Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
Some of you never spent 2009-2011 watching anime fanart/ship slideshows on YouTube with Cascada, Savage Garden, Evenescence, or Three Days Grace playing over it and it shows.
It’s amazing how on the internet I’m like hey here’s a thing that helped me. Maybe it will help you.
And then someone is always like if I do that thing though it will kill me.
Probably don’t do it then. Idk what you want from me, man.
If I’m like adding tomato to your sandwich is yummy and you’re like “but I’m deathly allergic to tomatoes what am I supposed to do”
Idk dude. Not eat tomatoes I guess.
I’ve got this old post where I was like hey sometimes it’s fun to try to get a chore done while you’re waiting for water to boil or something. Might help if you have adhd. It’s free deadline.
And I still get people commenting on that post like uhm no some of us have anxiety so bad that we’d pass out if we did that.
Like. Probably don’t do that then?
fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.
a woman is one of many types of beast
I'm no Karina but I tried my best
Here is KPOP the Formalwear Panther & Oompah the Goth Octopus.
I envisioned them as a sibling team who are polar opposites of each other
Saw the ep today and spend the rest of the day drawing Oompah the teenage mutant coconut octopus! We love a goth queen ❤️❤️❤️
Watched Drawfee, was possessed by the implications of K-Pop, the panther mutant in formal-wear. She’s hot, she’s gay, she has a bite force of 1500 psi. DO NOT FUCK WITH HER!!!!
@dilfosaur I hope it’s not overstepping bounds to tag you in this? Will re post without tag if it is :)
In 1985, affordable consumer film was finally available to the massive Chinese populace. And the reign of film would continue for another 20 years until digital cameras gained widespread use around 2005. By 2009, a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing was overrun with film negatives destined for destruction. That’s where collector Thomas Sauvin comes in. Since then, he has amassed a collection of over half a million negatives featuring everyday Chinese life of the 80s and 90s. In 2013, Sauvin published a five-volume set of books based on the collection and recently he has begun sharing the colleciton on Instagram @beijing_silvermine.
Tell us about the wellness to fash pipeline tho
"Wellness" is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.
Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with "workplace wellness" programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like "hypnosis at a management level" and "yoga to improve leadership abilities". I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.
The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We've all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.
Let's say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you "the secrets doctors don't want you to know."
What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says "Well it worked for them!"
Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can't be trusted, what else can't be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from "vaccines cause autism." Three clicks away from "Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat." And four clicks away from "The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick." Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.
Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you'll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.
No one wants to admit this but you don’t actually have to eat eggs and dairy for breakfast. Farmers just did that because they’d milk the cows and collect eggs in the morning. You can literally make a sandwich or a bowl of pasta or really anything you want for breakfast. There isn’t some medical reason you have to eat cereal and milk or fried eggs in the morning—our idea of “breakfast food” is an entirely artificial construct. Do what makes you happy.
This goes both ways too! "Breakfast for dinner" was a special occasion meal growing up, but now that we're in charge of our own food, we do it pretty often. If you want eggs and bacon for dinner, go nuts. Food has no time limit.
cis people be like. i would rather my loved one die than transition and be happy because it would be easier on me, the most important person in this situation, the cis person
cis people also be like. i love you but i need you to know if you live your true self i will always think of you as dead. and if you become happier i will consider your happy self a stranger. this is so hard on me. i am the victim.
cis people be like despite all of that dont worry i support you fully. what? you’re saying i dont support you? how dare you. i have made so many sacrifices. have i told you how hard this is on me? i have been crying over this. i am the victim. you are so selfish, wanting to be happy. you no longer have my support. i am going to go to therapy to try and recover from what you’ve done to me.
some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them
emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says
but I will still kill these ppl
hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.
unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.
the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.
and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)
so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.
EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.
of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.
source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)
The true test of if goyim are actually normal about Jews is examining how they talk about Ben Shapiro
1bedroom/1bath’s being $1800+…… we have to start lighting landlords on fire. i’m so serious
1bedroom/1bath’s being $1800+…… we have to start lighting landlords on fire. i’m so serious
1bedroom/1bath’s being $1800+…… we have to start lighting landlords on fire. i’m so serious
