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we're not kids anymore.
cherry valley forever

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this was so wild
Someone explain
The first sentence says 32 and 13 implying that the speaker is 32 years old and their girlfriend is 13 years old, which is both highly inappropriate and illegal. The next sentence reveals the speaker was talking about their game levels, not their ages, which is perfectly okay.
In their reply to the audience they then say they are picking her up from middle school, again implying that their girlfriend is underage, but quickly state she’s grading papers letting us know she’s a teacher, definitely an adult, and there no reason to be upset.
The rollercoaster gif portrays how switching from upset and worried to relieved in such a short period of time feels emotionally.
The next meme shows the guy panicking from misunderstanding, then feeling relieved and calm realizing the truth, only to panic over the next misunderstanding and then calm again when hearing the end.
the above explanation is followed by a picture of data from star trek with a speech bubble's tail coming out of him, implying he's the one saying all of that, which is humerous because the above text is written in a style similar to his speech patterns, and with a subject matter he would enjoy
This is the worst website ever and I love it.
I’ve discovered that when reading military history books you’ll sometimes come across a bit that says that the army had to “forage”
Sometimes this does mean that they were foraging. Hunting deer and picking berries and whatnot.
Sometimes though it actually means that they walked onto other people’s farms and just harvested and stole their crops and nobody happened to die that time.
Modern militaries have pretty insane logistics to keep their people fed.
Ancient and premodern militaries also had pretty large logistics but a not insignificant portion of their stuff almost always came from straight up stealing.
The stealing was also why a lot of people have historically agreed to join militaries voluntarily.
Sure the pay might be bad and the food inconsistent but there will be plenty of socially acceptable opportunities to steal things.
Historians call this booty or plunder. And yes that’s what it is. But it’s also stealing. They stole stuff. Often by force, sometimes through just the implication of force. Because if a whole army full of armored up trained soldiers goes through your wheat field what are you gonna do about it? Like seriously. What are you gonna do about it?
Probably just hope they don’t take all of it and hide in your house.
I’m finishing up that biography of Julius Caesar I started a while ago and Caesar was fairly merciful for the time period. He usually didn’t let his army plunder and raid and tried to pay them well instead, which worked only because his army liked him so much.
But when the historian Adrian Goldsworthy, as many other historians, describes Caesar’s army as “foraging” it appears that they’re actually coercing villages into letting them steal their crops.
As evidenced by the fact that if a village didn’t let them “forage” in their territory Caesar stopped enforcing his policy of not letting his army raid and pillage and just let them have at it. Raping, burning, and pillaging their way through the nearby countryside.
Even with a commander known historically for being unusually merciful, this was a thing. Take advantage of his forgiveness, assume he won’t burn down your village, don’t allow him entry, then, well, he takes the leash off of his attack dogs. So the message is clear. Give the army your stuff and you might live.
It still happens sometimes but these days it’s usually not done with the permission of the military leadership unless you’re talking about the soldiers of warlords or terrorist organizations. It is a war crime and not officially allowed anywhere.
Napoleon was probably one of the last generals to heavily rely on plunder for feeding his troops. He did so much in fact that one majorly successful strategy that his enemies used against him was to evacuate their civilian populations and burn their own fields and food storage to starve him out.
After the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s and the massive amount of human cost involved in them, attitudes towards the practice started to sour. It was first officially classified as a war crime after The Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907.
So basically the idea of pillaging being an unacceptable thing to do is fairly recent and it still occasionally happens under the table.
The reason it took so long is probably also the reason that it’s taking so long for death penalties and torture to fully phase out. Pre-industrial societies don’t often have the practical resources to feed thousands of soldiers thousands of miles away or to imprison people or keep track of them after they’ve committed a crime.
These days we have planes, trains, and automobiles, not to mention efficient enough farming techniques that most of our populations don’t need to work in agriculture and/or forage and hunt to survive. We can get food and people to the other side of the world in less than two days and dedicate space and resources to imprisoning people or keeping track of them while they’re on house arrest.
Before industrialization all of this was stupidly difficult. Why waste food on criminals and soldiers and waste able bodied people getting the food to them? If the food survives long enough anyways.
So the simplest solution is stealing and death. Kill the criminals to get them out of the way, let the soldiers steal food so you don’t have to waste resources and manpower feeding them.
It’s brutal, it sucks, there were more humane solutions, but it was practical and convenient.
You have heard of Doppelgangers, now get ready for the Authentic Grotesques. They use their magic powers to become an EVEN MORE REAL version of you. If anything, you are the impostor.
I face this monster type every time I go into work
What is the best lancer mech and why Pegasus is the correct answer?
napoleon
exactly. playing lancer is a sin. running napoleon means neither you nor anyone else will play lancer. return now to the holy practice of Contemplating Builds
Pokémon Gold and Silver floral patterns
Not sure why I'm seeing discourse on MTG today when I never do otherwise, but it's hard not to like this
referencing of course
Some real Louvre of comics stuff (Spider-Man and the X-men, issue 2)
Also it's nice they have stegron the dinosaur man in the background of the card, most a d lister can for.
I like that they've stayed consistent with the meme with the card's design in that, as a player, you'd likely rarely be picking the "cure cancer" option. Top tier card tbh
Not sure why I'm seeing discourse on MTG today when I never do otherwise, but it's hard not to like this
referencing of course
Some real Louvre of comics stuff (Spider-Man and the X-men, issue 2)
Also it's nice they have stegron the dinosaur man in the background of the card, most a d lister can for.
Flygon (2024) - Illustration Contest Top 100 Illustrator: rou
So back in 2005, I saved up my own money, dollar by dollar, scrimping and saving every nickel and quarter, to buy my very first "just for me" video game- Devil May Cry 3. It was the first game I ever finished by myself, on my own, never having watched anyone else play it before. It was tough, and SUPER frustrating at points, but I loved it. The whole thing was a very special experience for me and that game holds an important place in my heart,
A few years after finishing it, I was talking to a friend who had just played it. He was saying how he dumped all of his orbs (game currency) into upgrading his minimum health pool and how he wanted to start over with a different build.
I stared at him. "Wait, what?" He repeated- he dumped all his orbs into increasing his minimum HP and just tanked a bunch of stuff.
That was when I realized that you could upgrade your minimum health. I had not noticed that you could spend orbs to do that. I spent them on everything else OTHER than upgrading my health bar. I literally spent so so so frikkin long beating the game with MINIMUM. HP. I WOULD HAVE HAD SAVED SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY IF I HAD JUST FRIKKIN NOTICED THAT INCREASING MY MINIMUM HEALTH WAS EVEN AN OPTION. NO WONDER I HAD TO REDO THE SAME FIGHTS 20 TIMES. NO WONDER EVERYTHING WAS SO. DIFFICULT. I COMPLETELY just missed a crucial element to gameplay and specs and I basically played the game entirely incorrectly, exerting WAY more effort to get the same results as anyone who actually took time to examine the obvious upgrade options.
Anyway, that's what discovering that I have ADHD in my 30s has been like.
Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the middle of the twentieth century, and the material remains stable for decades. Then, in a flash, they can dramatically decompose. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.
From Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell, 2002.
hello beautiful
mouldy dice monday?
The missile, in fact, does not know where it is, in a lot of homing methods
Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.
Time to enter the GAMER ZONE
Camera, printer, sewing machine, now a fucking anaesthetic adminstrator…was there anything the Game Boy didn’t have an accessory for?
Do you know about the fish finding sonar?
gameboy sprinted so smart phones could lag and be ugly
med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times
"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you
I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.
This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.
I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.
i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.
every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.
not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.
"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!
Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills
Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