the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor
One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”
In the UK there’s a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered ‘critically endangered’ and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.’ There’s some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you’re looking for something to try.
In the future after the model collapse people dig around for any pre-2020s text and images they can salvage, like raising pre-1945 battleship wrecks for low-background steel…
i appreciate the intricate meanderings of the usual Simpsons plot. an oil spill happens and therefore as a logical consequence Bart starts work at a brothel
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
best part of running games of jackbox for random library teens was definitely all the times when jackbox would prompt them to be vulgar and i would be like i hope everyone can really impress me with how clever and not obvious their jokes are and this completely worked on them they were like i must find a joke even better than cum. but is it possible…? i must try. for Her. a woman who i just met who works at the library
I don’t think fantasy writers play enough with the concept of the different fantasy races having distinct ethnicities. Like imagine a group of mixed peoples, where the dwarves are all roasting each other like dwarves do, and one of them remarks that when he first saw one of the other dwarves in the group, he mistook her for a man. The other dwarves in the group blink in surprise - the closest that dwarves will go to an audible gasp of shock - and she pulls out a knife and tries to stab him.
Once the dwarves have been separated from each other and the situation has calmed, one of the humans asks another dwarf what that incident was about. Naturally a human woman would have been insulted too, but dwarves are so jovial about insulting each other, why was this matter different?
And the dwarf who was asked explains that there are things you can brutally insult another dwarf about, and there are things you simply do not touch. The dwarf-woman in question is from a completely different region of The Great Underground as the others, and her people have different norms about what kind of patterns men and women braid into their beards. The dwarf insulting her wasn’t only insulting her appearance, he was being racist.
The human is surprised to learn that dwarves have different peoples, and the dwarf looks at them like at an idiot. Of course they do, they even look completely different from each other. And the human listens as the dwarf lists off various distinguishing clothing details too nuanced for a human to notice, and then how dwarves coming from different corners of the world have different physical traits, according to what kind of conditions their local stone types dictate.
The human spots a connection and goes oh! We have that too, though ours are not about rock types and tunnel air, but the weather aboveground. Humans’ facial features vary by how hot, cold, arid or windy their ancestors’ homelands were, and our skin tone varies by how much the sun shines in their native region.
The dwarf frowns at the last part, going “I thought you people just paint your skin and dye your hair for fun”, and the human admits that yeah, we do that too, but not all the time, and not the whole skin. The dwarf asks, what of that tall woman the colour of dravite, her palms and the soles of her feet were lighter than the rest of her. Does that mean she paints herself dark to be more beautiful?
The human says no, that just happens naturally. Maybe it’s because one’s palms and feet aren’t exposed to the sun as much, so they are paler.
The dwarf nods, still unsure whether this is actually legit or just the human habit of lying for fun, and proceeds to ask about the wild northman of their party. He is as pale as an olm, but the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet are dark. Are they painted, or naturally that way?
No, the human answers. That guy just doesn’t bathe.
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
every ww2 squadron had that one dude who was always eating all the rations, didnt know how to reload, put on his helmet backwards, carried around a photo of his dad, and would say shit like “deadass has anyone else thought about just joining the other guys?“
sometimes i forget wizardposting isn’t a regular occurrence on any other website. what do you mean your posts don’t randomly get taken over my evil wizards casting spells on your peunis
your 'jerking it to the smell of isopropyl alcohol' post has me remembering how i used to be so ashamed of having any sexual desires that i only allowed myself to jack off to the mental image of an arial drone shot of a pine forest
sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like “not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end”
EXCELLENT TAGS OP SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
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Plain text: excellent tags OP say it louder for the people in the back
I hate how oddly sexualized breasts are, and how oddly sexualized bedrooms are, and I hate how anything not inherently sexual gets sexualized, it was hot outside and me and my boyfriend were watching his friend repair his truck at my house and I had a shirt off and only my binder on since yk it was hot out, and the other guys also had their shirts off and it was considered fine, but when me and my boyfriend went to go relax in the ac in my room I changed from my binder to a sports bra cause my ribs hurt and kept a shirt off cause I was still sweating a lot and really hot, and my mom came in complaining about how I need to wear a shirt and how it’s weird to wear only a bra in a bedroom with your significant other even though she knows I’m ace and she thinks it’s weird since he isn’t ace and I have breasts and bedrooms are sexualized, why is it okay to not have a shirt as one assigned gender and not the other, why are certain environments more sexualized than others, it makes no sense especially since we weren’t doing anything sexual, neither me nor him made it weird, but my mom was making a huge deal out of having tits in a bedroom
maybe it’s cause I’m autistic or maybe cause I’m asexual but I think the oversexualization of literally everything is weird
OP you are so right. Literally so right. For example:
My adult sister doesn’t wear a bra when she’s comfortable at home. she lives with me and our parents. my mom will throw a fit because ‘dad shouldn’t have to see that’. my father literally does not care. it’s just my mom making a thing of it and that makes it uncomfortable for everyone.
said adult sister is ten years older than me (a minor). her boyfriend is fiver years older than her. sometimes, I like to walk around the house in just a sports bra bc comfy. if sisters bf is around my mother will throw a fit. sisters bf does not freaking care. sister does not freaking care.
and get this! for the longest time I had no titties!!! i still barely have any. my sister literally says 'you looked like you have the chest of a little boy. so if that made him uncomfortable i’d have to assume he was into little boys.’
