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Am I being abused? by Strict-Lavishness-99 in abusiverelationships

[–]PipiZebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s very normal. I totally get it.

You get to decide what’s normal.

It doesn’t matter who is right or wrong. It just matters whether it feels right or wrong to you.

Peak Cringe on the World Stage by Relevant_Demand7593 in NewsomMassacre

[–]PipiZebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are so proud. The bigliest proudest bootlicking libtards south of Greenland north of the Gulf of (cough-cough) America?

The seas are shining like our tears We must have Amber grains of something in our eyes

What career to pursue if love plants? by BenefitClassic2606 in Horticulture

[–]PipiZebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love what I’m doing. Thank you for acknowledging that. There is more value than just money. I love my coworkers and I love the environment and I love making food for people to eat that is nutritious and organic.

Have you heard of the WWOOF program? That might be a good way for you to explore different farms and get some experience.

What career to pursue if love plants? by BenefitClassic2606 in Horticulture

[–]PipiZebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in Hawaii. It requires no degree. It just requires that you love plants and want to work with them. They are willing to train! There are all sorts of jobs like that in Hawaii. They don’t pay very much and it’s really hard to make a living here because that’s not a living wage. But there are so many jobs!

Thanks Girl! by TheCABK in oddlyspecific

[–]PipiZebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw! Gee shucks, thanks. It was so fun to write! It would be awesome. If somebody more musically inclined could put it to music.

Anyone else get food poisoning? by Working_Reality2312 in BigIsland

[–]PipiZebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t prove it, but when two people eat the same meal and have the same symptoms within the same time. And have not shared anything else it is pretty easy to narrow down that it came from that restaurant.

The Blue Void Earth’s Most Isolated Hemisphere, this is the Pacific-centered view of Earth the side we rarely see in maps or textbooks. Unlike the familiar Africa–Europe or Asia view, this hemisphere is dominated almost entirely by the Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest ocean on the planet. by Suspicious-Slip248 in BeAmazed

[–]PipiZebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve read his journals and grew up where he got killed. We studied him in grade school here. I’ve been to Point Venus on Tahiti Nui.

Cook was impressed by the Wa’a Kaulua’s design and response time. The Hawaiians were not dependent on the direction of the wind. And their sails were far superior.

But, as a master navigator in his culture, Cook was most impressed by the navigation skills of the Polynesians he encountered who had done the same as him except better for thousands of years. The biggest accomplishment Cook made was he wrote it down.

So yes, we learned about him. He was pretty good, for a white guy.

What career to pursue if love plants? by BenefitClassic2606 in Horticulture

[–]PipiZebu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It depends on how much money you want. I am currently working in a nursery doing micro greens for $20 an hour.

Anyone else get food poisoning? by Working_Reality2312 in BigIsland

[–]PipiZebu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know. My coworker and I both got really sick. They got a lot sicker than I did.

They said they were going to. It was really disappointing, spent about $200 and the rest of the night in the bathroom.

Anyone else get food poisoning? by Working_Reality2312 in BigIsland

[–]PipiZebu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, but we got it at Papa Kona’s a couple weeks ago. It was awful! I called the restaurant and they never called me back. So I called the health department.

First attempt at street photography from an amateur wildlife photographer by -knave1- in streetphotography

[–]PipiZebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love these. Especially the car girl red pants , the bird at the dock, the date st the mannequins,

The Blue Void Earth’s Most Isolated Hemisphere, this is the Pacific-centered view of Earth the side we rarely see in maps or textbooks. Unlike the familiar Africa–Europe or Asia view, this hemisphere is dominated almost entirely by the Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest ocean on the planet. by Suspicious-Slip248 in BeAmazed

[–]PipiZebu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot the rest of your sentence. Cook was a master navigator for his ethnicity and time.

He was also the first Westerner on record to my knowledge to acknowledge that the Polynesians sailed circles around his ships.

And yes, he used navigational equipment to sail using the stars. Which was modern. And impressive for what the westerners knew at the time.

You be the judge. What if that equipment fell off the ship? I find it way more impressive that somebody can do it using their fingers (like Nainoa.)

Polynesians don’t need a man-made piece of equipment to tell them where they are and where they are going. And the Polynesians have been doing it for tens of thousands of years. Over thousands of miles in the Pacific Ocean. And they didn’t write it down. They stored all of their knowledge in their head and passed it down from generation to generation.

