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Dariane | INTJ | melancholic | 23

[pansyfemme]

whatever.

[pansyfemme]

i dont caaaaaare

[pansyfemme]

google search how to make someone explode

[orpheuslament]

i need (abruptly stops talking & stares at some random fixed point with a vacant expression)

[moniquill]

[voyagers-stone]

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

[byjove]

The worst part of those stepparent forums is that they refuse to admit that being a stepchild sucks. Not because you want your mommy and daddy to get back together soooo bad or because you’re jealous that you’re not daddy’s only baby in the world anymore. It sucks because you are a child with absolutely zero agency. It sucks because you have no say on who your parents choose to bring into your life and you can’t do anything about it if that person hates you, mistreats you, has beef with you, a literal child. It sucks because you can’t even choose where you lay your head at night, you are bound by court order to go stay in a house you know you are not welcome in. It sucks because adults often take their hatred of another adult out on you and there is nothing you can do about it. Being a child sucks in a lot of ways, beyond the childlike wonder and the lack of financial responsibilities. It really does suck to be dependent on the adults in your lives and have them fail you. Being icy to your dad’s girlfriend of the month is sometimes the only way you can exert your power and hopefully warn her to get away, even if you can’t.

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[thickness-protection-program]

[droawsy]

portraits of utility poles

[should-be-sleeping]

My autistic child got so excited upon seeing someone else portraying their special interest. What great art.

Behold: every utility pole from our house to their school.

[droawsy]

!!!!!!!

This is so beautiful! Your child is an amazing artist. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm very moved right now.

[segamascott]

[otteroflore]

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[sailor-arashi]

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

[claraschaos]

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

[lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos]

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

[theminingdwarf]

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

[kyraneko]

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

[bogleech]

I just want to add that wood may not end up in the deep sea constantly enough to have caught the interest of bacteria, but the deep ocean has an echinoderm we call a "sea daisy" that only eats wood.

[lambchop-soup]

@mist-the-wannabe-linguist

You like boats and whalefalls still, right?

[mariacallous]

[senatortedcruz]

The phrase world heritage post gets tossed around a lot but….

[nociceptrix]

shorty got me looking up definitions!

[m34tcr33p]

genuinely as long as no one's getting hurt, who cares if the guy next door is rummaging through the bin?

[m34tcr33p]

"theyre stealing!" ... you threw it away though?????? do you want it back or like

[thelovelygods]

[bogleech]

This is going to actually be a thing, isn't it. A chatgpjesus is going to catch on and cause some fucking cult movement in our lifetimes.

[byjove]

Somewhat related to that but there is another disturbing trend from cishet men where they are disproportionately offended that women do not trust them immediately and implicitly. Yes, racism can play a factor in these sorts of interactions but the men who complain about it the loudest are white guys who are offended women who are total strangers do not want to be alone with them at night. So offended by the idea that someone could view them as a possible threat that they become a real threat. They think their hurt feelings are more important than a woman’s safety. They think a stranger in an elevator inching away from them is a scathing personal insult. Eugh.

[byjove]

If I feel like I’m accidentally creeping out a stranger, my internal response is ‘Whoops, my bad. Let me disengage and get away from this person, who is obviously on edge.’ not ‘How dare you fear me you stupid bitch? I’m going to say/do something that will make you actually fear me now.’ and the fact that that is their first thought means she is totally right to fear him.

[chaoticconstellation]

my friend met a cute guy at work and got his number. he asked her to come to his place as a ‘first date’ and she said she wasn’t comfortable doing that yet. the guy was SO pissed off. he went on a huge rant about how he “pays a lot for his house and likes to utilize it” and how he’s “not a bad guy” so she should “give him a chance to show her that”. like bro she just said she’s not comfortable for the first date going to your place. chill tf out.

obviously she blocked him.

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[segamascott]