and i would argue there are way more, because grouping all of africa and europe and asia together is kind of utterly pointless.

What makes sense to me is groupings very much like europe in size and cultural cohesion, something roughly like this:

(I can’t intuitively figure out where to draw lines in america, aside from the fact that the northern part of the landmass is basically unpopulated and vastly more similar to greenland than it is to the populated parts)

turns out life doesn’t care what we think, and will merrily do whatever the fuck it feels like

there’s a plant that can just magically grow to look like whatever other plants are near it, some-fucking-how

idk, i feel that would be even better in reverse, and with kermit playing truman

unable to speak? no no, cats are absolutely able to speak when they feel like it.

usually when you open the fridge to grab some ham

punishing working people

Funny thing is, i specifically have the client limited to 100kb/s, it’s amazing what you can get by just letting it run in the background at all times.

“Ka-blooey!”

“oh they’re gonna hafta gluu yuu back together, IN HELL”

and 3d-printers

We have the technology, we can rebuild her

this is wild to read because many days i literally need a 200mg pill to be physically able to get out of bed, and that is literally all the effect it has on me. If i take 400mg all at once i, like, feel a bit nervous and jittery for a few hours…

Also i’m not sure how accurate what you say can be, because my pills are as stated 200mg and intended to be taken whole, if it was really that big of an issue then surely they’d be 50mg each and you’d be instructed to portion it out over a few hours?

in this case they learned that yes, recreating huge predators and letting people go on poorly secured safari next to them does indeed result in people being violently killed.

I somehow don’t think this experiment would pass an ethics committee in real life…

Maybe scientists should question what precisely their work is going to be used for? like “hey boss why are we making house-sized predators? i’m not sure i want to do that, i’d rather start with small herbivores that can’t hurt anyone”.

“i was just following orders” is famously called the nuremburg defense, and the world didn’t really like the nazi officers who pleaded that to charges of gassing people…

An engineer working on the construction of a building that’s obviously going to collapse can’t just say “oh well i’m just a worker, when the building collapses and kills 30 people that’s the owner’s fault”, they have to refuse to continue work until the designs have been fixed or they are criminally negligent

i’m not sure why you bring all of that up? i said studying history, that… obviously includes the things you mention, that is what it means to study history…

i highly recommend something like P!n, having stuff as persistent notifications has helped me a lot

i actually do fix things later, and that fact makes me feel like i’m violating the natural order

i think it helps a lot that i live alone and thus can keep EVERYTHING precisely as i need it to be, the dishes eventually get washed because i can literally wait until i have 30 seconds of energy and do it then

i feel like people confuse 2 similar but fundamentally different feelings: “I deserve a relationship/sex” and “i REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want a relationship/sex and i don’t understand why everyone else seems to get it and i just get to eat shit, like holy shit can someone at least take pity on me? please?”

regular reminder that up to 1.7% of the population is intersex, and grouping people into “male” and “female” to explain societal stuff is very unhelpful.

• Signed: Nonbinary AMAB who has suffered quite a lot from being treated as “male”

Right?
“hm, i’m very upset at the fact that i can’t get into a relationship with the opposite gender, surely the solution to this is vocally hating that opposite gender and being as toxic and unpleasant as i can manage”

Like i get being fundamentally unhappy and angry, but surely the natural reaction to that is escaping into fantasy? Spend your days fantasizing about someone from the opposite gender actively loving the things others dislike, or that you’ll eventually turn out to secretly be a turboawesome vampire or whatever.

At what point does a person decide that hating the people they want to get into bed with makes sense??

okay okay stop flexing, you’re making us feel bad

seriously this could be a 2000’s artsy european cartoon or something, like “la linea”

makes more sense when you consider that people would generally have a handfull of kids, and you probably want to wait a few years between them to catch your breath and try to get the last one to survive past the first year.

which is why studying history is so important, it’s actively expanding your experienced past. At this point the middle ages no longer feels like a long time ago.