It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

Among other things if you can't use the legit market you turn to the black market anyway.

if you're worried about addiction, build a society where people get their basic needs met, including pain management.

#i also would prefer addicts be on prescription drugs that are exactly what they say they are#rathet than unregulated drugs which are full of who the fuck knows (tags via @shanastoryteller)

My contribution:

Addicts also are often the people who need pain pills in the first place. That's often how they get addicted. It's a very hard situation, to find yourself reliant on something that both helps and hurts you- I speak from experience as someone prescribed to high opiates for my chronic health. Take your pills, because it's not noble to suffer and it's better to be alive and dependent then suffer in waiting because you are afraid. actually better to be dependent on pain pills than dead.

A lot of addiction can be a symptom, too. It's not a moral failing, and it might be a failing of something else: if you aren't getting any other help, it's no wonder people abuse the only thing that gives them relief. Look to addicts with sympathy, they are often the exact people you might try to divide them from

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

“the term mpreg is inherently transphobic because pregnancy is gender neutral” I hate to tell you this but in the pregnancy fetish fanfiction community they also use the term fpreg

there are -pregs you wouldn’t even dream of

your failed husband contender

I think he needs at least a mediocre cry

I’ll be using this screenshot constantly forever

Now you're thinking with portals

WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE, TO THE SUPRISE OF ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:

mh.

44 Mag vs Gel Block

I can’t believe it cavitates so hard it ignites like that; does meat do that? Also check out the swirls that come off the rifling marks in the bullet.

That gel must rebound with a ton of pressure to ignite like that.

hehe…it farded

It’s an effect called “sonoluminescence”. It can occur when any bubble of gas collapses down to a very tiny volume in a very short period of time, and it was first observed during early sonar experiments. The sound waves were intense enough to cause tiny bubbles to emit light. 

Interestingly, we don’t know what actually creates the light: suggestions include chemical ignition, bremsstrahlung radiation, nonclassical squeezed light, and even quantum tunneling.

“air bubbles explode into lightning sometimes and we don’t know why”

European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard

Americans: it’s true I do do this.

American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)

Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

Nitrogen is a squirrelly little bastard. It’s in every interesting psychoactive chemical, most explosives, fertilizer, and apparently drives you mad at high concentrations.

Fascinating

It’s worth mentioning that we do, in fact, know why this happens, and it happens to everyone who dives incorrectly. The test isn’t to see if you’re one of God’s Special Select Who Is Immune To Narcosis, the test is to see if you have been paying attention and can fucking follow instructions.

SPITEFUL PLASTIC EARRINGS +1 Pain Threshold: Already in Agony -1 Inland Empire: A Bad Omen

Real Darkness has Love for a Face

I can't wait to see Elon's human form

LOVE WINS.