Eagerly getting into the submersible industry, that’s the point there right?

I’m being informed that in light of recent events this is no longer true

it’s so hard being a teenage girl in my twenties 😔

it's so hard being a teenage girl in my twenties in my thirties 😔

it's so hard being a teenage girl when you are a man

removing prev tags was a huge hit to the nosy girl economy

Seriously not even joking, in the mood to be hit by a foul baseball rn. Like a baseball hit that is a foul, not like. A tainted or spiked corrupted baseball. I think it would do me good

Community Notes is so good.

no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it’s been twelve years since it happened

it’s such an unreal experience

like

you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face

and

you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is

it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it’s there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing

But You Are Not Seeing Anything

Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no light to put an image on your retina.

But your brain just Fucking Assumes that because it knows where your hand is and what it is doing, clearly it can see it.

So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing.

Brain is like “there’s a hand there”

Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it”

Brain is like “nice”

but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best

Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

we once went spelunking, and a our guide said that once he was in a cave with a stream, so he could hear running water, and his brain was like ‘oh, running water? that means there must be Ducks out there’. and he saw like…low light shadows of ducks. that his brain just Put There.

As a cave guide: we call that ‘cave blindness’! True darkness absolutely wigs your brain out - we’re such visual creatures that after a while our brain throws a hissy after not seeing anything. Sensory deprivation is a very real kind of torture. We have a huge, deep cave system at work and there are a lot of places where you’re hundreds of meters in solid rock in this tiny, dark, still space.

I like to turn my torch off, sit down with my back against the wall,  and wait to see how long it takes before I start seeing things or feeling like the ground is moving, or hearing things. Because I know I’m not - I’m in complete darkness, utter silence, sitting in rock that hasn’t moved in hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Proof that brains are Ridiculous and over-react to a lot of stuff!

I want to add to this that people who lose their hearing as adults have reported hearing music “being played loudly from somewhere”, and other auditory hallucinations, bc the brain will just panic and put your brain’s ipod on *fucking shuffle* if it’s not getting any input

“wearing all pink to the barbie movie” “wearing full suits to the minion movie” the children yearn for themed parties

I love the term “loanwords” because it implies that you intend to give them back.

*dumps a box full of words on French’s front porch* You never came back for your shit.

Loanwords, loaned to the British Museum so

Would everyone like to know the best thing??? There are two types of borrowed word - loan words and calques. Loan words are words taken directly from the language i.e. tattoo, sushi, guillotine. Calques are words literally translated from the language before being borrowed i.e. beer garden, scapegoat, killer whale (incorrectly calqued, the original actually means whale killer which is a whole other post).

Did anyone notice the fun thing?

Loan word is a calque (German lehnwort lit. Loan+word) and calque is a loan word (French calque - tracing or imitation). Have a good day!

We're on a new platform with a totally different audience...we have to prove ourselves all over again...convince a totally new group of people to think we're funny and worth your attention....so allow me to drop some of my "A" material....the funniest thing I got.......here goes....... jeef berky

why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

I love my wife. my boss though? that ball and chain??

do you understand my vision

Oh this is too fun

Bestie, your brain, your VISION, ahead of your time

Source

In responding to a Tesla owner group acct, Elon Musk says they're removing the ability to block people except that you can block people from DMing you.

I deleted my acct last week. Recommend the rest of you do the same.

LMAOOO

can't have robotgirl without tgirl

easy website.

i am now a proud member of r/Cigarettes 🙏🙏🙏🙏

maia, I logged back into Reddit for this

yuore welcome !

THE TIKTOK PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY MADE GONCHAROV!!!!!

"Goncharov started on tiktok"

"Bottom does not mean sub" might as well be occult knowledge to some of y'all

call my man shredded lettuce because he be a sub topping

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

the funniest part about this post doing the rounds forever is that I listed two examples of weeb stations out of an attempt not to alienate people unfamiliar with the concept of internet radio, but then it left the target audience, meaning it actually alienates a solid 75% of the of the people seeing the post

butches are always saying shit like "been getting really into belts recently"

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