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In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw molokov and walter shaking hands behind a potted plant

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Thank you Mod H!

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I can only speak for myself but while the Sun is of course a cosmic horror beyond imagining that can easily kill us with its cancer rays, it's a star, it's supposed to be like that. And it's really so big and deadly that the brain can't really comprehend its bigness or its deadliness.

Whereas Jupiter is a planet, and planets are not supposed to be like that, as far as I'm concerned. My brain still can't fully comprehend the scale of a planet with 1321 times the volume and 318 times the mass of Earth, but it can get a lot closer, and therefore it can instill more cosmic dread in me. What do you mean Io is so volcanic because Jupiter's gravity is stretching it like playdough. What do you mean the Jovian magnetosphere is 20,000 times stronger than Earth's and its tail extends into the orbit of Saturn and if you stood on Io you'd get a fatal dose of radiation in less than 2 hours. What do you mean it has over 100 moons. What do you mean its core is 3x as hot as the Earth's. What do you mean 335 mph winds. What do you mean its lightning strikes are 100x as powerful as Earth's. What do you mean it has helium and neon rain. What do you mean the Great Red Spot is a centuries old storm that's bigger than the entire Earth.

This means nothing to me. Brain can't comprehend this size ratio. Meaningless.