...

But none of those incidents are arrest-able offenses, not one, any time I called the cops on any customer I would just hear excuses like "
"there isn't anything illegal about calling a restaurant", that nothing physical happened and therefore there's nothing they could do, to call back and let them know if anything else happens

Idk, just think it's A TEENY TINY BIT ODD

Cop in the news goes "words have consequences" as if people don't berate and threaten fast food and retail workers every day

dathemyscira
noping-out-deactivated20241117

Planning for a flight now consists of planning out how to document the legal violations the airline is inevitably going to commit.

phoenixonwheels

Since I started using a wheelchair, I have had exactly one (1) flight where an airline didn’t break the law.

The question isn’t “Are airlines breaking the law?” They absolutely are, on almost every flight. The questions are “Does the wheelchair user know their rights?” (most don’t), and “Are they physically and mentally able to document the violations and report them to the DOT?” (most can’t).

spoonie-living

This is absolutely amazing. And it’s great that OP outlines several different levels of protecting yourself against and documenting these illegal actions—because, yeah, not everyone can or wants to go All The Way. But to those who do? We salute you.

Anyway, know your rights when flying, y’all [same source as above, we just wanna highlight it].

the-final-sif

For an update since this is all older, the DOT very recently (December 16th, 2024) finally finished up their final rule to protect chair users in a number of ways!

First and foremost, since 2022, there has been the Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights. Which clearly outlines what rights airline passengers have. Furthermore, the new rule changes which come into effect mid January 2025, require notification, for a passenger whose chair has been mishandled to be allowed to pick their own vendor, requires training and increases fines for mishandled wheelchairs.

DOT finalizes rule for 'dignified air travel': What wheelchair users can expect
The Transportation Department has finalized a rule aimed at making travel safer and easier for passengers with disabilities.
USA TODAY

This improvement has been a huge win for disability advocates and should hopefully lead to a major improvement in air travel for people in wheelchairs.

lazytechsupport
quasi-normalcy

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

quasi-normalcy

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.