Tacks For Snacks

I wish I could terrorize ancient people with things that are commonplace today

releasing a roomba into the greek forums

Lmaooooo

This shouldn’t be so damn funny

a viewing tower for fish made with an old fish tank and a couple of cinder blocks

Whenever I see these ‘observation towers’ they’re always jam packed with fish. Do fish just enjoy being able to see over the regular water level that much? Is this a good method of enrichment for fish?

If you could hang out in space, wouldn’t you???

viva la vida defined 2008 I don’t remember anything else and I refuse to

There was a financial crisis

sorry bro can’t hear you i think st peter is calling my name

@ everyone in the notes saying they want to see the calculations...I mean google is literally free but hey I’ve got nothing better to do rn

So you’d have around $962,390,000

And yeah, while $962,390,000 is a lot, it isn’t a billion and it is also still much, much less than 1.5 billion, for those of you who are just that bad at math 🙃

So the op of the tweet is correct, you wouldn’t be a billionaire and you wouldn’t make what Jeff Bezos does in a week. I feel like this really wasn’t that hard but it’s w/e ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eat. The. Rich.

[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]

PSA for everyone seeing civil war early: PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL CIVIL WAR FOR ANYONE!!!!! If not for their sake, for your own, because if you start spreading civil war spoilers on this website you will most likely not survive the experience.

THE UNION DEFEATED THE CONFEDERACY

I get the hate for the US and I 100% agree with it, but honestly, the complete lack of compassion non-Americans have for us is staggering.

We’re mocked for not having healthcare, for having mass shootings, for being stuck in poverty, for not having liveable wages, for literally every tragedy that hits us.

And the people mocking us don’t understand or just don’t care that these aren’t our choices. The majority of Americans are pro-gun control. The majority of Americans are pro-universal healthcare. The majority of Americans want a higher minimum wage.

But what we want doesn’t matter because our votes don’t matter. Our voting machines are rigged, we can’t take time off of work or school to vote, politicians use gerrymandering to twist things in their favor, minorities (particularly Black people) suddenly find themselves unregistered right before elections, certain groups (mainly Black men) are kept from voting by charging them with felonies, etc. Even our votes for president don’t matter because the popular vote is only symbolic; the real decision is made by the Electoral College, an organization that is purposely shrouded to prevent people from understanding what it is. We don’t even get to choose our Electoral College representatives and we sure as hell can’t control who they vote for, even if they go against the popular vote.

We have no real control over politics in this country and it is genuinely fucking terrifying.

i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father 

“Guys stop bullying my wiretap”

truly the darkest timeline

viva la vida defined 2008 I don’t remember anything else and I refuse to

There was a financial crisis

social anxiety isn’t just quiet people who are shy!!! i may be talking a lot but internally i’m panicking and punching myself in the face for every word that comes out of my mouth thank u

This has been a PSA

whenever i tell ppl i am v awkward they’re all “no you’re not!!” but little do they know i’m fucking screaming on the inside at the top of my lungs while i tell u a story that i’ve realized halfway through isn’t as funny as i wanted it to be

I think that, in view of the climate catastrophe, we need to get used to the idea that the future is going to resemble the past in some ways. I even don't (necessarily) mean that civilisation is going to collapse into some kind of agrarian dark age; but rather that, for the past 200 years or so (not coincidentally the approximate age of the 'science fiction' genre), there's been this general trend towards transportation and communication growing ever faster, buildings and cities growing ever larger, production growing ever more massive, 'civilization' (narrowly defined) subduing nature ever more; and most of our visions of the near future, whether utopian or dystopian, have built upon this idea, imagining faster travel, higher-tech cities, more production.

I think that now we're reaching the hard limits of this trend, and one way or another, it's going to come to an end. If civilisation is to continue, I think that we will need to reconcile ourselves to a slower pace, a lower quantity of production, a less disposable culture. Right now, you can get from London to Toronto in six hours by plane at the cost of significant carbon emissions; perhaps in the future, most people will do it over the course of days via boats and trains. Likewise, right now, fashion changes by the season. People own hundreds of articles of clothing, which wear out after a few months to a year. Perhaps we will get by on a few outfits, designed for durability. We may need to go back to using glass bottles for milk, instead of plastic jugs. All of the technological know-how that we now have is never going to just go away; but if we are taking ecological limitations seriously, that means that there need to be occasions on which we, as a civilization, choose not to use our technologies in the way that they are being used now.

In some ways, this looks like a regression, but for the examples I've cited, it's only because we have a narrowly defined cultural idea of 'progress', based to a large degree upon the demands of capital. For example, do we take trans-Atlantic flights because we enjoy them? Or do we take them because our jobs give us limited holiday time and we don't want to waste it? We don't want to throw out the advantages of an industrial society, but I believe thst we can be smarter in the application of our technology, rather than just using it for anything the market will support.

robert pattinson could do spider-man but tom holland couldn’t do twilight

robert pattinson could do everything and no one could do anything robert pattinson did

Every Twilight movie was another level of hell, and anyone even partially involved came out strong from the fire forging iron in their bones. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are unkillable.