Having a post heading to 100k+ notes for the first time and the last 30,000 actually making my activity feed even more annoyingly unusable than the first
Okay worked it out and I’d expect to finish off the weight loss at the “average side of slim” level in about 13 months. If another case brings echoes in the interim I’d only expect that to push to 16 months and just “slim” at most.
it’s funny to think about how if you actually did the jurassic park thing, where you recreated genetically engineered dinosaurs and then they ran amuck and killed a bunch of people, it wouldn’t actually be a big deal in the grand scheme of things. in retrospect people would focus on the long-term transformative impact of the technology and the dinosaur gys would mainly be blamed for introducing chicken-sized invasive species that fucked up various ecosystems, like during the colonial era, and the stuff where t-rexes ran around and ate people would be considered a quirky historical fact like the boston molasses flood
This is kind of an epiphenomenon of the charismatic megafauna issue. In reality there is 1 predator for every 500 prey, which means you are going to face a lot more issues from all the tiny prey species that T-rex feeds on, than the T-rex itself. But obviously the movie wants to focus on the handful of big, scary predators.
The question is whether the park (and the entire industry that follows in its wake) uses artificial food sources enough that that ratio is seriously reduced, or it really is a park with 500 prey animals to every predator. If the former, your prediction might be off but how much just becomes a matter of the numbers involved.
In the book it was a major plot point that they were all born female and dependent on some food supplement such that they could not reproduce or survive independently (but it was a critical twist that some had then naturally become male and the epilogue suggested feral populations found alternate sources of nutrition on their own)
The right-wing hard counter to avant-garde artistic provocation isn’t banning it or suppressing it but actually just doing the Aryan chad “yes.” reaction. Demolished instantly. This is what happened to new wave in the ‘80s btw
shopping for vintage clothes really makes you appreciate just how much capitalist innovation is dedicated to making things suck ass. every year someone finds a way to produce clothes that are worse than any clothes that have existed before in human history and they make one billion dollars from it. H&M stuff from circa 2010 has appreciably better construction and materials than the bulk of mass market goods today, and that’s roughly a decade ago. the shit you could get in a department store in 1970? the shit you could get in a department store in nineteen fucking seventy?
This is also the problem with the new-build “gentrification buildings” that are cluttering your downtown, by the way. Three or four residential floors over retail is actually pretty much the ideal form of urban architecture, it’s just that those buildings are being constructed as cheaply as possible - and in the intervening 70 years between when we abandoned mixed-use and then started building it again, “as cheaply as possible” changed beyond recognisability, because every single year in that time some engineer or developer was finding new ways to cut corners and shave off costs.
Other historical forms of plentiful, mass-market architecture were equally driven by cost considerations. Quirky Victorian houses have all that decoration largely due to the invention of pre-made architectural finishes you could buy at the store, instead of needing to custom-design everything and have it crafted to order. The Sears homes of turn-of-the-century streetcar suburbs are called that because they were mass-produced designs that you literally bought from a catalog and then had delivered and built yourself - pretty much the cost/value equivalent of department store clothing. The number of “innovations” in materials and design processes since that time (in particular, the fact that so many projects are now designed front-to-back by a structural engineer with an architect only signing off at the end) renders those older cheap buildings incredibly luxurious by comparison.
I’d say the Sears catalog era where you’d buy a plan and acquire materials to execute it locally is cognate to home production of clothes using McCall’s patterns and locally acquired fabric and thread, which was still a thing (particularly for dresses) into the 1950s and 60s (and which I did as my interdisciplinary middle school graduation project, since skipping me in Computer class meant I never actually got taught to see in Home Ec)
Gonna being your post to the ts fandom I hope you have a horrible day!
(Not really i just am very autistic and consider this white woman to be my special interest. I realize she's not everyone's thing but she'll never see those posts but the people who actively enjoy her and do so to cope with trauma will. So like. What's the harm in liking popular white lady lol)
I hope you have a lovely evening and you see something pretty
Twinks Be High Key Delusional For Thinking They Will Get Off Easy When The Neo Sultan Comes Around To Revive The Old Empire 😂😂 They Thinking They Will Be A Palace Concubine Being Spoiled And Shit 😂😂😂😂 Bitch Please!!! You Gonna Be A Janissary!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You metabolize creatine fast enough that I have to take it as a supplement every day, but at around hour 23 I lose enough energy that something happens that makes my tongue a bit dry and shriveled and tastes so bad it’ll wake me from sleep
Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you’re fucking ready for this thing
Occasional reminder that the American intervention into WWI really was to secure our investments, American money had funded the war but it was necessary to conclude things before the European nations were totally exhausted if the loans were ever to be repaid (between the Dawes, Young, and Marshall Plans, many were not!)
Occasional reminder that America invested the payment on this debt on industrialization that first yielded the Roaring 20s boom but went on to enable the country to serve as the WWII arms-producing “Arsenal of Democracy” and produce a postwar Golden Age of consumer bounty, which is to say this expenditure of American lives to fatten bondholders’ pockets really was key, as much as (rather, continuous with, as a succession crisis of the global order) WW2, to its later global dominance and world-beating quality of life
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