you're so beautiful when you hate the world

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"We will explore. We will build. We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will drive rovers. We will do radio astronomy. We will found companies. We will bolster industry. We will inspire. But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other." —Christina Koch, Artemis II Mission Specialist

This stems from an obsession with stats/ratios that existed before audience behaviour changed. It was already happening 15+ years ago. Farming tactics like “comment for next chapter” preceded algorithms and “comment to enter giveaway/subscribe to our channel for x benefit”. And some new creators replicated these tactics not knowing any better because so many people were doing it. Audience behaviour (and demographics) have changed on various websites and platforms, but calling out only the audience for “treating fan work like content” ignores the way creators chase stats and first employed “content” tactics on their work.

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Volleyball player Yuji Nishida accidentally hit a line judge. This is how he apologized.

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Namibia by Sapna Reddy Photography

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The large amount of obsidian at this and other flows around Newberry Volcano is interesting because the volcano is mostly made of basalt - a lava with a near-opposite composition from rhyolite. Akin to Mauna Loa or Iceland, most of Newberry's lava flows form a broad shield more than 60 miles N-S and 30 miles E-W (roughly 100x50 km). The central part of the Volcano is about ten miles (16 km) across and contains a caldera formed when the central summit collapsed ~75,000 years ago. The caldera has been filled by subsequent eruptions and by two lakes separated by a big pumice cone. This means that the volcano produces - simultaneously - a wide range of magma compositions, indicating a complicated and long-lived magmatic system. Hazards from Newberry (to the 200,000 people living on its slopes) are not limited to fluid basalt eruptions that slowly blanket the landscape but also major explosive eruptions. The Big Obsidian Flow is a representative of the latter. Ash and debris from that eruption is found as far away as Idaho, and is many meters deep near the eruption's vent.

#love to see brett goldstein fully living his dream

Cape Town, South Africa by Rachel Martin