Maaruin

What’s your definition of Working Class? Even if we only include the groups who predominantly work for for profit companies for a wage (“white color”, “tech worker”, “retail/food/other service sector”, and “blue color”), that’s still 32%. And that would require us excluding nurses and teachers from considering them working class.

No, bravery arises from the fact that the actions driven by our fear response are not always in our best interest. “Take a fire extinguisher and turn towards the fire to put it out!” is not something evolution could have prepared as for, and neither is “Yes, the lion is dangerous, but you have a long pointy stick in your hand that can hurt it before it can hurt you.”. And self-sacrifice in most instances is about spreading out the risk. It’s rarely “you will die for certain”, more often it is “some of us will likely die, but if we work together fewer will die/we can achieve our goal and the majority who survives will be better off, so it is worth it for each of us to take the risk because each of us is more likely to be in the surviving majority than one of the dead”. Bravery and self-sacrifice become bad when they become an end in itself and go against the interests of the brave person.

the fact that at the council of elrond glorfindel is like “just throw the ring into the ocean” is so funny to me after reading the silmarillion just because it feels like the subtext is him being like “yeah let’s try maglor’s patented and tested method: Just Yeet The Accursed Fucking Thing Into The Water”

#in fairness they do do literally the other fëanorion approved method of magical item disposal #glorfindel: we could do like maglor and throw it in the ocean? #elrond: no we’re doing like maedhros and jumping into a volcano via @lesbianlanval

Those…those really are the four methods aren’t they?

Listen, Boromir knows 1 (one) ancient elven story and damn it, he’s going to ride that horse until it dies.

it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol

yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then

it only happens with the simpsons

this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.

it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?

Dragon's right, if you remove all the Simpsons characters from Death Note it hardly changes anything

you get a minor drop in quality if you remove the Simpsons characters from Stargate

Burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy. It’s like, the first thing Grace does when he embraces his mission. No I will not be normal about this any time soon.

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

An awkward thing is that Orbán is a fairly common last name in Hungary. Our new foreign minister and deputy prime minister is going to be another Orbán. Her campaign video includes her introducing herself to Donald Tusk, awkwardly saying "Anita Orbán, no relation. The name is just an accident." To which Donald Tusk says, in a sad, very tired voice: "My name is Donald."