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Katrin Manz (German Photographer, born 1934)

"Slow Living", 2023.

I grew up in The Woods. There was absolutely no form of public transportation aside from the literal school bus. If you wanted to go anywhere besides school (10 miles from my house), you had to drive a car or ride your bike on unpaved, bumpy dirt roads. The center of town (a 2 mile walk) held the library, some churches, town hall, the village store, and the beach for the local lake. And I must've clocked thousands of biking miles just to go to the library, the village store for a snack, and the beach as a kid. Because I could go literally nowhere else.

The closest City Where Stuff Happens was 15 miles away. It might as well have been on the moon before I got a driver's license and begged to borrow my brother's car.

so, in other words,

tags via @procrastinatorproject

So while it’s true that the Enterprise is not as big as people think, that goes double for the Falcon!

A good way of thinking about the relative size is by using a bridge comparison:

The Enterprise bridge has space for 11 people to work, as well as a significant amount of space between stations to move around comfortably:

[Bridge illustration by Tobias Weinmann via here]

And the whole thing fits in the nipple thing up on top of the saucer:

Meanwhile the Falcon (beloved weed bus) has a cockpit that seats 4, with only 2 main operational stations, and zero floor space:

And since Serenity was mentioned too…

Serenity has a bridge more comparable to La Sirena - with 2 stations at the front and quite a bit of floor space.

And for those interested in a visual comparison:

(Boeing 747 for scale as well as the Delta Flyer because Why Not)

But he loved us, and he tried to do right, even though he didn't know how, and even though he had a broken heart. I shouldn't have left you alone with him. He was too sad, it scared me… And I just… I just ran, and that was selfish and I'm sorry.

I have southern relatives who say it’s their culture. I informed them that their parents came here illegally in the 1960’s and 70’s and that they are actually anchor babies. Occasionally on Facebook I’ll ask them if anyone has reported them to ICE yet.

When some of them get loud I’ll remind the gay ones and the ones with inter-racial children about the times they were harassed by the Klan. And I never miss an opportunity to remind the evangelical ones that they are not Christians because they refuse to acknowledge the New Testament and Socialist Jesus.

I have no place in my life for MAGAts. Their lack of self awareness is incredible. They just follow along like sheep and aren’t even aware of all the family members who died fighting Nazis and fighting for unions on the home front.