Just Living In A Fantasy World

I like stuff. Fuck you if you don’t.

[devilinachurch]

No context spoilers for Godzilla v Kong

[andthwip-deactivated20220219]

If villain Bad, why Hot?

[eireneofathens]

Hypatia of Alexandria requested by anon

[ginazmemeoir]

it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.

you can only reblog this today.

[jackdaw-kraai]

Huh. Didn’t think of it that way.

[thatsthat24]

I wanted to create my own Christmas movie 🎄

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I don’t think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that’s so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you’ll say “Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you’re right,” and that doesn’t mean you were “morally toxic” before, it means you’re a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesn’t mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.

Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too

[feanor-the-dragon]

Hey so the trolley problem is dumb because the real person at fault for any of the deaths is the person who designed the trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who put in the purchase order for a trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who approved a PO for a trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who delivered a trolley without an emergency braking system, the organization that inspected and certified a trolley without an emergency braking system,and the operator who did not make a huge stink about being assigned to a trolley without an emergency braking system.

Whether you pull the lever is irrelevant, because a whoooole mess of people fucked up for you to be in that hypothetical situation.

Seriously, like, as a professional engineer, I find the premise of the trolley problem offensive. Cause like, so many safety regulations have been violated that it's just... insane.

[feanor-the-dragon]

"But, Cody, what if there was an emergency braking system, and it failed?"

Failure to perform regular maintenance and inspection. So, it's still someone else's fault.

"What if maintenance and inspections were done correctly, and it still failed?"

Some engineer somewhere failed to design a failsafe with the necessary redundancies. Again, it's someone else's fault.

"What about sabotage?"

The saboteur is obviously to blame.

"What if it's just a freak accident?"

Once again there's that engineer failing to place redundancies.

"What if it was just an act of God, and the engineer and everyone else did everything right?"

Then God is to blame. Duh. Not sure why this is so hard to get.

[animeengineer]

Any accident investigator will tell you that an accident is caused by a chain of incidents, and there were always several places the disaster could have been stopped.

Trolley problems are just philosophers being cruel to their audiences.

[ingridverse]

I would look at whoever is tying people to trolley tracks. That might be the issue right there.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Maybe the real trolley problem was the OSHA violations we made along the way.

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones "fake" is stupid because it's the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it's all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It's carbon it's pretty and it didn't involve slave labor what's not to love??? Hi I'm having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I'm right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don't have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself "man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce"

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[frankensteinthecollegegraduate]

alright at one point on frankenstein the creature mentions he took one of victor's shirts when he fled the lab and (presumably) wore it. knowing that the creature is seven/eight feet tall, this leaves us with two options:

1. mary shelley just forgot that she gave the creature inhuman proportions

2. victor is built like a brick shit house

I don't know which bothers me more

[moon-riptide]

Have you considered the idea of The Creature wearing a crop top?

[frankensteinthecollegegraduate]

okay valid

[adeles]

Great Halloween, everybody! THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) dir. Henry Selick

[fuckindiva]

Aeschylus’ The Oresteia: Agamemnon (tr. Richmond Lattimore)

[hypokeimena]

#this line fucking floors me every time #idk the idea that 2500 years ago people were consoling the grieving in the SAME WAY #and the grieving hated it the same way. #because being called brave… what choice does she have but bravery? (via @finelythreadedsky)

[sharlatan-ka]

Trump doesn’t want to participate in the debate because he might be muted but I’d pay real human money to watch him scream and be rendered powerless by a little zoom microphone icon

[cariguevara]

Yara Flor - Wonder Woman

[mendozaris-deactivated20220106]

Once upon a time, a man named Niall Lynch had three sons, one of whom loved his father more than the others. Niall Lynch was handsome and charismatic and rich and mysterious, and one day, he was dragged from his charcoal-gray BMW and beaten to death with a tire iron. It was a Wednesday.

[bennydemarco]

“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.”

[ethiopienne]

[postwhitesociety-deactivated201]

hm

[pervocracy]

I think the “women are mysterious” thing can also come from:

1) Women actually being quite clear, but not telling men what they want to hear.  ”She said she doesn’t want to talk to me?  So many mixed messages and confusing signals!”

2) Women not having cheat codes.  ”I tried being nice, and she didn’t have sex with me.  I tried being an asshole, and she didn’t have sex with me.  Come on, there’s got to be some kind of solution to this puzzle!”

3) Women not being a hive mind.  ”First a woman told me that she likes guys with big muscles.  Then the very next day a woman told me she thinks muscles aren’t attractive at all.  Make up your mind, women!”

4) An individual woman doing something confusing, and instead of asking “why is she doing this now?” men ask “why do women always do this?”

[hand-it-over-blog]

Always reblog

[gorgonapologist]

A Perfectly Normal Interview with Carmen Maria Machado Where Everything Is Fine