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crunch munch

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Fun fact: after the American Physical Society held their 1986 annual meeting at the MGM Grand, the entire city of Las Vegas politely asked APS to never, ever come back.

Was it because the physicists were super-smart MIT-blackjack-team forerunners who took the casino for everything it was worth? Actually, the complete opposite: they didn’t gamble. At all. After all, they knew their statistics. Most of them were broke grad students who had no intention of throwing away their stipends on fundamental misunderstandings of Poisson processes. As a result the casino gaming floor was dead. Sometimes the winning move really is not to play.

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not to make posts that are going to get me anon hate, but I am fucking begging people to stop calling fictional characters "minors." can we please go back to talking about fictional characters as children or teenagers. please.

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Lupita Nyong'o with brother Junior Nyong'o as Viola & Sebastian in Shakespeare in the Park - Twelfth Night

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joint mission

it would be so funny if this was how the identity reveal happens

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its so funny how in the first few seasons of the life series most of the members hail scar as the one that dies and takes damage a lot and yet. he got into final two in 3rd life, which grian said he counted as a join win for the duo right there? he got to seven lives in last life and spent four of them defusing the reds. made it to the final session in double and limited life, he wasnt even the cause of him and grian's final death in double life. he WON secret life!!!! gang i know he gets a little silly with it sometimes but i feel like we're underselling scar's abilities here!!!!

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Life Series and Empires Pearl going through awful prometheus torture. Being deified into a dramatic exaggeration of herself so that the people around her can have something to worship, to use, or to fear.

Vs

Hermitcraft Pearl. Whos schtick is just being employed. Businesswoman, cleaning lady, postwoman, she does it all! Hermitcraft Pearl is just barbie.

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read that post blacked out and woke up with this on my computer. crazy. stay safe out there everyone

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my wife tried to do the thing where you pull a tablecloth really fast and the dishes stay in place but instead of a tablecloth it was a towel and instead of dishes it was our poor long suffering cat that was just trying to sleep on said towel. poor baby got whipped across the room fast enough that its meow got dopplered into meeeeeeOOOWWwwwwww

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

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every time crystal has to go back to the inhumans for whatever reason, johnny spends like easily 10 issues losing his fucking mind over it (unless she comes back quick in which case he just spends those few pages in between losing it) and it's so fucking funny to me honestly