ok tier: villain listening to classical music as they fuck shit up
good tier: villain listening to 80s music as they fuck shit up
god tier: villain listening to “toxic” by britney spears as they fuck shit up
legendary tier: villain listening to “Africa” by Toto as they fuck shit up
this is the only good addition to this post
I am done with anti-medicine nuts who are like “God gave us all we need in nature” yup he sure did. wtf do you think scientists use to make their medicines? where do you think they got all those chemicals. they didn’t summon them from the void. we haven’t outsourced to alien planets. everything came from this earth. we just tweaked them into something more effective. taking a long walk in the woods and chewing on plants never made me feel less like dying but taking prozac sure fucking did.
when people are like “medicine has all those NASTY CHEMICALS” it makes me genuinely concerned that they dont know herbalism is literally those same ‘nasty’ chemicals, just less precise/concentrated/helpful
It was nice knowin y’all
@ science side of tumblr,, ALL JOKES ASIDE WE REALLY NEED YALL TO TELL US IF WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY OR NOT
By “diseases,” they mean microbes (MICROBES, not the same as PATHOGENS), that were living their merry lives in water when it began to freeze over.
Yes, we are going to be okay, at least as far as these little friends are concerned. The odds of a microbe that evolved in an aquatic environment THOUSANDS of years ago suddenly up and adapting to infect a human system as soon as it’s thawed are basically zilch. (The megaviridae [big ass viruses] that are the actual subject of the above clickbait infected ancient amoeba. It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of time and selection pressure for these viruses to learn to infect human systems, even by viral time scales.)
You SHOULD be worried about deforestation, especially in rain forests, which has the potential to release microbes that are more than adapted to mammalian systems and are generally happy to make a zoonotic (animal to human) jump, especially those that primarily infect simians. The major hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg) were more than likely first exposed to humans after major deforestation.
Wow im so glad at least someone in this craphole of a website is smart and can educate my dumb ass.
“Science! Reassure us!”
Science: “Yeah, don’t be afraid of that.”
Also Science: “Be afraid of this thing you’ve never heard of. It’s much more likely.”
We had 5 months of pre-production and, you know, I’ve seen the girls at the gym, around the studio. They always looked so beautiful and so strong and fit but I had never seen them in costume. When we shot the first scene, when all the women were riding horses together, I was holding Patty’s shoulder, watching the monitor and I told her ‘I can’t believe we’re shooting this’. – Gal Gadot on the Amazons’s workout video.
I’d watch hours of these women training and encouraging each other
Book piracy hurts authors. Flat out. If you don’t pay for books, authors don’t get publishing contracts renewed. If authors don’t get publishing contracts renewed, they can’t publish. Lack of publishing means lack of books from authors you love.
Obviously, this is for traditionally published works. The margins are even slimmer for self-published authors and piracy hurts them immediately because there is no middleman.
This goes for the “big name” authors, too. Yeah, Tolkien and GRRM and such will survive. The rest won’t. Seriously: read this post by Maggie Stiefvater.
If you want to read a book for free, go to the library. If they don’t have it, they can generally order it for you. Libraries now also have ways to rent ebooks. There’s no excuse for piracy.
In one generation we went from, “watch your mouth around grandma, she’s from a different time,” to, “Don’t mind all the stuff grandma says, she’s from a different time.”
I’m sorry, you used to write fanfiction on a WHAT How?
@luckystardate and another anon also asked this SO here’s the why and how I came to write like four harry potter fanfictions on a TI-82
I don’t know if y’all remember, but TI-82 calculators were a Big Deal. They were required and cost like 80 dollars at Staples (keep in mind that I came from a family with five kids all the same age so that’s a lot of money). We had to buy them to learn to graph even though I definitely still did most of that by hand because I never read the instruction manual or let anyone teach me what buttons to push.
We bought them for Algebra and in 8th grade that class was taught by Mrs. R. She was so awful to students that the school actually banned anyone else from transferring out of her class within like two weeks of the first semester. I think she was fired like a year later for verbally abusing students.
Now, I was pretty “gifted” back then. That meant that I was used to doing whatever I wanted when I finished my work because teachers generally didn’t have a backup plan for me and the three other kids who finished that early.
Not Mrs. R though. Never Mrs. R.
By the end of the year, it was kind of a joke how many things she confiscated from me. I think my count was, like, 6 notebooks, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, Maximum Ride, Gulliver’s Travels, and a stack of notebook paper that I made to look like math homework but actually had a bunch of pretty lemony fictions written in code on the back.
