they’re talking to each other omg (‘:
This is my favorite video in all of world history I would die for these cats
Source: froze
I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies
^ that pairs really well with this quote too
my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.
do you want to see a submersible that's capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:
look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:
the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it's a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it's more or less uniformly strong in all directions
if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you'll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives
I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)
Here's a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?
the titanium sphere used to house the crew?
now look at the Titan:
its an accident waiting to happen.
the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind
the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of "safety gets in the way of innovation"
you can't innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life
crunchyroll let me rewrite your summary for vinland saga PLEASE I’ll do it for free. I mean look at this. what in the google translate hell is this. the first sentence alone is grammatically nonsensical.
Around the end of the millennium, Viking, the mightiest but atrocious tribe, had been out breaking everywhere. Thorfinn, the son of the greatest warrior, lived his childhood in the battlefield. He was seeking the land of reverie called Vinland. This is the story of a true warrior in an age of turmoil.
Russia is fighting Russia, what a GOOD DAY
That source leaves out the key detail that the Wagner group are NeoNazis.
In fact it also leaves out a lot of the more extreme, blatant red flags Wagner members have been saying that make it clear when they say the Kremlin is compromised by a "clan of oligarchs" they mean Jews and "degenerates." ABC is just posting the more sanitized comments that anti-Putin western audiences would agree with, which is pretty upsetting because again these are literal NeoNazis and no one should be supporting them.
The Wagner group were not helpless soldiers following orders in a war they didn't believe in, they were the group doing some of the worst atrocities who are only mad now because they're losing.
Begging people not to fall for the trap of "hating Putin" meaning someone is good. A fascist imperialist is suffering military defeats which makes him look weak, so his Nazi death squad is trying to seize power. This is a "bite each other's dicks off" situation where we want both sides to lose. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to the Wagner group.
found the full track by the video maker!
OH MY GAWD
(adding it in the body of the post cuz I like watching this way)
Thank you titimylove!
Hey from a fellow former redditor learning this site, you should probably also add your age in your bio. Most people on here expect at least that much personal info bc it’s up to them to block minors if they post NSFW stuff or just don’t want to interact with minors on here
I am "Don't share any personal identifiable information about yourself on the internet" years old.
we absolutely do not expect you to share your name, age, mental illnesses or flashing weak points, that's a radical vulnerability psyop that a small minority of the site users fell for because they don't know any gay people in real life
Anonymous asked:
People are still dropping the hammer on Karen Traviss? Really!? This many years later!? For stories that have been noncanon for almost a decade!?
idk about you anon, but I'm looking forward to another decade+ of dropping the hammer on that "if you disagree with me about the Jedi, YOU'RE thinking like a Nazi" bullshit, so cheers to everyone doing the lord's work.
Anon, people would be dropping the hammer a lot less if her views weren't rampant in fandom and infecting a lot of fanworks in ways that are really, really uncomfortable for a lot of people who then get attacked for [checks notes] liking the Jedi for being moral protagonists who try their best to be good people.
Is there a breakout somewhere out there of all the things that her misinformation has contributed to fandom? Because I keep finding out that some piece of fanon or another is because of her, and a list would be nice.
@allyunabridged Not that I know of, but I, too, would appreciate a list of said information/contribution-to-fanon, so that I can avoid it as much as possible in my own writing.
So I just noticed some old comments on my fics, and now I’m overthinking replying since it’s been so long. So tumblr:
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
It’s been on my calendar since I saw this post in January. Can’t wait for Moon Landing Day.
I’m sure the memes will be spectacular.
an internal memo leaked from ceo steve huffman saying the "noise" of the blackout will die out and they just need to weather it until we give up. fuck you spez.
first of all it's OVER EIGHT THOUSAND subreddits that went dark.
second of all he clearly doesn't give one single shit about the users or the UNPAID army of mods who slog through a million miles of shit every day to keep illegal and offensive content off the site (i'm a mod in a small fandom subreddit and even the shit i've seen is beyond the pale) and therefore make it appealing to the advertizers.
you have no fucking business without us. and you don't care one single bit about it.
he clearly did not mean for this memo to leak, but someone at reddit thought it was important enough to send it out anyway. please spread it (spreddit?) especially because so much of reddit is still in blackout.
This feels very similar to the uproar they LITERALLY JUST HAD in the D&D community over changes that would have negatively impacted third party creators. People started canceling their subscriptions to the paid service and Wizards of the Coast really thought they could get away with it by issuing a weak apology and waiting it out.
The community got angrier, so WotC thought they could get away with it by backing down to a half measure.
The community got even ANGRIER.
WotC ended up backing down to such an extent that they not only canceled all of the planned changes but released their core material under a creative commons license to boot, putting them BEHIND their starting position.
This is what we should be aiming for. I've used reddit daily for like fifteen years, but sometimes the only thing you can do to save a community you love is to genuinely be willing to walk away until the corporate bigwigs in charge get it through their heads that they actually NEED users. I want to make this the year of companies fucking around and finding out that unhappy users can cause them problems. Starve the bastards out and make them realize they need us more.
ruh roh, it gets worse
I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad
scab behavior
no, that'd be if the moderators were opening the subreddits by themselves. this is the equivalent of dragging a union member across the picket line and forcing them to work, which is arguably worse.
strikebreaker behavior. they've shot those mods and dumped their bodies in the river
already reblogged but it got worse. if anyone would like to delete their reddit account, https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite will allow you to delete all your posts and delete/overwrite all your past comments. this shit is unbelievable.
Toni Morrison? Alice Walker? Zora Neale Hurston? Ralph Ellison? James Baldwin? Lorraine Hansbury? Maya Angelou? Octavia Butler? Langston Hughes? Bell Hooks? Many many many many others? Go fuck yourself you lazy, anti-intellectual asshole
Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves
specifically this kind of bonk.
Lynda Carter going off for Pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Month and I'm here for it!
I’ve promised on my twitter to draw him in this outfit right when I have free time… so here we are.
[ Supports me with Ko-fi ☕ ]
and this is the original tweet of mine. Right down below.
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware