Gross National Product

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

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fuck uuuuuuuuuu

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I have a feeling Matthew’s going to ruin my streak. :c

[tai-korczak]

23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

[fullpraxisnow]

“…[B]y the time Forbes published its 2014 Billionaires List in early March, it took only 67 of the richest peoples’ wealth to match the poorer half of the world [in contrast to last years list of 85, a trend showing the dramatic effect of the rich getting richer].”

– The 67 People As Wealthy As The World’s Poorest 3.5 Billion | Forbes 

[strangebiology]

California Bans Breeding Orcas, Orca Shows

In the wake of the documentary Blackfish, public scrutiny against SeaWorld has never been higher. In response, SeaWorld has agreed to discontinue their orca breeding program, and in 2017 they will replace their theatrical orca shows with “naturalistic orca encounters.”

However, as a corporate policy, SeaWorld could change its mind–except for the fact that now, legislation has passed completely banning killer whale breeding and entertainment in the state of California. The Orca Protection and Safety Act, co-sponsored by the Animal Welfare Institute, means that the 11 orcas grandfathered in to SeaWorld San Diego will be the last ones kept captive in California. Photo by Flip Nicklin for Nat Geo/Minden Pictures

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Hot Rocks

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I miss these ;__;

[thoxt]

1950s, TAIWAN.

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Butt centipede awareness poster?

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New pictures from Mars. Via: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-236

[guante]

an artist/ and whether we acknowledge it or not, we are all artists/ is one part clown, and one part cleric/ our work: one part entertainment, and one part revelation…

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“Whatever alleviates your stress the fastest, you eat them like that, okay?”

[relatablepicturesofstimpy]

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What she says: I'm fine

What she means: I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist. I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everbody's nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand in hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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fantastic.

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[chalch]

Masters of Horror: Imprint (Takashi Miike)