[mjalti]

when a guy is trying to have a conversation but all he can offer is “hey” or “haha”

[instantsunrise]

How to improve Elon’s Tunnel thingy:

Increase the tunnel diameter to accommodate larger cars that can carry more people. A 22ft tunnel would have room for a larger vehicle with space for an emergency walkway for people to walk along in an emergency.

Instead of having the cars go up and down elevators, which wastes time. Instead, keep the cars underground on the tunnel route, and have people take escalators or stairs down to platforms on the underground level and they can get on and off the car when it gets to where they’re going.

To reduce wear and tear from having complex steering mechanisms for a car in a fixed route, replace the concrete guideways with a pair of steel beams that have a convex surface, and to save on materials, remove the rubber tires from the wheels and make the surface of the wheels concave so that they passively sit on the steel guideways and will stay on the corridor through mechanical force.

We can make these vehicles a lot bigger to fit in the wider tunnels, we can probably fit like 50-60 seats and if people stand, you could fit like 150 people in one car.

We can fit even more people if we took like 6 of these cars and chained em together.

In a tunnel, air resistance is a problem and a battery powered vehicle would drain its battery surprisingly fast. So instead let’s run a third beam underneath the cars that have an electrical pickup that can pull power from the grid to the car, reducing weight and eliminating the need for a heavy expensive battery.

[gifsboom]

Baby armadillo.

[cosmictuesdays]

Humans will pet anything.

[toffeecape]

How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!

[badgengar]

“ How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!”

It truly is.

[litafficionado]

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation

[lifeinpoetry]

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

[bogleech]

PSA wasps probably aren’t “attacking” when you think they’re attacking

It’s so common that I hear people talk about bees or other wasps “dive bombing” or “swooping” them and they just assume the insects intended to sting them, but this is kind of projecting our own thinking onto them.

What they’re actually doing is investigating us to see what we are, and almost all other big animals in the wild tend to just ignore this everyday behavior. When you  DON’T ignore it, and you flail, or yell, or your activity generally spikes at the sight of a wasp hovering close to you, there’s basically no way for her to read that as anything other than you being the aggressive one!

You’re thinking “there’s a wasp that might sting me! I’d better shoo it off!” but the wasp is thinking “I did nothing but come by for a look, like I do all the time, and this big beast is suddenly interested in me. It must want to eat my babies”

[snorlaxatives]

still thinking about that time when the hex girls performed ‘earth, wind, fire, and air’ at the oakhaven autumn festival in scooby-doo and the witch’s ghost (1999) 

[loloftheday]

Energy company has got some sass

[bransrath]

Duke Energy Fined $102 million for Polluting Rivers with Coal Ash

[hawkeabelas]

This is the best summary of the corporate deflection of blame for environmental destruction onto the consumer to save face I’ve ever seen

[catlips001]

Roll for charisma to see if you can interact with this post.

[fuzzymarf]

[catlips001]

You interact with the post but all eyes are on you now. You have a gut nervous feeling but manage to say the first thing in your mind.

[fuzzymarf]

Sparkling water is just Angry Water

[catlips001]

Roll for intelligence.

[fuzzymarf]

[catlips001]

People agree but throw rocks at you for saying it.

[wildlifer-deactivated20220928]

if this aint the cutest shit

[bobcatmoran]

Favorite image of the day: A photo taken by Brett Cizek of a common merganser with a massive brood of over 50 ducklings trailing after her. Biologists guess that she picked up at least a couple dozen who got separated from their mother, and maybe a few more pre-hatching since ducks often lay a couple eggs in other ducks’ nests as a way of not…er…putting all their eggs in one basket. So big broods are not uncommon, but this is definitely larger than usual.

Apparently since this photo was taken, she’s picked up another two dozen and is now wandering around Bemidji, MN, with over 70 ducklings in tow.

[source] [source]

[curlicuecal]

UltraMom

[swampqueem]

@lavalierre for u

[lokacinna-deactivated20200703]

you know, considering how many times rich people are mentioned as sinful in the Bible versus how many times homosexuals are mentioned as sinful in the Bible, it’s really funny how I’ve never seen entire Christian organizations go out of their way to criticize, boycott, or deny services to rich people… 

weird how that works, huh

[crazyintheeast]

bold of you to assume that christians have read the bible

[teenboystuff]

So the subplot of Holes is that Kate Barlow deals with the politically-sanctioned execution of her black boyfriend—who unlawfully kissed a white woman who was in love with him!!!—by becoming a serial killer who targets racist/sexist white dudes who harassed her, were rejected, then went after her boyfriend as revenge from the depths of the “friend zone”.

Go off Louis Sachar, let em know!

[anzozi-everywhere]

Don’t forget the main plot was a damning satire of the brokenness and inherent racism of the American justice and prison systems! Louis Sachar does not fuck about

[galaxianbitch]

It always fuck me up that older people don’t understand how this story is as essential to most american children as Gone with the Wind or Mary Poppins was.

[angrynebula]

unironically, this is one of the best books/movies for young people that exists

[zootycoon-archive]

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

a handful of french billionaires have pledged 600+ million euros for Notre Dame in less than 12 hours. let that put into perspective how easily billionaires could end world hunger, poverty, lack of access to healthcare/clean water/education but choose not to. 600+ million in twelve hours from just 3 people

[ophelia-thinks]

[knownhag]

chelsea peretti’s opening monologue at the tenth annual tech crunchies