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history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History – going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

looking at Wikipedia’s pages for years, decades, or centuries can also be fun for this reason

just-shower-thoughts:

Some of us have made hundreds, maybe even thousands of online strangers laugh.

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xdvisyrx:

Farewell online privacy

What happened?

Trump happened.

just get a VPN?

You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect. 

Let’s start with a simple test.
Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/
It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger! 
Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law 
The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better). 
You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries. 
If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research! 

I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi.
If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it. 

Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?

He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.

Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent. 

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Don’t reblog this post to save a life.
Reblog this to protect an entire family!

@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?

If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first. 

@elvesfromthedeep​ just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017). 

Sources

• Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped 
• Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing history 

To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.

Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.

With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do.

You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that.

VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,)

Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it.
Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.

Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right

Ok sorry that it’s so freaking long and also sorry for the language, but this is extremely important. Please reblog!

Reblogging again bc this is important

I’ve been to friend’s houses where I could get into their wireless in under 15 seconds and snoop every internet connection going on. And I’m not intending on doing anything with that information – except show them how to tighten up security. A government or private firm won’t be interested in advising you, they are interested in punishing you or selling you crap.

I’ve already witnessed incidents of people not getting interviews etc. because their email address was found on a mental illness (addiction) forum so I don’t need to spell out what wpuld happen if they could track ALL your access.

Net neutrality and tight security are your friends.

why-yes-i-am-lucifer:

marina-diamandis:

remember that 2001 disney channel original movie “luck of the irish” where the kid found out he was a leprechaun and took down the huge potato chip company to get his family’s gold charm heirloom to prevent that evil leprechaun from controlling his family which had the iconic opening scene where he was in his class taking a quiz and didnt feel like doing it so he randomly selected a bunch of answers and turned it in and the teacher was like yo i saw you you kno this class has a no guessing policy these answers are…. correct…….. i apologize… anyways so like today i was in class and i guessed on my entire math multiple choice quiz without even reading the questions and when i got it back i had a hundred AND my mom’s irish so like what i wanna say is i think im a leprechaun destined to destroy capitalism

I’m a bit Irish and have a test coming up wish me luck

apricops:

eyeshadow2600fm:

prokopetz:

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats – but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true – but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates – it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need – it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile – and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

cat socialism

meowletariat

left-reminders:

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left-reminders:

Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.

Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.

Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.

Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.

Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.

Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.

amateurcatalyst:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

ansixilus:

sussura:

ansixilus:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

ansixilus:

kinpandun:

ansixilus:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

sadphonics:

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pandora15:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

it’s 2018 please put the k back in thicc

thikc

you know what, I’ll take it

þikc

how dare you, how dare you have the fucking gall, to introduce the thorn into this already abomination of a post

Ahem. Being unvoiced, that should be ðikc.

No. Đ is for the “th” sound in they, them, and thus. Þ is for the “th” sound in health, wealth and heathcliff. It is NOT “đikc.” It is spelled “þikc.” Don’t lecture a norsewoman about this, than you.

With respect, madam, we’re not speaking of Norse languages. This is English. If you consult the International Phonetic Alphabet for English, it uses thorn as the voiced dental fricative, while eth is the voiceless dental fricative.

English orthography is enough of a mess of borrowed rules and exceptions, we needn’t add another.

Also, I spelled it ðikc, not đikc, that is, I used an eth, not a dyet.

Sincerely, a linguist.

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

I have understood less than half of this. What is the difference between all the “th” letters?

@sussura Permit me to enlighten you.

Þ, lowercase þ, the letter thorn, makes a th sound that has voice. The word bathe (the act of cleaning) goes bæþ.

Ð, lowercase ð, the letter eth, makes a th sound that’s voiceless. The word teeth (the things in mouths) goes tið.

Đ, lowercase đ, the letter dyet (notice how there’s a serif, the little tail, on the lowercase form, add that it has a straight back) makes a dj sound. The word judge goes đuđ.

Part of the confusion that @kinpandun brought up was that she was using the archaic sounds, directly opposite the modern meanings. Which is a slightly crazy thing to do, since neither eth nor thorn appeared simultaneously in any one natural language, and in all the natural languages in which they did appear, they each served both purposes. You can see this in antique English, in the archaic holdovers. “Ye olde whatever shop” signs were actually spelled “þe olde whatever shop”, (aka “the olde…”) but since the printing press was German and dental fricatives, voiced or voiceless, don’t appear in German, they didn’t make any stamps for the letter thorn. Consequently, English printers who didn’t want to shell out for a custom-made thorn stamp (or twenty, keep in mind they printed entire pages at a time on which common letters like that would appear frequently) just used the letter y, which was close enough in appearance. Besides, they knew that anyone smart enough to read would understand which y’s were wyes and which were thorns.

The modern usage is different, though. IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet, tries valiantly to make sense of language. They needed letters for dental fricatives, so they used thorn, the better-known letter, for the voiced DF, the more common(-seeming) sound. The eth, less well-known and less well-liked, got relegated to voiceless duty.

The dyet has an entirely different history, which I don’t feel like going into right now. I mostly brought it up to poke fun at a certain pedant who didn’t bother putting in the effort to fetch the right letter. (No hard feelings, right?)

as long we’re on the topic of fun language facts, isn’t it neat how mental stimuli such as written words can cause actual physical pain like i am in now

i’m not a native english speaker and i have trouble pronouncing that hellbound language so i’m still confused as heck and tbh at this point i’m too afraid to ask