maybebees
this is the best quiz ive ever taken in my life i wanna marry op
He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire
villains are so funny when they start begging for their lives like "ohhhh but if you kill me you'll be just as bad as me" dude you killed all the good guys it's only us murderous cunts left
So this seems dumb…and it is…but it’s dumb with a purpose. I can almost guarantee you the exact line of reasoning that gets NASA engineers to 100.
Ok, first of all assume the worst and assume she needs the max amount of tampons possible for all days. Now lets count it up.
7 days? Better be safe and make it 10.
3 tampons a day at worst? Better be safe and make it 5.
So that gives us 50 tampons. Ok. Double it.
And that’s how you get 100.
It’s ridiculous, but NASA has a culture of “overengineer absolutely everything to do with human safety, and then design around it” which is actually pretty cool.
Listen, I know this gets made fun of so much, but like I am a woman who has periods and I have absolutely no idea how many tampons a woman requires in a week. I use primarily pads. But these men, at the least, ASKED her instead of making unfounded assumptions.
Which would you rather be:
A. The NASA Director Who Sent Too Many?
B. The NASA Director Who Didn’t Send Enough?
Let’s be honest this is both in line with NASA practices *and good practice in general*. Redundancy, backups, and extra supplies, always. Especially if you’re yeeting people into the void. There ain’t no fucking convenience stores in space.
This is true AND ALSO, they had no idea if, or how, being in space would affect the menstrual cycle, because she was THE FIRST ONE. (In America. Theoretically we could have asked the Russians for that information, but given that the US and Russia were threatening to blow each other off the map on a daily basis at the time, that probably would have involved a giant “fuck off.”) The most egalitarian organization in the world could not have guessed because there’s really no way to get that information until the practical test. Overshooting was absolutely the way to go.
can you fucking imagine what it would do to your career if you were the guy in charge of Period Stuff along with the first female astronaut, and so you didn’t send enough, and then she got shot into space and it turns out that zero gravity makes human women turn into some kind of unstoppable blood volcano because maybe vaginas need gravity to function for some reason and she dies of space periods and everyone is like ‘well fuck, let’s blame this on carl for being too stingy with the tampons’.
im pretty sure that nasa engineer imagined it.
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Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
mayfriend
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
mayfriend
ok WOW definitely consider reading the article, these boys–Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano–showed tremendous cooperation as well as the ability to share and farm scarce resources, and to care for each other in times of sickness and injury. Not only that, by the time they were finally rescued, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.”
They were all between the ages of 13 and 16 at the time of the shipwreck. And from the very beginning they recognized the importance of co-operation and resource-sharing–starting with sharing rainwater equally while they were adrift for 8 days without food or fresh water.
And here is an interview with one of the survivors (Sione Totau, now 73 years old)
buy me a pack of cigarettes, i smoke one, throw the rest away. i am leaning on the bus stop, i am trying to find my way. and the sky is gray, dreaming of another day. or year. but keep waking up here.
During quarantine I designed these:
What do you think?
I uploaded some of these on Teespring
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Yo so I bought the NASA one like, nearly 2 years ago? Honestly it’s so comfy and stuff so while the text is funny the shirt itself is so SOFT I recommend
i love saying boss. it makes me feel like a mobster. hey boss i found some weed on the ground. should i smoke it
hey boss i smoked the weed and i got worms
“That’s cold. Hmu tho” asgsghASJHasjsdhaJSKjash
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Effective Marketing lmao
The red flags post has s e n t me
LMAO HE’S FROM WINSTON SALEM
your honour you must understand im just a silly little guy, just a fun little boy. just a harmless little fun-time boy. you wouldnt sentence a silly harmless little fun-time boy. its my birthday.
I love when autistic people have niche special interests like I know a guy who's obsessed with yeast & it gives me secondhand joy listening to him talk about it
"Oh nobody wants to hear about this nobody else cares" WRONG I care now. Tell me about your yeasts king
idk if it’s the mental illness but sharing literally any information feels like oversharing. i’ll be like “i skipped breakfast this morning” and immediately im like “i might as well have told them where i buried the money”
you get me
it felt like tmi writing it
