yknow i was wondering why i recognized this guy and then the username watermark finally caught my eye. and yall. its him.
EX-BOYFRIEND HCS — GEPARD LANDAU
ex-boyfriend! gepard who broke up with you after he has to cancel your date for the fourth time in a row and who knows you deserve someone who will always put you — not belabog, not their duty to the supreme guardian and the citizens — before anything else
ex-boyfriend! gepard who still sends you flowers for your birthday and for other special events in your life
ex-boyfriend! gepard who knows you leave work late on tuesdays and makes sure to escort you home
ex-boyfriend! gepard who takes out two mugs in the morning out of habit when he goes to pour coffee, only to remember that you’re not here nor are you on your way over
ex-boyfriend! gepard who hasn’t taken down the photos of you two together from his walls or the photo of you that he took on your one year anniversary together that sits in a wooden frame on his desk in his office
ex-boyfriend! gepard who can’t bring himself to tell serval why she hasn’t seen you recently but he knows from her tender, sympathetic looks that she already has it figured out
ex-boyfriend! gepard who is on his way home from a long patrol and sees you at the cafe the two of you went on your first date in, sitting and laughing with someone else, and chooses to take the much longer way home
ex-boyfriend! gepard who picks up your call the moment your contact pops up on his screen
ex-boyfriend! gepard who tries his best to pretend he’s not still hopelessly in love with you, telling himself over and over again that this is for the best and that you deserve much better than him
ex-boyfriend! gepard who melts when he receives a care package from you when he’s on a long mission on the frontlines
ex-boyfriend! gepard who reads the letter that comes with the package over and over until he has it memorized word for word
ex-boyfriend! gepard who can’t help but think about your sign-off: ‘all my love.’ did you really mean that? do you still love him too?
I wish I could blaze a post telling people to test their smoke alarms but I have literally no money so if y’all could help me spread this the old fashioned way
Test your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors
I wish grown adults would realize that having beef with a child is embarrassing and makes them look like a complete weirdo. The multiple forums dedicated to stepmoms bashing their stepdaughters out of jealousy for their relationships with their husband, calling them shit like “mini wife” and it’s like, you are the complete freak here, not your stepdaughter, not your husband. The teachers talking candidly about how much they hate a certain third grader in their class because they learn a little slower, dude you fucking evil for taking your frustrations out on an 8 year old who is already struggling. Keep your festering grudge towards a kid off the fucking Internet you freaks.
The thing about teachers is that they do deserve to vent in some capacity and occasionally you’ll see a vent post from a teacher that is like “there’s a kid in one of my classes who is really struggling, doesn’t seem want to learn and it’s bumming me out and I don’t know what else to do to help them with my overwhelming workload and lack of resources” and you’re like “ok, this person is doing the best they can at their job”. And then there will be a teacher who posts something like “I hate this kid in my class so much that I call his mom every time he slightly misbehaves or stops listening in hopes she’ll beat his ass for me hahaha. future prison inmate there” and it makes you hope hell is real and hot. You knew both of these types of teachers in school growing up and they could foster a love for a subject or destroy your will to live.
sick of other trans people looking like a deer in the headlights when reminded that amabs can be nb too. there are really still people in our own community who think a nonbinary person is like. a woman wearing jeans
i've had people treat me visibly different after hearing my voice or seeing my face as if i'm some sort of predator or interloper. this attitude towards amab trans people especially nonbinary people really paints a picture of what the lgbt community thinks of gender in general
anyway did i mention: amab enby rights
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(I love my amab enby friends.)
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What the fuck is this??????????
Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn't block other "spellings" of it. Writing it as "r@pe" or "r4p3" means that someone who has "tw rape" as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn't wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.
And honestly if you can't even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren't old/mature enough to be on this website.
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"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."
Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.
"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."
Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–
"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."
Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.
At this point I'm half-expecting the next article I read is going to reveal one of the other passengers is a self-styled "explorer" who has strong opinions about the continued geopolitical relevance of the British Empire OH WAIT
Kindly WHAT THE FUCK
The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.”
VISIBLE FLAWS?!
VISIBLE FLAWS?!
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/oceangate-was-warned-of-potential-for-catastrophic-problems-with-titanic-mission/
In the documents, Lochridge reported learning that the viewport that lets passengers see outside of the craft was only certified to work in depths of up to 1,300 meters. That is far less than would be necessary for trips to the Titanic, which is nearly 4,000 meters below the ocean’s surface.
