Resident Of The North Atlantic Garbage Patch

It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.

That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

Spoilers: Search up the following terms

'The Norman Conquest' and 'French Language'

The people who taught you that the correct response to something you don't understand is laughter rather than curiosity have done a disservice to you and to anyone who has to interact with you.

Here's the entry on etymonline that explains where the word comes from:

If a dictionary definition of something doesn't help, try etymonline and wikipedia--wikipedia is especially helpful for nouns.

"And what of me? Is my soul a good one?"

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I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Trying to parse whether this reblog is making:

An extremely inaccurate assumption about how widespread witch trials were in the early modern period

An extremely specific point about the prevalence of different execution methods (most accused witches in Britain were hanged, not burnt)

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

i made him a tube room

im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up

hope he doesnt party too hard 

there he goes he’s free and im so proud and a little sad

this was an incredible experience

Two characters living alone ended up taking care of a pair of babies, and there have been several comments about how "the babies are the priority", "save the babies", "we knew what was most important" and I guess I don't see the logic, or rather, I know it's not logical - it's emotional and also symbolic. On one hand yes, I believe that a central role of society is to take care of the vulnerable; that is a cornerstone of my politics. However, in a day to day survival scenario where you need to save either an adult or a baby, I don't think you should automatically pick the baby Just Because. It seems reasonable to save the adult, because you need their experience and pair of hands. You can always make more babies if you need to. Making an adult takes a lot more time. But babies tend to attain this exalted, near-religious status in these kinds of stories.

But the nuclear family is not how humans are supposed to raise the babies. Human babies are NEEDY and we evolved to take care of all of them AS A GROUP. That means a dozen or more adults looking after the baby, not only the parents. This habit of isolating the baby and only letting the mother and maybe one other person care for the baby is NEW. The "nuclear family" is called that because it's FROM THE NUCLEAR ERA. It was INVENTED, on PURPOSE, by people trying to sell a brand-new shiny futuristic lifestyle--the Suburbs.

But none of it is natural or even practical. In fact, the Suburban Nuclear Family is purposely NOT practical for a low-infrastructure situation. Nice White Neighbourhoods were created simultaneous and possibly in response (at least in part) to the influx of non-white people to cities, and White Flight. They're reliant on infrastructure that got WAY more money invested in it in the post-war period: Roads, Cars, Hypermarkets, Sanitary Sewers, and the Public School System. They're reliant on the pre-social media capitalist empire that was exploiting most of the surrounding countries. Like, so much of this "babies first, mothers last" attitude is an expression of wealth combined with the underlying Puritanism of American culture.

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

But now the company holiday party is upon us.

And I’ve been lying about the girlfriend.

Reasonable: “just say she couldn’t make it!”

Holy fucking THANK YOU OP for saying this!! i feel like I’m going insane correcting people on this because I’m (and OP) are seemingly the only one(s) who pay proper attention to the databank entries apparently!

The Axum Rosetta Stone is not an Architect structure! It is not! Everyone needs to check the damn Wiki before theory crafting! The databank entry for the Rosetta Stone literally says it clearly made by the Axum for Architect Visitors!

It even says “We call ourselves Axum. We call you Architects.”

The writers could not be more clear on this if they even tried!!

The structure is also very much not Architect in construction nor design, it mimics their style, but it is not an Architect structure! It is made out of a titanium alloy first and foremost, and I’m (fairly certain) that the Architects do not use titanium as a building material! Iirc in Subnautica 1 Riley’s PDA notes that Architect structures are made out of an unknown alloy that it can’t identify when entering a precursor structure. That one I’m a little less sure about, but I definitely remember that being mentioned somewhere at some point.