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cryptotheism

The term "book of the dead" doesnt really give you perspective to how big a lot of Egyptian funerary texts are.

Imhoteps book of the Dead is 64 feet long.

somethingusefulfromflorida

Okay, but a lot of books would be that long if you laid the pages out

nsomniacsdream

the average printed page is 6 inches wide. so if a book is 128 pages, its 64 ft long. I dont think I own a book with fewer than 128 pages.

cryptotheism

It's honestly not that impressive at all. Fuck Imhotep and his pathetic short book.

null-is-sparing-you

hold up - how dense is the language? The length of a book is heavily influenced by how much information is caried by a single character. It's the same mechanics that makes it so english people can only fit a few sentences in a tweet, but a chinese person can write a full story in the same medium.

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maybuds

Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen by Johann Hari

glassmuncher

Not just stolen--- SOLD. Pawned. Lots of entities stand to hugely benefit from this. Check out this article about how the pharmaceutical industry is trying to shape amphetamines (used to treat ADHD) into the new opioid crisis (used to treat pain). The goal of treating anything is to bring the patient to "health" and "wellbeing." But is there even such a thing in an unhealthy, profit-driven society?

As Dr. Art Van Zee wrote in the American Journal of Public Health in 2009, "One of the cornerstones of Purdue's marketing plan was the use of sophisticated marketing data to influence physicians' prescribing." The Sackler family's pharma giant, he wrote, used "prescriber profiles on individual physicians — detailing the prescribing patterns of physicians nationwide — in an effort to influence doctors' prescribing habits."

oh yeah and the paperclip machines definitely are making things worse.

With AI-augmented advertising, finding yourself targeted only takes a single moment of engagement.... Advertisers systematically target those who are on the verge of buying. A dollar spent on those who've shown interest is seen as far more valuable than a dollar spent on someone who may be a terrible fit for the product.

The predatory selling of Adderall is also aggravating those with the prescribed condition. "In 2022, telehealth prescriptions accounted for 40% of all Adderall prescriptions, driving record usage." Remember the Adderall famine a few months ago? Unfortunately, there's nuance: "telehealth" isn't the problem, the whole system is the problem:

Telemedicine offers a lifeline to millions of individuals without local access to care or who find it too expensive. Instead, we need a middle ground. Rather than restricting prescribers' ability to give medications remotely, we can focus on the promotional and sales tactics that set these firms apart from a family doctor who sees a patient over a video call.

ADHD has always been around, but it wasn't seriously an issue until the modern meta-society founded on making LOTS OF MONEY realized how much easier that can be by taking advantage of quirks of human psychology, like dopamine pathways and such. Your attention was stolen.

katificer

lazuli-starlight

Actually. Yeah. Pretty much.

But to extend the metaphor a bit further, Imagine Caine is a person living isolated in the middle of nowhere without internet. He's desperately lonely, so he raises a bunch of ducks he captures from a nearby lake because they are his favorite animal.

The Ducks keep dying. He does not know why. The ducks peck at him whenever he tries to pet them. He does not know why. He tries to build the best possible coop for them, but they keep plucking their own feathers from stress.

He loves them, but no matter what he does, no matter what he tries, the ducks are miserable and keep dying and want nothing to do with him. But he doesn't want to let them go, he has nothing else in his life. He has nobody else in his life.

Now the metaphor breaks down when you remember the humans can actually talk to Caine, unlike ducks. But honestly that only would help so much, Caine had pretty much zero context to comprehend most of the things the humans talked about as being important to them.

Caine pretty much saw most of the human's complaints as being a case of Preferences rather than "I need things to change so I don't abstract from the stress". And given Caine does not really understand things like nuance and Unspoken Meanings, he was not going to get that unless somebody spelled it out for him directly in those terms (Caine my beloved AuDHD disaster dentures).

Caine literally had to Google humans in their natural habitat before he had even an inkling of what they were actually upset about.

Caine isn't innocent, he was very self-absorbed and at times willfully ignorant. But a lot of the harm he inflicted was genuinely born of true ignorance and inability to comprehend. Really, his main problem was he arrogantly thought he knew best and thus it didn't occur to him that he was far more ignorant than he realized he was.

theonion

What To Know About The Live-Action ‘Moana’

Disney’s live-action remake of Moana comes to theaters this weekend, a decade after the original animated film was released. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the movie.

innerchildabortionclinic

just saw a "tragedies iceberg" with titanic and chernobyl at the top and the bhopal disaster near the bottom...i'm begging you to have even the slightest hint of curiosity about the world around you...the bhopal disaster is literally considered the world's worst industrial disaster!!!!!!!!!

it bothers me the way certain industrial disasters are treated as uniquely tragic and terrifying as opposed to others, just because of narratives that can be spread

stars-says-fuck

Take a look at the people that were affected by each. The Titanic affected almost entirely rich people from the US, and Chernobyl affected western europeans. The Bhopal disaster? Poor people from India.

