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A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

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it's very strange that people manage to misread Nietzsche as an anti-rationalist mystic when he has the exact opposite character flaw; he's an edgelord reddit atheist wearing an "I f**king love science" t-shirt. Maybe they get confused because he's also a poet?
but um, he goes on an extended rant in the Gay Science about how mysticism is stupid and people retreat from the truth because they can't handle it. he stans Epicurus as the last great Greek philosopher. even his ridiculous eternal recurrence theory was based on a popular theory of statistical mechanics at the time, that was only discredited later. he was evidently trying to develop a scientific theory of moral psychology in the Genealogy of Morals. His favorite contemporary philosophers were Alfred Lange and Eduard von Hartmann. He praised but refused to read Spinoza.
wait rly?
Ziz has her whole bit about how Boltzmann's suicide was really because of the spoOoky eternal recurrence implicit in statistical mechanics
nietzsche's eternal recurrence is boltzmann related?
Amusingly enough, a rat-adjacent physicist just published a model that actually has eternal recurrence: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30405
These three versions of the same image taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity illustrate different choices that scientists can make in presenting the colors recorded by the camera. The left image is the raw, unprocessed color, as it is received directly from Mars (and as available on the MSL Raw Images Web site: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/). The center rendering was produced after calibration of the image to show an estimate of "natural" color, or approximately what the colors would look like if we were to view the scene ourselves on Mars. The right image shows the result of then applying a processing method called white-balancing, which shows an estimate of the colors of the terrain as if illuminated under Earth-like, rather than Martian, lighting.
(nasa.gov)
the fact that 0.999... = 1 regularly trips people up and it's interesting to explore why! you can see a recurring decimal as a string of syntax representing an arithmetic recipe for constructing a number, and people are obviously willing to accept that 3 - 2 = 1 or 0.1 * 10 = 1 etc. but those are all finite and people get weird about infinities.
an obvious question is whether 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1, because people find it easier to say that it does (what else could it be?) and then it's a short jump to ask whether 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 + ... follows the same logic.
at that point people must either accept that the odometer-like reading of the decimal starting "0.999" misled them or double down and reject the existence of infinities entirely: after all even if an infinite series takes you arbitrarily close to one, doesn't that mean there's always still a gap?
it's tempting to define a decimal expansion that does not permit multiple ways of writing the same rational number, but that would probably end up much more inconvenient to use (consider 3 * 0.333...)
I don't think this is actually what confuses people about this. Yes, these kinds of things come up when people try to justify their objections. But at baseline, I think what's more often going on is that people are unhappy with the idea that a number can have two different decimal expansions. They see the decimal expansion as a way to identify a number, not a description of a series you can sum to get the number, and the idea of a system that can represent a number in two different ways sounds unnecessarily messy.
goddamn she big
It has to be to uplift my dreams.
imagine the dreamcatcher it would take to snarl that...

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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
so ofc matzah is "because" the hebrews didn't have time to bake the bread when they were rushing out of Egypt so it was a surprise to read Exodus and this is before even the slaying of the firstborn, God saying
“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.”
and on and on about it
then farther down it does say
With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
so the "explanation" is always been told is there but the commandment came first
so what's up with that
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Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom over 37 days in 1785 while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. Being short of writing materials and fearing confiscation, he wrote it in tiny writing on a continuous roll of paper, made up of individual small pieces of paper smuggled into the prison and glued together. The result was a scroll 12 metres (39 ft) long and 12 centimetres (4.7 in) wide that Sade would hide by rolling it tightly and placing it inside his cell wall. As revolutionary tension grew in Paris, Sade incited a riot among the people gathered outside the Bastille when he shouted to them that the guards were murdering inmates; as a result, two days later on 4 July 1789, he was transferred to the asylum at Charenton, "naked as a worm" and unable to retrieve the novel in progress. Sade believed the work was destroyed when the Bastille was stormed and looted on 14 July 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution. He was distraught over its loss and wrote that he "wept tears of blood" in his grief.[16] However, the scroll was found and removed by a citizen named Arnoux de Saint-Maximin two days before the storming.[16] Historians know little about him or why he took the manuscript.[16] It was passed to the Villeneuve-Trans family and sold to a German collector around 1900.[17] It was first published in 1904[16] by the Berlin psychiatrist and sexologist Iwan Bloch (who used a pseudonym, "Dr. Eugen Dühren", to avoid controversy).[18][19] Viscount Charles de Noailles, whose wife Marie-Laure was a direct descendant of Sade, bought the manuscript in 1929.[20] It was inherited by their daughter Natalie, who kept it in a drawer on the family estate. She would occasionally bring it out and show it to guests, among them the writer Italo Calvino.[20] Natalie de Noailles later entrusted the manuscript to a friend, Jean Grouet. In 1982, Grouet betrayed her trust and smuggled the manuscript into Switzerland, where he sold it to Gérard Nordmann for $60,000.[20] An international legal wrangle ensued, with a French court ordering it to be returned to the Noailles family, only to be overruled in 1998 by a Swiss court that declared it had been bought by the collector in good faith.[18] It was first put on display near Geneva in 2004. Gérard Lhéritier bought the scroll for his investment company for €7 million, and in 2014 put it on display at his Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits (Museum of Letters and Manuscripts) in Paris.[16][18][19] In 2015, Lhéritier was charged with fraud for allegedly running his company as a Ponzi scheme.[21] The manuscripts were seized by French authorities and were due to be returned to their investors before going to auction.[22] In December 2017, the French government recognised the original manuscript as a National Treasure giving the government time to raise funds to purchase it.[19][23][24] The government offered tax benefits to donors to help buy the manuscript for the National Library of France by sponsoring a sum of €4.55 million.[25] The French Government acquired the manuscript in July 2021.[26]
Can a book become a great work of literature merely through having an insane manuscript history? Probably not, but if any book does....
Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.
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Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me
They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(
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moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice
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That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!
Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.
What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.
Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]
We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!
Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!
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Oh.... the glacier mice...
The reason I bought stock in hundreds of individual companies instead of just buying an index fund was because I was bored during lockdown, but now i'm realizing it means i can sell stock without capital gains tax, as long as I balance gains with losses?
@urpriest said:
Can't you do that with index funds too? Or do you just mean it's easier to find pairs when you have hundreds of stocks to choose from?
wait, is the strategy you're proposing here to buy multiple index funds, some of which go up and some of which go down? I have to admit that's not an alternative I considered, but... then... why buy index funds?
Well, different index funds are built with different strategies in mind and cover different asset classes or exchanges, right?
What I've always done is have a mix of index funds among small cap/mid cap/large cap and growth vs value, along with a few that cover non-US markets and a few fixed-income ones (like a treasury bond index fund, a corporate bond index fund, a mortgage-backed securities index fund). Maybe ten different ones in total. The brokers I've used all have a Portfolio Builder thingy that recommends a specific mix based on your time horizons and risk tolerance, so I bought according to the mix they recommended, then adjusted each year by buying and selling until I had roughly those percentages again. And the one time I've had a portfolio managed by a professional he did the same thing, split things up among ten or so index funds covering different asset classes, and adjust when the mix diverged from the plan.
I thought the point of "buy index funds" wasn't "and then you never have to diversify at all". It was "you don't have to pick winners". Your investments rise with the market, that's the point regardless. Diversifying just means you aren't picking one specific mix specified by one specific fund, you have different parts of your portfolio with different properties.