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hey all. I reset the password to this account so I could see who’s still active and if twitter being a mess has revived this place.

how’s it going?

batmansymbol

can you BELIEVE keira knightley didn’t win best actress for Pride & Prejudice (2005) when she is the only actress in history to capture, to the soul, that silent pulse of hysterical amusement when you just cannot believe

a man

is acting

That Way

melthedestroyer

#This is exactly why she didn’t win #Men didn’t even know that’s what she was doing #Pride and Prejudice [x]

eldriitchmurmurs

the best thing about hozier is that his music is impossible to accidentally go too hard to. there’s no physical way that you can deliver “i’ll worship like a dog a the shrine of your lies, i’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife, offer me that deathless death, good god let me give you my life” and have it come out too intense. you can scream that shit and have a friend whispering it and it’s the same fuckin hat. holy god.

55studies-deactivated20230601

i was reading touch by Field. T when chapter 8 began with a mini linguistics lesson on the word shampoo ! so i decided to do my own little research along with it and found so many cool connections !

shampoo comes from the hindi word “champna” which came from the sanskrit word “chapayati” चपयति which is to knead/massage. indian medicine, ayurveda, is very heavily based on the use of massage (along with other treatment) for both preventative and curative medicinal reasons. around the late 1700s, the british took the hindi word and made “shampoo”. if we look at this word, we can understand so many other indian words too !

the (generally south indian) word for what is most commonly known as “roti” is chapati which is made by first kneading flour into a dough.

aside from that, in telugu, the word for applause is “chappatlu” చప్పట్లు, while in hindi the word चपत “chapat” is slap/smack.

checking in to see who still hasn’t made it off this site

ruinedchildhood

just-shower-thoughts

They should start naming hurricanes after notable climate change deniers

pedeka

Maybe people would evacuate faster if Rush Limbaugh was headed towards them at 100 mph,

bunney

its weird being 18, 19, 20 in 2016 because i remember going into kindergarten and seeing those chunky ass giant computers at the desk and then going through school while technology rapidly develops and graduate in a world where people can have the entire internet and more just in their pocket like idk its so strange to me

nasanap

sorry to add to the post but I remember in 5th grade when they invented the “smart whiteboard” and my school won one for the library and everyone lost their shit because they were so expensive and I graduated high school last year and by the time I graduated every single classroom had one. Watching technology go from glitchy and expensive to powerful and affordable within less than ten years continues to blow my mind

whats-your-name-man

no but also like owning a flip phone was the Coolest Shit™ and you could take photos(???) and it was like so incredible, and it was all fun and games until you pressed the key for THE INTERNET and you knew you’d be charged so you pressed that cancel key eighty times and prayed to god that he’d take mercy on you…and then iphones became a thing and it was like unreal

natalie-memeallister

Going from vcrs and huge roll in tvs to streaming the movie online and projecting that onto the smart board within the span of 5-10 years.

danisontnonfire

ok but do you guys remember before proper projectors were put in there was the overhead projector that could only read clear plastics and it projected using light and mirrors

fady-jaeger

Technology

yiuliel

remember when you got your first phone, and it had monoton/polyphone ringtones=? OR THE FIRST TIME YOU COULD ACTUALLY PUT A SONG AS YOUR RINGTONE 1:1 that was such a huge thing…..Also the first phones with coloured displays, 100x100px photos……god what a time….

squided

I remember before iPods became a thing and I was in like 5th grade and I got a Walkman CD player (because regular CD players would skip and shit if you moved them too much and walkmans were like A+ technology that you could listen to CDs on the go) and I had like the whole case of CDs I’d take with me everywhere. Then iPods became the new norm and everyone’s mind was collectively blown

squeeful

My great-grandmother went from being the first house in town to have electricity to emailing her cross-national friends in her lifetime.

did-you-know

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

fridjitzu

scarletgoldenthorn

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

deniedmysign

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

inushiek

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

mllemusketeer

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.

greaseonmymouth

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

blackwoolncrown

The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.

justkingwolf

The Isles of Scilly are gonna be completely self-sufficient by about 2020, they were fed up of paying extortionate prices for getting their electricity from the national grid, so they’re gonna use wind, solar and ocean power instead. clean energy is more than powerful enough to replace fuel.

doctormccoys

..Yeah, I went on a date in New York.

apicturewithasmile

I appreciate John’s story but the fact that OP blurred out Amy Schumer is the funniest think I’ll see all week and it’s only tuesday.

thecolorofexcellence

Album + Art. A project by artist, Eisen Bernard Bernardo.

politicalsci

queernigga

so this is actually my graduate thesis work.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes

Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt(1921-2013) was an Egyptian princess who became queen of Iran and wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The daughter of Fuad I, she descended from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. She was also known as Fawzia Shirin (sweet). After the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 her role title was no longer r confused by the Egyptian government. Till her death in 2013 she was the oldest member of the deposed Muhammad Ali Dynasty residing in Egypt. Her beauty was compared to film stars Hedy Lamar and Vivian Leigh, and was even featured in life magazine .

metahomo

yuricema-deactivated20230814

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

kyberhearts

So Delta flight 302 flew in to San Juan, picked up passengers, and threaded one arm of Irma on the way out. The pilot basically said “hold my beer” and took on a hurricane.

I am not entirely convinced that Poe Dameron was not flying this plane, to be honest.

You can read the Twitter thread here.