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we all know adult humans dont get enough enrichment but the other day i was walkin home past an empty playground and impulsively ran over to spin myself on this zipline merry-go-round contraption for a few minutes and it really did feel like it unlocked some neglected part of my brain. like damn we really should all go outside and play more. fuck. they werent kidding with this play time thing. have you guys heard about play time. it could be huge.
i was 138 days into menopause this time goddammit!!!
Ryan Goslingâs career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower
that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now heâs famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.
Iâm obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah
I usually disable all the health stuff in the iPhone Health app but i opened it today check something completely unrelated when i decided to scroll down the "All Health Data" section and i've apparently fallen down a lot?? on one day in January 2015 in particular
scale time
the number above is 1.00e81 (1 with 81 zeros).
There's 86,400 seconds in a day. A femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second. there are 8.64e19 femtoseconds in a day. i would have to fall down at least 1e61 times per quadrillionth of a second to reach that number
apparently a fall creates 2-4kN of force so lets split the difference and say 3kN so thats 3e81 kN of cumulative force applied over a 24 hour period to roughly, i dunno a square meter or two. i have no idea how to quantify that but im pretty sure that's an erosive force that can move mountains
presuming im invincible, i dont think the elasticity of like, granite can even keep up with the frequency of the impact. interesting conundrum
i failed to consider the speed involved here in order to fall 1e81 times in a 24h period.
i'm 178cm tall, and in order to fall repeatedly, you have to get back up again (isnt there a song about this?) so one complete fall cycle is 356 cm, or 0.00356 km.
i traveled 0.00356km 1e81 times so thats 3.56e78 km/day, so 86400 seconds in a day thats 4.12037037037e73 km/sec.
i have absolutlely annihilated everything and broken the speed of light, which is a measly 299,792.458 km/sec. everything is gone. everything.
I get knocked down
but I get up again
10^81 times
so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes âhey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.â
iâm like âyou can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. thatâs like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.â
iâm expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go âwe want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!â
so iâm like âalright letâs do it!!!!â and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s
after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the childrenâs department in that same duckling parade style
truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight
It's not about the genealogy department
It's about kids learning that they can go where they want to go, it's about kids seeing what the world (library) has to offer and expanding the range of options in their minds
I love this so much
Good news! This story exists, itâs called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
the 20th century is crazy what do you mean that airplanes didnt exist in 1900 and by 1999 Futurama was airing
A lot of companies that make things have two separate lines: consumer and enterprise. Consumer is for us poors that the company doesn't need to respect. You can buy more expensive, higher tier consumer items but it's just as fragile. You're paying for more bells and whistles. Enterprise grade is stuff that will actually last because it is often sold in a lot as part of a contract and the contract won't be renewed if the items suck. These things are often just not sold to consumers because why would you ever buy consumer-grade garbage if you could buy this?
For something like computers, this looks like how pricey "gAmiNG" laptops look all fancy but fall apart in about the same timeframe as the lower end laptops for students. But if you've ever handled the sort of laptops for banks or businesses, you'd wonder why laptops can't all be like this. People swear by Lenovo Thinkpads for a reason. Dell's Latitude (general productivity) and Precision (has the power of a gaming laptop but far less bs) lines, HP's probooks, all feel really nice and last for-fucking-ever. But you can't buy them in a store even if you wanted one.
So the trick is to buy what big organizations are buying, but you likely gotta get 'em secondhand when the orgs are done with them. For basic clothes, mil surplus might be a good port of call, for technology see an e-waste recycler or sometimes government auction (you just gotta know what to ask for; ThinkPads, Dell Latitude/Precision, HP Probook/Zbook). Otherwise try to thrift old, pre-enshitification items. The blanket I had as a kid is still going strong and has lived to bury multiple sets of newer bedding (which have worn thin and torn). Kitchen items, see if you can shop at a restaurant supplier.
TL;DR: if you need an item, think "which business needs these to function" and see where they 1) buy theirs (suppliers) or 2) sell their old ones (surplus) and buy that. If you can't do that, look at older, pre-enshitification things.
writing tip #4161:
you don't need to know every detail of a scene before you start writing! just the beginning, the middle, the end, which characters are involved, what they do, every line of dialogue, what clothes they're wearing, what they had for breakfast that morning, the weather,
literally my favorite type of tweet
She's hilarious, I love her
why am i crying in the shower you ask? oh, because eva stratt had to make the one single difficult decision she faced during the whole Project timeline and it was the best thing that ever happened to grace and rocky and to both planets and the worst thing that ever happened to her. so no reason.
'the moral of project hail mary is that unfortunately eva stratt was right' 'the moral of project hail mary is that friendship will make you braver than you ever believed you could be' WRONG!!! the moral of project hail mary is BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE YOUR THESIS ON
ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image
the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into âinclusive restroomsâ and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that couldâve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. Iâve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you
you know whatâs wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we donât even value in another person? like iâve never been like âwow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelingsâ or âmy favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight Aâs and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problemâ or âi love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their lifeâ and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldnât even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us
there are words being said that have never been said before
