unhallowedarts:

unexplained-events:

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these  silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.

It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.

i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.

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Reevaluation of the ‘90s Aerosmith-starring gun game Revolution X, on the premise that the New Order Nation’s beef with the boys relates to the fact that from their groupie-tastic '70s origins to their Alica Silverstone/Liv Tyler (Steven’s daughter!) video '90s, their brand has always revolved around fucking teenage girls

centrally-unplanned:

argumate:

centrally-unplanned:

Willing to say now I was wrong about the protests in China - I thought they would be outlasted, pushed down, and then quietly zero-covid would be abandoned a bit later slowly, to send the message that protests dont work. Instead they massively succeeded, and the Chinese government has done the most abrupt about face possible in abandoning virtually every aspect of the program. You even have some peak Orwell in the state propaganda channels advertising how Omnicron is mild and shouldn’t be feared in the same exact spaces preaching victory or death a week before.

My best hypothesis for the extremity of the response is that the inner circle was far more divided over zero covid than we thought. I have seen some say the switch is a sign of the ‘tyranny of xi’, that he snapped his fingers and now everyone is overcompensating to switch, but i think that doesn’t gel with how much the old policies were abandoned. Instead i think the protests must have pushed the end-zero-covid faction over the threshold of having power and now they are rushing to cement the new status quo before any slipback on the changes. How bad zero-covid has been for China’s national power is I think a good motivator for the intensity; if you frame this as an issue of national security it makes sense.

the turnaround has been very dramatic!

and the R value may be as high as 16 now, which is certainly consistent with anecdotal experience.

That is the ‘other theory’, essentially that zero-covid was already failing dramatically in obvious ways to state authorities, the protests (coincidentally?) lined up with those failures, so it was a bit of a two birds/one stone situation. I personally am on the fence on that - from my read zero-covid has been failing for a while, case rates in China have been way higher than official estimates. But since they were falsifying data its really hard to say on the outside. 

A big tell is going to be what the ‘peak’ of the infection wave is - if it truly hits the highs being predicted by naive estimates then yeah, natural immunity was that low. If it comes out a good deal below a bunch of explanations for that will exist, but “there were previous waves they were just unreported” is gonna be a big one.

I do wonder if by having so much of the population catch their first case at once China’s set up a situation where there’ll be similar whole-population peaks when the developed immunity wears thin a few months on, at least for a few times until chance individual variation scatters it out. How’d Australia do once they stepped back from zeroing?

aletheyass:

good morning and happy is it really tuesday tuesday

shacklesburst:

argumate:

apollopigeon:

argumate:

socialjust-ish:

argumate:

squareallworthy:

argumate:

referring to people outside your industry as “civilians” when you’re in tech support or some shit.

“civilians” is just the pompous way of saying “normies”

damn I thought “normies” was the pompous way of saying “normies”

“Normies” is the normie way of saying “normies”

what’s the extremely online way of saying normies then

NPCs

oh god 😩

or muggles, if you want to make people mad for lots of different reasons!

radiofreederry:

I’m learning about metal gear solid

entirelytookeen:

mariacallous:

hexafelid:

rustingbridges:

vriskakinnieaynrand:

i’m still surprised blueberries grow so far from maine tbh. like i get it, blueberries grow in oregon and georgia, but blueberries are such a maine thing, even more so than the way pawpaws are a DC thing

(pawpaws are overrated, the real DC fruit is the american persimmon. pawpaws are another entry in the long list of presumed neurotoxic Annonaceae that all taste the same, but the american persimmon naturally tastes like pumpkin pie. as long as you pick out the weird flecks of pure tannins)

huh I’ve never heard of maine in connection to blueberries, altho, honestly, no one ever talks about maine for any reason ime, which is presumably how maine likes it

I always associated them with michigan, but I suppose this is a regional thing - the biggest blueberry growing states are apparently washington and georgia

wild blueberries grow, afaict, literally everywhere in north america that isn’t a desert. anyway blueberries kick ass. they’re basic but that’s because they are both easy and good

apropos of nothing but I’m finding it hilarious to call blueberries basic, because their soil pH requirements are pretty acidic! they are specifically difficult to grow in much of my state because of our basic pH limestone soils ~

Yeah, they’re natively understory plants in pine forests (pines both prefer acidic soils and – by drawing from deeper, concentrating acidity in needles, and dropping them to the surface – create acidic regions, managing their own pH and inhibiting competitors with more neutral requirements from establishing). It’s not coincidence blueberries were domesticated in 1911 in New Jersey, home of the Pine Barrens. My stand is gonna be at the base of a lone Coast Redwood.

duckbunny:

duckbunny:

THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING TO GET YOUR MEDS BEFORE THE PHARMACIES CLOSE

they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.

if you don’t have enough meds to last the next THREE WEEKS, put in for your repeats and refills tomorrow! that’s Wednesday! do it! don’t go to hospital at New Year because you ran out of stuff!

it’s that time of year again! get your meds!

thewerman100:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

the-real-numbers-deactivated202:

i was looking at my dog and thinking “must be kinda weird to be completely dependent on someone else for food” and then I remembered that I’ve never farmed anything in my life

we’re both kinda cute and docile in that sense

domesticated human comes in many breeds. this one does calculus

sebrrari:

spotted in LA on sunset

kontextmaschine:

The real effect of Twitter on journalism is – well, the “spare-time bullshit, take as peer group, social-climb, brown-nose for career advancement” relationship journalists used to have with their sources? Now instead they have it with each other.

– 6/12/2016

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about this at all on Tumblr, which is very lax of us all, so I suppose I shall do it myself.

Last week Elon Musk broke European law so badly that the lawyers who will finally put the case to rest have yet to be born.

