So I’m at the gas station and a woman stops me as I’m leaving the store and she’s speaking French (p common since I’m so close to Canada) and I don’t speak French very well. The lady gets her phone out and has google translate and she speaks into it and it’s translated to English. She’s asking where the train station is and I’m like excited because fuck , technology is so cool and ugh anyway I tell her and it translates to French and fuck that’s just so so so cool
I had a conversation with someone without much trouble despite us speaking two different languages. We cheated the language barrier that has prevented people from communicating for … since the beginning of language pretty much
Like when I was in grade school my class read the Golden Hour and it involves technology that allows English speaking kids to speak and understand French and I thought that technology was SO cool and so futuristic and today I did pretty much exactly that.
I know it’s such a simple thing, it’s just a translation app but GOD in a historical context it’s one of the most brilliant technologies to grace humanity. It’s just wild
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DISCLAIMER: im not a horse expert, but i’ve been hobby riding for 13 years and read some books through the years, so it’s just my personal experience. I dont know everything and people have different ways!
Re-reblog with some extra notes because a lot of people are just like ‘we’re all fucked/we’re gonna die’.
Listen, not all food is equally as contaminable. Some small notes are stay away from delicate greens because they grow on thre ground where the poop is but cannot stand up to rigorous washing OR cooking, which is why stuff like romaine lettuce and baby spinach is a problem.
All other veggies can and should be thoroughly washed, and if you eat a lot of raw veg and want to be safe- cook it. People have shit on cooking food lately with all the raw vegan hype but guess why we humans started to do it? Two main reasons, one is increased nutrient absorption, the other is you don’t get the shits and die as often from cooked food.
Also, meat is not your friend right now. If you are used to eating meat, I would avoid it and switch to eggs, which are sealed and even if the outsides came from a chicken’s ass, the inside is safe. Fish also tends to be cleaner and is always less at risk of pathogens than farm meat but again, be careful.
This is survivable, if it wasn’t there’d be no point to warning you. Y'all will not survive what’s coming if you see every bit of news as proof of your doom.
Forewarned is forearmed. Be safe, be sharp, be helpful.
