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I’VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A BITCH-ASS MOTHER F- wait

Anyway, I made a similar post like this on my RP blog, but this blog is also going to be archived and remade as it’s own blog. So I can send people asks from this blog rather than everything being connected to my RP blog.

This’ll obviously be a lot easier than remaking my RP blog, so I’ll probably save it until after that. It’ll likely have the same name, and while the icon will be updated, it will be very similar to the one I have right now.

Anyway, I’ll likely be following a bunch of non-RP blogs there and I’ll reblog stuff a lot more often because I won’t be worried about accidentally reblogging it to my RP blog~

When I’ve made it, I’ll reblog this post with a link to the new blog.

cobaltstarling-archived

There we go. A day late, because I get distracted too easily, but the new blog is set up, over at cobaltstarling, so I’ll see you over there. Or not. Up to you, really.

I’VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT!

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG IS A BITCH-ASS MOTHER F- wait

Anyway, I made a similar post like this on my RP blog, but this blog is also going to be archived and remade as it’s own blog. So I can send people asks from this blog rather than everything being connected to my RP blog.

This’ll obviously be a lot easier than remaking my RP blog, so I’ll probably save it until after that. It’ll likely have the same name, and while the icon will be updated, it will be very similar to the one I have right now.

Anyway, I’ll likely be following a bunch of non-RP blogs there and I’ll reblog stuff a lot more often because I won’t be worried about accidentally reblogging it to my RP blog~

When I’ve made it, I’ll reblog this post with a link to the new blog.

mysharona1987

homeintexas

As a nurse, I encourage you to read and repost, and quote at length.

stitch-n-time

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How can a disease with 1% mortality rate shut down the United States?

Franklin Veaux - updated 6 hours ago, professional writer

There are two problems with this question.

1. It neglects the law of large numbers; and

2. It assumes that one of two things happen: you die or are 100% fine.

The US has a population of 328,200,000. If one percent of the population dies, that’s 3,282,000 people dead.

Three million people dead would monkey wrench the economy no matter what. That more than doubles the number of annual deaths all at once.

The second bit is people keep talking about deaths. Deaths, deaths, deaths. Only one percent die! Just one percent! One is a small number! No big deal, right?

What about the people who survive?

For every one person who dies:

19 more require hospitalization.

18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.

10 will have permanent lung damage.

3 will have strokes.

2 will have neurological damage that leads to chronic weakness and loss of coordination.

2 will have neurological damage that leads to loss of cognitive function.

So now all of a sudden, that “but it’s only 1% fatal!” becomes:

3,282,000 people dead.

62,385,000 hospitalized.

59,076,000 people with permanent heart damage.

32,820,000 people with permanent lung damage.

9,846,000 people with strokes.

6,564,000 people with muscle weakness.

6,564,000 people with loss of cognitive function.

That’s the thing that folks who keep going on about “only 1% dead, what’s the big deal?” don’t get.

The choice is not “ruin the economy to save 1%.” If we reopen the economy, it will be destroyed anyway. The US economy cannot survive everyone getting COVID-19.

sobadpink

THIS THIS THIS

synebluetoo

And that’s not even talking about how many widows, orphans, and single parent families a 1% death rate will create.

How many more people are dying of non-covid illness because they’re either choosing not to get treatment or there aren’t any beds?

How many households are going to lose their primary breadwinner?

How many disabled people are going to lose their caretaker?

How many couples are going to divorce after losing a child?

How many senior citizens are going to have to move to a nursing home after losing their spouse, or their adult child?

And that’s just personal dynamics. Consider the social.

How many kids are going to drop out of high school rather than repeat a year?

How many kids won’t be going to college because they don’t feel safe on campus?

How many students are deciding against nursing school because they figured out long ago that no amount of clapping is worth getting assaulted by a maskless patent’s family demanding horse dewormer?

How many teachers saw parents spitting on their colleagues at PTA meetings and decided this was their last year in the classroom?

This isn’t something we bounce back from like a recession or a bank failure. This is an atom bomb: this is going to be felt for GENERATIONS.

smitethestate

"The US economy cannot survive everyone getting COVID-19" and yet the attitude with omicron is 100% "everyone's going to get it."

aparticularbandit

And "some of you will probably get it again."

itneedsmoargayz

Steven Universe: Eh, I don't really feel like saying "girlfriend" or "wife". Maybe they're together. They have a special connection...

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. "My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I..." "I'm texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business." "Luz's new GF showed her..."

raulziito

Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.

missgreeneyartz

These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.

renthony

Risked her job, hell, it's an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids' cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.

Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it "wasn't progressive enough" and was "giving in to stereotypes" to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, "fuck you, you can't pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding."

Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP--Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar's brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe's success.

I'm not even 30 years old yet and I'm still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn't that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I'd see it. Fucking ever.

So let's stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?

glimmah

idk guys it seems pretty subtle

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i keep forgetting the sky does that

cant-beelieve-it

melts?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

basically yeah, just in very slow motion

time-lapse photography needs to stop teaching me things my psyche is a frail and stuttering sandcastle unwoven by the tides

weaselle

that’s the view as the sun pulls us through space like this

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

PLEASE STOP TEACHING ME THINGS I IMPLORE YOU

foispan-deactivated20240228

es a Nap meg ugy megy korbe a Tejut kozeppontja korul, mint korhintan a pacik

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

my translation app did a thing

nightmareeyest

Hi, Hungarian here. They’re saying “and the Sun is going around the center of the Milky way like the horsies on the merry-go-round”

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

this is DELIGHTFUL information I thank you

livinglights

A NASA scientist has revealed the mind-blowing time scale of the dinosaurs, with a stunning animation showing Earth at the opposite side of

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

…tumblr keep teaching me things

fischotterkunst

yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:

(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)

fischotterkunst

so here is what NOT to do if you’re a loyal fan of adobe who has the cash to shell out for a newer and shittier version of the product you already paid for.

1) DON’T use your search bar to find and open the Run app

2) DON’T type in services.msc

3) DON’T find Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Services and right-click to get a dropdown menu, and don’t select ‘properties’

4) if you happen to click properties, DON’T use the startup type dropdown to locate the option to disable the program. be sure you DON’T click apply to finalize that change.

5) DO NOT do the same thing in order to also disable Adobe Genuine Software Monitor

if you do all of these things, this WILL disable adobe’s ability to monitor the software, and you will be forced to continue using the same older software that you already paid for instead of having to sign up for a newer, shittier version and pay more for it. so if you have lots of cash to spare and are cool with putting it the pockets of racketeering capitalists, definitely don’t do any of these things.

however, you SHOULD reblog this to spread the word, as we certainly want to make sure lots of people know what NOT to do :)

hideousgourd

I’M SORRY MA'AM. I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET.

Pretend to be upset.

june-egbert-official

OP how could you

I hope none of my friends who use Adobe programs find this, follow your detailed instructions, and spread the word. That would be devastating!

snoutbug

dragons are like cats and they head bonk their friends

fileth-fourth

モモの水道水さんはTwitterを使っています月面着陸🚀💖

viviraptor

a fucking mongus?

lexingt0n

AMONGUS

redchrominance

girl your tits are amongus

virovac

Oh my gosh, the second image is by the actual artist.

yeah, oh and I think the artist might be a woman

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

you know how rich people do that awful thing where they fuel the illegal wildlife trade with their demand for exotic animals?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

ok so a fairytale where a dragon is rescued from a princess. the dragon, an endangered species, is being held captive in the Royal Menagerie.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

environmental activist forest witch who locks a king in a tower as punishment for trophy hunting on a dragon reserve

datasnake

Years later, the king’s daughter decides to remove all evidence of her father’s incarceration by demolishing the place, so the locals have to save the tower from the princess.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

alternatively, a princess elopes with a witch. after repeated harassment from knights sent by the king to “rescue” her, she and her funky new wife set up house in a dark enchanted tower. (with no entrance at the bottom so it’s only accessible by broomstick, or by riding on top of their newly adopted, loved-and-pampered watchdragon)

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

oh these TAGS: #have yall read that book where the princess gets sick of the guy she’s supposed to marry and marches off to go get kidnapped by dragons #and they really like her cherry jubilee (or something like that) so they let her stick around and polish the armor of all the princes they flamebroiled

@stupidcowboykid please tell us the name of the book?

theskywaker

i played skyward sword all the way through for the first time recently (before the switch version was announced), and thought fi was funny and cute. but i was kind of bummed out she hardly had any character development, so i wrote an entire character arc for her. thanks for reading :)

#HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME CRY

aliciavikander

inspired by:

pocketss

she only plays minecraft and spore

pocketss

when you are just hanging out

if-only-angels-could-prevail

again, there IS a problem of straight actors playing all the gay roles, but the answer isn’t as easy as “straight people shouldn’t play gay people” because a) it’s acting and there’s nothing intrinsically physical about gayness and b) it’s bad to insist that actors make their sexuality public information

if-only-angels-could-prevail