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I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe
A Series of Seaside Mishaps.
I'm starting a collection
‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.
Source: BBC
I love pathetic men. Like oh he’s so sad and wet eyed and gross. He’s my mostest specialist boy in the world. He’s gonna put his head in my lap and cry. I’m gonna fuck him and make him breakfast
motherofmemes
No because it IS hot
Queen stuff
Can someone translate what she said
“Oh really? YOU’RE going to teach me Russian? Well you better bring the vodka and caviar, *sweetheart*.” -Translation from @cripplepunk-sylveon
I love the way people’s voice changes when they switch languages.
This a legit thing. I speak Japanese at a noticeably higher pitch than I do English. Different intonation too.
Spanish I speak at the same pitch more or less but my tone and rhythm are different.
pounce!
She did her best
she’s learning
Good fundamentals
spicy leopard in the making
i guess it’s time to talk about halloween candy again! in short: you should eat it if you want to!
a healthy relationship with food absolutely involves what we call “fun foods”– foods you eat bc you enjoy them (taste, memory associations, celebration, etc.) even if you’re not in need of their nutritional value. pleasure is GOOD and it’s good to experience it thru food! and if you are in need of calories and free candy can help provide them, wonderful.
remember the intuitive eating concepts of unconditional permission to eat and challenging the food police. you get to have as much candy as you want, whenever you want it. that means you can have some now, and you can have some later, too. there’s no need to freeze it or throw it out to prevent yourself from eating it–the candy is not dangerous or “sinful.” this is a great opportunity to practice following your body’s cues, and to trust them.
if you’ve been candy-restricted in the past, you might eat more than you’re comfortable with. you might even feel sick to your stomach. that’s good data! note it, and reject guilt–you’re learning. and guess what, you STILL have unconditional permission to eat. if you find yourself wanting more in the future, you can have it (this also lets you stop when you want to, bc the candy and your permission to eat it aren’t going anywhere). experiment. observe. trust.
so instead of approaching one of the best parts of this holiday with fear and defensive planning, approach it with curiosity: which candies do you enjoy? how much of them feels good? how does unconditional permission affect your candy-eating behavior, in the short and long term? what’s it like to just eat it sometimes, without doing any mental work at all?? have fun! you’re gonna be okay!
rebranding into an aggressive bitch. Its over for you bitches!!!!!
No, no no no no I don't think you understand.
Why are my tits THIS big???
AND THEY'RE A PRETTY AVERAGE SIZE????
For context:
I have not looked down before, for fear I would never want to look up at anything as scrumptious as my tatas
Unfortunately, I was right
No, no no no no I don't think you understand.
Why are my tits THIS big???
AND THEY'RE A PRETTY AVERAGE SIZE????
"some reason" :^)
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima If you can GUARANTEE that nothing even APPROACHING those could EVER happen under ANY circumstances Then I will fold to Nuclear Power
Coal mining releases more radiation to the biosphere than nuclear power, even taking into account nuclear accidents.
Cool So ditch coal That does not make nuclear the solution
and what are you going to replace it with? when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?
inb4 batteries, can you spot the batteries in this graph?
that's the world's second (maybe third idk) LARGEST battery installation. it cost A$160 million. it's a fucking rounding error on a TINY grid.
I am not going to replace one resource we can’t renew, causes cancer, poisons the land and cannot be stored or recycled with another. That waste always has to come up somehow because it will outlast literally everything else.
cannot be stored
or recycled
That waste always has to come up somehow because it will outlast literally everything else.
that's not how radioactive decay works you scientifically ignorant moron. I am begging you read a single grade school level physics book.
why do you have such strong opinions about something you obviously don't have a single fucking clue about? doesn't it get embarrassing being this fucking wrong on the internet?
anyway you didn't answer the question, where are you going to get the electricity from? while electrifying EVERYTHING? or are you one of those primmies who thinks we should dismantle industrial society? then start with yourself and log the fuck off so the rest of us don't have to suffer the displeasure of interacting with you.
If I may committ the faux pas of double posting (Maybe triple, I think I got three responses) What I have learned tonight As I am learning much more often as I get older. Is that I have some reading to do And some high school level preconceptions to get rid of. I stopped learning about this at some point. And I spoke as if I hadn’t.
