Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet
sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix
Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh
Adapt. Survive.
Mongolia will be the only functioning society after we descend into the Mad Max Era, they are already ready
Not to rain on everyone’s parade here, but despite how legitimately cool the intersection of modern and traditional life is in Mongolia, there is actually a major societal and economic crisis happening there right now.
The environment, which Mongolia’s largely nomadic population relies on, is being absolutely wrecked by a combination of global warming and overgrazing. Mongolia is currently stuck in a cycle of dry summers and extreme winters called a dzud. The cycle is unique to Mongolia and has happened in the past, but every year since 2015 has had a dzud. The result has been a complete environmental disaster for Mongolia’s nomads. Dry summers mean less food for starving herds and extreme winters mean the weakened herds freeze to death in temperatures reaching -40 degrees Fahrenheit. According to an article from national geographic, over 9.7 million heads of livestock were killed in 2017. 700,000 heads of livestock were killed in the first two months of 2018 alone.
The effect on Mongolia’s nomadic people has been severe. Here are some excerpts from interviews with local residents:
“We used to have four seasons, but now we only have three,” Batjargal told Nicholson. “Before, June, July, and August were warm and with rain. Different types of grass would grow, and the animals would get fat. Now, we have no rain and the wind dries up the grass. It is not what it used to be.”
– from an interview with a local governor by national geographic in 2018
“We are trying so hard to keep them alive,” 50-year-old herder Bayankhand Myagmar says, talking about her dead sheep and goats. “But nothing we do is working.”
Dogoonoo lives with 13 others in three small gers in Uvs Province. The 72-year-old started this winter with 230 livestock but 210 of those have died since January. "Watching the animals die is breaking us apart,“ she said. “But even if I have only one animal left, I will do everything in my power to keep it alive.“
– from a bbc article in 2016
About one fifth of Mongolia’s population has abandoned the nomadic lifestyle and moved to Ulaanbaatar, the capitol, where they live in ger (yurt) districts which make up two-thirds of the city. The districts have no running water and since there is no electrical grid families have to burn coal and wood to stay warm. This has resulted in some of the worst air quality in the world, causing a wide variety of respiratory health issues, especially in children.
So people literally can’t live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago.
so i’ve been wanting to do a cover for @chessna2 for a long time but i didn’t know WHEN to start it let alone know what it was gonna look like lmfao. So this is for their fic called Diamond in the Rough and it’s one of the most heart wrenching and detailed fic i’ve read so far. Very informative notes at the end but WARNING it covers a lot of heavy topics and it’s pretty much M-rated.
Anyways, i’m in love with this series and i cannot wait for the next chapter </3
He was a young artist employed by the Disney studio, but tasked with the entry-level job of finishing off the work of the animators and crafting the “in-between” animations that completed the characters’ movements. Wong had learned that studio executives were creating a film from the new novel, Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. Tom says the young artist read the book and without consulting his supervisor, “took the script and painted some visual concepts to set the mood, color and the design.”
His sketches recalled the lush mountain and forest scenes of Sung dynasty landscape paintings. His initiative paid off. Walt Disney, who was looking for something new for the film, was captivated and personally directed that Wong be promoted. Today, top animators and illustrators revere Wong’s work. Children today are as enchanted by the misty, lyrical brushstrokes of Wong’s colorful nature scenes, inspired by his training at Otis College of Art and self-study of Sung Dynasty art
THIS GUY HELPED MAKE THE FILM THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A FILMMAKER AND *HE IS STILL ALIVE*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I met him at a gallery event a number of years ago and, UGH HE IS SO TALENTED AND SO KIND AND ENCOURAGING THERE IS A REASON WE ALL LOVE HIM. Also, my alma.
GUYS WTF IS THIS CRAZY TALENTED GUY- HE MAKES KITES TO WOW JUST WOW
is it still technically a drink? who cares! grampa wanted a slice and i do too 10/10
skittlebrau
i’m still waiting for some artisanal craft beer company to crowdfund the actualisation of skittlebrau 9/10
malk
brittle bones are a small price to pay for all that vitamin r 7/10
the all-syrup super squishee
this drink comes with consequences. are you prepared for what that might mean? 5/10
shelbyville turnip juice
turnip juice is a real thing apparently? who looked at a turnip and wanted to drink it? 3/10
homer’s morning glass of syrup
my teeth are crying 0/10
marge’s homemade pepsi
an undefinable and unknowable entity ?/10
lays liquid potato chips
i’ve got questions and they’re all about how i can forget i ever had to think about this 0/10
worcestershire flavoured soft drink
carbonated worcestershire is truly a cursed concept 0/10
a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat
the bartender requires you to sign a waiver before he serves you. this drink takes you to a strange new place where the man whose hat you are drinking from tells you the meaning of life in a way you are never able to articulate after you regain consciousness number eight/10
this is, obviously i think, the best post on this site. we all can stop posting now. i feel such relief
now hold on just a minute, op forgot a few essentials
tomacco juice
tomacco was the produce made by homer, when mixing tobacco and tomatoes after putting a plutonium rod in the ground near tobacco and tomato plants. considering tomacco was highly addictive, repulsive + possibly deadly 0/10
flaming homer/flaming moe
the secret ingredient in the flaming homer and flaming moe is krusty’s non-narkotik kough syrup for kids, probably more addictive than tomacco but everyone seemed to love it so 9/10
ned flander’s hot cocoa from the simpsons movie
this is the same cocoa that made bart mutter “oh my god” 22/10
is it still technically a drink? who cares! grampa wanted a slice and i do too 10/10
skittlebrau
i’m still waiting for some artisanal craft beer company to crowdfund the actualisation of skittlebrau 9/10
malk
brittle bones are a small price to pay for all that vitamin r 7/10
the all-syrup super squishee
this drink comes with consequences. are you prepared for what that might mean? 5/10
shelbyville turnip juice
turnip juice is a real thing apparently? who looked at a turnip and wanted to drink it? 3/10
homer’s morning glass of syrup
my teeth are crying 0/10
marge’s homemade pepsi
an undefinable and unknowable entity ?/10
lays liquid potato chips
i’ve got questions and they’re all about how i can forget i ever had to think about this 0/10
worcestershire flavoured soft drink
carbonated worcestershire is truly a cursed concept 0/10
a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat
the bartender requires you to sign a waiver before he serves you. this drink takes you to a strange new place where the man whose hat you are drinking from tells you the meaning of life in a way you are never able to articulate after you regain consciousness number eight/10
this is, obviously i think, the best post on this site. we all can stop posting now. i feel such relief
now hold on just a minute, op forgot a few essentials
tomacco juice
tomacco was the produce made by homer, when mixing tobacco and tomatoes after putting a plutonium rod in the ground near tobacco and tomato plants. considering tomacco was highly addictive, repulsive + possibly deadly 0/10
flaming homer/flaming moe
the secret ingredient in the flaming homer and flaming moe is krusty’s non-narkotik kough syrup for kids, probably more addictive than tomacco but everyone seemed to love it so 9/10
ned flander’s hot cocoa from the simpsons movie
this is the same cocoa that made bart mutter “oh my god” 22/10
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