We are essentially in an infrastructural time bomb where the entire American economy is held together by a few thousand boomers who refused to teach anything to anyone and just held their cushy job until they were 80.
People forget that when an east coast oil pipeline was hacked during Biden, Congress dragged the managers of the pipeline into a hearing and asked why they didn't run it manually and the response was "everyone that knows how is either retired or dead."
It’s important that you read classic literature and myths and folklore and the great poets because then all their wisdom and weirdness and passion will be rattling around in your head and you will become a poem. YOU are the data center and no one can take that from you.
This whole "AO3" interface discourse is so funny to me. I never read a guide. I never read a typed up "how to" by anyone. I just used the damn thing. Like just click a button and see what happens.
When I was 15 I was on a camping trip and it was really buggy and one of the other kids (who was a creationist) said "I wonder if we're breeding super mosquitoes by only killing the slow ones" and I said "I thought you didn't believe in evolution" and everyone got mad at me
Look at that twisted handle. The rabbit themed pommel. Dear god even the scabbard is decorated with hopping bunnies. The stunning engravings.
All within one single weapon in three regal colours of gold, white and red
obviously it’s not perfect but wikipedia might genuinely be one of the top ten best ideas of my lifetime. a free, ad-less encyclopedia with millions of articles available in hundreds of languages that the majority of humans can access from anywhere. what a gift
Whenever people talk about minecraft being post apocaliptic they never bring up the detail that nearly all land wild life has been replaced by domesticated animals, even the suspiciously dog-sized, barking and mostly docile "wolves"