I didn't think I'd ever see kircheis', uh, intense way of arguing would lead anybody to rethink their position.
In any case this much open mindedness has to be commended.
Excuse me for quoting a dead meme But they had me with facts and logic. The only knowledge I’d ever had was stuff I’d gotten in school or thought I had absorbed better than I had. With nuclear towers as these smoke spewing monsters constently bubbling with glowing green ooze, barrel after barrel, day in and out But then I looked at how much nuclear waste is created for a given amount of power, compared to how much oil slicked slurry is produced for the same amount of coal. And I realized that I was staring at cold hard numbers that told me I didn’t know shit about shit. I could have dug in my heels and made myself look like some reactionary asshole with my head in the sand. Or I could take a breath, swallow my pride. And admit I was wrong on the internet. It’s a habit I’m trying to form.
@nitpickrider gets based award of the day, topic independent too, chad move.
the hardest thing someone can ever do is admit they were wrong. I had to, too. same situation, as well.
if you are skeptical of nuclear power, I highly suggest doing your own research. don't just blindly believe what you see from shit like godzilla or the Simpsons.
not once on one of these threads have I ever seen anyone address that nuclear fuel also needs to be mined.. like if mining coal is awful and pollutes the environment wtf do you think mining radioactive ore does? especially since it's a lot more rare. like look at the damage done to the grand canyon ecosystem caused by uranium mining specifically
ok first of all most of the pollution from coal comes from BURNING IT (but it is of course a shit deal for the miners too), but secondly you need about 2 million times less uranium than coal for the same amount of energy. it's something like one coke can per person for their entire lifetime. and that's with a once-through fuel cycle. with breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing you can get like 20-50 times more energy out of the same fuel.
and it's not like you don't need any mining for other energy sources. wind turbines are made of STEEL with a SHIT TON of copper wiring inside, not unicorn farts and dreams. in fact, you need a lot MORE because solar and wind are enormously more diffuse than, what is it, 800 000 000 GJ/m^3 or something like that.
plus all the cobalt and lithium and rare-earths for all the batteries you'll need with all VRE.
this chart is harder to read but here's now it works. if we switched our grids to use ONLY the power source at hand, how would material requirements change compared to today? so the massive yellow circle for solar means silver use would skyrocket. copper usage would still be MUCH higher than silver, but relative increase is smaller (but still > an order of magnitude). with nuclear you need a lot more uranium (duh) but only marginally more nickel, and the rest of the materials GO DOWN in usage.
uranium can be extracted with in-situ leeching with minimal environmental impact. if you're worried about the environmental impact of mining you should be a fan of nuclear power!
again this comes back to just moronic, completely unscientific special pleading where uranium gets treated as unique evil instead of evaluated against realistic alternatives according to consistent, objective standards. pure *sniffs* ideology.
thank you for being a cunt in the tags! if you knew anything about me or my stance at all then you know that I care quite a lot about all mining practices, including the rare earth metals and am extremely pro recycling and efficiency efforts towards finding energy solutions that aren't just efficient but RENEWABLE. and while it takes less ore to actually fuel things, it comes at the cost of being harder to find (bc it is rare) and the process of mining it being even more destructive and bad for the environment. ANY amount of mining is extremely ecologically damaging, also.
yes nuclear is way more efficient and if I had to choose between coal and nuclear I would obviously choose nuclear, however I think it's incredibly short sighted to dismiss not fuel consuming options and to preach as though nuclear is the infallible solution to our energy problems. We are learning how to recycle wind turbines and solar panels. our technology is getting more and more efficient. we're discovering more forms of energy storage and generators. also, that image is dated for 2013 and I know for a fact we've made numerous advances in power technology since then, including solar generating material made from fucking vegatables. I would much rather invest into learning to recycle rare metals and repurpose tech and do as much as we can with as little mining as possible and find sustainable solutions, then decide eh the damage is small enough we can let future generations worry about it.
Just because nuclear is better than coal doesn't mean it's the end option, and we need to look away from short sighted options! people thought coal would never run out or cause problems, and they were proven wrong within a couple centuries. I especially don't trust these posts that preach how nuclear is the perfect solution that refuse to acknowledge the incredible ecological damage just getting the fuel causes, ESPECIALLY when they criticize coal for the same thing in the same damn post.
