Strength, Trust, Pixie Dust

'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.

I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.

Four: flame out!

May I please add: PLANETARIUMS.

ART MUSEUMS also

I have had this exact fucking argument with my mom.

I got blocked by most of my mothers cousins because one of them posted the whole “my generation didn’t have video games and electronic gadgets and all that crap. We played outside unsupervised until dark and we liked it!” thing. I replied “Your generation invented all that stuff so how much did you really enjoy playing outside?” And followed it up by reminding them of the 2 little girls who went to their church who were kidnapped outside their house in like 1970 who have never been found.

I’m an avid long distance hiker and often see the same survivor bias used to argue against newer technology in the hiking community. Just one example: “People got around fine without GPS!” Of course traditional methods of navigation (there are many more than maps and compass btw) are great to study and practise, but no, a lot of people weren’t fine. So many died - and still die - because they got lost. Stars and sun are great indicators of direction and position until it’s cloudy for days. It’s near impossible to hold a compass course in featureless, rugged landscapes and bad visibility. So many ships wrecked on rocks because they were closer to the coast than they thought they were. Rejecting technology that literally saves lives is a weird kind of misplaced nostalgia.