"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:

Too funny to leave in comments @inkskinned

physicists: think they know enough to be an authority in other fields

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours

oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:

im a nonbinary person who isnt out at work for this exact reason: my coworkers can barely wrap their heads around the concept of binary trans people and are mostly very transphobic in the casual way of people who just don't think very much about gender and don't think of the implications of what they say but also in the very intentional way of people who think trans people, in general, are all lying or whiney or making a huge deal out of something that should be private and doesnt need all this public fuss.

The Last Unicorn really said “There will be times when you can’t find other people like you and there will be times where you'll wonder if you're really the only person experiencing the world as you are and others will even try to take advantage of you through commodification and exploitation to the point where it starts to dilute your own sense of self and will make you question if you were ever you to begin with but it’s important for to resist the urge to assimilate and find community because there will always be people like you who will understand and have experienced these same things and the only way to combat a dark world who wants to smother your light is to FIGHT FIGHT RAGE AGAINST THE RED BULL DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT OCEAN.”

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.