Very few internet arguments annoy me more than the "Thanos was right" bullshit. He was a goddamn idiot- you can rewrite reality and your whole idea is "too many people not enough resources gotta kill people"? You goddamn moron, then use your reality rewriting power to increase the amount of resources or to allow nature to recover from the impact of living creatures more readily or something. You're picking the laziest, most traumatic option because you're a lazy, unimaginative asshole. Stop pretending your ecofacism is benevolent.
Literally, the reasoning in the comics, where he just wants to impress the literal incarnation of Death was a more reasonable justification. And I'm tired of lazy jackasses pretending that he was enlightened when they just want their edgelord bullshit to sound smart.
Perfectly balanced? Bullshit, you people asshole, you killed billions and the only life you created was one shitty garden years later. That's not balanced at all.
Not to mention that his being able to sacrifice Gamora as something he "loved" is fucking awful writing. He did no such thing and it's insulting to her character to pretend otherwise.
Anyway, Infinity Wars and Endgame were where the MCU really started to fuck up a lot more in my book, and Thanos sucks.
Honestly, when all the "love sacrifice" angle was introduced, I was certain Thanos would sacrifice Gamorra, and it would NOT WORK. Seriously, Red Skull should have laughed in his face. Oh, you thought you loved her? You silly, pathetic man. You fucking idiot sandwich. You really want to sacrifice the thing you love the most?
I think Red Skull let him have the stone because he wanted to see the destruction Thanos would cause. He couldn’t win in the end but he could still see damage done and have a reckoning delivered to Earth.
“My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, binds us.”
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
dir. Irvin Kershner
History books often overlook a deeply human habit of Barack Obama during his presidency. On some of the most pressure-filled nights, he would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence—not to strategize or take calls, but to handwrite letters to ordinary Americans.
Every single night, he personally selected messages from the roughly 40,000 letters the White House received daily. His correspondence director, Fiona Reese, later shared that he would sometimes become emotional reading them, quietly folding certain letters before sitting down to respond. The replies were deeply personal, written with such care that many recipients described receiving them as one of the most meaningful moments of their lives. One steelworker from Ohio even wrote back saying Obama’s letter changed the course of a life-altering decision for his family.
What makes this practice even more powerful is the way he approached it. Obama refused to use a computer. He wrote first drafts on yellow legal pads with a black felt-tip pen, then rewrote each letter by hand on official White House stationery. As he later told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the physical act of writing forced a level of attention and presence that typing simply could not replicate.
That belief was shaped by his years teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004. He came to see democracy as something that only works when leaders stay closely connected to the real, often uncomfortable weight of individual human experiences—rather than viewing them from a distance through institutions or screens.
Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.
Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.
Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.
There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.
Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.
Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.
Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.
Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.
Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.
If you ever get to the point that things are so bleak you can see no other way forward but to die, make any other choice. If that means leaving everything you own and being a beach bum, or quitting your career, or taking up or leaving a religion, or deciding to bicycle across the country, so be it; living means more chances, dying means everything stops and you don't get to see any more interesting things. As you have not yet seen all the things that can interest you, it is better to live.
Not my usual post style but I WISH someone gave me this advice at 21. Now I'm nearly 30 and I'm grateful to have came across this post now rather than even later on in life.
If you're in the stage transitioning into adulthood (18-23) PLEASE take note of these, they are CRUCIAL (especially #1). People WILL take advantage of you if they see an opportunity to do so. Don't lose your whimsy, love yourself, but protect yourself also.
Cody lets his offer settle in the air between them for a moment. “Your thoughts?” he asks after a moment, casual and casually avoiding bumping into the corner they’re rounding.
Obi-Wan comes to a stop, hands vanishing into sleeves. His eyes drop to Cody’s lips for such a microscopic moment Cody thanks his abilities to see it anyway. “A bold suggestion, I must say.”
Don’t make me beg, Cody thinks and raises an eyebrow.
“Tempting as well,” Obi-Wan continues, eyes straying down again. “Tempting indeed.”
Cody bites his lip, making Obi-Wan’s gaze snap up. “I’ll order everything we need,” he says quietly, voice going low and raspy against his will. “Next shore leave. You, me, and the ancient GAR filing system.”
Over approximately 10 days, our Artemis II crew successfully completed a voyage around the Moon. They gave us stunning photos of the far side of the Moon, Earth, and a solar eclipse, along with inspirational messages, laughs, and even a few tears. Let's recap the Artemis II mission.
First step: fit check.
Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen got suited up and had their spacesuits checked to make sure they were ready to go to space.
Once their custom-fit suits were checked and the astronauts were ready, they walked out to greet the crowd at our Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After saying hi to everyone, including their families, the quartet made their way onto the Orion spacecraft that would carry them to the Moon.
The astronauts entered Orion and completed more checks. Next, the closeout crew closed the final hatch on Orion.
Then, it was time for the big moment – well, the first big moment of the mission: Liftoff!
Orion was on its way to the Moon, and the astronauts aboard had plenty to do.
They exercised…
and conducted interviews…
all while showing the camaraderie and collaboration that make missions possible.
And that means Rise, too! The little plush zero gravity indicator was a constant companion throughout the mission.
Finally, it was time for them to go around the Moon and observe its far side. As the astronauts began to describe features of the Moon that they saw, they had a heartfelt moment when suggesting that a crater be named after Reid's late wife, Carroll.
During the lunar flyby, the foursome experienced a solar eclipse that only they could see!
All throughout the mission, there were many moments of "Moon Joy."
After the crew completed their observation duties, it was time to start the journey back home.
On April 10, the Artemis II astronauts safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing the mission to a triumphant end.
These GIFs are just a taste of the amazing imagery and memorable moments from Artemis II. Relive it all on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASA
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