I set Scarlett to be in Chinese because I assumed the story would be as forgettable as Sw/Sh’s and I’d get some easy practice just mashing yes on dialogues, but lo and behold it looks like there’s actual choices and stuff? I’m surprised at a mainline Pokémon game actually needing you to be able to read, and I have no idea how to set the game back to English, so I haven’t played it much at all.

You’d have to get a magic wand that doesn’t plug into the wall though, so you’re giving up on a bit of power.

Remember when they started getting rid of artifacts associated with the Civil Rights movement back in April?

He went insane in the late 80’s/90’s, by his own admission spent most of the time really stoned. 1992 is when his book about the Ark of the Covenant/Holy Grail came out. He has zero archeological credentials, has argued that his mythical advanced civilization built pyramids on Mars, and has done obscene damage to popular understandings of archeology.

It is cool that real archeologists found advanced (but not space faring technology advanced) structures using LIDAR in Ecuador. It is not cool that he uses that research, which he was not involved in because he is not an archeologist, to argue for a mythical hyper advanced civilization that was wiped out by a meteor impact. Half of the AI archeology slop memes that pollute Facebook are from shit he made up; the other half is Von Daniken/Zechariah Sitchin’s Annunaki bullshit.

He’s also a trash human being - the way that he and Rogan’s audience treated Flint Dibble, who was going through treatment for cancer at the time, was absolutely disgusting.

Miniminutemen does a good job of ripping him to shreds.

Fringe stuff like Grant Hancock who’s got some real archeology content mixed with some more wild hippity dippity stuff.

Graham Hancock is a complete and utter fraud. He’s so full of shit that if you gave him an enema he’d shrivel to a stick figure.

That “debate” between him and Flint Dibble is fucking pathetic. Please don’t even suggest that that pseudo archeologist hack is worth any fucking respect.

Also - a lot of US therapists have fundamentally useless and unhelpful approaches. CBT is treated as the hammer for all nails, even when it is completely ineffective for many people. It’s easy to train therapists on though, and sending someone home with a worksheet and a Program is an easy “fix.”

There’s also the undeniable influence of fuckers like Dr. Phil. A lot of therapists view their job as forcing you to be “normal” rather than understanding you as a human being.

We need more Maslow and Rogers, and a lot less Skinner.

Will you join the Unity? Or will you die here?

Cherokee and Kanyen’kéha are both in the same language family, but not the same language, so it probably wouldn’t help even if I knew Cherokee. But here is an interesting article about the language use in that clip.

Cherokee is common enough in parts of Oklahoma that there is street signage in Cherokee. It’s all over Tahlequah. Apple Maps will display town names in the Cherokee alphabet when you are in that area.

The skeleton, as Prince Midnight tells Guitar World, belonged to his uncle, Filip, who passed away in the ‘90s in Greece.

“He originally donated his skeleton to the local college and was medically prepared for the school,” Midnight says.

“After 20 years, he ended up in a cemetery my family had to pay rent on. Like, literally in a wooden box. It’s a big problem in Greece because orthodoxy religion doesn’t want people cremated.”

Prince Midnight proceeded to contact the proper authorities, including the state department and state attorney’s office, in order to repatriate his uncle’s remains.

Here’s him playing Dark Throne’s Transylvanian Hunger on it, as linked in the article. (it’s a little hilarious that this is marked “for kids” by YouTube)

Yeah, there’s a long and bitter history of the descendants of those slaves getting tribal membership.

In very recent good news, the Muskogee freedmen just won their tribal memberships as well. IIRC, the Muskogee freedmen still have some unique dialects - me and a buddy threw around the idea of doing some documentation/research on it back in college.

Native American slavery wasn’t always the same sort of chattel slavery practiced by white Americans - intermarriage was a bit more common and the boundaries were often (if not always) fuzzier.

I’m just really wary of the idea that indigenous people are “extinct” - the idea that their cultures are unknowable. The sentence “Native Americans had nine genders” is functionally meaningless.

Maybe it’s because I grew up going to powwows, but there still are separate and distinct cultures. A lot does get mixed in - fancy dance is a pan-Indian thing, for example, but there are still things specific to tribes, like the Seminole and their stomp dancing.

Native people are very much alive - Star Wars has been dubbed into Navajo, the state of Oklahoma just started graduating Cherokee teachers, the Choctaw nation has put out an app (I’d be legally Choctaw if my mom hadn’t lied about my dad lol). Heck, I am craving an alligator po’ boy from the Chickasaw cultural center right now!

Our study findings suggest that children in foster care represent a critically vulnerable population. Children in foster care were 42% more likely to die than children in the general population, and the disparity was largely irrespective of race or age. In addition, the mortality gap widened over time.

Locally, Oklahoma DHS did not report a teen missing from a group home missing for THREE WEEKS. She turned up dead. I knew kids who ran away from their group homes to get medical care.

The government still doesn’t give a fuck about treaties.

Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes

Group homes for foster children are how many, if not most, children in the US end up trafficked. They are hellholes and when the older man shows up with money and a place to sleep, children take the offer.

They want children to be trafficked.

Yeah - even in terms of “how white people treated them” there’s the idea of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” A Cherokee might be recognized as at least somewhat human, while an Apache as something to be shot on sight.

It’s important to talk about tribes and not just generalize to “Native Americans.” It’s like talking about “European” culture and implying that the French have the same culture as the Italians. Plains Indian culture ≠ Pueblo culture ≠ Salish culture ≠ Alaskan indigenous culture ≠ etc. Any generalization that flattens these groups to “Native American” is dicey at best.

The Zuni have lhamana, like We’wha. The Choctaw and Chickasaw have hatukiklanna/hatukholba (pronounced/spelled slightly differently but closely related). The Cherokee have asegi. I’m just listing off the ones I know off the top of my head; research the tribes local to your neck of the woods and learn about what they have.

Like I’m really mystified as to where your 9 is coming from. Also “had” - native Americans are still here ya know.

Hatred is a strong emotion, and it keeps the rabble fixated and obsessed on non issues with easy “wins.” It’s not really that they even care about queer people, it’s that they know stupid people enjoy having a group they have permission to abuse.

He is a psycho. He probably had his boyfriend/boy toy murdered.

If you dig deep, Nick Land (coiner of the term “Dark Enlightenment”) draws a lot of influence from Bataille - and specifically fucked up shit written by Bataille. He’s got an article all about the philosophy of the “Story of the Eye” which is basically snuff erotica.