Today In “things I’m Disproportionately Emotional About”:

today in “things i’m disproportionately emotional about”:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

Today In “things I’m Disproportionately Emotional About”:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole

Rant real quick don’t mind me

Ok so I mentioned to my dad about what was happening to the Amazon in Brazil. He shrugged it off saying that there’s fires all over the world, why is this one any different? I told him it was bc the amazon literally makes 20% of the worlds oxygen, and that those burning trees emit a lot of smoke and CO2, which isn’t ideal for the planet atm. He didn’t believe me when I told him those facts, that most ppl would know. The amazon rainforest is a vital part of this planet and he brushed it off like it was nothing. I also stated that the increase in CO2 would be very bad for climate change, and he proceeded to tell me that it wasn’t a thing that existed and said that the people who tell me that “bullshit” are crazy idiots who are only trying to brainwash me to try to get power and money. He said climate change doesn’t exist, when there’s clearly SO MUCH evidence that it does. I read him an article from NASA abt how climate change exists (link is here). He then told me that NASA is a corrupt source and that I shouldn’t listen to the lies they spread, saying I’m too naive to know about what I’m talking about, when literally every 5 seconds he likes to point out that I’m 18 and an adult, that I should basically have known everything as soon as I turned 18. I love my dad sometimes, but most of the time all he does is yell at me and he just pisses me off so much. How can one person be so ignorant as to not see what’s happening right in front of their eyes??? K that’s the end of my rant thanks for coming to my TEDtalk