The poster is just a movie reference. The photo of the kid smoking weed is from a movie called Hereditary and it only came out in 2018.

I’m not sure I’d agree with how they frame what happens, though. Not because I think it’s an unfair characterization, but because that’s just straight up not how the movie goes.

I could possibly develop a working glider with the help of the best craftsmen and engineers available at the time within a year or two. Only problem is gliders are only useful to go from high places to low places, and it’s a one-way trip if you don’t have powered flight to tow them back into the air. I suppose maybe you could launch from a cliff and try to use thermals to bring you back up, but then you can’t really leave the cliff if you want to return to where you left. Of course, you better hope you can even be understood and that people actually take you seriously in the first place.

I could explain the mechanics of a basic steam engine, but I doubt they’d have the capability of building it unless I was also able to offer insights into a bunch of different prerequisite technologies such as machining and metallurgy, which I can’t. Then again, the first useable steam engines didn’t have perfectly honed cylinders or sophisticated metallurgy. I was thinking maybe I could set up some industrial-era machines to be powered by water and gears/belts, but without a lathe, I’m not sure all the necessary parts could be made. Maybe those parts could all be cast and then brought to a finished state, though.

I’d probably just have to settle with advancing medicine and various scientific fields by a few centuries. Not that I’m a genius or anything, just by giving basic tips like explaining germ theory and instructing everyone to frequently wash their hands with soap. Or telling farmers to rotate their crops on a 4-year cycle. Or teaching other scientists how proper science is done. Or saving countless lives from small pox by teaching doctors to inoculate people with cow pox first. Those advancements alone would land you in the annals of history and much acclaim during your lifetime, but you could do way more, too.

Anyone interested in this idea (and/or in expanding their general knowledge of the world around us) can check out The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell and How to Invent Everything by Ryan North

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It’s actually worse than “four-twenties nineteen”, because 19 in French is already “ten-nine”, so 99 in full would be “four-twenties ten-nine”

Pretty sure the reply is “A chill one? 😭💀”

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A cornu or buccina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornu_(horn)

While the Old West goes back a few centuries, I’d say the “gunslingers era” isn’t until the first Colt revolver becomes available in the mid 1830s. It took a bit of digging to find pirates that would have definitely been around late enough into the 1800s that they’d be contemporary with gunslingers and samurai (class abolished in 1870), but old school river piracy lasted, even in just the US, into at least the late 1870s, so I guess that all checks out, as long as you weren’t expecting Blackbeard or anything.

Coke was originally among many other “tonics” pushed back in the day, but it also wasn’t marketed under the name Coca-Cola while it was sold as a patent medicine tonic. It also was only was sold in that form for a few months before being made nonalcoholic and marketed as a beverage later that same year. Sales were initially poor and only picked up with aggressive advertising campaigns, which I suppose is a strategy that Coke never left behind and leads us to the world where we are today.

“At my old school, we never stormed the beaches of Normandy!”

“I sure hope my gun isn’t on the fritz. Get it? The fritz?”

“CARLOS!”

Photo taken 10 seconds before that one of the cop smashing up pinball machines with a sledgehammer because they had been banned under anti-gambling laws. Pinball makers would eventually successfully argue that they were a game of skill, rather than chance.

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One common tenant of direct action is decentralization. It’s a lot harder to squash direct action when the people doing this stuff are just groups of 2-5+ friends (it’s called an affinity group) who believe in the same stuff and have no common leader. Sometimes direct action is as simple as smashing up some windows in the dead of night and running away.

I might add that masking up is a good idea even if you plan on doing nothing but observing. Sometimes rightwing media personalities will photograph unmasked people at protests in an attempt to send online harassment their way regardless of whether they’ve done anything wrong. Additionally, there have been instances where innocent individuals have been charged with actions that other people in the crowd did, so even if you plan on being good, you could still get in trouble for the actions of others. A mask would add another layer of protection from identification and hopefully prevent you from getting wrongfully charged. I expect this administration to be particularly vindictive against protesters.

I remember this photo. Unforgettable, really.

Salem, Oregon, during the massive 2020 wildfires. No filters on this photo, the light really was that blood red in some places due to the light filtering through super thick clouds of smoke above.

I’d recommend you don’t sign anything at a protest, ever. No petitions, no signing up for orgs, not even if a goth baddie asks you to sign their tits. Do that stuff offsite before or after a protest on your own time where’s it’s a lot less likely to be an informational gathering tactic. You don’t want a record of which protests you’ve been to, especially if they’re the spicier kind where direct action might be happening.

Mask up and bloc up.

There’s a reason they call that the “crotch” of the tree

I blocked them, but the moth memes keep coming! Make it stop! 😭

If your piss is blue or purple, you probably have porphyria. It also means you need to go see a doctor.

This article is expressly anti voting at home, written by a conservative with an agenda to push and a book to sell, and is published by a rag that spawned out of the Heritage Foundation, which created Project 2025.

I’m sure the guy who wrote “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” is going to have some very balanced and fair views on making it easier for people to vote, right?