Last Tuesday at 17:09:37 UTC, the laws of physics broke for 14 seconds. Speed, acceleration, and gravity were affected in what people are calling “the Glitch”.
imagine how much of a fucking horrible person you have to be that on the first day your elected into office the crisis calls of a Suicide Prevention Project Go Up 33%. The Trevor Project Received over 1,400 Call By Early Monday Afternoon. Most of those calls, if not all, are coming from children. Children scared of you and what you will do. Imagine how much power and how horrible you have to be to do that.
See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.
And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.
So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.
REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))
GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more “asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I’m going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.
YESSSS PREEEAAAACCHHH!!! 📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢
THIS CANNOT BE STRESSED ENOUGH! OH MY FUCKING GOSH PLEASEEEE
The last dragon was killed by a farmer in rural Switzerland in 1841
The last sea serpent died in 1987 despite the efforts of conservationists and was followed by decades of searching for more live members of the species.
The last basilisk was born in a backyard chicken farm in northern Provence in 1979, heard a rooster, died instantly, and was eaten by the hens.
The fact there’s people who actually think it’s a red flag to not share your passwords with them or let them look through your phone blows my mind like “what do you have to hide” is crazy do you think you’re just not allowed to have privacy if you’re in a relationship. Do you think it’s normal to have a voyeur potentially monitoring your conversations like they’re a conservative Christian homeschool parent indefinitely
@gpsping not only is this very true it’s also something that will very easily distance the person from their friends like if I found out my friends partner was reading everything I said let alone that they were letting them do that there would be a permanent wedge in our friendship and distrust towards them indefinitely
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 - I have no pain.
It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.
For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day.
1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You’re probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!
2 - You’re a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you’re easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.
3 - Things are bothering you, but you’re coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.
MODERATE
4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.
5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.
6 - You can’t do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.
SEVERE
7 - You’re avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.
8 - You can’t hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.
9 - You’re at a critical point. You aren’t functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.
10 - The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You can’t imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately.
These are so important! SO SO IMPORTANT SHARE THIS AND SAVE IT TO SHOW YOUR DOCTORS!
This is the first time I’ve seen the fatigue scale, and HOLY MOLY that’s a revelation!!! These should be on all hospital and doctor office walls.
I’ve never seen the mental health one! or the fatigue one! I printed out the pain one and gave it to my GP.
When I was in kindergarten I saw a painting of the American Revolutionary War. I asked my mom, “Who were the good guys and who were the bad guys?” And she said, “That’s not really how war works. It’s not like a TV show. Both sides thought they were right, otherwise they wouldn’t have been fighting.” And my seven year old ass went “Oh ok”
Anyway having internalized that fun fact in literally kindergarten? It surprises me how many college-educated adults still don’t seem to know about it.
OP your mum is correct but also you realise this was literally about the American Civil War where there very much was a good guys and bad guys side?
Like I appreciate the sentiment but it’s one of the few wars where you can very easily pick the side that was validated by history.
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Easily one of the most important videos I’ve seen since the election.
Video transcription:
My fellow cis ladies, here’s three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don’t fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.
Just to be clear, it’s-it’s-it’s the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.
Remember “divide and conquer” is the name of the game, so don’t be divided!
First thing transphobes are is they’re gender essentialists, so they will tell you “men are inherently bad and evil and it’s in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious.” And it’s the same logic as like “oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home.” It’s bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.
Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.
And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women’s bathrooms. Men just simply don’t need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of “oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you” when it’s statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I’m sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don’t need to go to that effort.
Trans women are our sisters, they’re our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.
A word to anyone making a game. Save yourself a lot of trouble by making sure the collisions actually are what you think they are. Just spent several hours in misery before realizing my collision was 4 times the size of its sprite.
I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.
