Blissfully Unaware

38/F/UK - refusing to grow up

[dafancyuhinspiration]

[animentality]

[wetheurban]

If you spent the first half of 2026 in survival mode, may the second half be spent in revival mode. It’s time to heal.

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[stuckinapril]

Very true

[stuckinapril]

This this this this!!!

[dittography-direwolf]

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

just saw a girl wearing two broken smartwatches on the same wrist. some kind of grunge scifi protagonist perhaps

[cemeteryseven]

my great-grandmas kitchen window

[nudityandnerdery]

Beautiful, no notes. (Found it on Facebook, tracked it back to Reddit)

[ashstfu]

fast food, fast fashion, songs being sped up, tv show seasons being only 8 episodes long, replacing youtube vlogs with fifteen second “day in the life” tiktoks, people in their 20s complaining about being too old...everything is so rushed, we have lost the art of lingering.

[weaselle]

everything's been sped up they've shortened every climb but look how all this rushing never saves us any time! if labor's length is lessened if the math we learned was true then twice as fast would leave us with half as much to do. And if we still are doing as long at twice the speed? then surely we would all have double what we need - but if we're doing double with less gain somehow shown then we must be exploited: ... our labor's not our own

let us have our linger, let us loiter, limp, or lay - either pay us all our profits or give us back our day

[existennialmemes]

Companies in the 2000s: You wouldn't download a car! Digital copies are still stealing, even if the original copy remains with us.

Companies in the 2020s: That digital copy, which you have paid for, doesn't really belong to you. We're removing it from your library now.

[existennialmemes]

Companies deleting media you've literally purchased is 1000x more realistically "stealing" than digital piracy, you cannot change my mind

[mal-studyblr]

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

[pauljpeg]

I wish all the pee came out in one go like a shotgun blast

[dovv]

[shrimpkidd]

[equius]

you just dont get this on other websites

[immunetoallbadthings-deactivate]

I think it's kind of pathetic that accessibility speech to text censors out most swear words as if people with disabilities were toddlers. No we are not toddlers, we are people who deserve to hear shit that isn't censored. We're tired of this ableism.

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[escuerzoresucitado]

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