What is an angel but a divine automata?

i don't know the etiquette for posting other peoples tiktoks but the delivery of this punchline hit me like a FUCKING TRUCK please

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

Airbending? No, actually, it's humid in here. I used the water in the air :) nope, just manipulated the temperature with firebending. Common mistake! They look very similar!

Oh no, that wasn't earthbending. That was airbending. I'm basically just compressing the air! Sokka came up with that!

I had to go dig this up because I just spent an hour and half (closer to two hours now) trying to figure out how Earth bending works. Because rocks are made of minerals, and earth as in dirt is also mostly minerals, and crystals are, you guessed it, also minerals.

Now, water bending establishes more than any other element that you can absolutely bend things that only have components of your element in them. Most notably blood bending, but there's also the plant benders out in the swamps, and Hana teaches Katara the slightly less horrifying skill of drawing water from the air itself if it's humid enough. While blood is 90-ish% water it's still not actually water by itself, it's a mixture. It's actually kind of a more disturbing version of watching water benders work with mud (something that seems to be a joint domain between water and earth).

Now this is all well and good, and the idea of bending part of something to move the whole is further established by metal bending. Toph is able to bend impure metals by latching onto the earth within them. This is also the explanation given for why you can't bend platinum or other pure metals, there's no earth for her bending to use.

But here's the thing. Metal is also minerals. Iron is a mineral. There are crystals made of metals. There is absolutely no reason earth bending shouldn't work on an iron deposit you yoinked out of the ground unless you just decide that earth bending just doesn't like metals.

But it gets worse because by the time I came to this conclusion I had already spent far far far to long trying to figure out what rocks, minerals, crystals, metals, metalloids, ect are and are not. Water is H2O. Water is simple. For rocks and crystals, it seems like the structure is really important, but unfortunately lava bending is just kind of chilling in the corner ruling out that hypothesis as well.

There has to be some kind of definition for what is and is not earth when it comes to earth bending (Watsonian not Doylist, we are well past Doylist) but it's not "made of minerals" and it's also not "has a rock structure." So is it really just minerals at any temperature that are non-organic but also non-metalic? Metal bending shows you don't need something to be all earth, or even mostly earth, in order for it to be moved by earth bending. So what percentage of a thing needs to be earth? Why don't metals count? There's even an episode in the show where Toph bends an asteroid, showing that earth doesn't even need to come from Earth. It raises so many more questions.

Worst of all, naturally forming snowflakes aka crystals, by some definitions, make ice a mineral. Which is so clearly not something earth benders should be able to bend.

basically, some guy called nightmare-eclipse has found several zero-day exploits in windows and at first contacted microsoft about it but they kept ignoring him (even though they have a bug bounty program, so technically they have to pay him a grant for finding these)

so then he started posting them publicly whenever he found any in hopes of microsoft finally fixing them that way, but of course that leaves windows users vulnerable, because now not-so-nice hackers can see exactly how they can use those exploits. He has found FOUR so far and microsoft did nothing about it.

Her immune cells responded to that tiny little needle wound as they normally would, and only then detected something wrong with the surrounding cells, attacking the cancer they now associated with that trivial damage.