Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here, I think it’s a valid question.
That’s an icicle, sticks are wooden. I like his spirit though, that icicle has stick vibes.
It is an ice sculpture of a stick.
Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.
A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?
Can you poke someone in the butt with it?? Fuck yeah you can.
We grant you the rank of honorary stick.
Motion seconded
“This is acceptable! This is fair!”
Nice stick
It does.
You bet you’re cold white pasty ass it counts. Now go spear a narwhal or do something cool with it!
A narwhal horn would make the best stick.
I just realized there is an entire continent where there are no trees, and thus no sticks.
And it isnt a small continent either. it is larger than all of Europe and also larger than Australia. We arent talking about an island or archipelago or even some random landlocked desert. It is a continent.
the fact that there are no sticks that naturally occur there at all… it confuses and concerns me.
This is deeply unsettling to me.
Before it slipped down to the bottom of the world, it used to be covered in jungles.
Don’t worry, flowers are starting to bloom more and more on Antarctica.
Soon, trees will start to grow so even that continent has sticks!
Wait … that is even a bigger concern to worry.
When humanity has to move to the poles to survive, I’d rather have trees and not.
It makes sense why there are no sticks. But I agree, the thought of a lack of sticks seems to be unsettling, not a lack of trees or bushes.
Are we that naturally attracted to sticks because of primate evolution? I wonder if the earliest human ancestors developed this awareness of sticks as it is a primitive tool used to survive.
It’s hell for doggos.
also larger than Australia
Not all that well-known, but Australia claims about 42% of Antarctica as part of it’s territory.
Claims vs. recognized.
Don’t worry. At this rate, the ice will be gone soon and… oh
So i did a little research. The sad/fun part about my realization is… if you go back far enough in time, before the ice and nothingness, archeologists have pointed out that Antarctica was once a massive forest continent.
Millions of years ago, it had trees, and thus, sticks for days and days.
Once again we are living in the wrong time. Too late to explore all continents having sticks. But also too early to live where all continents have sticks. In the grand scheme of things, we exist in the uneven ground.
It’s a sad equilibrium to be sure.
There’s also stuff we’re pretty sure first evolved there. Because it used to connect south America to Australia
I’m pretty sure this is a narwhal disguised as a human…
Can you poke things with it? Can you swish it around and pretend it’s a sword? Does it bring joy to your heart? Then it’s a stick.
Curious, why can’t you bring sticks?
I would assume biosecurity concerns
That doesn’t make sense, if that were the case it wouldn’t be relevant anymore as humans simply walking on the continent would introduce incredible amounts of bacterias and viruses.
Even with the sterile processing of Moon and Mars rovers have observed this. It’s impossible to prevent, only reduce.
It’s impossible to prevent, only reduce.
And that’s what such efforts aim to do. You can’t prevent everything but you can definitely cut down on what is potentially being introduced. This is particularly true when a place is as geographically isolated as Antarctica. For a relevant example I know that if you were to bring a raw stick into Australia it’d be confiscated (or required to be pest treated at your cost) due to biosecurity concerns, and we get literally millions of people visiting per year so that’s a significantly harder containment job than Antarctica would present. Even within Australia there are biosecurity controls disallowing movement of stuff like fruit and grape vines between some of our states/regions.
I would be surprised if biosecurity controls for our parts of Antarctica were not even stricter, given that it is a largely untouched landscape and reducing impact on it is considered worthwhile to do these days (not so much in the early days of the Antarctic program, but we try to do better now).
Actually hearing that a country would go to that length makes a lot of this more understandable.
I mean, shit, the Asian Carp in America has destroyed so much natural habitat as a fish, and microbials can cause huge amounts of damage if they are invasive and much more difficult to figure out their source, and harder to stop once it spreads.
Can’t bring sticks
What?! Why?
Just like dopamine and serotonin: If you don’t have homemade, store bought is just fine
shore brought is fine
This is likely an extremely powerful weapon that can only be used once before it breaks so save it for the last boss.
Fuck, I beat the last boss and I forgot this was in my inventory…
Along with 999 medium health elixirs
