“but how could thor and the other asgardians have been completely unaware of their people’s violent history as a conquering and enslaving empire?!?” have you ever met an english person
Society: Capitalism and the free market is great because it lets customers CHOOSE who’s the best company and then that company makes all the money while lesser companies have to improve or die.
Millenials: *boycott companies that benefit off exploitation of people and natural resources*
Now that I’m studying bio, may I just say how fervently I wish my primary association with the words “alpha, beta, omega” was literally anything other than what it is
My nutrition professor was talking about vitamins and said, “the only reason you all even know the words alpha and omega is because of sororities,” and I wanted so badly to raise my hand and be like “if you’re gonna be a dick for some reason, please let me explain to you in depth my immediate connotations for those words”
this makes me so glad to be an Internet Old and to have gone through (most of) school before alpha, beta, and omega had this context
“In the past, people have had some rather peculiar shellfish habits. The Romans apparently liked to eat clams that glowed in the dark. Pliny the Elder wrote about people’s mouths shining like fire, with bright juices dripping over their hands, down their tunics and onto the floor. Piles of empty mollusk shells have been found at the site of a Roman bathhouse in southern England, including bioluminescent angel wing clams (also known as piddocks). Were these the leftovers from nighttime bathers, feasting on a twinkling midnight snack?”
Helen Scales, from Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
