Tech bros do this all the time. They think they’re “disruptors” or whatever but they keep re-inventing stuff we already have.
“What if there was like…a TIMESHARE RENTAL for BOOKS?” You mean a library?
“What if there were larger Uber Pools that ran on a schedule and made specific stops??” You mean…a BUS?
“What if there was a way to send a text message as an audio file in real time so the person could respond immediatley?” BITCH THAT’S A PHONE CALL
“What if self-driving cars had designated roads that had sensors to keep them on track and would take you on designated routes” OH MY GOOD LOOK UP “RAILWAY SYSTEM” IN THE DICTIONARY I’M BEGGING YOU.
Look up elon musk boring company plans
If you want to see elon reinventing trains, but worse in every way
“We came here based on the map published by the Israeli army,” he continues. “They told us to go to the Tal al-Sultan area, and here they are bombing us and bombing our food sources.”
Nidal says that he and his family were sitting in their tent when they heard four missile strikes. He later learned that the missiles had directly hit the clinic, the water well, and the adjacent tents in which some food and cooking utensils were stored. Nidal and his neighbors in the displacement camp rushed to rescue the injured, but when he arrived, he was surprised by the horror before him.
“We arrived at the place quickly, and the fire was still burning in the clinic and the neighboring tents. There were dozens of bodies and dead people, but we could not distinguish them from one another,” he says. “We did not know who had been burned. The bodies were completely disfigured and dismembered, and we were walking over the fire and the bodies in an attempt to get anyone out who was still alive.”
Nidal insists that the bombs that targeted the encampment were not normal, but American-made weapons that “Israel is testing on Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” he says.
“We did not find anything,” he adds. “There was nothing that would require bombing. All we found were dismembered children, charred bodies, and scattered organs. We put them in blankets and took them out.”
“This is a terror zone. It isn’t a safe zone, as the Israeli army tells us,” Nidal says.
Tumblr has been showing targeted ads for “FTM binders” off Amazon. They look like this:
ALT
Do not buy these.
A binder is a piece of medical equipment. If you use one incorrectly, or use a poorly made one, you can really fuck up your ribs. This article from the Cleveland Clinic talks about how to bind safely.
A $14 binder is guaranteed not to be safe. There’s a reason reputable companies charge more- sometimes a lot more. They have to carefully design binders so they don’t crush your ribs or make you sick.
You know how everyone says Don’t Bind With Duct Tape? Don’t bind with Amazon binders.
The “there is only one bed” romance trope, but there is only one mech instead.
Each of you have mission critical skills for this op, but we only have a single seater chassis available. You two are going to have to figure out who is sitting on who’s lap while also sharing a neural link to the mech.
You’ve grown accustomed to your sensory inputs getting lost in a machine, but never the nerve ending of another pilot.
You try and shake these concerns away. Think of the mission, only the mission. You reach out for the mech’s weapons systems and feel the presence of someone else’s ghost reaching out in unisin. The warmth of it cause you to hesitate. Is it getting hotter in here? Is that racing heart yours, or the other pilots? Maybe it’s the reactor, its rhythmic thumping increasing in pace and heating up from the additional inputs and feedback
There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you can’t win.
#CHIDI WAS RIGHT
The Good Place really went with making their new Point ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ and I respect that
And then went on to say “blaming individuals for all of this is absurd and evil, as is locking them up for punishment instead of rehabilitation” and I respect that
Also, “consequentialism is a fundamentally flawed branch of ethics”
it’s really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see…like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.
this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can’t fool her!! she’s always watching me and she shouldn’t have this much knowledge!!!
I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I’ll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it’s probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I’ll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??
it’s really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see…like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.
this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can’t fool her!! she’s always watching me and she shouldn’t have this much knowledge!!!
I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I’ll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it’s probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I’ll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??
it’s really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see…like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.
this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can’t fool her!! she’s always watching me and she shouldn’t have this much knowledge!!!
I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I’ll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it’s probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I’ll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??
if i was a tiny mouse, i think i’d die in a tiny mouse duel and have a tiny funeral that none of my mouse friends would attend because the directions are too tiny for anymouse to read. such is the life of a mouse like i
if i was a tiny mouse, i think i’d die in a tiny mouse duel and have a tiny funeral that none of my mouse friends would attend because the directions are too tiny for anymouse to read. such is the life of a mouse like i
No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.
the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!
“Generically medieval”, by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody speaks English.
you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: “woo hoo aesthetic garnish” and “Sinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity”
Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.
not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic
pre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).
But it will only actually be called inaccurate if an adaptation chooses to add a Black person.
“Generically medieval”, by which we mean our peerage is French, our castles are German, our weapons are Italian, and everybody speaks English.
you can have religion in one of 2 flavors: “woo hoo aesthetic garnish” and “Sinister State Control in Bad Allegory for Problems in Modern Christianity”
Also, the latter is aesthetically French Catholic, theologically German Protestant, and has the institutional structure of the Church of Scientology.
not to mention that this land is simultaneously inhabited by thinly modified northern vikings (Nordic
pre-medieval/9th century), travelling mongols (European medieval/13th century) and a wealthy italian merchant family with a house full of oil paintings (Southern European renaissance/15th century). the dance of the day is waltz (refined German 18th century country dance).
But it will only actually be called inaccurate if an adaptation chooses to add a Black person.
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Joking aside, the Millennium Falcon is not the space fantasy equivalent of a busted-ass old panel van.
The Millennium Falcon is the space fantasy equivalent of a busted-ass old panel van that’s inexplicably been hot-rodded to have a top speed of 300 miles per hour, which is substantially funnier.
In Yemen the death count stagnated at 15,000 until the war ended and the people were able to count their dead. Today, it’s commonly accepted that over 300,000 Yemenis have been killed by war and famine. We will see a similar situation in Gaza after a ceasefire.
“Put it all in his pussy” I love it. He just wadded it all up and shoved it right in there. Crammed it all in. That expression should be commonplace too.
its black. it has a specific geographic and cultural origin. that origin is not “something someone puked up into the internet.” its AAVE. its black. stop with the active real time erasure its exhausting
Aw hell yeah iterator oc drop!! they don’t exactly have a very deep lore so far since they’re just a fairly recent character so all you have to know about them is that they are indeed a cunning little shit and loves antagonizing other fellow iterators for the fun of it.
also their design is based off of a bearded vulture! i tried to atleast implement the bearded vulture’s color scheme to their design as much as possible Their local group are all birds of prey inspired iterators! but uh the rest aren’t very important unless im bored enough to actually design them - Nine burning skies or just nicknamed ‘Skies’ is located at the far up north, between the tall rocky mountains - their antennae’s pretty expressive! they can bend it at will - skies and their partner owns a pet cyan lizard named shrike (i would draw the guy but i can’t draw lizards) - they LOVE fashion,history,jewelry and golden trinkets and another way for them to preserve the old forgotten memories from the past - don’t separate them from silence. do not separate them. they have some girlboss,gaslight,gatekeep vibes and honestly??they kinda do LMAO i think they would be leaning more towards gatekeeping oh and didn’t i mention that they are gay and inlove? YES they are gay AND in love!! the iterator shown at the bottom right side is Languid Silence @strandedaylily ’s oc hi hello stares at you intensely i love xemm,,
oh also some extra additional art for them! the reason why i made this ref sheet is solely for artfight thanks artfight for making me make ref sheets of my ocs more often
