The transition a large swathe of people have made from “this cause is righteous therefore it is would just of me to support it” to what we have now which is “I am just therefore any cause I support is righteous ” has done irreparable damage to online discourse, and frankly it’s dones irreparable damage to people’s ability to critically think or discuss literally anything
The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.
These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.
These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.
Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.
Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.
Adding that to yet another reason that local Tesla repair center is so slammed all the time. There’s protests in front of it every so often.
pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with “the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right” and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes “now consider the vast power of grief in this setup” it never really stops considering
“There’s no thought crimes and no thought heroisms” is honestly such a good piece of life advice.
You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn’t matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.
my best friend didn’t get her work visa and people are trying to tell me that it’s a good thing because this country is fucked, and i get where they’re coming from i really do, but it doesn’t make the pain lessen. in fact, im fucking devastated, and she’ll probably have to go home to an arranged marriage she’ll hate and she’s spent three months already saying goodbye over texts while preparing for this specific scenario and i’m afraid. i’m afraid she’ll just go home just to be buried. i’m afraid she won’t get to be my maid of honor. i’m afraid she did three degrees to keep her parents happy and will never get to be happy herself. i’m afraid the next time i hug her will be the last.
i’m afraid and tired and helpless and i don’t quite believe in god so i guess it’s fitting that my prayers aren’t getting answered. i’ve been crying all day and afraid i’m making this about me. i’m supposed to wake up early tomorrow to finish a powerpoint i haven’t even started but how am i supposed to give a talk on some stupid graphs when i’m so angry. when she’s done everything right and yet. everyone else we went to college with got to stay, so why not her?
people keep trying to tell me it’s a good thing and i want to punch them in the face. she doesn’t want to be here because it’s here, she wants to be here because it’s away.