And that’s just the stuff I let her keep. The first few notebooks, I followed her instructions and showed up after school where she yelled at me for about fifteen minutes before giving it back. After those though, I felt like it was worth it to just…leave my things with her than ever be in a room alone with her again.
I stopped doing homework. I didn’t pay attention in class. My grade dropped from an A to a B to a D. Did I change my ways? Pay attention? Maybe do a single equation assigned to me?
No. I did not. That might have been smart but it wasn’t justice.
My every waking moment in that class became consumed by the burning need to do the exact opposite of what Mrs. R wanted. When she wrote on the projector, I’d close my eyes. I’d draw tally marks of how many minutes there were left in the period. I’d use my Super Secret Code to write sentence fragments in the corners of tests.
(Soon she just started writing SEE ME!! on every piece of work I handed in. I literally don’t know how my parents didn’t see what was happening until I basically failed 8th grade math.)
I just wanted to write. I wanted to write so bad. Soon I couldn’t even have a notebook on my desk without her being suspicious. All I could have was the homework/test, a pencil, and a calculator. She would call me out if I had anything more and make me put it away.
Which is when I found the Notes feature on the TI-82. And it was glorious.
I could write whole fics on that thing because its storage capacity was stupid large (or so it seemed). I never figured out how to save so, if she ever came over, I ran the risk of having to delete it all if I couldn’t get it in its case fast enough. If I managed to keep the fic I wrote, I typed it all on the family computer at home and cleared the calculator so it was ready for the next day.
The funniest thing to me, besides how stubborn I was, was that no one asked me about my F. Literally no one. They promoted me to Geometry in high school and then AP Calculus the year after that.
The requirements for those classes was a B or higher in Algebra which I didn’t get!!! I didn’t pass it!!! I didn’t even try!!!!
So, anyway, school systems are fallible and it’s very important to understand kids are less likely to respond to a bully than a coherent conversation about Why We Have Designated Periods to Learn.
Steve Rogers uses voice to text to send texts and formats them like a telegram
HEY BUCK STOP SAM AND I ARE OUT SHOPPING STOP WANT US TO PICK UP SOME TAKEOUT STOP
Steve rogers fully understands that this is not the correct way to text. He just likes the absolute outrage it causes every time someone receives a text from him and wants to see how many times he can make the same people explain texting to him until they realize. Sam is currently at 14 times, beating out tony who’s at nine. Twice now shuri has facetimed him after reading bucky’s texts. He’s also managed to convince thor that this is the Earth Way to text and it’s great
so i’m up WAY too late and watching dissidia vids and like.
imagine this happens:
Sephiroth: *smirk* *goes after noctis*
Noctis: “…Shiva?”
Squall: “No, I made that same mistake.”
Cloud: *sighs* “Sephiroth, get a haircut.”
Sephiroth: “I have so much despair to give, Cloud.”
Ardyn: *shows up* “Oh, I’m sorry, that one, there?” *points an Noctis* I’m afraid I’m the only one who gets to kill him. *kills everyone*
Noctis: “…..you don’t even get what the point of a fighting game is, do you.”
Ardyn: *examines nails* “a what, now?”
….and that’s why Ardyn Izunia will never be in Dissidia, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
I’m watching Doomsday Preppers. These people have an unbelievably bleak view of humanity, like, I’m just saying my family survived the complete disintegration of Lebanese civil society without shanking their neighbours for water or stockpiling hand grenades.
If your reaction to a foreseen future economic collapse is to set traps and stockpile guns to kill your neighbours who want some of your huge food stock, you are broken and I have no idea how to fix you.
^^^ The ability to cooperate with others is an evolutionary advantage
My husband and I used to think we were “preppers,” until we discovered that for most people, “prepping” means hoarding guns and ammo and bear traps and nonsense like that, and planning to turn on other survivors in the event of some society-destroying cataclysm. And here we were geeking out about woodworking and first aid and sustainable edibles foraging and water purification and subsistence farming and how best to set up an agrarian community to maximize square footage.
Turns out we’re just prepared solarpunks. I think I’m fine with that. Miss me with the toxic, gun-crazy, neighbor-hating Prepper culture and join me in my garden of native wild edibles.
^relatable content
In the event of total societal collapse the most valuable skill will be chemistry, because it is absolutely unbelievable how many chemical reactions underly even the most basic of societal practices.
It may be even more important than farming to be honest.
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