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sanlorenzoherald

good morning

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thatlittleegyptologist

You’ll need the link!

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

squareallworthy

Everyone will not just

If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.

memories-of-ancients

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

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localxenospores

i was compelled

beastoftheblackhole

I was also compelled

sometiktoksarevalid

bogleech

Doing this benefits these species tremendously. They can become so rare over such a vast area as people destroy the only plants they can eat, every single one that survives makes a positive difference!

marthajefferson

Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough as Ian Malcolm & John Hammond

JURASSIC PARK (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg

#jeff goldblum #richard attenborough #ian malcolm #john hammond #jurassic park #film quotes #scifi #classic #90s nostalgia

I've been playing a lot of MYST again, particularly MYST Online: Uru Live again (MO:ULa) since I played the recently released RIVEN remake on Steam (an 11/10, highly recommend!)

And in this renewed fervor for D'ni lore, I noticed something peculiar about the map of the cavern detailed in the mosaic floor tiling the antechamber of the Great Zero. At first glance, it looked as though they redesigned the map seen earlier; in MYST The Book of Ti'ana (1996), but I quickly realized that this was not the case!

It seems that, simply put, Aitrus' map's details deform exponentially the further away from the Great Zero you get. It stretches (particularly towards the lefthand side.) When I accounted for this, and distorted the map of the cavern tighter and to the right, it now nearly matches 1:1 with the mosaic. How cool is that?

#myst #uru live #the book of ti'ana #d'ni #d'ni cavern #maps #fantasy maps

kafk-a

i love tree news

unashamedly-enthusiastic

Oh gawd every time you think it's over it gers BETTER

🙌🏻 🙌🏻 🙌🏻 🙌🏻

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bryanrl

ninjaeris13

That little girl is going places

redpillwolf

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

donutcourse

Much of the ocean is a desert

an-aura-about-you

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

mrjmzack

“But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.” Amen!