There's a very pointed reason for the disasters that people are aware of being these, even though for all intents, they significantly less impact on the lives of the people around them.

dragon-in-a-fez

first, the iceberg metaphor is exactly about what's most commonly known, not what's more important or severe. op seems to be getting mad that more people don't know about something while also being annoyed that someone else pointed out many people don't know about that thing.

second, more than half the passengers on the Titanic were in third class and very much not rich, and Chernobyl is extremely not in western Europe.

null-is-sparing-you

Also if I remember correctly, the things below the iceburg tend to be either larger or more numerous. If the Phopal disaster was larger (fits with the "Largest Industrial Disaster" description) it even fits on the bottom for that reason.

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innerchildabortionclinic

just saw a "tragedies iceberg" with titanic and chernobyl at the top and the bhopal disaster near the bottom...i'm begging you to have even the slightest hint of curiosity about the world around you...the bhopal disaster is literally considered the world's worst industrial disaster!!!!!!!!!

it bothers me the way certain industrial disasters are treated as uniquely tragic and terrifying as opposed to others, just because of narratives that can be spread

stars-says-fuck

Take a look at the people that were affected by each. The Titanic affected almost entirely rich people from the US, and Chernobyl affected western europeans. The Bhopal disaster? Poor people from India.

There's a very pointed reason for the disasters that people are aware of being these, even though for all intents, they significantly less impact on the lives of the people around them.

dragon-in-a-fez

first, the iceberg metaphor is exactly about what's most commonly known, not what's more important or severe. op seems to be getting mad that more people don't know about something while also being annoyed that someone else pointed out many people don't know about that thing.

second, more than half the passengers on the Titanic were in third class and very much not rich, and Chernobyl is extremely not in western Europe.

dinomoder

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

null-is-sparing-you

That certainly sounds like the description of a tumbler sexyman. Just saying.

sreegs

gonna start making snopes-style responses to urban legends about tumblr

sreegs

"this how we lost post editing and it was still worth it"

❌ False

The John Green Cock Monologue, while one of the most egregious examples of post editing, was not why the ability to edit posts was taken away. This feature was removed because scammers would edit posts with huge note counts to try to make their scams look legit.

sreegs

"those are his hooves, bitch."

✅ True

Those are his hooves, bitch.

jungwildeandfree

and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.

If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.

jungwildeandfree

This is by far the most popular post I have and I have to say: good, I’m right. Password sharing and ID verification are going to kill the internet. not oooh in 50 years. in like 5 more.

novelconcepts

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

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actualmythicalcreature

I taught my kid that swear words (important note: this does not include derogatory names for groups of people) are just words that can carry a social consequence. When you are a child, this consequence isn’t on you, as much as it is on your parents, who are responsible for you. As such, parents usually just ask their kids not to swear. Instead of that, I told him to ask me before he swore so I could explain the potential social consequences and we could make the decision together. So far, he’s asked a handful of times if he could swear at Trump while we watched the news. I found this perfectly acceptable, so he got to say “Ｆｕｃｋ trump”. Once when he dislocated his knee, he asked to swear - I said yea, he yelled “HOLY SHIT OUCH” and I asked if it made him feel better, he said it did. Once in traffic someone almost hit us and he asked to swear, I said yes - he said “That guy is an ASSHOLE” and I was like, yeah. 100% he was. He’s never asked to swear at a time that I felt was inappropriate. I have 0 regrets about this parenting decision.

elfwreck

(From Mama’s Bank Account, by Kathryn Forbes)

termagax

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

netscapenavigator-official

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

charlesoberonn

When all you have is a hammer, you start looking for nails. But when you think you've found a nail, everyone tells you that it's not a nail, it's a screw. They insist you have to use a screwdriver you don't have, even though the end result is the same.

If you try to use your hammer, they get mad at you. If you don't use your hammer, they call you lazy and still get mad at you.

When all you have is a hammer, you stop using it out of fear you're doing something wrong. You second guess every nail you see, because everyone keeps telling you that you're just seeing things.

"Everything looks like a nail to you!" they rebuke. You go quiet. You stop even trying to look for nails. You start to believe nails don't exist. You leave the hammer at home.

Everyone still gets mad at your idleness, but you don't care anymore.

When all you have is a hammer, you have nothing at all.

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