So I go to the dentist and the appointment I had was not the appointment that I thought I was going to have (normal maintenance vs deep clean) so i warned the dentist "hey heads up I burn through dental anesthetics super quick and also I'd like to use as little as possible because putting the dental anesthetics in my body is the most painful part of the process unless I'm having a root canal or something" and she's like "Hmm. Okay. Is it just the injection site?" and I was like "no, it will feel like burning on the opposite side of my face and in my nose and eyes and stuff." And she was like "Hmm. Do you turn really red when this happens?" And I was like "I don't know, I can't really see myself when it happens." And she was like "are you willing to experiment with this a little?" And I was like "sure, no worries" and she injected me with one anesthetic and it hurt like a motherfucker and she and the assistant both went "OOOH" and she was like "Yeah you got really red right away let's try the other," and it was the same thing and then she was like "okay I think this is the one that will work" and it hurt a little bit but it was fucking NOTHING compared to the comprehensive full stabbing burning facial pain from the others and long story short the dentist was like "You're reacting to the epinephrine in these other anesthetics," which I guess is fairly common for people who have autoimmune disorders.

So I guess this is to say: If you get spreading, burning, stabbing pain when you are being injected with local anesthetics it's not supposed to do that and you should say something.

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

Ro-Man, the Robot Monster, attacks!

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

this is genuinely making me lose it

Let them keep going, I wanna see where this leads

I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

Having to explain to way too many people that no, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

“How do you know they’re not hiding them?”

Do you have any idea the infrastructure required to just build a bomb, let alone test it? We’re talking about thousands of workers, hundreds of acres of facilities, just for fuel production alone.

Construction of specialized plants for assembly and subcritical experimentation.

Not to mention the actual testing of a device. No military in the world will willingly use a weapon that has not been tested in the real world. Computer simulations still aren’t able to accurately render what happens inside of a nuclear weapon at the moment of detonation.

Accurately measuring the yield (explosive power) of a nuclear weapon requires detonation, and extensive instrumentation. The setup of such a test is large and distinctive enough that it can be detected via satellite and aerial photography of test sites, as happened in 1977 in South Africa. The USSR got wind of a pending test and informed the US (yes, really), who overflew the site with an SR-71, and told South Africa to knock it the fuck off.

Iran is probably the most surveiled country in the world besides North Korea. They don’t have nukes.

Israel does, though, and Israel scares me.

I mean, even if the setup weren't detectable via satellite the detonation would be detectable via seismograph, right? Or is there some other type of testing?

Absolutely yes. That’s how we’ve detected basically every nuclear test since the 80s

And we can't forget that this supposed concern has been used to push for war against Iran for at least the last 20 years. Neocons have been screeching about "Iran is x months away from developing nuclear warheads" for pretty much the entirety of my lifetime.

Talking points like these are hold overs from the war on terror, and much like 9/11 the US government and their proxies in corporate media are going to use this moment to push for more war. Make sure you don't believe the bullshit.

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

Don't leave this in the tags

For decades these monsters came mixed in with plastic dinosaurs in sets usually just called “DINOSAURS” or “PREHISTORIC CREATURES” and some of them famously inspired some iconic Dungeons and Dragons monsters, but I think the last time I ever saw any of these monsters for sale was 2006. The real legit dinosaur counterparts still show up in dollar stores without them. And I can’t believe I didn’t know this until today, but the very first known iterations of these were, in fact, properly labeled. The dinosaurs and monsters came originally in different, clearly differentiated bags at dime stores, and over in China where they originated, they were specifically supposed to be knockoff Ultraman-style kaiju.

please make every effort to vote <3

Voter suppression is a real problem!! I know so many people in real life that are LGBTQ and or left leaning irl that seem to think theres no hope and dont bother to vote! Its insane!!

mmm whatcha say

That’s art ! ✍✏

Adding @mikeystan3000​ ‘s tags ‘cause honestly they’re perfect:

Sad sack is such an insult, like not only are you a depressed motherfucker, you're also a bag

I mean, even Withered Hope don't like a sad sack.

Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

"OP you need to read 'Voting is not Harm Reduction" OP has read Voting is not Harm Reduction. It opens with the acknowledgement that for the most vulnerable people, even a tiny degree of harm reduction can mean life or death and then continues to advocate for not participating in that harm reduction lest you "participate in your own oppression". Pardon me for not finding "vulnerable people should die for my ideology" very convincing.

"Vulnerable people should die for my ideology" is literally Nazi shit.

FUCK THE AVENGERS!

FUCK THE FANTASTIC FOUR!

THEY AIN'T SHIT, THEY'VE NEVER BEEN SHIT AND THEY'LL NEVER BE SHIT!

"So why not ask the Avengers for help?"

"The Avengers? The guys that work for the government? The same government that keeps making 40 foot tall murder-robots to wipe out our ethnic group?"

"Point taken. What about the Fantastic Four?"

"Reed Richards is a narc."

"Damnit, why does everyone that likes us live in space?"