Pressure Is All We've Got

I'm CJ. 28. Brooklyn, NY. I like cute dogs, Pokémon, and Doctor Who.

[theentropiancolonist]

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here, came back just to take a quick look around. Follow me on Instagram @ liminalveil.

[niggazinmoscow]

I’ve rewatched the ad at least three times to try and figure out why some folks are angry with it and I’m at a loss.  All I see here is: Be a better human. Set a better example. Encouraging strength of character and integrity over typical “machismo”.

[pr1nceshawn]

Stop Clickbait.

[alicesloane13]

wholesome and healing

[homoremedy]

God’s work

[kingjaffejoffer]

[1dietcokeinacan]

He’s so flappy…….this made me cry

[catchymemes]

Terrible maps

[theentropiancolonist]

Here’s a Christmas gift that none of you asked for or wanted, my yearly top albums post. I change my format every year, but this year I decided to do top 10 releases (both albums and EPs on one list).

Night Verses - From The Gallery of Sleep

Silent Planet - Where The End Began

Thrice - Palms

Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone

Hail The Sun - Mental Knife

Between The Buried and Me - Automata I/II

Royal Coda - Self Titled

TesseracT - Sonder

Fall Out Boy - M  A   N    I      A

Dear Apollo - Volume One

Honorable mentions:

Thomas Giles - Don’t Touch The Outside

Amarionette - AMVRI

At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

Aviations - The Light Years

Circles - The Last One

Opus Of A Machine - Stray Fire

Delta Sleep - Ghost City

Voices From The Fuselage - Odyssey: The Founder Of Dreams

[catchymemes]

Ironic Moments Dump

[catchymemes]

Slightly uncomfortable dump

[ayusaurus]

OP I think we need to have a talk about your definition of “slightly uncomfortable” because my levels of rage skyrocketed faster than it took Thanos to snap his fingers

[ykana]

[irstaxcode-deactivated20150908]

[theentropiancolonist]

Almost 9 years later, I kiiiiiinda starting to think about getting rid of Tumblr. Just in case, anyone who cares should definitely follow my Instagram.

instagram.com/liminal_veil

[trasemc]

The American artist Mike Stilkey was summoned by a bookstore in Seoul to design large-scale mosaics created with books.

[purpleandpinkhouses]

@go-west-allen @sweet-child-of-the-paradise-city

[thebibliosphere]

I just like the use of the word “summoned”. Like dude wasn’t just hired, nah, they had to perform a whole ritual to get him there to do art.

Kevin from the marketing division got sacrificed.

Which looking at that artwork, worth it tbh.

[anxietyproblem]

[screenshotsofdespair]

[pulsingvoid]

cinematic parallels

[kawuli]

Stones Have Been Popping Out of People Who Ride Roller Coasters

Using centripetal force to prevent a $4 billion healthcare cost

1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World

2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times

3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”

4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”

5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”

SCIENCE: IT WORKS

[kawuli]

Update: 

“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.

MSU Today

[kawuli]

I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:

1. Hypothesis

2. Experiment

3. Results

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusions

6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)

[kristoffbjorgman]

was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some  random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses

[the-pie-initiative]

He asked first!

Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”

[thenameisdog]