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cant stop thinking about this
it’s not ‘talking to myself’ it’s called a soliloquy you fuck
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we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.
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how did it taste?
How did what taste?
“A debt to the fae must always be paid,” the old man said. His eyes glistened with tears as he looked to the full moon overhead. “And the cost is always severe.”
There were murmurs from the others around the fire. Men and women who gathered to hear the wise man speak knew the reality of what he said intimately.
“I owe all my gold,” one man said.
“Then you must remove the gold from your vaults and strip every filigree from your home,” the wise one said.
“I owe my blood,” one woman said.
“Then your blood must be spilled within a fairy ring,” the wise one said.
“My debt is to be paid in flesh,” another attendee cried.
“Then your flesh you must divest—“
“Bullshit. Propaganda!” a woman called from the tree line. She pointed a finger at each person in turn. “You’re buying into it by even entertaining the idea of paying them back.”
“I have lived many years,” the wise old man said, “and every debt I attempted to evade came back many time worse.”
“Sounds like you weren’t fast enough,” the woman said, stepping out into the light. The sweat on her forehead glimmered in the moonlight like morning dew. She jerked a thumb towards her chest. “Me? I’m fast as fuck. I’ve been outrunning my debts for years.”
The wise one gaped. “That’s not— you can’t—“ he turned to his audience. “She is speaking lies.”
His audience hesitated.
“I would personally like to avoid being divested of my flesh,” one attendee offered hesitantly.
There were murmurs of agreement.
“Then stretch up, bud,” the woman said over the wise one’s protests. “We’re running tonight.”
The wise one stared as his audience fled into the night. “Y-you’ll all die!”
“Not me,” the woman howled from deep within the woods. “I’m fast as fuck, boiiiiiii!”
Baymax in the new Baymax! show buying pads for a girl who got her first period and getting help from people, including a trans man.
Some people are really mad about this, when he is literally a health care robot interested in people's physical and emotional needs.
i love that it’s pikachu saying this bc pikachu attained freedom by electrocuting the fuck out of ash and outright refusing to get into the fucking pokeball
What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?
Why does cooked food offer more energy by bite? Does the heat weaken the bonds making it easier for us to break down and digest ourselves or something?
you know the molecular principles behind digestion, yes? probably?? they're still teaching that in high school, right???
well, in case you need a refresher, I'll address meat specifically: the basic principle is that meat is FULL of useful proteins structures that your body would really like to take and use for its own bits, but there's a slight problem that needs to be dealt with first!
these proteins are FUCKING HUGE.
each protein is a sprawling 3-dimensional molecular structure containing hundreds to thousands of individual atoms, much much too big and also not quite the right shape for your body to repurpose!
and you need to start that blood vessel resurfacing project NOW, the funds were approved LAST THURSDAY for chrissake.
fuckin' contractors. never on schedule.
so what your digestive system does is break the proteins down into their component chunks, via a process called denaturing! the denatured protein loses its structure and unspools itself into a long ribbon, which can be popped apart and taken to wherever those individual proteins need to go in your body.
HEY ED, GET A MOVE ON! THOSE TAURINES NEED TO BE AT THE LIVER ASAP!
and this denaturing process is fairly energy-heavy, so your body is BURNING energy and materials to PRODUCE energy and materials, and just barely comes ahead of breaking even!
at least, if we're talking about raw meat.
see, your digestive system denatures proteins through an expensive chemical system, but it turns out there's a cheap, easy, and (almost) FREE alternative that will do the same thing, no enzymes needed!
heat.
heat denatures proteins by its very nature, and we can actually see the process happen if we pay attention!
transparent egg whites turn milky and opaque as their regimentally organized protein structures unspool and tangle each other into uselessness, and red pigment proteins in muscle fibers turn grey as their molecular structure changes so drastically that it reflects an entirely different spectrum of light!
if you're a human being, you refer to this process as "cooking".
so when humans first started chucking chunks of mammoth into the fire way back when, they found they could use the fire to pre-digest the meat into useable protein chunks that take WAY less energy for your body to do something useful with, resulting in a net energy gain in the digestive process even though no extra energy was actually added to the meat!
in conclusion:
FIRE GOOD.
thanks for listening to my TED talk.
I'm not an expert here, but there's a similar thing going on with plants. Except instead of protein, it's polysaccharides like cellulose. We can digest a few of them as delicious, delicious starches, but others can't be absorbed by the intestine, and wind up as dietary fiber.
A lot of herbivores have incredibly long digestive tracts to ferment those polysaccharides into something digestible (this is why cows have so many stomachs). Humans can do a little of that--that's why beans make you fart. It's the gut bacteria breaking down polysaccharides and releasing gas in the process. Pills like Beano contain an enzyme to break down the polysaccharides before the bacteria get to it.
Anyway, all that is to say that, given we can't break down cellulose like a cow can, and since plant cells are wrapped up in a shell of cellulose, cooking breaks down the cellulose that encases plant cells enough that we can get access to whatever is inside (like vitamins, or more delicious, delicious starches).
not to derail this but it’s posts like these with such easy to digest (sorry) and passionate explanations to scientific questions that pushed me into the science education field. we might rag on some of the science side of tumblr posts from 2014 but actually that shit fucking slaps and comes in handy when teaching “complex” topics to people. the way this post is written is how i teach.
American Photographer, Joel Bissel, took stunning pictures of the frozen Michigan Lake in Chicago, covered by ice scales (x)
i think it's important to get deeply emotionally unironically involved in a bad piece of media whilst fully aware that it objectively sucks ass. like for your health or whatever