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Dna | he/they/she | 🏳️‍🌈 | Fandom trash | I dunno, you're the one who's here

[doctorcurdlejr]

I can be normal about things. Don't look at my blog.

[frontmansdefender]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Big and small henchmen for the villain in one of those secret-life-of-mice movies from the 80s

[wickedsnack]

[ephemeratal]

Non-exhaustive list of people hannibal would eat in the year 2025:

-person watching tiktok in public without headphones. dead

-influencer filming him without consent. dead

-person recording the entire opera on their phone in the front row. dead

-guy cornering him at a party to convince him to buy into his crypto scam. dead

-patient who found his drawings and put them into chatgpt to make them move or whatever. dead

-joe rogan

[redstonedust]

watching a lot of anime and highschool dramas as a kid made me really believe 'student council' would be a bigger problem in my life.

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

jane austen said "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." and proceeded to make one of the most iconic austen girls of all time so like. keep making annoying and cringe and overpowered ocs and love them to bits even if no one else will.

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[ozempicofficial]

[pjsk--shitposts]

My new favorite genre of image is Ensekai YouTube slander where people make puns about the lack of costumes

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[homunculus-argument]

I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?

One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.

The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.

[forgetfulalice]

this sounds like yet another american issue ive never heard about

hope people learn common sense idk

[homunculus-argument]

I'm from Finland. We have clearly and neatly labeled bike paths and people who don't react to the sound of a bike bell love walking on the bicycle side specifically.

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[redstonedust]

ive been thinking about how some trans spaces and media lack representation of bottom surgery and itd be nice if we could talk about and depict it more. but my attempts to formulate this into a coherent thought lead me to standing in front of the microwave idly thinking "we should normalize men with penises" as if thats a brave new frontier nobody has ever considered.

[mevil]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Listen we all know NFTs were a grift and all that but it still baffles me that they got past the naming stage. "These are called non fungible tokens" yes most assets are non-fungible actually. Non-fungibility is the default. "Yeah but these are tokens" you do realise that the advantage of 'tokens' is their fungibility, yes? A US dollar is a US dollar. A chuck-e-cheese token is a chuck-e-cheese token. The fungibility is intrinsic to the function. What you've made is not something that it makes any sense to call a token. I know it's just spicy finance crimes but like. Let's put some effort into the PR. As least cryptocurrency got an accurate name. What kind of asset are you pretending to have here. "Non fungible token" pick a fucking side.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this post made me realise i dont know what fungible means#english is my second language#but im basically fluent#but through all the nft bullshit#i never realised i didn't know the word#prob say something about the general understanding

Something is fungible when it is completely interchangeable with its own kind in a trade or exchange. For example, currency is fungible -- one US dollar can be traded with another US dollar and essentially nothing has happened. The two dollars might be physically different -- most currencies are marked with serial numbers in case they need to be tracked due to theft or counterfeiting or whatever -- but in trade this doesn't matter. The specific dollar you have has no effect on anything -- any dollar is every dollar. Electricity is another fungible asset -- once it's in the system, it makes no difference whether the electricity you're using was developed in a coal plant or a nuclear plant or a solar panel. (Electricity, unlike coins, is physically identical which means you can't even have non-fungible edge cases like collectible coins.)

Houses, or racehorses, or paintings, are non-fungible. You can trade these just like money or electricity, but one house is not equal to every house -- their values will change relative to each other, and which house or horse or painting you have matters. If you want to economically model the value of houses as assets and trade goods, you can't do so in the unit of "house" -- you have to convert it to a fungible currency, like the dollar or the megawatt-hour, first. (You can create an "average house value" and mark the value of every house as a certain percentage above or below it, but this is just currency with extra steps. Now you've invented a fungible token useful only in comparing and trading houses. Hooray.)

Animorphs fans get a +2 to knowing what "fungible" means because KA Applegate used the word wrong once in 1998 and the book was bad enough that we all eventually learned what the word meant from each other making fun of it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Anchoring value on some sort of fungible token is what differentiates your typical currency-based economic system from a system of barter. When people talk about how we should "give up money and go back to bartering", this is essentially the difference. (Of course, you can barter with money, and people do so all the time, but when people talk about "going back to barter" they usually mean a largely mythical system in which fungible currency is absent.) If you have some sort of fungible token in your society which people can reliably expect demand for, you have a currency, whether de facto or government controlled -- it can be dollars, or gold pieces, or cowrie shells, or mana points, or cups of grain, or space credits, or computer processing cycles; it doesn't matter. If you do not have some sort of fungible token with reliable demand, then you cannot have a large-scale currency and things like taxation and trade agreements become an absolute fucking nightmare. So that's a fun worldbuilding tip if you want to build fun weird societies.

The ease in which your tokens can be produced, preserved, transported, traded or consumed can also have a big effect on the type of society you have -- a society in which credits are produced and backed by the government has extremely different concerns re: the control and verification of their currency than does a society on the Cup Of Grain Standard, where the amount of 'money' in a society fluctuates wildly but is more closely grounded in material prosperity. The necessity of control over production and verification is much higher in the former, but concerns over transport and trade are much higher in the latter. The social and cultural impacts are also very different between the two (it's easier to save gold for retirement than to save wheat for retirement, but easier to cash in wheat in a famine.)

[kingcatnine]

we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs