appalachian till i die

Caroline, 24

[garbage-empress]

Remembering the bygone days of 2015 when I didn't obsessively save every scientific paper I glanced at into a citation manager because I could just punch what I vaguely remembered about any paper into Google and immediately retrieve it. Not even Google Scholar, regular Google. I barely even bookmarked websites for niche applications because Google could find them again so easily.

Now Google is so enshittified I can barely use it to find the same restaurant twice.

[garbage-empress]

Nostalgic for when putting quotes around "specific phrases" would force Google to find an exact text match and adding a minus sign, as in -"phrase i don't want" would remove all the irrelevant results. Now the algorithm ignores those commands when it feels like (and it feels like ignoring them at least 95% of the time now).

[what-even-is-thiss]

The American consumer doesn’t actually want trucks and cars that are huge enough that you can’t see a six foot tall person over the hood. They make vehicles that big now to avoid environmental regulations related to engine efficiency

[princessofwallachia]

[markodragic]

it's such a sadness to me that kids eventually lose that 'no filter' thing when they grow up. my niece asked what 9/11 is and someone explained it to her and her unfiltered conclusion was "bro. is that it"

[markodragic]

[dramatic-dolphin]

an absolute fuckton of people at pride rn

[dramatic-dolphin]

record turnout for sure. here's some pics i stole from facebook:

the tail end of the crowd only started marching around the time the first part got to the end goal. i can't stress how fucking massive the crowd was. the perfect example of "they can't arrest all of us"; the police didn't even try. no incidents, but we all had an awesome day. 🥰🥰🥰

[littlescratches]

[yourtongzhihazel]

France: hundreds of years with baguette -- DID NOT INVENT BANH MI

Vietnam: less than 100 years with baguette -- INVENTED BANH MI

ANOTHER WIN FOR VIETNAM‼️‼️‼️‼️

🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

[dogpuppy]

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[gulabi-gal]

If you’re a liberal and/or Democrat who is upset that “Trump didn’t get congressional approval” to bomb Iran, I fear you’ve lost the plot. Who cares if he didn’t follow procedure?? Focus on the real issue which is fact that he entered a war with Iran. Stop getting caught up in procedures and rules and grow some fucking empathy. Too many of you are more concerned with ‘following the rules’ than recognizing war crimes and the implications of this bombing. People are getting killed, okay? Learn to humanize them instead of your stupid ‘gotcha’ moment.

[rui-cifer]

also, Obama famously skirted congressional approval for his involvements in the middle east. Like, all the things that Trump is able to do, is because a previous democrat has ripped out the guardrails of the USA's checks and balances for their own goals.

[salix03]

this kingdom is going to shit man

[hamletthedane]

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

[sevenoffeathers]

as of today (6/30/2025) this post was made over 1.2 million minutes ago. a billion minutes ago was still the height of the roman empire

[murraysiskind-deactivated202511]

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[allhailklisz]

[sexygaywizard]

FUCK AMERICA HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY CEASAR SALAD 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❗❗❗

[kaban-bang]

[secundus-cinaedus]

cure of ra

[madame-helen]

Now its blessing of Ra

[thereadingaddic7]

"Sunburn will give you skin cancer"

Ra, God of the Sun

[sindri42]

Fungus has done so much for humanity. Penicillin. Radiation cleanup. Delicious mushrooms. Deadly mushrooms. Psychadelic mushrooms. And now my boy RA has chosen the humble mold spores as his vessel through which to cure cancer.

[casualfoxwitch]

[ot3]

remember the era of history when seemingly every radfem in the world thought this was the dopest image ever and they all had it as their pfps and you knew whenever someone with this icon posted a take it was about to be the most dogshit thing you've ever heard. i kind of miss seeing her it's not lisa's fault she became that. but now all the radfems are using like. classical paintings. which could mean nothing.

[cannibalchicken]