Internet Likes From Distant Friends Or Total Strangers Hold More Weight Than Those From Close Friends

I walk down the city streets, in an unsuspectin' human world. Inhuman in your midst. Well, this world is mine to own.

Zero is a funny number. The opposite of one is negative one. But the opposite of zero is still zero.

Vegetarians/vegans are so annoying when they're like, "There's no way to ethically kill an animal." Like, dude. Have you seen how animals kill each other in nature? Venomous snakes watch their prey cripple from venom, or sometimes Grizzly bears eat their prey alive (there are endless examples)💀💀 Be happy that the animals we eat are shot or have their throats slit!!

Today I learned raw image files are sometimes incorrectly described as "digital negatives". Like transparency film and unlike negative film, raw image pixels contain positive exposure measurements. The raw datasets are more like undeveloped film: a raw image can be developed by software in a non-destructive manner to reach a complete image that resolves every pixel in an RGB color space.

September. "Septem" ... as in the number seven. Yes, it is the ninth month of the year. Romans, smh.

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

Tethys

A gold medallion featuring a high-relief depiction of Tethys seated on a seahorse amid stylised waves, ca.300/200 BC., 7x6.5 cm, weight 25 gr

Private Collection

One of the funniest things about communism is that it rests on a premise that's basically like, "Hey, once everybody voluntarily gives up a specific set of strategies and advantages, everything will be wonderful. So, once we figure out how to coerce everybody into voluntarily giving those up, we'll be set."

I totally understand why people don't want to live in subsidised housing, @isaacsapphire. It's for the same reason homeless people don't want to sleep in homeless shelters but under bridges. It's the same reason why suicidally depressed people don't want to be committed into a mental hospital with all the other mentally ill people.

The marginal guy from the fatter side of the tail does not want to be stuck with the guys from the far end of the distribution.