Person who’s on the same side of the argument as you, but also has the worst takes about it you’ve ever seen in your life

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the fact that we made it through the Cold War is nothing short of a miracle. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools

William Gibson once suggested that the days on which we almost destroyed the world with nuclear weapons should be recognized as international holidays, to raise awareness of how very precarious the situation has been at times.

If you would like to observe such a holiday, October 27th should be Vasili Arkhipov Day. During the Cuban missile crisis he was first officer on Soviet submarine B-59 off the coast of Cuba. When the destroyer USS Beale began to drop depth charges to force them to the surface, his captain decided that WW III must have started, and ordered his men to arm and fire a nuclear torpedo at a group of American ships. Due to a strange circumstance, the captain had to seek Arkhipov’s approval to fire the weapon, because while he was only second in command of the sub, he was in command of the flotilla of which the submarine was a part. Arkhipov, outnumbered three to one, steadfastly refused to give his approval.

Important context: Arkhipov had previously been involved with a nuclear incident aboard another sub, and cited the things he witnessed happening to the crew as one of the reasons he refused to give approval.

Happy Vasili Arkhipov day

Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn't already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent's days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream

I’m crying

God expelling Lucifer from Heaven

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Day of Black Sun Pt. 2 / November 27 2007

im sorry but when DECOLONIZE PALESTINE DOT COM, which is RUN BY PALESTINIANS, affirms that a one state solution and the end of ethnonationalist government in the holy land does NOT mean the jewish population should be expelled, you as a white westerner look really, really silly saying it does. and this goes for both paranoid zionists and antisemitic leftists who are thrilled at the concept

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In case anon doesn’t have a womb, may Allah render your cock barren.

Allahumma ameen

like to charge, reblog to cast.

I wish Tumblr would learn that you don't have to trash older, less explicitly gay works when something newer with more textual, explicit rep comes along.

how many creators watched explicitly gay stories be toned down in adaptation. how many got away with as much as they could get away with at the time and pushed the door open a little wider so a new thing could be even more open.

have a little respect and celebrate what we've achieved instead of dump on older works for not being as perfect as you'd like them to be

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

my opinion as an american is that we spend way too much time trying to save african megafauna and nowhere near enough time making fun of the english for turning an entire island--which was once a hazelnut food forest--into a goddamn lawn.

bill bryson once actually wrote down in a whole book and got published that the english were superb gardeners and i about threw the book out the window i was that outraged. the english!!! the fucking ENGLISH. them? that's who you want to laud? the english

the

THERE ARE A GRAND FUCKING TOTAL OF ZERO STAPLE CROPS ORIGINALLY OR EVEN PRIMARILY CULTIVATED BY THE ENGLISH. NONE OF THEM. NOT POTATOES NOT WHEAT NOT TURNIPS NOT RYE. THEY GNAWED THEIR ISLAND DOWN TO A NUB FOR NOTHING. THE WOLVES AND BEARS ALL GONE FOR NOTHING. THE WILDCATS AND BIRDS AND MUSTELIDS AND INSECTS, GONE IN THEIR THOUSANDS, FOR NOTHING. FOR SOME SHEEP. FOR

THEIR MAIN AGRICULTURAL EXPORT IS FAMINE

anyway the english approach to agriculture, biodiversity, and environmentalism is roughly on par with a dog's approach to someone else's homework and everywhere in the world that has inherited their cack-fisted disdain for nature has suffered immensely. i can't overstate enough how bad things have been and still are.

please make fun of them. it's the least they fucking deserve.

the English led the world in abandoning the art of forestry, because for a while there they had intensively managed forests just trying to keep up with fuel demands, because as an island nation they've always been more likely to increase in density and try to bring marginal land under cultivation when the population grows, rather than spilling extra farmers over the nearest border.

and then they got onto coal and were like 'oh guess we don't need these trees and things anymore' and started eating their way through them and never really stopped.

(also according to the 13th century Charter of the Forest, certain common foraging rights in woodlands were legally sacrosanct regardless of land ownership, so the destruction of british forest is heavily bound up in enclosure and the destruction of the commons. and the highland clearances, which is intra-british colonialism at the expense of the scots. not that the scots haven't been involved in this process of Civilization but they did also have it done to them.)

and so if you, like, google earth around Britain you will find that random small clumps of trees are named 'Something Wood' because there used to be a wood there.

shook me mightily to do this as a teen and realize that the backdrop of all that Cute Small Animals Driven From Their Homes By Human Development children's fiction britain has long produced was actually to-scale, and the english countryside is genuinely like that.

okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism

like yeah the monster is a representation of your unresolved trauma and guilt and a manifestation of the sins of your past but it's also a real creature and it's going to fucking Get you

Autistic spaces are getting so much more hostile towards people with low empathy, and it sucks

There was a subreddit I really liked, people were chill, and then there was a sudden influx of people making posts like ‘Autistic people have empathy! Saying we don’t makes us seem like monsters! Thats not a symptom!’ And people making posts explaining that no, actually, some of us do have low empathy got attacked and told they were wrong or ableist? And it sucks, because its just so hard to find a place to exist where you can be seen as not evil? I don’t know, it just hurts a lot to be told that

"go bond with your soldiers" they said. "it'll be fun!" they said.

Stop putting AI-generated bullshit on my dash. I'll care about the cats who spell out "GAY SEX" with their bodies when it's art made by a human person.

AI is taking jobs from the artisanal "spelling gay sex with cats" artists this is so sad 100 like

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

@duskdaumbreon how does it feel to agree with RTVRN greek statue guys about Real Art (TM)

AI art discourse is crazy because it really is just

Person 1: Man it's fucked up that companies are using AI to make art so they don't have to spend money paying artists

Person 2: Yeah! AI art is evil! It isn't real art because it's just [describes form of art that has been done by humans for decades, if not centuries]

Person 1: What about [previously described form of art]?

Person 2: That doesn't count because it's made by humans. Real art is [Insert long winded explanation of art that disqualifies various forms of art that have been done by humans for decades, if not centuries]

Person 1: No actually Real Art™ is [Insert even longer winded explanation of art that disqualifies just as many forms of art that have been done by humans for decades, if not centuries]

Meanwhile, in the government: It's time to propose a law that makes fanart illegal because *insert company* is paying us to.

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@weeniepolice He earned it

read the first sentence and was like what did i even do and then i read the rest and im like yea you know what i WOULD BENEFIFT from being exploded a little bit. you're so right

wow players having to stand in lines for a quest because a relevant npc can only talk to one player at a time. is the funniest image on the planet

i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.

Literally this

My favourite is the guy saying, “This is like being at the dmv”