The Only Thing These Two Have In Common Is The Price They Paid To Win (open For A Surprise For Light

i went to a small private school in bumfuck, alabama, and we had a rite of passage. in 10th grade, every student took chemistry with Mr. Jenne, and every year, he showed his students a short video. the older students refused to tell the younger students what the video was, so by the time we got to chemistry, we were all super curious about it.

Mr. Jenne would go through the syllabus and explain how his class worked, then he'd drag out an old tv set and put an ancient vhs tape into an equally ancient vcr (i graduated in 2005; we knew what dvds were, but i don't think this was ever put on dvd). finally, he'd turn out the lights, and let us watch The Consequences of Our Choices, aka

The Pump

afterwards, when we were completely and utterly confused, he'd explain the metaphor. Mr. Jenne said he could always tell who had primed the pump by studying and who was going to die in the desert because they'd been cheating.

somewhere around December, when it was time for exams, he'd show it to us again. after that, he'd show it to us at random intervals -- if he needed to leave the room for a bit, if we finished the lesson early (ha!), or the next time we had exams in May. He also taught organic chemistry and physics, and you can bet your sweet ass i took both of those classes. i got to watch The Pump quite a few times.

Mr. Jenne passed away about a decade ago. He's still one of my all time favorite teachers because he taught us how to think, not what to think, and he didn't hold it against us when we thought something he didn't agree with (unless it was something provable, like science. he would've mercilessly mocked anti-maskers).

the older of my 2 little sisters starts 10th grade at my high school soon, so i did what any good sister would -- i made her watch The Pump. after i explained the metaphor and how much all of Mr. Jenne's students came to love the weird little video, she immediately started texting the link to her friends.

so, after a decade, i brought The Pump back to my school. I feel like I've reintroduced an endangered species to its native habitat.

(yeah, The Pump was originally about Christianity and Jesus and all that crap, and it was put out by the Mormons, but when i see this, i think science, not religion. but i tagged it religion, anyway, just in case)

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what i read in february 2022:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & economy

what coming out of the ‘caste closet’ was like

world food prices are climbing closer toward a record high

i was surrounded by ‘final girls’ in school, knowing i’d never be one (usa)

petrópolis: a perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality (brazil)

gender & sexuality

why were scientists so slow to study covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

bimbofication is taking over. what does that mean for you?

hollywood played a role in hypersexualising asian women

politics, climate change, & covid

‘whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the taliban’s return to power (afghanistan)

the vietnamese workers japan depends on are falling through the cracks

britain’s ownership of the chagos islands has no basis, mauritius is right to claim them

despite climate goals, europe’s 25 largest banks continue to invest billions in oil and gas

history, culture, & media

‘i remember the feeling of insult’: when britain imprisoned its wartime refugees

archaeologists in egypt discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’

the good place and bojack horseman died as they lived

‘death knows no colour’: the forgotten african soldiers of wwii

ukraine

i’m in kyiv and awake at the darkest hour – as putin’s bombs rain down

dictators aren’t pretending anymore

‘the hope is finished’: life in the ukrainian separatist regions of donetsk and luhansk

how suicide became the hidden toll of the war in ukraine

nigeria condemns treatment of africans

LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE

BULLSHIT.

LOOK AT IT.

 Do you remember when this scene happened in the fucking manga?

Cuz I fucking do.

THEY

COULD’VE

DONE

SOMETHING

BEAUTIFUL

instead they just slapped some new dialogue over a scene we all saw in season 1.

instead of doing what isayama did, which was give us the same scene, but with more emphasis on how in love with this kid important Armin’s dream would come to mean to Eren, they rehashed the same scene AND

AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE MANGA

THEY CHOSE

TO CUT AWAY

TO THE BOOK

Because staring into ya homie’s eyes while talking about your shared dream is gay.

and snk ain’t gay. gross. blocked. unfollowed. 

edit: @ people who say it doesn’t matter, first order of business stay in ur mfking lane this is between me and Araki. second order of business, I’m sorry that you don’t appreciate character building and just wanna watch Titan fights and that’s what you consider a good adaptation. go watch Tokyo ghoul re, you poor confused sod.

this keeps coming up, in all sorts of different discourse, so I finally gave up and made it a meme

Mikasa: Good morning.

Armin: Good morning!

Levi: Good morning.

Hanji: You all sound like a bunch of robots, “good morning, good morning”, spice it up a bit!

Eren, overhearing and kicking the door down: HEY MOTHERFUCKERS!

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