firefox is good because it has a fox in it
“you mean you like the mascot?” yes but no. firefox is good about stuff like optimization and adblock. it’s like that specifically because they put a fox in there. the fox did that for you.
put a vole in your disc drive for the fox. it’s doing a good job.
I actually started this weeks ago, but then didn't finish it in much the same way as I've not been finishing a bunch of other things. I decided I would finish it now in honour of the 100 (maybe??) block wide wall of TNT.
Have an electrician over today & he comes through from the kitchen like 'i was looking at that poster on your wall wondering how I hadn't heard of the movie so I googled it. What is the point. Is it just there to catch people out.' And I'm like, well,
Well,
gtwscar how about goodtimeswithGAR!?
has anyone figured out how much art you need to make to make your mental illness go away
so far it’s not seven
Illustrations from The Black Cat magazine, vol. 16 (1910-1911).
Soda Pop: A highly carbonated soda drink. It can be used to restore 50 HP to a single Pokémon.
i think the true horror of i saw the tv glow is the feeling of the narrative haunting you after you've seen it. i think the movie is simultaneously a warning against repression and ignoring your true self, a narrative of those who dont always have the life they wanted to live, and a story full of hope that you can still cut yourself open and see what's inside, and you can always walk out of the door of your old life. but you have to be the one to do it. your friend cannot save you. your interests cannot save you. you have to save yourself and that in itself is a haunting narrative. the horror that we see in i saw the tv glow is not at all jumpscares or gore or creepy crawlies that other horror films have, but its the horror of longing, of fear, of knowing that you shouldve taken that chance when you were younger but you know deep down you can still do it. dont fool yourself into thinking that once you're 20, 25, 30, 40, that you cant take your life into your own hands, that your choices arent yours to make anymore. it will always hurt, at least a little, to cut open your own chest and to let it out and see who you are inside but theres never a better time to do that then now, even if that's when you're stuck at a deadend job after you had a public breakdown. you can walk out of the door. there is still time.
i have a job interview in 2 minutes i’m gonna cry
this is what i saw immediately after leaving the interview. do you guys think it’s a good omen
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
maybe nothing of value to you is here
That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.
Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.
The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.
That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)
The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.
Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.
If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage
See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.
‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’ ‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’ ‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’ *
* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.
– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:
What I find extra funny about the Pratchett quote was he was the press office for a nuclear power plant before he was a full time author.
another big part of the problem is that as soon as you communicate ‘this substance is an odorless poison that works by proximity and especially ingestion, do not hang out near it or eat it, btw it’s in the shape of small pellets,’ it’s going to be extremely valuable because humans fucking love poisoning each other. ‘thing that kills stuff’ is like one of our most valuable trade goods, historically. arsenic, alcohol, salt, sulfur. not only do we want murder weapons for other humans, we want insecticides and antibacterial compounds for pretty much everything. a little cursed pellet you could put in your pantry to keep down mold and maggots would be incredibly useful. until your kid got born without a skull.
but yeah like how do you get people to avoid something that kills them without explaining that the thing kills them, because the minute they know the thing is killing them they’ll start using it to kill on purpose? crazy ass problem.
