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karrakazz

wordcubed

korra-of-the-watertribe

#two dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyyyy

weepingchoir

When a book is bad, oh well, the failed artistry of one rube, maybe co-authors. But when a movie is bad, and you consider the military-like scale of production, man-hours, the money involved: you must understand, it feels like I’ve been at war with the world for 29 years.

elexuscal

#when a book is bad you can be like. wow what a fascinating insight into One Guy's personal issues#when a movie is bad it's like. hundreds of people thousands of hours and millions of dollars were marshalled to make this thing#and it Completely Sucks (@specialagentartemis)

yiffmaster

"sharks are older than trees" is technically true, but TIL that sharks were a marginal group until the mid-Jurassic (the middle of the Dino Age, ~200-150 mya), and all modern shark orders first appear around this time.

Before then, a different group of cartilaginous fish called hybodonts were the big apex predators. How were they different than sharks? Mostly because they had "boney" dorsal spines made out of dentine and enamel. Like teeth are. Like where would that tech have gone, if they'd survived and kept evolving for 200 million more years?

yiffmaster

TIL that sharks went thru a mysterious extinction event 19 million years ago, when 95% of populations and 70% of species disappeared. Sediment samples go from having 1 shark fossil for every 5 fish fossils, to 1 shark per 100 fish (does that mean that the ocean used to be like 16% shark??)

And there was no big climate change then, or extinctions of other groups! This research is pretty recent and no one has even an educated guess!

Two effects of this:

All of today's big ocean sharks (Great White, Tiger, Basking, etc.) all evolved from coastal sharks that survived this event. And,

Populations haven't recovered. Sharks as a group are still decimated, a shadow of their former selves for most of the last 200 million years.

sistertaxon

listen, i hate grogu as much as everyone else. But you CAN NOT let that spill over into hating baby yoda. Grogu is an annoying marketing gimmick from a blockbuster megacorporation. Baby Yoda is a LITERAL CHILD STAR being taken advantage of by basically every adult in his life. If you know anything about child stars you know how they're treated. We know from whistleblowers they're making him pull 12 hour filming days (again, as a LITERAL CHILD), and he's almost certainly not interacting with kids his age; they can do whatever they want to him because he doesn't have the experience to know any better. We already know they've got him on ozempic, god knows what the fuck else they have him on.

And before anyone brings it up, I DON'T CARE about how he acted at the met gala. He shouldn't have even been there in the first place, he's a child, of course he's going to act out, and he's been conditioned basically since birth to think that's okay because again. EVERY SINGLE ADULT IN HIS LIFE IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIM. He's literally the victim here and Disney is encouraging this. Until you all get a lot more youthlib i don't want to fucking hear your opinions on baby yoda.

slyandthefamilybook

oh no, the poor 50-year-old minor 😢

did we all just completely miss his bluesky posts? if you truly believe children should be treated like adults then we need to hold him accountable for the things he said

hyperrbolic-orange

Um. Okay. Wow. Cant believe I have to keep explaining this but "50 years old" is still an ACTUAL CHILD to Baby Yoda's species. Holding him to human developmental milestones and age standards is not only completely ridiculous and ignorant but it's also kinda bigoted, no offense?

And do not turn this around as me excusing the bluesky posts—no one is doing that. Obviously they were not okay, child or not, NO ONE should be saying that stuff. We arent saying "oh, he's just a little kid so it's fine, he has a free pass to do whatever," all were asking is for people to consider the greater context of WHY hes acting this way and lashing out and saying these things.

Like, the kid spends all day in front of a VFX screen being moved around by a stand in wearing a suit of armour—sometimes it's Pedro Pascal in that armor and I'm sure they have a great relationship but it isnt always. His whole life is faked and CGI'd in later.

Exploitation of child stars is already messed up, but it's just taken to a totally new level with Baby Yoda. He doesn't have the same protections as human kids and he's one of the last of his species, so you think he has parents looking out for him??? No one is.

You can hold him accountable and show compassion at the same time

#WarOnStarWars #FreeBabyYoda #NotYourPuppet

babushkaat

hunter-rodrigez

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visenyaism

this is gonna get me put on a list somewhere but if Rhaenyra and Daenerys could have met they would not end that interaction as friends Rhaenyra would be putting Daenerys in the SJW cringe compilation

visenyaism

this is such a good way of putting it she has no family and everything she knows about their legacy was from viserys who was romanticizing everything to cope and NOT a reliable source so dany is running around saying things like i must be like my ancestors and end slavery. because she just does not know

visenyaism

These are all so good

tamamita

onlyberry2

How the fuck does one run out of missiles when they have literally a trillion dollars to spend on them

tamamita

The problem is not the fact that they can't produce more missiles; they can. It's the fact that it takes a very long time to replenish equipment and munitions and sustain vital operations without disruption. Iran is producing missiles and drones at a rapid speed and at a low cost with the purpose of putting pressure on US bases and their air-defense/interceptor systems all over SWANA. However, it costs a fortune for the US to produce one missile: it is estimated that one Tomahawk missile costs 2.5 million dollars, while a Patriot anti-missile costs 4 millions dollars. Contrast this with the Shaheed drones that cost like 50.000 - 100.000 usd each. On top of that, much of the US air defense systems have already been destroyed, which means that they have to be replaced. This is why they had to pull a THAAD interceptor from South Korea and deploy it in SWANA. Second, they're also using much of their air defense and interceptor system in Ukraine, which is rapidly facing shortages.

Iran is simply waging a war of attrition, and the US can't keep up with the pressure, since these bases are far away from the imperial metropole. However, with Bibi visiting the WH tomorrow, it is likely that Trump will endorse a military campaign in coordination with the settler state.

15-lizards

Gwayne shooting to the top five of my hotd favorites list simply because he had the universal gay experience of giving a dead eyed stare and pretending not to care about not so subtlety being called a faggot by the republican head of the family then going to debrief with the woke little cousin <3

#hotd #gwayne hightower

despazito

the official white house twitter account just posted an ai trump vance parody of the full rick and morty intro

chinesecentury

Is there a gofundme for the iranian ballistic missile programme

mens-rights-activia

goldcrescent

Writing out Ormund’s kids to make Gwayne his heir is kind of batshit crazy. I’m assuming it’s a set up bc they want him to live but in that case he’s either he’s bi or the Hightowers are going extinct bc we already established the turkey baster method is not part of their scientific understanding. The lord paramount AND his heir are both 37-40yo bachelors, stop worrying about that family of evil swedes mama a succession crisis behind you!!

#hotd #house hightower