Randomness

When I was a little kid, I was trying to sell a childhood friend of mine on Invincible, and I went, (in reference to when Komodo goes apeshit on the Dupli-Kate clones) "It's so cool! There's a scene where a supervillian just rips this lady in half and there's blood everywhere and stuff like that is happening all the time!"

I think a lot of people were raised being told that things are bad with no explanation as to why they’re bad and I don’t think I know enough about psychology to make any big statements about that

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

So many things would be better if doctors could just say “yeah that is a real problem but there isn’t much we can do to treat it so our only real recommendations are other things that raise your general health level to compensate”

HES SO CUTE WHAT THE HELL

Actually like - you know how Athena and Ares are both associated with war, but Athena is (at least ime) portrayed as the goddess of captains and generals, strategy and tactics as intellectual, perfectable crafts, warfare as the architecture of victory?

“Mortals think you’re the virtuous one, but I know you’re just a coward. You’re smarter than I am, and I’ve never pretended otherwise. Smart has never meant good. Through tactics and strategy, you became the god of generals, and high ground, and markers moving across maps. You stole what I didn’t have to focus on. You stole from me while I was deep in the shit, being the god of men bleeding out from belly wounds. The god of amputated limbs. The god of ships catching fire when no soldier aboard knows how to swim. I’m the one who lives the reality of war. You’re the lies, and so victors love you. You’re a coward and you’ll never have what it takes to replace me, because you don’t want to get blood on your outfit.”