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The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany

This is what I show people to blow their minds, but unfortunately I can't stop thinking, "yeah it looks small on a global scale, but what exactly would it take to put solar panels across an area half the size of Portugal?"

ensoua

*asexual laughter*

sumireko-usami-deactivated20151

*homosexual laughter*

zimzlym

*bisexual considerate muttering*

pragnificent

*genderqueer requesting clarification as to what is meant by ‘opposite sex’*

stephendann

*Bill Clinton requesting clarification as to what is meant by ‘sex’”

minstrelwarlock

i mean let's get real. I'm heterosexual and I will absolutely take 36.5 million dollars a year over sex.

psych2go

Our psychological state allows us to see only what we want/need/feel to see at a particular time. What are the first three words that you see?

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redbird18

Time, Happiness, Intelligence

redbird18

musicalartistry

Popularity, money, love.

minstrelwarlock

nez (French for nose), popularity, freedom

So basically I want to be Adrien Brody? Seems accurate.

punionrings

"you can’t be a pansexual, you’ve only been in three relationships and they’ve all been with cis guys"

oh sorry i wasn’t aware i needed the eight pansexual badges before i was considered a pansexual master

minstrelwarlock

Sexuality isn't who you fuck; it's who you WANT to fuck. A small but vastly important distinction.

#sexuality

fromonesurvivortoanother

The whole “earth is round not flat” thing as a major scientific discovery is a very Western-centric thing

Arab and Asian empires had mathematically proven the earth was round way before white people

martianaviator

Arab mathematicians had calculated the circumference of the Earth hundreds of years before Columbus sailed. Even the ancient Greeks knew the world was round and provided their own estimates for size. The real reason nobody except Spain would give Columbus money to go to Asia was because the math had been done and everybody knew the journey from Europe to Asia by sailing west was ridiculously longer than Columbus was claiming. Columbus wasn’t just bad at geography, he also flunked math.

minstrelwarlock

Yeah. The whole "earth is round not flat" thing being a discovery is actually pretty much bullshit. The Greeks knew it was round, and by extension (because Aristotle's stuff survived into the Middle Ages) Medieval peeps did too. In fact, the Arab mathematicians who knew the earth is round were borrowing that idea from the Greeks, especially Aristotle's stuff, which was what basically all of their astronomy was based on.

I'm all for removing the blatantly Western-centric aspects of our history textbooks, and promoting the idea that the West is not the most super amazing and perfect society, but this is actually a case where the history textbooks underestimate our capabilities and knowledge.

-0rgasmic

How to get laid

gromit-we-forgot-the-crackers

Lay on bed

Wait 2 hours

Lay becomes past tense

What if you only lay on your bed for one hour

tardisdelorean

Then it’s just the present progressive. You’re laying.

minstrelwarlock

And it's still wrong, because you would "lie" on your bed, and then after you were done you could say you "lay" on your bed, because the past tense of "lie" is "lay." If you want to get laid hire a giant to lay you down somewhere. Then you got laid.

suckingonluxury

"I’m used to it"

-The saddest thing you can hear someone say. (via suckingonlarry)

#this phrase used to be sad for me #but then i got used to it

minstrelwarlock

The Most Disappointing Thing About My Most Favorite Franchise:

So they’ve announced one woman and six men to be in the cast of the new Star Wars. Because it’s not like Star Wars wasn’t already a massive sausagefest.

geek-ramblings

Correction: They have announced 8 Men, 1 minority and 2 woman (Yes we already knew about Kerri Fisher, but still) , with 1 major female role that still hasn’t been cast… So in the end their will be 8 Men. 1 Minority. 3 Woman.

minstrelwarlock

Edit (my original reblog of this missed the point): YES. I didn't mention it, but you're right. There is only one minority, which is ridiculous when it's set in a fictional universe and they have unlimited ability to cast whoever they want in whatever roles they want.