Penicillium :3 sooo pretty… and very useful. Thats the stuff that makes your oranges go bad!!! It smells yummy. I also like alternaria. It mostly affects plants but i think its super pretty on walls. Here are some pictures under the cut. First two penicillium second two alternaria
To answer the title question: I don’t know. It’s not clear to me if anyone knows the answer to that question for certain. It’s quite likely that Armstrong (yes, first human on the Moon Armstrong) did kill people, and yet there’s no clear (public) record of it. Very few sources even seem to want to report it, only noting slightly euphemistically that he flew combat missions in Korea, and then they rush off to his later, cleaner exploits.
That’s kind of weird. The actual violence tells us something about Armstrong, but the whitewashing of his background arguably tells us more about ourselves.
To spell it out clearly, he was mostly involved in ground attack flights, for example bombing anti-aircraft guns (which would likely have killed the people firing those guns), so that later bombers could pass by unimpeded (and possibly kill more people with their own bombs). This is what Neil Armstrong did before he became an astronaut.
I don’t think this is the defining activity of his life, if such a thing even really exists. We all mainly know him as the Moon guy, but we also get that this wasn’t his whole life. Most people would think of him also as a scientist or pilot, and those who’ve done their homework would be more specific and call him a naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, and academic. Some might focus on his family life, or his religion, or his media presence. But it doesn’t take that much thought to go beyond purely “Moon guy”. So why the resistance to also giving him the title of “someone who has probably killed people”?
This is something that’s bugged me about many astronauts. Quite a lot of them have military backgrounds, and more than a few have shot people. In most sane professions, that’s something that keeps you from getting even the first interview, and yet NASA considers it a virtue instead? We put these people up on pedestals and expect kids to regard them as rolemodels. (Are we hoping the kids will never find out about the violence? Or that they will?) When the first astronauts were hired, it was widely considered damning that most of the early ones were having a lot of sex with a lot of people (oh noes!), and yet not damning in the least that they might have ended someone’s life on purpose. That’s a pretty fucked up set of priorities.
I’ve responded to this by doing what any sane, well-adjusted individual would do, and spent several days scanning through every single astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut profile page on wikipedia (plus other sources, notably spacefacts.de, where greater clarity was needed) to build up a spreadsheet that categorises all of them by the level of violence they’re known to have embraced. Below is the google docs version of that.
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The second column gives the person’s violence level, on a scale from 0 to 3. 0 indicates no known violence; 1 indicates military employment, with no known actual violence; 2 indicates participation in violent activities, but uncertainty about whether this actually killed anyone or not; 3 indicates definitely actually killing someone.
This is a kind of interesting question, but the article also adopts this tone of… what should I call it… moral buffedlement(?) that really bugs me. Like:
Quite a lot of them have military backgrounds, and more than a few have shot people. In most sane professions, that’s something that keeps you from getting even the first interview, and yet NASA considers it a virtue instead?
First of all this is not true; having shot people in a military context does not bar you from a first interview in most professions. Having shot people outside of a military context does. Second of all, it’s pretty clear why NASA considers military experience (especially flight experience!) to be a virtue for astronauts. So the point the author is making here seems confused.
Just because you think something is bad does not mean you have to be baffled by it! In fact, acting baffled by it when it is perfectly rational seems kind of weird!
the reason there’s resistance to calling the apollo astronauts killers and drawing attention to your doing so is because that imparts miasma, the same as anyone else, and miasma is a problem that requires solution.
there are extremely carefully constructed systems, especially during and after the 1939-1945 war, to attempt to purify people of that miasma, to make them clean, and to forgive their sin. especially for veterans of the war, these were generally very successful and those men went on to live mostly unpolluted lives, with the miasma safely contained and mitigated.
generally once you have solved the containment problem, you don’t want to go unsolving it. it is extremely silly to just *assume* that there have been no miasma-forgiveness systems and blithely state that well, of course, anyone with miasma has to live outside the camp and everyone setting up first interviews would be able to smell it and isn’t that how society is? No they didn’t, no they can’t, no it isn’t, and why are you wishing it were?
There was a *tremendous amount of effort* spent in overcoming the idea that veterans returning from the wars were polluted. The Germans failed to do this during and after the Great War, and ended up with thousands of miasmatic soldiers going around, stinking of death and defeat, who ended up forming the nucleus of the National Socialists. Nobody wanted a repeat of that shit, so the Allied effort from the very beginning had anti-miasma shit built in.
“Sane well-adjusted people” do not pick the scars of ex-lepers in the hope of discovering some encysted mycobacteria. They don’t point to mildly polluting sexual acts, the overreaction to that and say, oh, please, continue to be hysterical and purity policing but *please*, turn that hysteria onto something that’s a thousand times more ruining, and a thousand times less possible to do anything about if it gets out of hand. Someone obsessing about minor sexual improprieties *is* sanity, compared to that.
The Apollo program was a miasma-containment system, anyway. This is obviously the case on multiple levels - It gave clean, prosocial work to rehabilitate people who were trained to do dirty work.
There’s no mystery to it. Listen to the Apollo transcripts. Aldrin and Armstrong are very aware they were beating swords into ploughshares, and being heroic peacemakers. They were more aware than any of us will be, and they have their intention expressed plainly on the plaque:
There is something primally, corruptivity… MALICIOUS about the framing of this entire discussion. And I don’t say that lightly, I’m not being flippant.
There is, in no uncertain terms, no actual reason to CARE how many people Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin killed during their tours of duty in WW2. It’s not as if they’ve got some secret history of butchering prisoners or targeting civilians, there’s no thing that goes beyond the remit and expectations of a soldier. They were military men, fighting other military men, to defend the rights of the innocent from being murdered by a despotic regime.
That the question is even ASKED, that the framework is accepted, that the tone of their service is even later re-defined in a context of ‘miasma’ speaks not to an understanding of the horrors of war, but rather to an absolute, even aggressive IGNORANCE of war, and it’s resulting horrors. It requires a perspective so far removed from war as a reality as to see it not as an unfortunate result of incompatible states but rather as some kind of ethereal evil that infects everything it touches and leaves a stain upon everyone who contacts it.
It’s not a matter of a 'tremendous amount of effort’ to 'contain miasma’ or 'rehabilitate people’. People just understood, culturally and in general, that sometimes one must lift up the sword, and then afterwards put it back down, or better still beat it into the plowshare to till new fields with. The CONCEPT that soldiers should not be allowed to return to the lives that they left did not even really EXIST at that time, and really wouldn’t exist until somewhere around the Korean/Vietnam wars, due to anti-war activists showing no compassion to those drafted into the war when they finally were allowed to return FROM it. That it has grown from that sickening dehumanisation of those people pressed into battle against their will only makes it all the more obvious how evil the concept is.
Anti-Americanism keeps taking such weird turns.
Character assassination of men who did something amazing, just because they’re American.
This is how G*d punishes you for posting interesting stuff
silliness aside, the way that military conscription was an organising principle and common experience of the 20th century is another thing that separates it from the 21st, in most jurisdictions at least.
Listen I’m aware you all want a piece of this. I understand I’m a hot commodity here on tumblr dot com. But even setting aside wealth and immortality, my husband squeezes the absolute fattest ass you’ve ever seen through literally billions of chimney flues every December 25th. And every other night of the year, he’s with me. And somehow you hoes think you can teach me a trick I haven’t seen before? Dream on.
this is a great question because it narrowed my soul! i would choke on regular chewing gum on the steps outside before even entering the factory. willy would make no attempt to perform the heimlich maneuver and would leave my corpse on the concrete
this ask tapped into an extremely primal part of everyone’s body soul & mind
I wish you all very good sex. if you don’t like sex, I wish you a very good romance. if you don’t want either of them. I wish you a very good bowl of soup and some bread, mate.
this is the kind of aspec inclusion i’m looking for, thank you
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