my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness
I always thought the name wormtongue was derogatory but I clearly misunderstood their dynamic
Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.
It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao
I bought a cape because of this
this post is written in a humorous tone but this is the realest shit.
two years ago i wore baggy sweatpants and flip flops every day because i was depressed but then decided eh to hell with it and bought some black edgy emo clothes bc thats how i always wanted to dress but never got a chance to and it was only then that i realized that the sweatpants flip flops look was just keeping me in my depression funk. i didnt like the way i looked and i didnt identify with the clothes i was wearing and it only made me feel worse.
i then went through my entire wardrobe and got rid of everything that made me feel that way.
now i have multiple outfit possibilities requiring different levels of effort but on days where putting on clothes just seems like a project i just have to put on black jeans and a band t-shirt and i can still feel good about the way i look which is a really good way to start off my day.
i can not recommend this approach to clothing enough.
Can I just say this is the healthiest mindset related post I have seen on this sight and I want every single person on here to read this
Also let me just say because I’ve encountered it a lot—people who try to sneakily put you down by implying that you’re overdressed/a “try-hard”/somehow insecure because you put effort into what you wear could probably stand to try a little harder at finding small things they can do for themselves, like getting dressed each morning, that spark joy… because that’s a pretty freaking joyless takeaway from seeing someone in a cool outfit.
Controversial take but if you wrote a novel about two women falling in love and you changed one of them into a man you would have the most enormous smash hit of a romance book on your hands
Maybe because I met like 15 butch lesbians who are the real life equivalent of the ideal male romance lead and I have yet to meet a man who fits the archetype.
Ladies do you want a man who reads you classical novels when you can’t sleep? Bakes cakes, knits sweaters and is able to remodel your bathroom? Good with animals, kids and has a career they’re passionate about? Handsome but not vain? Sweet, sensitive but charmingly rough around the edges? A good conversationalist? Well that’s not a man, that’s my friend Jennifer
““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch
entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade
inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to
tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success,
leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could
be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating
islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter
from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and
27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there,
launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device,
but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed
“Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in
its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1
millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to
wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and
camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine
life…
Slat estimates
ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10
Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all
floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”
If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.
Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.
I am so, so proud of him holy shit.
^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.
And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!
Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3
My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”
And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.
There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.
He doesn’t stop at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, either! While working on their ocean trash collection system, the Ocean Cleanup is simultaneously also building a number of systems to clean up the world’s 1000 most polluted rivers and is working with local governments and the people directly impacted by the trash at each location to prevent plastic from making it into the oceans in the first place. They are adapting each one to the specific locality it will be deployed in to take the unique circumstances (boat traffic on rivers and spring flash floods) into account. They’re amazing.
I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn’t even occur to me as an option
Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you’re in the trenches.
It would never occur to me to use Chatgpt for a school project, even if it had been a thing back in my day. HOWEVER, for job applications? I sure as fuck would!
It should be noted, that in Denmark, if you don’t have a job and are either on government support or unemployment insurance, you have to write two applications a week in order to get your money. Doesn’t matter if there is no job in your field, you still have to apply. And considering many companies use bots to filter out applications, I feel like you are entitled to do the same.
Remember fellas, AI is a tool that needs to be used properly in the same way that you wouldn’t use a dishwasher to wash your clothes.
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