Hahahahahaha what
The separate warning that OceanGate received that same year came from 38 experts in the submersible craft industry; all of them were members of the Manned Underwater Vehicles committee of the Marine Technology Society, a 60-year-old industry group that promotes, studies and teaches the public about ocean technology. The experts wrote in their letter to Rush that they had “unanimous concern” about the way the Titan had been developed, and about the planned missions to the Titanic wreckage. The letter said that OceanGate’s marketing of the Titan had been “at minimum, misleading” because it claimed that the submersible would meet or exceed the safety standards of a risk assessment company known as DNV, even though the company had no plans to have the craft formally certified by the agency.
Oh hey Lochridge wasn't the only person to raise concerns. There were 38 other experts.
Jesus fucking Christ.
And it gets worse. There's a whole slew of non-destructive examination data which should exist for this pressure vessel and doesn't. And by should exist I mean it doesn't matter what waivers were signed or that this trip was in international waters. It launched from Canada. It should not have been possible to produce a pressure vessel like this there without the NDE data because there are strict regulations which make it very illegal to make pressure vessels in Canada or the US without it. You cannot ship these into Canada without that data. You cannot have the specialized equipment to make these or even employ the specialists who can make it without being bound by a whole bunch of regulations and oversight.
To quote a friend who works in Canadian pressure vessel regulation: "A typical shop making a vessel under that level of pressure will have something called an ITP document, and require NDE testing at each key stage of the manufacturing process. The manufacturer, end owner, AND a regulatory authority need to sign off after each round of tests before construction can continue."
Which is to say, this is so much worse than a $30 controller. This is potentially extreme levels of fraud and regulation dodging, with the potential for a rogue pressure vessel manufacturer (these things kill people) who is evading regulatory oversight.
This reblog is the written equivalent of pinching myself to make sure I'm awake, because I cannot believe what I just read.
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Quick facts about, well, actual submarines, to give you an idea of just how colossally fucking stupid this guy/company was. I say "was" because the guy is very, very dead now.
Western militaries which operate submarines have 4 depth ratings for their subs, each representing a greater depth than the last: test, operating/never-exceed, design, and crush/collapse depth.
Design depth is the 3rd deepest, but everything else is based on it so I'm explaining it first. This is the depth the engineers have calculated the sub to be able to withstand before the ocean crushes it into a scrap metal pancake.
Test depth is how deep they've actually taken the sub, which they do during sea trials. It's a fraction (often around 1/2) of the design depth. Subs may never exceed this depth during peacetime.
Operating/Never-exceed depth is a greater fraction of the design depth. Subs may never go below this depth under any circumstances, even in combat. For obvious reasons, no military publishes (at least to my knowledge) what fraction of the design depth they set operating depth at.
Crush/collapse depth is equal to or just past the design depth. As the name implies, it's where the sub actually gets crushed. It can be beyond the design depth if the builders are adding in extra safety margin at each step of construction, but the only way to know what your sub's crush depth is for sure is to let her sink and see when she gets all flat.
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So, with that in mind, let's look at that info about Titan again.
With that viewport, the design depth on this sub was 1,300m, because that's where the engineers said the viewport would fail. Shockingly, the sub made several dives to Titanic, which means that (at least initially) the crush depth was over 4,000m. I'm impressed. That said:
This dumbfuck wanted to go 3x past his sub's design depth, and did so multiple times.
It also sounds like there was no test depth for this abomination of a submersible because there was no testing of the submersible; they just tossed it in the water and said "good luck!" So that's a bad sign.
If you had a military sub with a design depth of 1,300m, its test depth would be around 650m. Never-exceed maybe like 1,000m.
These morons wanted to go 4 clicks down.
The fact that this thing made a single successful dive is astounding.
Oh yeah, and:
The carbon fiber for the pressure hull had visible flaws ON DELIVERY‽‽‽‽‽
So we have an untested submersible with visible flaws in its pressure hull exceeding its design depth by triple multiple times. Every time that thing went down, it was stressing those flaws and that viewport. How much, you ask?
NOAA tells me that for every 10.06m you go under the surface you go, the pressure goes up by one atmosphere. At the depth of the Titanic, you'd be experiencing almost 400 atmospheres of pressure. That's around 5,878psi. Big squish. Like I said, it's shocking that this thing ever made a single dive.
Hollywood loves to show things breaking and water gushing in when a sub goes past crush depth. That's not what happens. Pipes bursting from damage can flood the sub and get you to sink, but if you can see flaws forming in your sub's pressure hull when you're submerged, you have maybe a millisecond or two before dozens of atmospheres of water pressure turns you into hamburger. Not even blink-and-you-miss-it fast. As far as your brain is concerned, you just stopped existing! An entirely painless death, which is nice at least?
