LAMES CANT HANG HERE

being interested in mythology / classics and having a rarepair is so embarrassing like yes it's been two thousand years and their ao3 tag is still empty

I’m gonna pitch a show as “like Game of Thrones but even more gritty and realistic” and then it’s nothing but a baron handling land estimates and organizing road repairs and stuff. There’ll be an entire episode about how a peasant gets brought to court for letting milk cattle graze on communal pastureland even though it’s supposed to be reserved for draft animals.

you've met me at a very wild animal caught in a bear trap gnawing off its own leg time in my life

feeling like the health inspector

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.

Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.

the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

there's no shame in continuing to live with your parents as an adult, but it does have an undeniable poisoning effect on your brain that you can't start healing until you live somewhere else

Yup

god fucking forbid any of you are ever stateless homeless refugees struggling to communicate with strangers in a foreign language on a platform youve never heard of before, having to depend on the goodwill of a bunch of ignorant and callous people

the entire western mentality is predicated on the firmly held belief that this will never happen to them and is a fate reserved only for people less human than them

Most forests in the eastern US are post apocalyptic sites. Almost all of the trees are less than a century old; most forests you visit were clear cut and farmed in the colonial era and abandoned at some point in the industrial revolution. Even relatively untouched forests are in an ecological daze recovering from the loss of chestnut trees since 1904. Most Oak-Hickory forests used to be Chestnut forests before they died out and young oaks took over.

idk how people can study history and not come out the other end radicalized. i took one “history of modern africa” course (modern refers to roughly 1750 onwards usually) and came out the end of the semester going wow. we should torch every last inch of france