Here is an article about the process of mining uraniam. there are two methods- strip minging, aka making massive pits and digging out the earth to get to the material. or 2, pumping chemicals into the groundwater to dissolve the ore and then leech it up.
and in case you can't understand the scale of that:
"Although nuclear is often touted as a clean energy which is many times more environmentally friendly than fossil fuel based power, nuclear power stations come with their own set of problems. One of the greatest of these is the mining process to extract uranium from the Earth. This is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of mining on the planet for a number of reasons."
actually I'm not done, because I found this article and Christ. feel free to take some of this with a grain of salt since this article is from 2011, but some of it still absolutely applies.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels, but
some highlights:
-Abbott estimates that to supply 15 TW with nuclear only, we would need about 15,000 nuclear reactors
-Land and location: One nuclear reactor plant requires about 20.5 km2 (7.9 mi2) of land to accommodate the nuclear power station itself, its exclusion zone, its enrichment plant, ore processing, and supporting infrastructure.
-Lifetime: Every nuclear power station needs to be decommissioned after 40-60 years of operation due to neutron embrittlement - cracks that develop on the metal surfaces due to radiation. If nuclear stations need to be replaced every 50 years on average, then with 15,000 nuclear power stations, one station would need to be built and another decommissioned somewhere in the world every day. Currently, it takes 6-12 years to build a nuclear station, and up to 20 years to decommission one, making this rate of replacement unrealistic.
-Uranium abundance: At the current rate of uranium consumption with conventional reactors, the world supply of viable uranium, which is the most common nuclear fuel, will last for 80 years. Scaling consumption up to 15 TW, the viable uranium supply will last for less than 5 years. (Viable uranium is the uranium that exists in a high enough ore concentration so that extracting the ore is economically justified.)
basically:
“Due to the cost, complexity, resource requirements, and tremendous problems that hang over nuclear power, our investment dollars would be more wisely placed elsewhere,” Abbott said. “Every dollar that goes into nuclear power is dollar that has been diverted from assisting the rapid uptake of a safe and scalable solution such as solar thermal.”
wow you find one article citing one guy, I'm so fucking impressed, your research skills are almost on the level of youtube mums who did their own research on vaccines. congratulations on your diploma!
-Abbott estimates that to supply 15 TW with nuclear only, we would need about 15,000 nuclear reactors
wow he can divide 15000 TW by 1 GW/reactor, I am so impressed. do you know how many wind turbines that is? the biggest ones have nameplate capacity around 5 MW and you get maybe 50% capacity factor if you're really fucking generous, so we're talking about 15 TW /(2.5 MW/turbine) ≈ 6 MILLION wind turbines at least. solar panels, ok solar insolation is about 1.3 kW/^2 and you get maybe 30% thermodynamic efficiency and 30% capacity factor, so 150 W/m^2. that's 100 BILLION 1 m² solar panels. wow, number big. newsflash. the world is big.
One nuclear reactor plant requires about 20.5 km2 (7.9 mi2) of land to accommodate the nuclear power station itself, its exclusion zone, its enrichment plant, ore processing, and supporting infrastructure.
it's totally misleading to include the "exclusion zone" in any estimate of the land use of nuclear power. you don't put a chernobyl-style exclusion zone around a working reactor. the footprint of the nuclear power plant itself is about 3.5 km²/GW. build 15 TW and you get something less than the size of west virginia. for the world's entire energy production. see you're just going "wow number big, big number scary!" without any context like a fucking child.
wow nuclear power uses so much land, all of *checks notes* 10 times less than solar and 40 times less than wind.
-Lifetime: Every nuclear power station needs to be decommissioned after 40-60 years of operation due to neutron embrittlement - cracks that develop on the metal surfaces due to radiation. If nuclear stations need to be replaced every 50 years on average, then with 15,000 nuclear power stations, one station would need to be built and another decommissioned somewhere in the world every day. Currently, it takes 6-12 years to build a nuclear station, and up to 20 years to decommission one, making this rate of replacement unrealistic.
there are reactors online today that have licenses to operate 80 years, but sure, make shit up and lie all you want if it makes you feel better. and again you're implicitly not putting this in any kind of context, as if other technologies at GLOBAL SCALE would not have big numbers. like, above, 6 million wind turbines. they last about 25 years. so you need to build 240000 per year. big number scary!!!! or put another way you need to replace 30/25 TW/yr = 1.2 TW/yr nameplace capacity. this is about 15 times more than was installed in 2021. it's almost as if all ongoing efforts of clean energy are entirely insufficient and decarbonising energy is a really fucking hard and big problem.
solar thermal.
