Call me Frank

Manchin is 72 years old. His actions are disgusting.

Context: 12 months paid leave in Canada.

Americans are so gaslit to believe they don't deserve family leave.

Context 2:

He walked with a stoop.  What will do that is being brought up in a gold mine run by dwarfs who thought that fie feet was a good height for a ceiling.

He’d always known he was different.  More bruised for one thing.  And then one day his father had come up to him or, rather, come up to his waist, and told him that he was not, in fact, as he had always believed, a dwarf.

It’s a terrible thing to be nearly sixteen and the wrong species.

‘We didn’t like to say so before, son,’ said his father.  ‘We thought you’d grow out of it, see.’

Second, how the West was conquered and incorporated differed from other areas of Mesoamerica. The Purepecha largely surrendered after smallpox decimated their forces prior to a Spanish excursion. Like Tlaxcala, the allies of the Spanish, Michoacan is not heavily featured or focused upon because there were no large battles to capture the imaginations of readers of history because they fought alongside the Spanish rather than against them. That's not to say that other West Mexican peoples didn't fight the Spanish, the Mixton War and later Chichimec War can attest to that, but these wars didn't involve the months long siege of an island city as it did with the Aztec nor the decades of conquest it took to just secure a foothold in the Yucatan as it did with the Maya.

Third, Mexico's nationalism post-Revolution drew from the Aztecs (Mexico City as the seat of power) and the Maya (continued to resist Spanish and then Mexican rule) at the expense of ignoring other areas of Mexico like Tlaxcala (not West Mexico, but worth noting), Spain's former allies, or Michoacan, which largely surrendered and then helped Spain conquer other areas.

Fourth, West Mexico was not immortalized in early works that enticed people's imaginations like you have with Catherwood and Stephens exploring the Maya region. Lumholtz's account of West Mexico, while a treasure trove of information for us today, didn't have the drawings of temples covered by jungle or "mysterious" stone stela of long forgotten Maya rulers.

Fifth, unfortunately there just hasn't been as much interest in West Mexico by archaeologists over the last century for a myriad of reasons. Few archaeologists means few professors to teach new generations about the area. Few archaeologists means less literature available that can be more difficult to find. Few archaeologists means less networking and collaboration with other archaeologists.

wait wait i gotta bust out a vintage gif for this shit

It’s here !! The guide for two-legged people who don’t know how to draw wheelchairs !!! 7 pages of infodump ! Disclaimer : I don’t know everything, I have one (1) experience of wheelchair user who used both bad and good chairs, and I share what I learned.

Image description :

1) Calvin in his wheelchair saying “yo” under a huge title “how to draw manual wheelchairs properly by Calvin Arium, a wheelchair user comic artist”.

2) A character says “my character self propels in a chair that was outdated in 1970 lol” Calvin says “so it looks like you two legged people don’t know the difference between an hospital chair and a chair made to be independant” an arrow point the crapppy chair, saying “we never want to see this again”

a bubble says “the hospital chair is extremely unpractical, tough considering it’s cheaper than a good custom chair a lot of us have only this”

3) a character hurt himself trying to reach the wheels of the hospital chair. Several arrows point why the chair is unpractical : “high backrest restrain shoulders movement” “huge armrest restrains wheel access” “separated footrest : amovible, cheap, bulky” “x structure, foldable but heavy” “huge front casters for stability” “heavy wheels”

4) Several arrows point an active wheelchair (the KSL by Küshall) : “usually no armrest” “a low backrest allow more movement” “light, design, ferning expersive” “special cushion to avoind injuries” “knee angle is usually 90°” “one single piece of frame, sometimes entirely welded” “weight : from 4 to 10kg” “often rigid” “center of the wheel is the center of gravity” “higher quality wheels : less spikes”

5) A hand grab different parts of the wheel, pushing harder in the second half. Bubbles says “some have gloves, some don’t. The hand must grab the biggest area possible. Less movement = more energy. This is a common but not only way to push.Calvin is on his back wheels, rolling on grass and dirt bubble says “popping a wheelie is when a wheelchair user rolls on their back wheels to roll on every complicated surface.

6) several drawings illustrate the folding frame, the ergonomic but rigid and expensive backrest, the separated footrest (only for folding frame), the handles, the folding handles, athe amovibles handles, or no handles, the cool fancy loopwheels, the pretty custom colors 

7) More Features ! The fancy rigid-foldable frame, the anti tippers (sometimes used by beginners), the motorization (wheels, smart drive) when propelling yourself is difficult Calvin says “and now vroom vroom motherfuckers”

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