But yeah, anyways, this offense to engineering should never have been let near a local pool, let alone the damn ocean.
Those guys are so dead.
not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)
Why does "you're a class traitor to want to make money from your art" apply only to artists? it's fascinating. Are you a class traitor to not want your labor stolen in other ways also. Who are you people
Shamelessly poaching someone elses idea, social media poll but the options arent solely geared 2wards 15 year olds
Reblog 4 a bigger sample size dadada you know how it is w polls
My friend takes this one step further and refers completely accurately to his girlfriend Danielle as "My partner, Dan"
Also i hate to say it but for some people, boyfriend/girlfriend feels a bit juvenile, say, if youre over 30, or perhaps youve been with someone for a very long time and are committed life partners but not married for whatever reason. Maybe husband/wife feels a little watered down to you and you want to establish the equal nature of your relationship.
Partner is a wonderful word and it should be normalized.
We actively asked people to use "partner" because then using partner doesn't out someone as queer, you absolute fucking cabbages.
It isn't appropriation when people ask you to fucking do it.
rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
we are in the midst of a true Real One
you’re telling me that a coelacanth tribute blog is itself a bit of a living fossil
im so fucking serious when i say that no one is crueler to visibly disabled people than girlies with blue wolfcuts and sharp eyeliner wearing hundred dollar sweaters from shein.
like. there's a weird misconception that it's old people, but i have never once had an issue with anyone over the age of, like, 55. they are fine with me muttering to myself or making weird faces or not hearing them the first five times they call my name. that's not a problem for them. when my brother goes out with a cane, they're the ones who compliment it, and tell him the spikes and ribbons are a cute addition.
yesterday this pink haired girl in the bathroom told me that i needed to stay away from movie theaters if i was going to act like a schizo. ten minutes later an 80 year old woman complimented me on my bright red hearing aids and said she wished she had that confidence when she got hers.
anyways to the anon who just said that maybe i shouldn't be in public spaces. thank you for proving my point
a very important addition.
ok this post was originally about psychosis and plurality, but this is also a really good addition.
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second one reads #not to speak over anyone but I'd like to add my experience as a autistic #i was in my last year of animation uni and we had a group project for my diploma #and I decided I'd be a good team player and explain what my limitations are so my teammates weren't wondering why i wasn't as productive #and let me tell you the moment i started being openly autistic #these 20 something art students turned into the cruelest motherfuckers I've ever had to deal with #so yeah you'd be suprised how ableist seemingly chill people can be #I ended up quitting and I'm way happier if anyones wondering #dont be a dick to disabled people y'all #no matter what their symptomes are (that includes the "scary" symptoms) #side note if you belive autism and adhd are 'acceptable' neurodivergencies but cluster b/schizospec/psychosis ect aren't #i fucking hate you with my life. end ID]
why is it that i put in "entry-level" on linkedin and they show me jobs that require degrees and previous experience in the field. i am being trolled by a cruel algorithm
Hey op, not sure if this is still relevant but I remember hearing somewhere (I think it was a video?) that "entry-level" doesn't necessarily mean "person without prior education or experience", it can mean "they're paying you a salary of an entry-level worker in that position"
Edit: Also apparently "entry-level" is a position assigned for newly grads with little to no experience in their field
something i like about pansexuals is they’ll say the bi flag is bad because it’s “blue for boy pink for girl” when the pan flag is literally “blue for boy pink for girl yellow for the well known homogenous third gender, nonbinary.” and the creator of it literally states this publicly as well as saying they made the pan flag out of a desire to have “something pretty to put on their blog.”
also you can do one google search and less than a minute of reading to find that this was literally never true of the bi flag! though it was created in a time where your average person was less understanding of complex gender identity, the meanings were ALWAYS pink for same/similar gender attraction, blue for “opposite” gender attraction, and purple for attraction regardless of gender. in a modern context this pre-established meaning has evolved to be more inclusive as it ALWAYS WAS, even if we did not have the language to express HOW at that time. misconceptions around bisexuality are based on assumption basically 100% of the time because i guess doing your own research for like ten minutes in this era of information easily accessible to a vast majority of the western community is just too hard for you. lol.
with this blade and this mead i will protect you all from tyranny and the motherfuckers that threaten your home and hearth
get this photo circulating again so that i can get some real marriage proposals
Did it work?
not yet we have to keep going
KEEP IT GOING!
That picture is almost enough to make me revisit my “I’ll never marry” stance
This is absolutely awesome! It looks like a real life worm hole!