AHAHAHHAHAHAHH HOOHOHOHOHHOOHAHAHA OH WAIT YOU'RE SERIOUS LET ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER
-posts three articles from 3 different places
-"wow you posted one article from once guy"
-only addresses the land concern, but not the fact that it's not just the amount of land but that they have to be near a body of water for cooling and legal requirements for how close inabitants can be due to safety
-still doesn't address the mining
-also doesn't address that the supply of uranium would not last more than a century at best. adding other sources like thorium or extracting from the ocean would only delay this
-80 years of running is barely a difference from fifty and would still require constant decommissioning and building of sites, not that it matters because the uranium supply wouldn't last that long
not to mention I never said that wind or solar are the end all be all solution, only that focusing on nuclear when it poses so many problems and is inherently NEVER going to be renewable based on how it works is a waste of efforts and money, we would be much better off investing into tech that can be RENEWABLE NOT JUST CLEAN
but whatever and I'm done talking to someone that ignores 90% of what's said and constantly misconstrues my actual point
Can someone please explain to me what evaporated milk is? Wouldn’t that just be gas by definition? I live in constant fear
no no it’s what left behind after the milk has been evaporated cuz only the water goes, not the other stuff
THERE’S WATER IN MILK?
WHAT DID YOU THINK THE LIQUID WAS?
IDK ISNT MILK ITS OWN LIQUID?
NO
IT’S MILK-STUFF MIXED WITH WATER
MILK STUFF? DOESNT IT JUST COME FROM THE COW’S TIT?
ITS LIKE TIT JUICE, THERE IS WATER IN JUICE AND THERE IS WATER IN MILK
It’s fat droplets suspended in water, with some nutrients and soforth dissolved in it. You know, like ranch dressing.
Evaporated milk is just dehydrated milk.
Obsessed with the user who assumed milk was its own element on the periodic table
As op I felt like I had to make this
Milk, the forbidden 119th element
the only question left is if it’s a metal, non-metal, or metalloid.
OP seems to have classified it as a special case of halfnium, reclassified as a lanthanide. This has fascinating implications for electron orbital geometry.
Anyway it’s a rare earth metal apparently.
Yes I definitely classified it intentionally and knew exactly what I was doing when I put it with the lanthanides because I am never wrong
MILK IS A RARE EARTH METAL
I thought so, I took one look at your classification and immediately thought “this is definitely someone with a deep understanding of how the periodic table works”
I’m glad that we have reached a consensus on the expected elemental properties of milk
I’d really like to know what @derinthescarletpescatarian’s thoughts are on milk’s electron orbital geometry
That would involve writing a crash course in how suborbitals work on a post about whether water (the primary ingredient in milk) is in milk and even for tumblr that’s going a bit far
no, it is absolutely not going too far
You guys always complain that you don’t get to learn stuff in normal ways and then you come asking for this
MILK IS SEVERAL COMPOUNDS PLEASE YALL ARE KILLING ME OVER HERE
We have a container of dry milk because in addition to a little fat and sugars, it contains proteins, which settle into the pores of nitrocellulose membranes, making sure analytical proteins (specific antibodies) don’t get trapped. We could just use casein (one of the proteins in milk), but milk is much cheaper and can also be found at Walmart.
No milk is a lanthanide keep up
lanthanide?
I think you mean lactanide
I will put lego in all of your shoes
A cube of milk with 3 inches of edge length can blow up the galaxy.
Our galaxy is actually the result of such an explosion, that’s why we call it the Milky Way
this is a unique sort of thread in which you’ll find two types of people exclusively: nerds and dumbasses
Enter OCEAN EYES and NOT DEAD YET, two of the king’s most quarrelsome stablehands.
OCEAN May one explain what powdered milk doth be? Is it not gas? I live in constant fear.
NOT DEAD The water flees to air, the rest is left. The dry debris then forms the powdered milk.
OCEAN Thou sayest water doth reside in milk?
NOT DEAD Pray tell what thou believ’st the liquid is?
OCEAN Is milk not one pure substance in itself?
NOT DEAD No; ‘tis only milk-stuff mixed with water.
OCEAN Yet milk appears from living cows’ own tits!
NOT DEAD ‘Tis juice from tits, yet water still it holds. If water be in juice, then ‘tis in milk.
Enter DERIN, the scarlet pescatarian.
DERIN ‘Tis drops of fat afloat in water, As if ‘twas dressing for thy greens. With water gone, the powdered milk remains.
A NOTE attached to an arrow, written by BURNING BRAND, flies through the window.
BURNING BRAND’S NOTE Obsessed with he who foolishly believ’d That milk is element of chemistry.
The NOTE crumbles to ash. BURNING BRAND is not seen again.
OCEAN As he who instigated such a fight, I felt that this creation was my duty.
OCEAN unrolls a scroll of parchment with a flourish.
OCEAN Behold, ‘tis milk, one hundred and nineteen.
Enter JASON FUNDER BERKER, a frog.
JASON FUNDER BERKER And yet the burning question still remains: ‘Tis metal, not, or somewhere in between?
JASON FUNDER BERKER does not wait to hear the answer, and exits.
DERIN A lanthinide! A special case, I see. How fascinating, geometrically. But let us leave atomic musings be. For milk is a rare metal of our Earth.
OCEAN Of course it is, for I am always right. My choices are, of course, deliberate.
DERIN I do not doubt thou speakest truth, my lord Thy brilliant mind is utterly unmatch’d. It seems that an agreement has been reach’d.
OCEAN Of course; however, in sincerity I wish to know thy scholar-driven thoughts.
DERIN I fear ‘twould be beyond thy comprehension. To teach to thee would take this much too far.
Exit OCEAN, in a huff. Enter JESIN, BOOP BOOP, FLIPOCRITE, VELVET, and LOVELY DREAMS, curious onlookers attracted to the scene.
JESIN Do teach us, it would not take this too far!
DERIN Ye all complain of learning strangely, Then ask me baiting questions such as this!
BOOP BOOP Thy gross ineptitude shall be my death! Milk is formed of small component parts. The fat, the sugars, proteins all combine They seep through pores of membranes in this drink Unpleasant compounds all are filter’d out. All this obtained for small amounts of coin.
DERIN No, milk is lanthanide, pray keep the pace.
FLIPOCRITE The word thou mean’st is lactanide, I think.
DERIN May sharpened pain-shaped stones fill up thy shoes So that thou never know’st a moment’s peace.
VELVET A cube of milk, three inches on each side Could blow up the entire galaxy.
DERIN Our galaxy was formed in such a fashion. ‘Tis why we gave it name of “Milky Way.”
LOVELY DREAMS Thus ends our entertainment for the night Here fools and pompous scholars come to fight.
Exuent, pursued by a cow.
(Shakespearean adaptation format inspired by @mortimermcmirestinks in this post)
Youpeople have no right to be this funny on my dash so early in the morning
:) … Science.
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bbg ima need a whole truckful of yall to make my day better 😭
We got two friends involved in the Storytelling Circle Game today and i'm going to be doing this forever with every circle of friends I have now
OMFG THIS IS A GENIUS IDEA THANK YOU I NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A THING OUTSIDE OF DISCORD 😭 ALSDJHFKJSHDF ILY
After seeing the dad how do I channel, I really wanted this one. I searched for it and, tada! Mom how do I? Seems rather new, but I love it anyway.
This is such a cute and helpful idea, especially since some people either didn’t grow up with someone who could teach them this stuff or they grew up with parents who did everything for them. I knew a lot of guys in college who didn’t know how to do laundry or cook!
Mom How Do I
Dad How Do I
I was just crying stupidly bc of ET BUT THIS OML PLEASE IM THE MOST SENSITIVE PERSON IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WHAT
unbearably sensitive but only about really really stupid things
on the verge of tears cause i saw a picture of et being hit with pinecones. please be nice to him
oml darling why has that set me off too???
Istfg I'd protect ET with my life 😡