Qualitative Dumbass

[yorickless]

default matplotlib colors outfit

[boxofbags]

Crop top and low waisted pants revealing a tramp stamp that reads “ax.set_yscale(‘symlog’)”

[qqchurch]

[onrtrp]

small little shepherdgirl with her shepherd's crook in the mercantile exchange trading pits trying to offload her sheep's wool. it's so loud and claustrophobic and there're so many people and she's been trying for hours but no one wants to buy.. she's on the verge of tears....

[onrtrp]

small little shepherdgirl out in the pasture with her flock she's sitting under a tree flipping through a copy of Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance II she's learning how to price exotic options contracts on the future delivery of wool the next time she's in the big city she's gonna be prepared...

[indigosfindings]

looksmaxxer ayn rand writing atlas mogged

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[dogpuppy]

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

petition to add a fifth category of answer to the RAADS-R Autism test for "I do not know how to answer this question // The premise of this question is highly flawed"

[neruomancer]

The Mechsploitation is getting so obscure and esoteric that they are now just taking the brains and stems of girls, placing them into cylinders and porting them straight into orbital weapons satellites.

And when the light hits right against their mirrors and panels, they look like dazzling angels wings, with hundreds of camera eyes and twinkling red dot lights.

[boxofbags]

Funny, but also genuinely a good explanation of how/why people find mechsploitation appealing (at least as I understand it)

[johnjacobjinglehymerschmidtt]

[hellforever]

Laika's still up there. not her body, sure, but her soul is. i saw it through my telescope one night when i was looking for aliens. she was sniffing for table scraps under saturn's ring. she chases comets and bites down on satellites. i saw her napping by neptune, she was kicking her feet. passing through the oort cloud is like the stroke of a hand on her fur. eyes like marbles and four little paws like flames. she bobs through jupiter's moons like cold moscow streets. up there the stars are a great big field. and look, she's running so fast. god damn, look at her go.

[adz]

i am a biological machine that turns cold cans of Campbell’s soup into shareholder value and nude selfies

[thepaisleyelf]

There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

[boxofbags]

I’m charmed by the story told in the backgrounds of these pictures (for the record I’d have gone for Mount & Dew Me)

[fipindustries]

it really bothers me when people bring all the complications that longer lifespans would bring because, the alternative is people dying

"society would destibilize"

the alternative is all of them dying

"culture would stagnate"

the alternative is everyone dying

"power would concentrate"

the alternative is everyone. diying.

"but you would have to deal with ennui and commit suicide"

THE ALTERNATIVE IS PEOPLE DYING

YOU ARE SAYING LETTING ALL THOSE PEOPLE DIE IS A WORTHY SACRIFICE, PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE TO MAKE SOCIETY WORK, FUCK OFF

[twilightarcade]

looper

[official-time-loop-posts]

Official Time Loop Post

[boxofbags]

But like it’s beautiful

[forthegothicheroine]

What I really like about The Ugly Stepsister is the way it manages to do a revisionist fairy tale from the villain's point of view without rewriting all the characters to be their opposites. Elvira gets meaner as the story goes on, at first casually and then maniacally, but I believed every step of that downward progression. Agnes/Cinderella isn't as sweet as her Disney counterpart, but she isn't unreasonable- she needs a rich husband to get her away from her stepfamily, and if she isn't all that sympathetic to her bully's unhappiness, would I have been?

There is a true fairy tale heroine, though: Alma, the other stepsister, who didn't go to the ball. She has all the fairytale protagonist characteristics- she's plucky, she has no time for her mother's mind games, she'll go to heroic lengths to save her family, and perhaps most important, she's the youngest of three sisters. And at the end, she rides off to seek her fortune, like a good fairy tale heroine- looking, in fact, a bit like the title character in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella.

Is this fair? Of course not! Alma gets to be the fairytale heroine because she doesn't care about being one, and that's not fair at all. That's the bind women are put in, where you're supposed to succeed while not putting in any visible effort (that would be vanity, after all.) But neither fairytales nor horror movies are fair.

[itmeansalot]

you gotta come to the club man drinks are $18 and were all on our phones googling dog surgery

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

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It is fun to learn.

[therealraewest]

Hey what the fuck

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

because, right, you'll love this, right? there's an oil refinery. within the potential blast range

[errantmoggy]

As a sort-of local, there was an oil refinery. You may be talking about Coryton, which ceased function in 2012.

And to be quite honest, everyone's given up the hope that it might do anything exciting, like explode.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Kent/Isle of Grain still has the liquid gas tanks, though, which don't really enjoy being exploded either

[revcleo]

Tate sugar is nearby would the sugar refinery get real hot?

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

oh my god mass caramelising incident

[daja-the-hypnokitten]

ok, no. Sugar powder is *actually super flammable* - it's an explosive dust.

If that goes off while the refinery's running, you're looking at a MASSIVE fire at best, and a bunch of secondary explosions if anything's contained. And it probably would be. Like, look up videos of the Imperial Sugar plant explosion in Georgia, USA. It wasn't pretty, 14 people died.

[boxofbags]

The US Chemical Safety Board makes really good videos explaining the industrial accidents that they investigate, and this is one is no exception: https://youtu.be/Jg7mLSG-Yws