I’m not exaggerating. Here’s the thing: America has terrible data privacy laws. A solid technique for an American website owner in times of financial hardship, such as accidentally buying a loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol, is to take all the data harvested from users and to sell it to third parties for lots of money. It is fun and breezy and lets you pay off at least one lawyer for the month. What a lark.

However, the European Union has an even more fun and breezy law called GDPR.

And the thing is, the EU really, really care about GDPR. Like… they really care. This is not one of those grey area laws like jaywalking where it’s basically ignored unless you do it in front of a police officer who is having a midlife crisis because his wife left him and the dishes are piling up and he’s down to his third day of wearing the same pants and yesterday a man in the pub laughed at him for getting a football term wrong. This is the sort of law that, if you break it, grey men in grey suits with worryingly little humour will get in touch and unroll terrifyingly long scrolls of legal text and then you are in gaol for the rest of your life. This is a big law. The big one. Big boy law. Do not break.

So, if you’re going to be a website owner in times of financial hardship who needs some quick money to cover your many billions of dollars of debt who decides to sell the private data you harvested from the user base, the most important thing you absolutely MUST remember is, you can only use the American data, and never the European.

But.

I mean.

Hypothetically.

If someone were to own an American website in times of financial hardship, such as an accidentally bought loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol… but that someone didn’t know the difference between American and European law.

Well then. That person would sell the wrong data.

And if that were to happen, on the scale of a global social media platform, with users ranging from the megalomaniacal Uber Rich to literal world governments…

The ensuing court cases would last for decades, as lawyers began the lawsuits at the richest end of the list, and worked their way down.

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Also he posted a Twitter poll today about whether he should stay in charge of Twitter and he lost lol

Elon Musk is an icebreaker. He represents enough money, which is to say power and mass, both in personal holdings and as center of the nexus that’s accreted around him (Saudi, etc.) subject to one human will and without the narrow time horizons of a publicly traded company, that he can take on forces that less empowered agents find themselves reduced to operating under.

That’s been behind so much he’s been doing with Twitter, running it against the bluecheckerati, Apple with its App Store tollbooth, now the EU and their claims of authority over the internet.

And he not even threatens these agents claiming the apex position with certain defeat but the potential of such catastrophic defeat, and the threat of putting so much resources into the conflict – and drawing in such big broad allies in his wake – significant portions of the tech capital scene, conservative America AND implicitly the oh-God-shut-upppp Democratic Party machine vs. the bluechecks; platforms and the online economy vs. Apple; the entire American (or Saudi, just non-European, honestly European too) tech scene vs. the EU…

(and by linking fates he can start to draw the allies from one fight into others)

– that those top-dogs’ payoff matrix starts to suggest “yield”.

And what does he use this towards? A gee-whiz The Future as seen from the later 20th century: electric cars, interplanetary travel, an internet that starts out American-flavored and then becomes the global top dog itself – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996, Code is Law in 2000, his PayPal era.

I suspect OP is an EU citizen because I’ve never seen an American even exposed to a legitimating narrative of GDPR, to civilians at most it’s the reason for those dumb interruption screens asking us to approve cookies, to American tech it’s a serious thorn from

I don’t think he’s some Ozymandias-type mastermind, the whole “icebreaker” thing is he’s a brute whose victories come by mass, but he’s at least internalized that if he wades out into a melee others avoid he’ll probably do reasonably well for himself playing for position.

Hm. I’d guess subcontinentals – this is partly where my ignorance of ethnic identities as seen from Britain fails me, I know British “Asians” were often called “Pakis” but I don’t know how much Muslims/Hindus/Buddhists/Jains/Sikhs are differentiated, not to mention all the different nooks and crannies of Jāti.

Which is the thing, you’d expect such a densely populous culture to have more outbreeding, but it’s really a ton of little endogamous grouplets that could have local social structures that are pretty narrow but with very powerful ingroup gravity, I can see that giving rise to incest. That and the lack of Christianized outbreeding pressure, and how to this day Indian guys on the internet can be so unmaskedly yay-rape, including of relatives.

So who was it?

mapsontheweb:

English Calques

by u/languageseu

Wait “evangelion” means gospel?

alwaysabeautifullife:

i-eat-bread-and-cry-on-the-floor:

wehaveallgotknives:

alwaysabeautifullife:

I was searching for some pretty Hanukkah gifs to schedule a post tomorrow wishing my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah and I found a fit/shape/body building site that posted this

And I thought to myself, I simply must show my Jewish followers fit Menorah Man

muscle tov

MUSCLE TOV IM SCREAMING 

This was NOT how i planned to wish my Jewish followers Happy Hanukkah but with that said I must share these additions to the post:

Happy First night of Hanukkah my friends

Like, currently, or in the past leaving tells in their genetics?

I don’t really have a sense of what the “ethnic groups of the UK” are though, let alone their incestuous reputations

Idly mentally running through mental future scenarios, as I always am, hit on an interesting one, it’s probably good enough for a paperback novel (really, a Bollywood movie) but anyone with actual knowledge chip in to say how far off I am:

as global warming continues, some year the Himalayas have a heat wave which appreciably shrinks mountaintop glaciers. The weight of the ice had been calculated into the tectonic stasis of the underlying Eurasian-Indian plate convergence fault, and its removal provokes many quakes. Combined with mountain slopes inundated with meltwater, a series of massive, apocalyptic mudslides push into the Gangetic Plain. Though they don’t reach the Ganges river itself, the already hugely swollen Ghaghara, a Ganges tributary, clouds with soil; the combined high flow and sediment deposition where the river slows result in the river radically changing course. Effects downstream (heh) of this cause massive disruption in Bangladesh, the state collapses, and anarchy rules, the resulting instability is then somehow exported next door to India.

Thoughts?