Pitäkää neidit huiveistanne kiinni

[rebelculture]

[wordfather]

i am not immune to a well choreographed fight scene with a fun song in the background

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[dsudis]

So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

[relevant-catnik]

Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[ruusverd]

Actual answer: the sheep know the dogs are not sheep, and they also know the dog is protecting them and take their cues from the dog about whether they need to run for the barn or can just ignore anything scary that approaches.

However, a friend once had an extremely premature orphan lamb born in December who had to live in the house for a couple of months with leg braces and all that, who due to spending her lambhood with dogs instead of sheep came out of the whole experience convinced she was a livestock guardian dog! She would patrol the perimeter of the fields every evening with the actual dog, stand watch in the barn door at night like the dog, and was more than willing to throw down if she saw something scary coming towards the flock the way the guard dog did. Tragically orphaned lamb did a convincing job at being a guard dog without actually having any of the biological advantages a dog has over a sheep.

Which I suppose made her Sheep Batman.

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#can somwone pleasw provide context to whatever the fuck op is referring to

[s-a-blotsky]

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[fatal-contagion]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Historically the Greeks (very broad version of that term) have indeed had a lot of military victories but it’s never not funny when they go “pfft what they can’t do anything they’re just barbarians” and then immediately get punched into next Tuesday

[what-even-is-thiss]

Personally I think that the Ancient Greeks had to invent the concept of hubris in an attempt to stop themselves from getting so full of themselves that they ran directly into a wall but it never worked

[what-even-is-thiss]

To this day a lot of Greeks are made uncomfortable by the idea that ancient Macedonia wasn’t Greek until they just kind of elbowed their way in there without much permission for a variety of reasons but one of those reasons is definitely that Phil and his son Big Alex kind of weren’t Greek and it was another instance of them going “barbarians? Conquering us? Yeah right” and then immediately having a piano dropped on their heads.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Pffft. As if some ethnos could conquer Sparta. *walks directly into a wall*

[myrnadalgleish]

downton abbey + haunted houses (part 4)

Ash by Tracy K. Smith

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[lt-sparrow]

muppets downton abbey. thomas is the only human.

[hearteyedfeelings]

Alicent Hightower when she sleeps in Harrenhal next episode:

[orrnament]

running up the hill to make a deal with god again. anyone need anything

[lily-learns-finnish]

Verb of the day: porottaa

Porottaa = to shine scorchingly

Aurinko porotti. = Aurinko paistoi. = The sun shone.

[ranahan]

”Kylläpäs porottaa!” Oh my, there are a lot of reindeers!

[ruttotohtori]

Porottaa niin että ihan hirvittää

[biosaatana]

Hirvittää niin että jänistin

[fairandcruel]

Jänistin ja nyt kaverit kettuilee

[kellopelinainen]

Kettuilee niin että oon käärmeissäni

[patrochilles-or-bust]

I think what made me the happiest about the Kendrick v Drake beef was that for a moment there, we were all listening to rap as rap is meant to be listened to. Active listening, media comprehension, focused, fun, and all to the sound of the spilled blood of a man's career being curb stomped. Generational experience. 10/10 would experience for the first time again.

[afurtivecake]

no seriously. first year of highschool they taught us about primary/secondary/tertiary sources and how they should be used. we were taught that someone who was quoting someone who was quoting someone who saw what happened is going to introduce error and bias and that we need to account for that in our research. and now people are like, "well, chatgpt told me___" and taking that as the absolute truth. well, my buddy jim told me that fruit bats lactate through their belly skin so why don't we all just believe me and my buddy jim.

[wizardarchetypes]

it's so crazy too bc i'll be like "this phrase/practice is being touted as ancient knowledge with a secret unbroken lineage, but it was quite literally made up in the 20th century. like we can trace it back to its very inception in like 1961." and someone will be like "that can't be true because my grandmother taught it to me." and i'm like yes your grandmother was 20 in 1961.