Side note: how much you wanna bet Daisy's only playing the love interest for the main character? (doubling down: he won't be the black guy)

#star wars #star wars episode 7 #star wars episode seven #star wars episode VII #sw #star wars cast

leseanthomas-deactivated2021030

Anytime I see brilliant, inventive and inspired 2D animation it’s always from Gobelins in France. Sigh.

minstrelwarlock

A lot of the greatest Hanna Barbera, Disney, Universal, Pixar, Dreamworks, and Warner Bros animators and directors came from this school.

For instance take this one dude Bibo Bergeron. Here's a partial filmography (including writing/directing/animating credits):

Fievel Goes West Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Fern Gully Shark Tale We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story A Goofy Movie The Iron Giant Road to El Dorado

The Most Disappointing Thing About My Most Favorite Franchise:

So they've announced one woman and six men to be in the cast of the new Star Wars. Because it's not like Star Wars wasn't already a massive sausagefest.

#star wars #star wars episode 7 #star wars episode seven #star wars cast #sw #feminism #representation #star wars episode vii

georgemallory-deactivated201604

nothing will fuck you up as much as the realization that there’s no real reason the alphabet needs to be in order

lightinth3-dark

I HATE THIS TEXT POST

minstrelwarlock

The Latin alphabet is arbitrarily ordered, but some alphabets are actually ordered by where the sounds are placed in the mouth, or the "type of sound" they make. For instance Kiowa goes vowels, then stop consonants front to back (P and M before G or K), from negative to positive voice-onset time, then affricates, fricatives, liquids, and nasals.

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urbendisaster

what?

feather-in-my-cap-and-cheese-de

The wheels take impact and stress off your legs, and the position helps your spine, but you’re still doing running motions instead of biking motions, so your legs are getting a good workout, and you can go for longer

xbox420-deactivated20141118

nerdy shit aside, iamgine how sick it must be to just let those feet fly into the air and do superman poses down a highway

minstrelwarlock

That is the Fliz. This is the Uni-Fliz: http://i.imgur.com/4xjj4.png

dearcoquette

On grammar

you shouldn’t be such a bitch about grammar. only uppity 15 year old ‘gifted’ girls who reblog harry potter do that. as long as one is intelligible, whatever dude. some of the greatest writers of all time have ignored many facets of grammar. it doesn’t make you an idiot. it just means you are more right-brained, and those people are better writers anyways. grammar is the most mathematical and lifeless part of language. essential, yes, but getting on everyone’s ass about petty grammatical things just shows what an insecure little bully YOU are. have fun with your harry potter, sweet cheeks

I don’t know who’s filling the right side of your brain with this lazy bullshit, but starting your sentences with lowercase letters does not make you ee cummings.

Great writers can ignore grammar because they know it in the first place, and a condescending opinion on top of a shitty attitude isn’t evidence that you know anything at all.

This isn’t about rules. Fuck the rules. This is about fundamental beauty inherent in the system. If you want to deconstruct the language in furtherance of personal expression, by all means, I’ll give you a poetic license to kill, but don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.

I can tell the difference between a deliberate and meaningful manipulation of words and the ramblings of some half-retarded teenager who wouldn’t know where to stick an apostrophe unless I lubed it up and put it in myself.

This shit isn’t petty. I’m not walking around with a red pen and a stick up my ass. People write to me for help with their problems, and if I’m pointing out that they can’t string a sentence together, it’s for a reason.

Mastery of language is the primary indication of intelligence, education, and grace, and the inability to effectively communicate is at the core of pretty much all the mental anguish we inflict on ourselves.

Just being intelligible isn’t enough. Style matters. Make all the excuses you want, but whether it’s on paper or on the street, if you come at me all sloppy, I’m not gonna respect you.

I’ve got standards, motherfucker.

minstrelwarlock

This got very close to literally giving me an erection.

skippyjif

minstrelwarlock

I'm adapting this to the full story. Look for it on shelves and/or in cinemas very soon. You probably won't find it, but look for it anyway. Hopefully it will create demand.