North Portland.

A well-chosen enemy is worth five allies.

angles and planes

For all my goddamn public brand identity whatever, my thing is I try not to fuck up and I try not to make other people deal with my shit and I am getting realllllllly fucking tired of never bring recognized or rewarded for that.

Especially given how easily and how terribly I could make people suffer if I gave into that side.

aresnakesreal:

this store on my bus route has a sign that says “STOP HOWLING AT THE MOON AND LET US COVER YOUR WINDOWS” which has to be the single advertisement with the least relevancy to my life 

trolllinginthedeep:

yo

that’s fifty dollars for a t-shirt

danbutt:

Samuel Hahnemann, often referred to as the father of classical homeopathy

during the late 1700s, while translating medical texts between german and english, he read about the use of cinchona bark for the treatment of malaria. the bark was said to be effective against malaria because of its bitter and astringent taste (the real reason is because cinchona bark contains quinine, which is still used today, but mostly in tonic water), but this seemed preposterous to hahnemann, and he decided to try and discover the real reason for the cinchona bark’s efficacy.

to do this, he took increasing doses of the bark, and as the doses got higher, he noticed that he began to experience fevers, chills and sweats, symptoms, known collectively as the ague, very similar to those of malaria itself. he had observed that while higher doses of cinchona bark caused the ague, lower doses treated it, and from that information he developed the Principle of Similars, or “like cures like”

hahnemann continued his research by giving himself and healthy volunteers increasing doses of other natural substances, and noting their effects. he called the set of effects caused by each substance a “drug picture”. from then on, his process of deciding which treatment would be appropriate for a patient involved matching the patients symptoms (the “symptom picture”) as closely as possible to a drug picture (the diagnosis also took into account other factors such as mental and physical healthy, food preferences, and even the weather)

the second principle of classical homeopathy that hahnemann put forward was the Principle of the Minimal Dose or “theory of infinitesimals”. because such small quantities of the cinchona bark had been effective in treating malaria, hahnemann hypothesised that as dose decreases, efficacy increases, and he went on to dilute solutions down to negligible, or even non-existent, concentrations. he also believed that with each dilution of a medicine, it had to be shaken vigorously (a process called “succussion”) to cause the molecules to leave an imprint of themselves onto the solvent. each dilution/succussion process increased the solutions potency

the third principle of classical homeopathy is the Principle of the Single Remedy, which basically means that a person should be given no more than one medication at any time, and the choice of medication should be based on not only the symptoms the patient displays, but also many other factors, which i’ve already mentioned above

it’s interesting how homeopathy has changed over the centuries to what we know today, the third principle is generally disregarded, as is the first, to a certain extent. the only principle of classical homeopathy that is still relevant today is the second principle, as most homeopathic remedies are highly dilute. 

if you look at the packaging of a homeopathic product, you might notice that instead of standard concentrations for each ingredient, there will be something like “200X” or “100C”, this shows how many times the product has been diluted, and what the dilution factor was. eg 200X means the product was diluted 200 times by a factor of 10 (X = 10, C = 100, etc). the number of times the solution has been diluted and undergone succussion determines the potency of the product, rather than the true concentration of active ingredient in the solution. for example if you had two solutions, one 3C and one 6X, both would have theoretically been diluted by a factor of 1,000,000, the 6X product would still be more potent because it underwent a greater number of dilutions and succussions

most of this was off the top of my head so hopefully it’s all correct  and clear and maybe you learned something interesting tonight, and please keep in mind that none of hahnemann’s findings have any relevant scientific basis, and that anyone who knows even the slightest about the nature of chemistry and biology will tell you that homeopathy isn’t, and never will be, a viable alternative to actual real medicine

monetizeyourcat:

moichos:

this page got posted last month. megatokyo is still using the term “L337 master” in 2013. in megatokyoland, it is always 2007

i wonder what “ninj4” was in the original japanese

2ん者, obviously.

oh wait, does that mean that 2ch was a play on “nii-chan” this whole time? fuck.

waytoomuchportland:

Oh for the love of fuck. 

So I just realized I’m second-degree unkatunk to Taylor Swift.

monetizeyourcat-blog:

i feel like we’re in a shrinking minority for understanding the weird, frenzied, apocalyptic libertarian hardon for web 1.0 and having an unsettled but knowing viewpoint of how the same right-wingers who dreamed of perfect liberty on the internet now dream of perfect hegemony mediated by it instead

Which explains the bigger betes noires of 2.0 goodthinkers - Reddit is an attempt to port the Web 0.0 of USENET to 2.0, so it averages out; 4chan is basically a preserve where the institutional memory of 1.0 could survive long enough to coexist with 2.0, make the self-other distinction, and develop a self-awareness that allows for conscious dedication to a formerly implicit project.

edwad:

saiyens:

I finished my Evangelion Pokemon Trainer Sprites and wanted to do something special! So I made these trainer cards! I tried to pick the Pokemon that I thought fit them the best! if you’re curious about some of them i’d be happy to explain, shoot me an ask B)

Inspired by this post!

this is cool as hell

fourwindsshotgun:

Robert Earnshaw, Robert Earnshaw, he makes you laugh, he makes you think