So now that the poll is done, I crunched the numbers and removed that hefty majority of gentile voters, to give you the results, from least to most popular:

Persia, in a poll with five options, managed to get over 50% of the (Jewish) vote. This is exactly as I expected, and why I ran the poll. I wasn't expecting to learn anything (though I did, and we will get to that later), I wanted evidence to make a point.

And that point is that Jewish cultural memory with regards to antiquity is very very different from that of most Western gentiles. The standard Western cultural narrative is all about the glories of Greece in Rome, and how Greece and Rome began and then spread European civilization. The founding narrative of Europe is one in which the forces of rational, democratic Greece took on and pushed back Persian despotism at the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis. And if the divide between East and West is Greece versus Persia at Thermopylae and Salamis, the Jews are firmly in the East.

Why is that? Why would so much of the Jewish community without hesitation pick Persia over Greece? That is a question that requires a look at Greece, Persia, and the Jewish experience of conquest.

song 1: Aankhein Khuli - Multiple (Mohabbatein OST)

song 2: Emergency Room - Izi (Sassy Girl OST)

English added by me :)

i like how the distinctive trait of american shooting scenes is apparently our glasses fall off

I'm gonna start talking about shit like Honor(tm) and Reputation(tm) now because every time I try to suggest we maybe stop saying horrible things to people for no good reason, somebody always hits back with a complex consequentialist argument for why it's actually totally morally justified when they tell sexual minorities to kill themselves, so how about this: Every time you DM someone "kys" you are doing incalculable damage to your kleos, and if we're mutuals then that's going to damage my kleos, and kleos is the only immortality available to we who dwell not upon Olympus. Girl your shifgrethor is in shambles.

They got all these followers but no mægen

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

You are forced to fight an identicle clone of yourself. They know everything you know and all of your skills and tactics. How do you win?

i go for the bals they would NEVER expect this

by talos this cannot be happening

I'm so glad I'm high right now I have been laughing my face off

The albatrosses in a same-sex partnership | Frozen Planet II - BBC

he does look kinda gay

Thanks push notifications

ngl the "im white so i dont talk abt any characters' race ever bc im afraid of accidentally saying something racist" approach to fandom is like. very weak. imo.

like first of all: i get that "i dont incorporate race into my media analysis because i'm afraid of messing up" comes from a different place than "i don't incorporate race into my media analysis because I Don't See Race 😊 there is only The Human Race." but it has the same functional effect, right? that effect being that your analysis of [INSERT MEDIA HERE] ignores the very real way that race impacts people.

second of all: it feels kinda lazy! like ur saying "i dont know enough abt race to feel comfortable commenting on how race affects this show and i dont care enough to learn." the only way to become more comfortable discussing race is to actually practice discussing race. but when i see people saying this it feels like they're saying "i'm white, which means i don't know how to talk about race, and i don't have to know how to talk about race, and i don't ever have to know how to talk about race, so i'm choosing to never learn how to talk about race."

third of all: just because you don't openly talk about race doesn't mean you're any less likely to accidentally say or do something racist. implicit biases run deep, y'all. it's probably already there in your interpretation of the show. but the "i don't want to accidentally say something racist" implies that you are positive that your interpretation of the show isn't racist. and i'm not saying you're wrong. but i'm saying that if a person of color tells you that something you said about [INSERT MEDIA HERE] was racist, you better be prepared to actually listen and not just brush them off because "i can't be racist! i purposefully never talk about race just to make sure i'm not racist!"

which brings me to my final point: if you do accidentally say something racist... literally just apologize. if someone says you've been doing something racist, apologize and stop doing that thing. it's literally not that hard. i've done it. i've seen other people do it. "i'm scared of being called racist!" is such a weak excuse im tired of it. getting called racist is not the end of the fucking world. calm the fuck down and grow a spine. jesus.

and yeah sometimes you’ll apologize for saying or doing something racist and people won’t accept the apology and they won’t forgive you.

that’s also fine. people are allowed to not forgive you. and you’re allowed to move on and try to do better without agonizing over the people who dislike you, even if they have a good reason for not liking you. it takes some maturity yeah but like it’s possible to do.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

not that i didn't want to believe you op, but i had to check that er thing out for myself, bc that just seemed too cartoonishly stupid to be real

but holy shit

NO NO NO TUMBLR I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MUTUALS LIKED. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY'VE REBLOGGED. IF IT WAS WORTH SEEING THEY'LL PUT IT ON MY DASH 37 TIMES

You can switch that all off under dashboard settings

Oh dang thanks

On desktop you can also toggle off sharing your likes

David Shrigley, This huge cat (2022)

If you're worried about the artist's link being flagged transphobic by Shinigami Eyes, don't be! It's just the Guardian. 💜

u gotta be hedonistic about vegetables. they're not good boy food that u eat to prove you're mature, they're the food that you can shovel into your mouth at 5 am without getting nauseous

u gotta be hedonistic about books, they're not good boy media that signifies being smart and learned, its art like anything else.

"Do this...and this....aaand this. It's easy as fuck!"

Edit: "Easy as pie." Silly me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

EXTREMELY funny to find out that the new motorcycle is a multi-seater mount not because another player sits in the sidecar, but because they have to cling onto the back of it WHILE ALPHA SITS IN IT HELP

Ok but you forgot how it looks with 2 male roe riding it

@drtanner

BLESS YOU FOR TAGGING ME IN THIS LMAO