LITERALLY NO ONE IS MAKING A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS BUT YOU. YOU ARE MAKING IT WEIRD. SO FREAKING WEIRD. PLEASE STOP AND GET OVER YOURSELF.
I’ve been slowly combating this by wearing tinier and tinier tank tops to desensitize myself (luckily the parent I live with sometimes is not so weird about that so it’s a lot of fighting my own body image that I’m dealing with). I’ve gotten to the point of comfortably wearing short tank tops
if this method has worked so well for increasing my comfort and confidence in what clothes I wear, I think it could be helpful for combatting the judgmental people in your life
to everyone who has been talked out of testosterone HRT because it will make you “scary”: no it will not. testosterone isn’t “scary”. masculinization isn’t “scary”. being masculine or a man isn’t “scary”. it’s just another way to be a person. testosterone HRT is a good thing. it helps many people. if you want to take it, take it. don’t let anyone else tell you not to because it “scares” them. it’s not happening to them. their fears don’t matter to you. it’s happening to you. it’s your choice.
/r/China used to be a virulently anti-China subreddit that constantly posted negative articles from western propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia and there would be hundreds of comments circlejerking over it. the top posts have hundreds of comments and 10s of thousands of upvotes. they have 525,000~ members. mind you, there was zero positive sentiment about China even a few weeks ago. it was very obvious no one in this subreddit had ever even been to China much less lived there.
despite this, since USAID cuts started, for some reason, the sub is totally dead and the top post right now has a score of 70, 88 comments, is basically “Deepseek bad” and the comments are shitting all over it. there’s virtually no anti-China sentiment in the community altogether.
weird…
I saw the same thing on a recent Wallstreet journal youtube video about another Chinese “ghost city” and the comments were 99% people calling out the propaganda for being obvious propaganda. And talking about how wasteful public spending projects are in their own countries. I genuinely think you’re right.
yeah, to be clear, i am not a person who believes heavily in conspiracy theories. but everywhere that i am used to seeing overwhelmingly negative sentiment re: China, it’s cooled off tremendously.
i am still seeing comments, but there’s a stark difference in how fast they shoot up in score on all of the platforms and how consistently they’re found at the top of the discussion.
i’m sure that there will still be organic, natural discussions about negative things going on in China because there are definitely things to discuss, but i’m not exaggerating when i say that the tone shift across virtually every social media that i use is very noticeable. it could also be because of the whole RedNote phenomena, but it seems like a pretty significant and sudden change to be just that.
/r/China used to be a virulently anti-China subreddit that constantly posted negative articles from western propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia and there would be hundreds of comments circlejerking over it. the top posts have hundreds of comments and 10s of thousands of upvotes. they have 525,000~ members. mind you, there was zero positive sentiment about China even a few weeks ago. it was very obvious no one in this subreddit had ever even been to China much less lived there.
despite this, since USAID cuts started, for some reason, the sub is totally dead and the top post right now has a score of 70, 88 comments, is basically “Deepseek bad” and the comments are shitting all over it. there’s virtually no anti-China sentiment in the community altogether.
weird…
I saw the same thing on a recent Wallstreet journal youtube video about another Chinese “ghost city” and the comments were 99% people calling out the propaganda for being obvious propaganda. And talking about how wasteful public spending projects are in their own countries. I genuinely think you’re right.
yeah, to be clear, i am not a person who believes heavily in conspiracy theories. but everywhere that i am used to seeing overwhelmingly negative sentiment re: China, it’s cooled off tremendously.
i am still seeing comments, but there’s a stark difference in how fast they shoot up in score on all of the platforms and how consistently they’re found at the top of the discussion.
i’m sure that there will still be organic, natural discussions about negative things going on in China because there are definitely things to discuss, but i’m not exaggerating when i say that the tone shift across virtually every social media that i use is very noticeable. it could also be because of the whole RedNote phenomena, but it seems like a pretty significant and sudden change to be just that.
if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast. end of story.
if a surgeon says your child has to fast, they have to fast. even if they are rreeeaaaallly hungry. even if they beg for food. even if they cry. even if they throw a tantrum. even if they scream for hours.
if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast.
For a bit more context/plainer language from a child life specialist:
the medicine the doctor gives you to make you sleep, called anesthesia, makes you sleep differently than you do at night. Medicine sleep is so deep that the muscle that keeps your stomach closed falls asleep too.
Your stomach and your lungs are connected by your esophagus, which connects to your mouth and brings air to your lungs and food into your stomach.
Because you’ll be laying flat on your back, This means if you have food in your stomach it can come up out of your stomach, and because they’re connected by your esophagus, food or drink that comes out of your stomach can go into your lungs.
Because they aren’t supposed to have stuff other than air in them, having food or drinks in your lungs can make you really sick.
The doctors really don’t want that to happen, which is why they ask you not to eat or drink anything the day you’re having your surgery/whatever you’re getting anesthesia for. It can be really hard but it’s important!
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everyone move over this post is about fish religion now
you’ve heard of Legal Eagle now get ready for the Surgeon Sturgeon
you’ve heard of Legal
Eagle now get ready for
the Surgeon Sturgeon
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to “wow i wish i could do that” and then you can’t. and it sucks.
accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can’t do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.
“and then you force yourself anyway” folks im starting to think some of you really do not understand what it means to not be able to do things.
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