I'm going insane, I just found a job opening for a Historian with the US Air Force that literally sounds like they're hiring for the Stargate Program
The job duties:
- Researches and writes the wing history.
- Conducts special studies and creates other historical products such as oral histories.
- Provides research and reference services.
- Participates in wartime and contingency operations; deploys to contingency locations.
Other job requirements:
- Have to pass a medical examine and physical fitness/agility test
- Provides support to combat operations
- Continues working in combat zone after evacuation of nonessential personal
- "It is impracticable to convert the employee's position to a position authorized to be filled by a member of the armed forces because of a necessity for that duty to be performed without interruption."
- May also be deployed to non-combat or civilian operations
- "This is a Mission-Essential position performing a Mission-Critical-Function"
- May require travel on military aircraft
- "Incumbent will exhibit professionalism, diplomacy and tact in daily interactions, high-pressure situations and while interacting with high ranking foreign and U.S. officials"
- Work in conditions with minimal amenities
- "Position will include training in the carrying and use of firearms because incumbent can be deployed to contingency locations and participate in wartime and contingency operations where and when there may be a requirement to carry firearms"
- Top secret security clearance
- A bachelor's degree in history
This is the job description they wrote after Daniel Jackson retired.
That’s actually a brilliant idea, even from a strict effectiveness standpoint.
Pity they got shut down.
Some examples:
Just goes to show how much data facebook/insta collect about you that gets sent to advertisers. Also facebook responded by effectively saying ‘yes we collect the data but we dont allow advertisers to say that they’re using this data’ after trying to accuse Signal of pulling a ‘PR stunt’. Facebook is so scummy.
Facebook claims this is a PR stunt and Signal never intended to run the ads. Signal says they did - they submitted them like you’re supposed to submit ads, and their ad account was shut off.
Facebook may wind up claiming “those are not valid ads; that info does not help you get customers.” And Signal would be very likely to claim “we damn well do believe that putting that info in our ads will get us new customers.”
Not that anyone will think, “Oh, I should use Signal because I’m into pilates/have a geology degree.” But they could think “Oh, I should use Signal because WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN Facebook sends me targeted ads based on my zodiac sign? Eww, creepy; is Signal less creepy? Time for a change.”
"But you already wrote that trope."
Thanks for paying attention!
I know this is very tiktok, but I thought some of y'all would appreciate this (and it applies here too! 😉)
There is a 50/50 chance that leaving the Arch Mage and Head Scientist alone in a room together will result in either a marriage proposal or a doomsday device. More likely both.
GERALT OF RIVIA AND CIRI OF CINTRA aka a witcher and his witcheress daughter
Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃
The charity is based in Ottawa and accepts in-person donations as well:
[ID: Tweet from @OdawaNFC with an attached image. Text:
Odawa Native Friendship Centre is collecting donations for First Nations community members that have recently been evacuated. Drop donations at Odawa's office at 815 St. Laurent Blvd. When donating online, choose "Wild Fire Evacuees". Miigwetch, Odawa.
Image Text: Needed: Gently used/clean clothing for babies, children, youth and adult sizes. Food donations, gift cards, money donations.
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so the Spouse and I like to have a lot of verbal discussions about the universe where the asteroid didn't hit. mainly spec evo stuff. what would evolve into what, that kind of thing. we know we're not alone in that.
we maintain that humans evolved alongside some pretty terrifying mammalian megafauna, so why not dinosaurian? so what would a realistic sapient ape in a dinosaur world be?
it's taken some thinking, but:
wookies.
we'd be wookies.
- no need to leave the trees, the grass would be very unsafe if it evolved the same
- no need to leave the trees, we remain furry
- we could build tree houses and other structures, in the trees, to stay out of the range of predators
- that's. just wookies. that's just the wookies.
Here's a thing to consider. It is highly likely that we would not exist without elephants.
There is strong evidence and a growing belief that our ancestors specifically used the trails that were laid down by elephant ancestors, and that's what allowed us to come down from the trees permanently and become bipedal.
Let's take humans off the table, and go with "us." I agree that with dinosaurs on the table, we would not be human. The events and multiple key species that allowed us to evolve as humans would not have happened.
And it was the KT Extinction event that allowed mammals to climb up and become more diverse than rodent and possum like creatures.
Now the question is, would simian-like creatures still evolve, with dinosaurs? It's probable, because it's not a huge anatomical leap to get from a possum to a monkey. And I could see simians being very successful in a dinosaur world, and even out competing some raptors occupying similar niches.
Now, going back to elephants, ceratopsians and hadrosaurs occupied similar niches to elephants, and were similar in size. They would have blazed the same trails that our ancestors used to come down from the trees.
And I don't think the dinosaurs would be inherently more dangerous than the megafauna our ancestors faced. The giant theropods would likely prefer to take larger creatures than us. Medium to small theropods would prey on us, but hell... So did lions and tigers and short-faced bears. So did wolves. And we survived that.
It would be in our advantage to stay small, make weapons, and burrow. We wouldn't be bigfoot wookies, we'd be Hobbits.
I completely agree with all of this and I think it's a coin flip whether we'd get tree dwelling wookies (because the predators were just Too Much to come down) or hobbits (because your scenario)
wait
wait
wait
BOTH EVOLVE
two sapient ape species
hobbits and wookies
and they'd be so different and deeply diverged we wouldn't have a neanderthal-hybrid-mixing situation....
just imagine a hobbit-wookie hybrid though
…i regret to inform you that you’ve just reinvented the ewok.
wait no
This is Lana. She is about 10 years old, and desperately needs a new home.
She belonged to my sister (now deceased) and then my mother (also now deceased).
She’s the worlds most cuddly cat. All Lana wants is to be picked up and pet. She’s never gotten the amount of love she properly deserves, but has remained sweet regardless.
I don’t live in a situation where I can keep her, but I’m trying to avoid putting her into a shelter.
We’re in Virginia, but I’m willing to drive her anywhere on the east coast if it means she will be given a good home!
Please repost so she gets more views! Help Lana find the forever home she deserves!
Signal boost ❤️
Signal boost also.
Another signal boost.
As much as it sucks having to scrape up money for a lawyer, let me tell you - that is the adultier adult we all keep talking about.
It ain't always feasible but if you are ever in a situation where internally thinking, "if I don't have someone more adult of an adult, I'm going to make life changing decisions barely knowing what I'm doing," that is probably a good time to see about scrounging up a retainer. I don't know if this is remotely useful because it's really hard to put that amount together but also it's really nice to have some guy you hand a contract to and be like, "should I sign this" or "is this guy possibly gonna legally be able to run off with what little money I have?"
The idea that lawyers are "adultier adults" I suspect is something lawyerblr would have a good chuckle about but from my end of things that is the adultier adult and if I was rich I'd have a lawyer decide everything I do up to including what to eat.
I wrote this today. I do sort of have some context for it but it only gets more ridiculous.
The large alien paced back and forth in front of the prisoners, his enormous body undulating like a caterpillar's on his eight stumpy legs. In his proboscis he held some kind of club-like implement, and every time he raised a foreleg to take a step, he would smack the club against it in what was most likely intended to be an intimidating fashion. Barbara decided to call him the Drill Sergeant.
I never go on twitter (because, you know, it’s twitter) but I just had a look at it to check up on Hank and I’m glad to see he’s being *extremely* Hank about this