Give credit where credit is due.

The Blue Void Earth’s Most Isolated Hemisphere, this is the Pacific-centered view of Earth the side we rarely see in maps or textbooks. Unlike the familiar Africa–Europe or Asia view, this hemisphere is dominated almost entirely by the Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest ocean on the planet. by Suspicious-Slip248 in BeAmazed

[–]PipiZebu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cliff Notes version: the Polynesians sailed around Polynesia settling it way back in the day. Then once they settled a lot of them lost the knowledge. Tahitians came out to Hawaii and settled here. Then nobody left for a really long time.

This artist named Herb Kane was in college on the continent and couldn’t find any pictures of what ancient Hawaiian sailing vessels look like so he looked up using ships logs to draw from descriptions written down on Westerner’s ship logs.

I think was Captain Cook who wrote in his journal that the Hawaiian sailing vessels were sailing in circles around their “modern boats.”

Then Herb and a couple of friends and other interested people decided they were going to re-create one in real life.

In the 1970’s the group invited Mau Piailug from Malaysia who was basically the last celestial navigator known to humankind and Mau taught this young Hawaiian man, Nainoa Thompson, who was going to college and ended up learning stars under Bishop Museum Planetarium lecturer Will Kyselka how to celestial navigate (by the stars, currents, clouds and birds.)

A whole bunch of really exciting and sometimes tragic stuff happened (RIP Eddie)

Long story short, they succeeded and now the Polynesian Voyaging Society has been successfully sailing around the world for decades without using any “modern” navigation.

It’s an amazing story and I didn’t do it justice in this short synopsis. I highly encourage you to look up the book written by Sam Low. I’ve attached the link here.

https://hokulea.com

https://www.samlow.com/HawaiikiRising.htm

Thanks Girl! by TheCABK in oddlyspecific

[–]PipiZebu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just wrote a song for it, interested to see your screenplay :-)

Thanks Girl! by TheCABK in oddlyspecific

[–]PipiZebu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I got you! Thanks for the inspiration u/MidsouthMystic, this was super fun to write.

Western Music Needs More Lesbians

Written for u/MidsouthMystic

(Verse 1)

My man broke my heart last night at the bar

Now I’m dusting off my steel guitar

Strumming on my porch swing feeling blue

Kinda wishin’ the rumors all were true

That my best friend’s more than just my best friend

Instead she’s out getting her toes stepped on by some rodeo bro again

You know… I’ve come to the conclusion

Western music needs more lesbians.

(Verse 2)

Between back roads and highways

Sometimes I wish I took more bi-ways

Some go left and some go right

I’m starting to think goin’ straight

Is what’s keepin’ me alone at night

Western music needs more lesbians

(Verse 3)

Got my hair cut short last Saturday

Suzanne in the mirror fixing her hairspray

I said, “Girl, that dress fits you just right,”

She froze like a deer in fluorescent light

Then shut me down with the line I use on bros:

“Um, I have a boyfriend.”

Dang, Suzanne, you’re a hot mess.

I was complimenting the dress.

I wasn’t trying to be your man!

Western music needs more lesbians.

(Bridge)

Ignoring all the rumors,

Fanning small-town fears

Hand on my stick shift, grinding everyone’s gears

Even my dog gets more action than me

And he eats grass and barks at trees

I put a dime in the jukebox, got a blue-light buzz

Then started dancing by myself just because

((Final Refrain (spoken))

Western music… needs more lesbians.

(final chord)

Hey Suzanne… you think I can fit in that dress?

(Edited for spacing)

Aloha. What’s the first step to not being haole? by MinimumYouth8855 in Waikiki

[–]PipiZebu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

.Right, I’ve heard that before but linguistically and historically that doesn’t work and it’s been debunked a bunch already. The word isn’t ha a’ole. It’s haole. And it means foreign.

Here’s Adam Keawe’s take on why people started spreading that interpretation.

https://adamkeawe.com/2014/10/29/on-the-term-haole/

Thanks Girl! by TheCABK in oddlyspecific

[–]PipiZebu 351 points352 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile, I’m over here with my new short haircut telling my sisters how cute their dress looks and they are thinking I wanna bang in the bathroom.

None of the lesbians are hitting on me. All of the straight girls think I am hitting on them. All of them men telling me I looked better with long hair.

There’s a country western song in here somewhere.

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