flerponius:

couriers-mile:

I am not advising anyone of anything or speaking on behalf of any company, you didn’t hear this from me, and with that said: if you paid for a product like a fancy canvas bag from Bethesda and you did not receive a product that matched the description of what you were promised, and the company will not refund you, you have the right as a customer and as a cardholder to contact your bank and dispute the charge on your account through the bank to get your money back that way.

Typically you have 4 months from the date you received the merchandise to dispute its quality.

Just saying.

Just don’t accept the atoms because then legally they don’t have to give you shit.

Stone Age food was haute cuisine

archaeologicalnews:

The meal – or, more likely, the dish, one element of a more varied repast – was simple, but elegantly so. It comprised freshwater carp eggs, cooked in a fish broth.

The top of the earthenware bowl in which it was prepared was sealed with leaves of some sort – the eggs perhaps fried off before the stock was added, the leaves holding in steam and perhaps also adding a note or two of their own.

All up, then, the dish – a fish roe soup a little like a Korean altang, perhaps, or a Thai tom yam khai pla – likely had a pleasing and rounded depth of flavour, a certain delicacy and a beguiling aroma. It would not have been out of place on a menu in any posh restaurant from New York to Tokyo.

Except that this particular meal was cooked almost 6000 years ago, not far from what is these days Berlin. 

The ingredients were identified by scientists led by Anna Shevchenko from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology in Dresden, Germany. Read more.

spookyloop:

venuselectrificata:

venuselectrificata:

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream

When a friend of mine broke up with her first boyfriend, no amount of “there are plenty more wish in the sea!” made her feel better. Instead, when she reached out to me I held her tight and said “It’s okay to be upset. It will get better, but I know you feel awful now and that’s okay” and I will never forget the relief in her voice and body language when she burst into tears, hugged me tighter and said “thank you!”

Negative emotions need validation too.

100-lbs-of-salt:

yungmethuselah:

Don’t talk shit about people’s teeth. Seriously.

Speaking as a major dental hygiene enthusiast…

Great-looking teeth come from two things: luck and money (which is also a function of luck).

  • Dental procedures tend to be very, very expensive, and are almost never covered by insurance.
  • Healthy teeth aren’t necessarily big, straight or bright white. Depending on what someone’s natural teeth are like, achieving that look may require a significant downgrade in their dental health; unnecessary crowns and veneers cause damage.
  • Do not underestimate genetics’ role in determining teeth’s appearance, or how prone teeth are to problems. Genes and early development, i.e. things people get zero control over, can outweigh all else.
  • A wide range of chronic conditions impact oral health and teeth’s appearance, too, and may contraindicate various types of work or raise procedures’ cost even more.
  • Finally, for many people and many reasons, celebrity-looking teeth just aren’t a priority (even when they’re attainable; some people might want, y’know, a new car instead).

Regardless, don’t be an asshole. Not even very attractive teeth look good on those.

I’ve NEVER seen a post like this and I’m thrilled TBH because I’m very insecure about my teeth and there is literally one reason they are not nice and that is money so I’m literally down for teeth positivity