star trek text posts IV: the one with the anons
Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
I think Doctor Emily Nagoski has a PHD but YEAH
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[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]
So how much is “adequate”?
Science says: 42 percent.
That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.
“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.
We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]
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Here’s the last paragraph, completed courtesy of Goodreads:
We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.
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Every girl needs to choose exclusively two colors to base her entire life around. Mine are green and brown
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
July 20: Moon Day.
shit man this got me emotional
left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world
right: the Webb Space Telescope photo, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky
They saw an opportunity and, by god, they fucking took it.
This is legitimately the fucking funniest star wars post I have ever seen. Thank you for this.
I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
But I feel bad for Pluto,
Pluto is a runt of the litter who was revoked of her cool girl squad status for being liddol and cyute
pluto left the cool girl squad for a different squad altogether because he figured out that he was never a girl in the first place
this pun cannot just stay in the tags
i just had to
everyone has to stop making posts like "the world's loneliest ant has died in secret" its making me sad
the worlds happiest ant has found large strawberry crumb
My brother would feed table sugar to the ants at our bus stop when we were kids. The mound was almost a foot high and twice or three times that wide when he stopped. Ant king, really.
when the gods stopped answering our prayers, the first thought was to wonder if the gods had abandoned us in our hubris. maybe we had taken all they had given for granted. maybe we should have been more pious, more grateful.
then came the thought, maybe the gods had all died. though, none of us had any idea how that could be so. they were so immense and unknowable. could they even die? what could kill a god?
but none of us, in our endless debates, ever guessed the truth.
the gods had switched school districts.
The world's most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit
Kleiman compared mango trees at a local farm in Homestead, Florida. One plot of trees had weeds growing around them. The other plot was maintained and weed-free.
The pollinators preferred the trees with the weeds. In turn, the trees benefitted and produced more mangos. In fact, there were between 100 to 236 mangos on the trees with weeds, compared to between 38 to 48 on the trees without weeds.
Kleiman points out findings apply to mango trees, but also to all of the roughly 80 percent of flowering plants of Earth, including fruit trees and all flowering vegetable plants like tomatoes, beans, eggplants and squash. She also hopes this information can help farmers save time and money, as well as reduce the use of chemical pesticides.
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I guess it improves the draw for bees and pollinators because there's more there? I wonder if this would have a similar effect if instead of simply weeds, it was other plants in general, especially those that flowered? Regardless, this is pretty damn interesting.
Oh yeah. For example in Japan it is traditional to keep a little patch of forest in lands that were cleared of it. They are called Guardian Forests and serve a bit of a spiritualist purpose, said to be where the local god manifests:
Studies on them have shown that maintaining this patch of local nature increases crop yields in nearby fields. They increase biodiversity, which help pollinators, but also do things you don’t expect immediately - For example, the birds that roost in them help eat rats and mice that may eat crops. By maintaining this natural space, we get helped in many ways, not all obvious Simply put, biodiversity attracts more biodiversity, and helps nature overall - Including the nature we like to eat. That could be local weeds, or old forests, or whatever else, but it seems as though the central point is that you want some parts of the environment to remain a little natural and wild so they may support that which naturally occurs in the region
Yes!!!
Miniature urban forests planted using a method invented by a Japanese botanist in the 1970s are growing in popularity. Dense copses bursting with biodiversity can thrive in areas the size of a tennis court. Known as 'Miyawaki' forests, the trees grow more quickly and absorb more CO2 than plantations grown for timber.
Note: Those "We'll plant a tree every time you buy our product!" ad campaigns are usually about monoculture timber plantations of non-native trees. And any CO2they do absorb while growing is released again when they're harvested.
Who wants to see a pug mix dog that scared me
Terrific
BTW I found out abt this dog because the Ottawa humane society's camera broke so they uploaded mspaint drawings of the dogs. And when I saw this dogs painting I first thought the amateurish proportions were a silly and wonderful artistic feature:
No. This is a still life
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It had generated a complete reference with title, author, and everything. Completely fabricated.
It’s not a search engine, it’s a crappy imitation of one.
as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time
One thing about the WGA Strike is that Onion article was kinda right. Hollywood shot themselves in the foot with their current standard of cancelling every show people like to produce more and more short-term novelty.
It’s not like we have tons of shows ending on cliffhangers waiting for season six anymore. Due to their greed, they’ve personally taken long-term viewer investment outside and shot it and now they can’t count on it for negotiating power. What are viewers going to be mad about missing out on? The Twilight reboot? Another Star Wars spin-off? Several promising pilot seasons on Netflix with great representation that were already produced and cancelled before they aired and would’ve been even if the strike hadn’t happened?
Every show I grew up loving was cancelled before the writers or fans wanted it to be andvl that was when a single “season” was an entire year’s worth of weekly episodes, something that really felt like a big part of people’s lives for a reasonable length of time. Now the standard is a “season” of 12 episodes dumped all on streaming one night when you aren’t looking. Everyone binges it and the enthusiasm lasts about a week or two before there’s nothing left to talk about.
Like a fruit fly. Fruit fly fandoms. The show and hype live for around ten days before they die.
it actually is that deep that we had widespread public unrest in 2020 focused on racism and the state but now we’ve forcibly memory-holed it
in short:
image of the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis being burned with the text “nothing ever burns down by itself–every fire needs a little bit of help” on it
note: the burning of the 3rd precinct enjoyed a 51% approval rating, higher than either of that year’s presidential candidates
