You're someone to me

Trajektoria | Asexual | Polish | Prospective Writer So many fandoms, so little time. Currently obsessed with The Charlatan and The Pathfinder making out in a cave. If Bioware won't love Andromeda I will.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[bowsersex]

Somebody in a Twitch stream chat was trying to insult a streamer by saying, "You're almost 40, and you've only gotten a tarot card reading once?" And I don't know, I'm still amused by this. I'm in my late 20s and I've also only had a tarot card reading once. One of those ones on the street you pay for. The guy doing my tarot card reading was like, "You're going to join the military," or something like that, and 15 year old me thought to myself, "Okay, well that's not true. So I guess I just got scammed," and then I just never got a tarot card reading since then.

[bowsersex]

Military recruiter who pretends to be a tarot card reader so he can tell every person who gets their future read by him and they'll be joining the military in the future.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

(military recruiter tarot card reader in august of 2001) *draws The Tower* *draws a second The Tower* now that's not supposed to happen

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Gold posey ring inscribed "My Heart You Have/ And Yours I Crave" English, 17th-18th century

from Timeline Auctions

[valtsv]

we need to bring back the phrase "what business is it of yours" in a big way i'm serious

[valtsv]

i know you can just say "none of your business" but phrasing it as a question with a jarringly formal tone is the ideal way to shoot an overfamiliar unwelcome overture dead in its tracks and force the person making it to confront the boundaries they're taking for granted + it would really piss people off which is funny

[valtsv]

&also it allows you to experience the joy of talking like an autistic vampire, which i highly recommend

[kaijuno]

[arctech-fox]

[victusinveritas]

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

[short-wooloo]

This is the America I believe in, the America that we can be

[lieutenantpepper]

my favorite thing paul does in interviews is when he mentions a beatles song and then starts singing it to make sure people know it, like he'll say "we were performing she loves you, you know 'she loves you yeah yeah yeah...'" like you literally don't have to do that. everyone knows that song. you are paul mccartney

[lennonmccartneyofficial]

My personal favorite is when he goes to tell and a story and he prefaces it with "you know, john and I- john lennon and I-" like yeah no we know that. we know who john is. you are the beatles

[i-am-a-fish]

yuri and yaoi are some of the best, most sacred things in the entire world

[whale-shark-detector]

Whale shark not detected (｡•́︿•̀｡)

[i-am-a-fish]

yuri and yaoi and whale shark are some of the best, most sacred things in the entire world

[whale-shark-detector]

Whale shark detected! Yippie

Thank you fish :3

[jerkeline]

[danielkahndyke]

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

[danielkahndyke]

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

[nflstreet-deactivated20180710]

[fuckheadwitha]

this best thing about this is the meme format conditions you to expect a follow up statement and it’s absence contributes to a sense of stillness, simulating the experience of just sitting in your truck

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

Crumple zone - Wikipedia

[librarychair]

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

[foone]

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

[elalmadelmar]

I totaled my first car. Like, the car itself just stopped where the windshield met the dashboard. Ahead of that point, there was no more car. It was gone.

Me? I had some really spectacular bruises and a lil friction burn on my nose from where Mr. Airbag and Ms. Glasses had a disagreement. That's it. That's it.

I was driving a little tiny coupe and went more or less head-on with a pickup truck. The entire engine and hood of my car was twisted rubble that was not connected to the rest of the car afterward. I sat down on the verge, about twenty or thirty feet from the accident, while I waited for the cops and EMTs to work their way through the traffic backup to get to us, and found that I was sitting beside one of the headlights of my car. The whole entire headlight, bulb and reflector and cover and frame and all.

All I had were bruises and that little friction burn. That's it.

Crumple zones save lives. So do seatbelts and airbags; half the bruising was the exact shape of my seatbelt in livid crimson and black on my torso. It was and remains the most insanely intense bruising I have ever experienced in my life. BUT IT WAS JUST BRUISING!! Unpleasant, sure, but eminently survivable and didn't even require much treatment beyond not wearing a bra for a few days. But all the force that created that spectacular bruising was force that wasn't flinging me through the windshield or impaling me on the steering column. My car crumpled and crushed and dissolved but it held me safe and secure and protected.

Crumple zones save lives. You do not want your car to look undamaged after the accident, because that means it made like a Newton's Cradle and passed every bit of the impact straight through to your soft and highly crushable body.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#it's worth noting the tesla is being towed#it's not in a drivable condition#chances are the internals are fucked#given how difficult repairs on one of those would be it's probably also now scrap

[kyraneko]

"Humans are the crumple zone" is basically how tech bros view people who aren't on their tax bracket in general. This makes for a perfectly apt visual metaphor.

[starlightomatic]

It’s also a great encapsulation on the conservative views of “toughness” and “weakness,” as well as gender and self-sufficiency.

[freewingthefree]

What makes this more interesting is the "Oh iTs So StRoNg, LiKe A MiLiTaRy TrUcK"

No actually. Combat rated vehicles have standards for crash and shock absorbtion. Obviously you dont have airbags and crumple zones on an armored vehicle, but you do have multi-point harnesses, rollover protection, fire suppression systems, internal padding, seats designed to absorb sudden impacts and protect the users... AND THEY STILL HAVE TO ASS CERTAIN ROAD SAFETY LAWS TO BE ALLOWED ON THE ROADS

It is also less repairable than a military vehicle. Military vehicles are often fixable with basic tools and skills. You can wrench, bolt, hammer, and weld on those things.

The cybertruck however. Needs special advanced glue and a depot level repair facility. For basic shit.

Awful vehicle.

Id genuinely rather have almost any other vehicle.

[ultmateragnarok]

the same companies that try to screw over their consumers by needing special components and a factory's worth of equipment to fix do actually screw over the military too these days. And other people who rely on vehicles like EMS and fire services. It's becoming a running issue

[dexfiles]

here is a star for everyone who’s not feeling their best today (🌟)

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[amazingtoysandgifts]

sorry to my bloodline but its over

[mortissa]

[foxes-in-love]

[hungry-hobbits]

go my brick 🫳︵🧱

[henrylevesconte]