You write with the timing of a good YouTube video. Any unscrupulous Influencer would do well to wade into your posts.

There are six realms and each is united by highly conserved traits, i.e. genome sequences that are shared between them even through evolutionary weirdness and the like.

Like, come on, this is some Gauntlet: Dark Legacy shit. This is some "Super Mario Brothers" stuff. I think this happened in Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Viruses stand for "Video Gamesiruses" I think

This is a lovely post and I hope you are feeling better as of my reading this

I am once again coming to these late, and once again, it's full of bangers. It's hard to pick a favorite quote. This is such a fantastic hook:

The Taylor Glacier of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctic bleeds. There is just a waterfall of deep red, bloody water that spouts from the side down onto West Lake Bonney. I assume this was an absolutely horrific sight to the 1911 Terra Nova Expedition guys, particularly Thomas Griffith Taylor, who named it. It is regrettable it did not start doing cosmic horror to him, given that he was a shitty race scientist guy.

You may be wondering several things, most notably, why in God's name is the world bleeding? Why is there so much blood? Why is it there, at the frozen ends of the earth? Can God save us? No, silly, of course He can't. This is the domain of Microbes.

Thank you again for this effortpost, it should be under f/best_post because this is one of the best posts.

Also I think bragging about this kind of thing is cool and I want you to do it more (genuine)

I have had this interaction several times. I would love to feel your pulsing brane (that is, I would love to see your simulations / know more about the context) (I love probability, and verifying with my good pal Monte Carlo)

Yeah! I think the comedy helps the Star Trek go down a lot easier

I have, I loved it, until the ending started to build up. I dislike supernatural horror, it takes anything to "Scooby Doo" levels of seriousness to me. Throw in something Satanic-Panic adjacent and I just lose all interest.

Congratulations on quitting smoking!! That's impressive and good for you, and by extension, for the cause of Posting.

BONUS: "Green Room". A24 always produces films that, at minimum, don't feel like a waste of time to watch. "Green Room" is about a metal band who is in the wrong place (a neo nazi bar) at the wrong time (witnesses what might be a murder). I think horror is at its best when it feels like a real thing which could happen. Highly recommended

I actually played that one a ton :-D

if you try hard enough you can defeat it

WRETCHEDSORCERESS more like WENCHEDSORCERESS

i like this post a lot

This actually kind of happened earlier 2024. Asbestos is very common despite regulations, but the EPA ended up banning it for realsies. One of the many huge wins that gives me pause about the "Kamala and Biden is 99% Hitler" stuff. Conservatives got angry about that, but "make nurseries asbestos again" didn't take off.

Maybe those mesothelioma memes were a good thing.

happy to do my posting duties

is he still leaf blowing?

i will come wearing neither

this makes me want to be your friend

Right back achoo 👉👉

Oh yeah, to be clear, I think it's still not good to say the word.

I think "we need to get woke again" is good. I also think we should be saying "I'm a feminist" again. And "it's okay to kill nazis", which sounds cutesy and trite, but I think we need to actually say the words

although no lamps have genies, all lamps ARE magic

This is a "two posts for one" special.

Disability is a tricky identity thing I think. I think it's good to have an expansive and inclusive idea about what disabled means. But in practice I fail at that.

I'd been rolling around in a wheelchair, courtesy of an airport, because of a chronic but undiagnosed physical condition. I felt immense guilt that I might be taking a wheelchair away from others, I felt bad at the way people averted their gaze, and I felt bad that people were so quick to accomodate me. But I really appreciated how much easier it was to get around and how much it helped the pain.

That was years ago. Using my crutches recently, to help with this problem I'm still having, I just realized, wait, ya doofus, that makes you disabled.

I'd been a big advocate for disability as an inclusive identity. Microsoft is actually great at this, modeling disability as something that can be permanent, temporary, or situational.

Despite agreeing with that inclusive model, I felt guilty about "taking" a resource from someone else who might use it.

Even though I needed it.

"Disability" is still a super broad net. Fuck, I'm disabled! I think? I've had this for years. I can't be very intersectional if I never considered myself in that way.

I was in special ed and called the r-slur for being in special ed, but even then, I am seriously not an authority on this matter! I don't have a learning disability and I don't think I faced meaningful discrimination for the perception that I did. "Disabled" is one of the broadest groups I'm aware of.

And, if it took me years of a disability to recognize I'm disabled, I probably shouldn't be speaking on disability either. I'm not experienced enough at that to be disabled correctly, you see. Wait, that's internalized ableism too. I can't just delete the post, can I? Let me consult the manual.

THE MANUAL OF POSTING

RULE 1: JUST POST

THE END OF THE MANUAL OF POSTING

But I'm really self conscious!

YOU AREN'T THE AMBASSADOR OF DISABLED PEOPLE

NOBODY EXPECTS YOU TO BE. IT'S NOT A THING

FRANKLY, IT'S KIND OF WEIRD THAT YOU'RE GETTING SO
FAR IN TO YOUR OWN HEAD ABOUT THIS ONE THING

EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT HAVING A "LEG THING"
DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN USE THE R-SLUR. IT'S NOT A
COMPLICATED THING. JUST POST

Thank you for the reassurance, Just Post Rulebook Tulpa.

In all seriousness, I've had and think I will continue to have difficulty identifying as "disabled". It feels like stolen valor, or something I should qualify with an asterisk.

I think I would feel more comfortable with an identity that could express the nebulous, I-can-usually-walk nature of what I have going on. That might be easier if I had a diagnosis, other than "your leg can't take weight sometimes". I feel like I don't even know how to be "proud" properly.

But so long as I pass as able-bodied, I promise to continue to always be annoying to people around me about ability considerations. Big win (14 months ago), I got a manager to remove a mandate that everyone use Postman. Another big win (~70 months ago) I got my girlfriend (now ex) to feel bad for not understanding how OpenStreetMaps pavement markings could be useful for people who rely on a mobility aid. I'll continue to fight, and to make bad posts. I will never stop posting. I swear this to you.

anyways, lay down the "wich details" (please)

"It's Sandwich Timmy Time" -- If someone was named Sandwich Timmy

Copying from Reddit because they don't allow people to read posts when not logged in:

You open a booster, shuffle the cards, and place them face down. You then have two people that alternate between flipping it (pick a card, flip it up and they get to keep it) and ripping it (ripping the card in half then at the end revealing all the cards that have been ripped).

There are people within the community that get annoyed at people playing this, as it's seen as a sign of privilege and disrespect, like recording yourself burning money. The person playing it is showing that they don't care if they get a valuable card ripped in half, I think it's pretty stupid personally, but it's their possession to waste if they want.

I think this is stupid, but I also think NFTs / TCGs are stupid. The money was wasted when they bought the cards. Ripping Magic cards is like right clicking NFTs to me, so this is cool

That's roughly what my local university's english department said in their rejection letter!

well, have you considered this rust implementation that's 2 years old and based on a defunct framework?