Echo

john rogers on the louvre heist. for context on the "low tech" thing, they used this to access the napoleonic jewels:

You know, with all the water involved in a humans life and requirements, imagine if aliens just thought we were an aquatic species.

Humans join the galactic council and then immediately shooed over to a group water based aliens.

Technically, if you base everything on aquatic alien standards, humans aren’t that special. Strength, speed, healing, etc.

Nobody tells the humans everyone thinks they’re aquatic, and the humans try to keep any information on humans down low.

Aliens worrying on how little water their human shipmates are having. Doesn’t help that we do need quite a lot of water for daily life. And we can swim.

Abducted and dropped in some island beach vacation.

Nobody’s going to deny the aliens if they keep giving us swimming pools.

Technically, this day and age, humans can get very close to full time aquatic if they try hard enough.

Alien eel buddy.

Imagine Earth is still fucked up compared to other planets, so it’s much easier to stay under water when the gravity isn’t trying to kill you and the water is slightly breathable.

Would it be better if humans weren’t aquatic but just went with it, or actually humans are definitely aquatic, just not on earth.

Mers.

Air is basically water if you think about it hard enough. What is air but unfinished water? (This is a joke I swear I know chemistry)

Or humans are classified as aquatic not because they live in water but because they are water.

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

Some personal examples from switching to linux:

More space (windows has a lot of bloat)

No ads

Preferences/settings persist from session to session

No ads

Looking for software doesn't require a credit card or send me to a store

Definite lack of ads

Setting up machine takes minutes and doesn't require personal information

I have forgotten what ads look like

Alternative programs to save money on subscriptions (FreeTube instead of yt premium)

sin anuncios

Flexible for any setup or workflow

keine Werbung

Allows the user to make the most of their hardware

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

1. Do not do age verification.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!