#orders of magnitude

[stylistic-nightmare]

Napalm Death - Orders of Magnitude

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

domain of magnitude: factor of 10^16

kingdom of magnitude: factor of 100,000,000

phylum of magnitude: factor of 10,000

class of magnitude: factor of 100

order of magnitude: factor of 10

family of magnitude: factor of sqrt10

genus of magnitude: factor of 10^(1/4)

species of magnitude: factor of 10^(1/8)

[jingerpi]

Nazi Germany lasted for ~10 years. the US' genocide of indigenous people inspired the Nazis, and we've been at it for ~500 years. 55 MILLION indigenous turtle Islanders were killed by American colonialists. Tell me again why we're arguing over whether or not these bourgeois politicians are 99% Hitler? This country is far worse than the Nazis were even remotely capable of. There are nearly 1.8 MILLION people in Slavery in the United States right now. This country is cartoon levels of evil, and beyond that! it's beyond parody! it's worse than you can possibly imagine. and that's just two examples over the 500 years they've been at this, and they only domestically! Do you have any idea what the ruling class has done in other countries? the war and famine they've intentionally induced from profits? The millions they've bombed? The only country to ever use nuclear bombs! and it was on civilians!

So yes, of course we cry out death to [US]America. Do you seriously not understand how deeply deeply evil this country is? Again:

Death to the USA

[2hoothoots]

Hey Raz, Who is your spotter for weight lifting? With the ridiculous amounts you lift, i wonder who you have that could help out if something went wrong with a lift.

it helps when your spotter is telekinetic

[benevolenterrancy]

Hey! I love your artwork esp of Hogan’s Heroes. I like how you portray the group shenanigans and Hogan’s tired dad energy lmao

If you’re still doing requests for art could you do one of this meme please? If you’re not that’s fine!

yup, @colpapabear's post just about sums these two up -- Klink's anxiety is on a hair trigger and boy does Hogan love pulling that trigger

[king-of-men]

I think nonny has a typo - they actually meant to accuse you of not even making 400k. And they got it right! What a loser!

Keep deepthroating that corporate cock and opposing a fucking basic LIVING wage. Probably some incel earning like 40k trying to act like there a hot shot but in reality just some poor loser

1/ I would rather not take your job, you seem far more talented and deserving of that position.

2/ they're*

3/ You were close, but a little bit more than 40k

[squeakadeeks]

me at work regularly handling extremely lethal voltages and currents

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to cause you to always get 700% error or more on your labs...somehow

[annabelle--cane]

no it wasn't abt jewish ppl actually. it was about the data that shows simulated cp doesn't diminish csa by pedophiles

1) can you give me the name of a study or something instead of just nebulously referring to "the data" 2) is your claim here that child abusers do not abuse fewer children based on the media they consume? I don't think I've ever seen anyone say that is the case. what. 3) what does that have to do with my post about how ableism and queerphobia isn't suddenly fair game when the subject of it is actually a bad person?

[saints-who-never-existed]

Also, I've seen several people reading about the cut marks to his jaw and expressing a belief that Fitzjames' fellow men consumed his face.

From what I know about survival/disaster cannibalism though, it seems more likely to me that they wouldn't have done so. I've read in the past that in many cases like this, those doing the butchering often remove and discard body parts like heads, hands, and feet first because they're most indicative of humanity.

Essentially, it's much easier to avoid facing the reality of what you're doing if what's before you looks as little like a human and as much like plain haunch of meat as possible.

[moregraceful]

Mikael Granlund surveys his kingdom [dallasstars]

[st-just]

Today in 'things which I had thought were just universally understood common knowledge' - talking about my current read with some friends, none of whom seemed to know the 'apocalyptic smallpox epidemic which decapitated the government and started a war of succession' bit of how the Spanish were able to conquer the Inca.

[blackkatmagic]

Found an Alpha-17/Padme/Granta WIP that I'd completely forgotten starting and now my brain cannot think about anything else, even though I have negative time to write right now. This is pure suffering.

[squeakadeeks]

im going to be a micro ass

as much as i was frustrated with a number of roadblocks over the past few months like my sewing machine breaking and not being able to afford infinite fabric lol- i had to return to illustrative art and that was a really good thing for my psyche. i think i can say that im like...actually genuinely happy with my art now? i dont want to come off as egotistical but i've always struggled with feeling OK about my illustrative stuff. But after the past few crash course months of daily exercises it feels like everything finally clicked. i can draw easier, faster, and when its done its like "oh yeah. thats my guy. there he is fr."

[anghraine]

I don't know if it's true for most (or any) others in fandom, but I've been thinking about how, despite being a nitpicky and opinionated person, the difficulty of accepting an obviously improbable AU fic premise often depends more on the framing than on the actual premise.

I mean, yeah, there are some premises that are so hard to buy for the characters or relationships that I can't wrap my brain around them enough to read or write the fic. But I've read and written plenty of AUs with premises I don't really find all that believable, and enjoyed them. What makes them typically work for me is a framing something like this:

Okay y'all, I know the premise of this one is out there, and there's a character who likely wouldn't actually do [Thing], but they have to for the story to happen and I tried to keep everyone in character otherwise! If you can't accept [Thing], that's fine, but then this fic probably isn't for you.

me, fairly often: hmm, intriguing situation for this particular cast to deal with! Let's see how it goes; it might be really interesting if it's done well.

There are different ways this can work more or less successfully for me personally (it can help if the break in plausibility is confined to a fairly minor figure to the fic/canon—but I have loved a few fics where my own blorbo is a main character in the fic and is the one who does something I find pretty wildly OOC to precipitate the plot). In general, though, "[Thing] wouldn't really happen but had to for the fic to exist" is something I can roll with as the price of entry. Sometimes it's an interesting challenge, even, to read or write something based on a concept that fundamentally beggars belief and think, "okay but if somehow it did happen, what could I believe of these particular characters?"

Basically, these AU scenarios exist in order to throw one or more characters into a specific situation that might well be vanishingly unlikely or impossible, and the fun is imagining what the cast might then do/think/evolve towards in this unfamiliar, improbable circumstance. Yes, there can come a point where I'm so puzzled or affronted by what's demanded for the proposed situation that I nope out immediately. But I can follow AU premises a fairly considerable ways before I hit that point.

On the other hand, a framing like this?

Okay y'all, I know the premise of this one might seem out there, and you might think [Character] would never, but he's just a man, after all/it's important not to stereotype women as one-dimensional ideals and let them have flaws/I actually see the character as less than perfect/etc, so that's why I made them a domestic abuser/sexual predator/murderer/whatever. It's not really out of character, just a different interpretation!

me, almost invariably: *backs away slowly*

[fireolin]

Saw my therapist about my arm yesterday and it went well. But she’s going to the US next week for a conference. I said, oh. She said, yeah. Pregnant pause. She said, the numbers are down on last year, people cancelling. I said, well, you’ll probably be fine at the border, you’re white and you have blue eyes. She said, probably, but I don’t have a dick.

This is how perceptions of travelling to the US have changed in the last few weeks. However, Australians have been detained by border officials and sent back here for no good reason even before now, due to the weird culture among a significant number of US border officials who are suspicious of anyone not from the US.