i said, young man

I am a blogger / tumblrer / typer / reader / self-parody / flesh and blood human being who hates anyone who calls soda "pop" and wants to be a Muppet when she grows up.

[unwastelandunbaby]

idk I think maybe 2000s/10s feminism talked too much about “unrealistic beauty standards for women” that people forgot “beauty standards for women” is already fucked up

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

Friends, romans, people who are nonbinary except at work, lend me your ears,

[wizardarchetypes]

my boyfriend mounts insects so now whenever i find a dead bug i do the equivalent of a mom in 2005 finding a Hamtaro t-shirt and brining it home to their kid like "this is Naruto, right? I thought you'd like it"

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[byjove]

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[stromcuzewon]

new baby alert! 🦌

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[rederiswrites]

Look, I realize that the whole Schrodinger's Mitch thing has real political consequences on a national level, but since I'm not from Kentucky and have no say whatsoever in the outcome of the situation, I'm honestly just finding the entire thing grimly hilarious. Has Horrible Turtle Man died? We don't fucking know! Turns out senators can just not show up to work indefinitely and there are no consequences! What fun!

[rederiswrites]

Cannot believe this post is still relevant completely unedited. This timeline is utterly off the rails.

[troutreznor]

https://blinkies.cafe

[infestuous]

this post really attracted the lamest people in the fucking world

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[stoopkidlisteningtocsh]

Was feeling Emotions than was quickly hit by very different ones upon opening the comments

[sightofsea]

love when cats hear that you've woken up even just a little bit and they're like hiiiiiii oh my god oh my god!!!!! i wrote some poems in the night let me recite them for you. this one is called: screaming and knocking your water bottle off your nightstand

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[birds-in-posts]

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Photographer Snaps Bird Catching a Ride on Bigger Bird's Stick

Wildlife Jocelyn Anderson captured a one-in-a-million photo of a bird hitching a ride on a bigger bird's stick.

The article contains a link to her photography shop, btw.

[sandmandaddy69]

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[buttpoems]

[turing-tested]

how long do you think it would take for you to notice that an ant is eating your ps2

[scarabies-real]

Depends. Is the ant just going over and taking a nibble when she's hungry? Or is the any taking large quantities of ps2 back to her colony on a daily basis? Yeah I made the ant that eats your ps2 a woman #DEI

Anyways. First scenario. Going by the most common species in my locale we'll say this ant is a carpenter ant Camponotus spp. Weight ranges vastly but for simplicity we'll say this ant weighs 3mg. Assuming this abt eats like a regular ant about 33% of its body weight each day, let's say it eats 1mg/day.

The weight of an original model ps2 is 2.2kg. Thats 2,200,000 mg. Assuming this ant eats at the same pace every day and can digest my PS2, it would take a little over 6,027 calendar years for a single ant to eat my entire ps2.

However, I like to believe that I would notice before my ps2 was completely gone. Let's say, a corner gone.

The PS2 has a height of 78.7 mm, a width of 302.3 mm, and a depth of 182.9 mm

The bottom and top part of the ps2 are roughly the same size, so that gives us a height of 39.35mm.

I have drawn in red a square equal to roughly 39.35sq mm

However, we are trying to find a tiny fraction of that. The area in purple is roughly the amount I believe it would take me to notice my PS2 being eaten by a single ant. As you can see by my attached diagram, I have little faith in myself. Please note that I am doing this shit on my phone so my cube is weird. Die mad about it.

To find the area of the cube I will use a few different reference points. The USB port on the ps2 is a standard type A with a width of 12.0mm and a height of 4.5mm. Comparing the height of the USB port to The Cube we can see it is almost exactly 4.5mm.

The volume of a cube is V=a^3 whereas a is the length of one side, so 4.5x4.5x4.5=91.125mm^3

If density=mass/volume, then mass=densityxvolume.

To figure out the mass of The Cube, we need to also know the density of a PS2. For simplification purposes we will assume our cube is solid and made of one material.

Some research tells me that the PS2 outer shell is usually made from ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) plastic. ABS plastic ranges in density from 0.9–1.53 g/cm3. For simplicity we will use the median density of 1.07 g/cm3. g/cm^3 and mg/mm^3 are a 1:1 ratio so we don't need to do any conversion.

91.125mm^3 X 1.07mg/mm^3 = 97.504 mg

The total mass of the cube is 97.504mg.

However, we would also need to add the mass of the two outside faces. To do so we need the Area and Area Density. We already have our area of 4.5sq mm. To find area density we need to divide the mass of the face by the area of the face. To find the mass of the face is a...process. Since you can't just slice the cube and weight it like you would for paper, you first need to calculate number density (particles per area)

Number Density (Areally) = Total Number of Particles (N) / Total Surface Area (A) 

Since I don't have access to ABS plastic or a microscope to count particles, I have decided to simply not fucking do that just for a joke.

It would take exactly 97.5 days for a single ant to eat enough of my PS2 for me to notice.