I am hitting you with the force of a thousand suns
Where else can you get interactions like this folks
We should all be at work right now getting paid real wages to do real work for real employers, but instead we sit in a room on this website talking about the most boring, repetitive, emotionally repulsing subject matter one can imagine.
go back in time to kill Hitler before he rises to power and then when you return to the present everyone has those Hitler moustaches because they’re not stigmatized anymore
Bora Bora is a 12-square-mile (30-square-km) island chain in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The main island, which has an extinct volcano at its center, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. Bora Bora is a major international tourist destination, famous for its aqua-centric luxury resorts. It has about 10,600 permanent residents but is visited by hundreds of thousands of travelers each year.
You know how the Goncharov (1973) poster has “winter comes to Naples” on it? I want you all to know that currently, Naples is very cold (for our tastes), we have snow on top of Vesuvius, our mountains have snow, and some of the surrounding towns have snow. This is not normal. You all did this to us. You cursed us.
Badger gets into my bed and curls up by my head so stealthily now I don’t even notice til I’m like “huh I thought he’d be up by now” and stretch out and there he is
Watching Tales of Wells Fargo on the bar TV and realizing that it was a thing for the mid-20th century Western genre to use the limitations of period doctoring to implicitly highlight mid-20th century (from Korea if not WWII!) advances in trauma care
Also a little thrown how every shot I’m like “hey I recognize the Red Dead Redemption location based on that standing set!”
Watching Tales of Wells Fargo on the bar TV and realizing that it was a thing for the mid-20th century Western genre to use the limitations of period doctoring to implicitly highlight mid-20th century (from Korea if not WWII!) advances in trauma care
every time something goes viral in astronomy i’m like “wait why that one” like. you guys do know there are like billions of comets – hang on
what
Only thing I can think of is it saw all the talk of comets’ periods and categorized them as a women’s health topic.
actually mr maschine, there is a straightforward explanation… tissue density is a mammogram variable and there’s a breast cancer study called comet. google tends to disregard almost anything that isn’t boolean search syntax, probably discarding “list of” and “with” and ignoring the plural on “comet”
I’m trying not to talk much about that incident anymore, but I’ve just found out that “troublemaker” is a derogatory term in some subcultures for someone who doesn’t behave in a “troubled” way. (That is, who doesn’t have problems or problems of their own making.) Someone who does this – who deliberately refuses to be troubled – will be called a “trouble-maker.” And I wonder if the “trouble-maker” label reflects an impulse that is not wholly positive: the desire to see the problematizing person as having a character flaw, or as irredeemable, or something.
A lot of subcultures (including online communities like 4chan) emphasize the idea that there are people who are simply not troubled at all (by which they mean not troubled by anything), and if you can recognize these trouble-free people, you can safely discard the idea that everyone is potentially troubled.
But that’s not a good thing. The trouble-free person can’t talk about or understand the troubled person, and can’t be troubled. I wonder if anyone is really troubled and just happens to be trouble-free – I wonder if I have any trouble and just happen to have that fact taken as some kind of character flaw or secret, and am therefore unable to be troubled.
