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[brainstreams]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.

My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.

[thirteenthblackbird]

So, we're more concerned with UnitedHealthcare's finances than the amount and quality of care they provide?

[thirteenthblackbird]

Left Behind, the highly implausible version

I just watched the Nick Cage version of Left Behind and have some thoughts.

Wow, Hattie is very slutty in this version.

While Captain Steele is a schlub.

Every time he pulled the lever (don't know what it should be called) to elevate the plane, all I could think was "manly power erecting the plane."

People were stealing, looting, and killing to that degree within minutes of the disaster? Really? Someone thought that was plausible?

[jujuism-studies]

yunmeng jiang has a summer soltisce tradition that weirds out anyone from outside. right after lunchtime, everyone will gather on the biggest pier they have, forming a line that leads to sect leader jiang, who stands at the end of it. one by one, they all go up and jiang cheng asks them a question, any question, from 'what is the name of our eldest cook?' to 'what is the safest way to fight an yao?'. a bit weird but so far, so good. maybe a bit of trivia to stimulate his disciples to study? the catch is: anyone who answers correctly gets yeeted into the lake by the sect leader himself. you'd think that this would make the disciples upset being 'punished' for doing something right, but no, they love it. this is actually a reward for them to the point they get genuinely upset when they answer the question wrong and have to go back to the end of the line. it looks so fun that, as long as they prove they can swim, even outsiders end up participating

[draculagerard]

Gen AI is nothing special I can also draw / write badly, help you with math inconsistently, answer you dubiously, and consume amounts of water you would think are physically impossible

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[thememedaddy]

[warcrimesimulator]

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

30 days hath September

April, June, and November

All the rest have 31

Except for Zenquish, which has none.

Zenquish: the month with no days, which falls between July and August. celebrate with me

[depsidase]

[toroidalearthtruther]

there seems to be a fundamental disagreement between microwave oven manufacturers and the producers of microwave meals over whether the customer should know the wattage of their microwave or if such details should be abstracted away from them

[toroidalearthtruther]

the microwave rice demands 800 watts of power for 2 minutes, but all the microwave can offer me three settings: one low, one high, and one somewhere in the middle. I turn it to the one in the middle as I happen to know 800W is the average power of most microwaves. the light comes on and the bag of rice starts slowly turning, but rather than hearing the usual rumble of the microwave, I instead start hearing short snippets of conversation - words snatched from the ether. the lights flicker and a chill runs up my spine. the voices remind me of those "spirit boxes" ghost hunters use. I double check the setting on the microwave. "ah," I say, remembering that I had set it to medium,

[foxes-in-love]

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[pinkrangerv]

K greets a Hispanic man by saying "Grandfather, welcome to the United States".

A greeting to an elder, in his own language, given from an alien immigration officer to a day laborer who's being smuggled in.

When I understood enough Spanish for that? It floored me. This movie was already my standard for "yeah, they're people too", but this is what I want immigration to be.

Benevidos. How was your journey? Welcome home, you belong here.

I never quite got the humor, but I also haven't ever questioned who the good guys are. Try that with your average sci-fi, see how it goes.

[sandandglass]

Donald Trump gets attacked by an eagle.

This eagle truly represents America. What a majestic symbol.

[lukcskywalkcrs]

It’s only fitting that this gets reblogged today

[rinokami]

This is the only eagle that deserves reblogging on the 4th

[ltwilliammowett]

This video depicts a moment that is nearly impossible to observe: a sperm whale surfacing with a giant squid clenched between its teeth. These predators hunt at depths exceeding 800 meters, where light does not penetrate, and only biosonar directs the pursuit. Consequently, clear surface images are exceedingly rare.

🎬: @lud_adventure

[strawbeary-moonlight]

This is, factually, the first footage of this that we have ever gotten. This has never been observed by a human being before in recorded history. The only reason we knew these whales ate those squids before was the beaks of the squids found in the stomachs of dead whales, and the battle scars on whales consistent with fighting giant squids.

My favorite thing about this clip is that, in the original uncropped footage, you can see her calf is right beside her, ascending from the depths along with her. Whale calves don't dive until they're taught by their mothers. It is very likely that this footage is of a mother whale teaching her calf to hunt on one of its very first dives.

When I saw this footage for the first time, I cried a little tbh.

[isaacsapphire]

Arising from the inky depths with a delicious giant squid snack… with mama.

[whyenn-reader]

ADHD advice from non-ADHD people: start blocking out your day and put things in your google calendar

ADHD advice from ADHD people: any time you're waiting for your food to microwave YOU HAVE TO WASH DISHES WASH AS MANY AS YOU CAN THIS IS A RACE AGAINST TIME THIS IS THE ONLY TIME THIS COULD HAPPEN