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Google maps: We can calculate how long it takes to get to a place using semi-current traffic data combined with years of historical traffic data as well as how long on average it takes our users to drive a similar route to get the ETA accurate down to the minute 👌

Me: ok how long will it take for me to get from Point A to Point B later today

Goggle maps: hm… maybe 20 minutes…,. perhaps 50? who knows

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Kind of a tiny rant inspired by my previous post, but I’ll forever be mad at the people who love saying that Kuvira “got off easy” while totally ignoring Baatar Jr was basically not really punished at all. If he was then it was way less severe than what Kuvira herself got. Like let’s not forget that he was in full support of everything the Earth Empire did. Not only that, he literally helped build the technology that made it possible in the first place. Yet most of the fandom only ever blames Kuvira, as if Baatar Jr wasn’t her right hand man/fiancé.

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One thing I hate about the tlok fandom is that they will acknowledge one character's trauma and then ignore this character's sibling who grew up with them in the same circumstances.

Mako is heavily traumatised, of course. But Bolin is the haha funny himbo because somehow Mako at 8 years of age was able to perfectly shelter his younger brother from the horrors of homelessness?

Worse offender, Lin Beifong. Tragic character. Household void of love, neglectful mother. Very sad, yes.

BUT SUYIN WAS THERE TOO, MOTHERFUCKERS.

Suyin was there, wanting her mothers love just as much as Lin. But just because Suyin isn't caught in a perpetual midlife crisis, like Lin, somehow the trauma just. Didn't affect her?

I've made this point before, but Suyin and Bolin don't fit the archetype of "traumatised". Being friendly, bubbly and energetic aren't traits people usually associate with traumatised characters. While, broody, passive agressive loners like Mako and Lin do.

Many people don't just show they're hurt. Many people, like Bolin and Su, build coping mechanisms or masks or just. Deal with trauma differently. Yet people just decide to ignore the obvious fact that Bolin and Su are also trauma survivors, just like their older siblings.

It's weird? Especially in the Suyin case. People love to hate on her and tout Lin as this poor, misunderstood victim, when Suyin is a victim of their circumstances too.

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Saint Dymphna is the patroness of stress, anxiety and mental illness. Dymphna offers much solace to those suffering from mental illness as well as their family members.

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Tarrlok and Noatak if Yakone had been found in the North Pole:

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I am so sick of this lingering sentiment in the fandom that Aang was a neglectful father.

Seriously. I am bone-fucking-weary of it.

I mean, wasn’t the obvious takeaway of the Civil Wars episodes that while Bumi and Kya had some lingering frustrations with their father (as most children do), they grew up in a happy, loving family?

Was this not explicitly stated at the end?

Well, if that isn’t enough for you, allow me to deal the deathblow to the ‘neglectful Aang’ theory with the following canon information (this isn’t an exhaustive list):

1)) In the post-show Korra comics, Kya fondly remembers how supportive her father was when she came out as a lesbian. 100% supportive, to be exact.

2)) In the comic anthology Patterns in Time, Bumi acknowledges the unimaginable amount of responsibility his father had on his shoulders (as the Avatar, the last airbender, a husband, a father, etc.). Furthermore, he tells Meelo:

“Here's the thing about dads like ours... They may be frustrating, they may not always have infinite time for us. But everything they do is to keep us safe.”

I think this statement speaks for itself.

3)) In the Korra DVD commentary, Bryke themselves assert that Aang was not a deadbeat dad to any of his children, and that he made extra time for Tenzin not out of favouritism, but necessity. This stands to reason, as Tenzin was the heir to the mantle of ‘The Last Airbender’. It wasn’t enough for him to simply learn about the Air Nomads; he had to embody everything they were, which obviously required intense training and study. Bumi and Kya, for better or worse, were not burdened with this responsibility.

Now, I’m not saying Aang was perfect; no parent is. I AM saying that we have ample canon evidence that he was a good, if imperfect, father who did the best he could in tough circumstances.

That’s all any of us can do.

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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I hate the “we should have child free cafes but not dog free cafes” and the “kids shouldn’t be out in public” shit that’s getting popular again cause whenever you ask them why they hate kids they say their loud annoying etc.

Just because another person is inconvenient for you doesn’t mean they don’t get to exist in public.

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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

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Another one picked out by the Patreon

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I don't care if you shipped it. I'm asking if it happened

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brought some fruit for the potluck

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Now I made the South Water Tribe family tree too! Not much headcanons for this, except that I guess it's implied that Kanna did love Pakku in some form even though she ran away in order to fight for her rights and voice, because she took the betrothal necklace with her and later passed it on. I suppose she would have thrown it away if she hated or didn't care for Pakku. Only 60 years later when he changed and improved as a person did they reunite.

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One thing that helps me calm down about intra-left-wing sniping and the reality that the big center-left coalition inevitably includes a lot of ridiculous nonsense, is to remember how ubiquitous seances were to progressive politics in the 19th century.  Like, e.g., Frederick Douglas had to go to so many seances. Many, many political strategy sessions around the country had to include feedback from the ghost of Moses who spoke to us via morse code.  

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What other languages have a version or translation of "so-so"?

I only know the French "comme ci comme ça" and Hebrew "ככה ככה"

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POV: a guy who’s trying really hard to figure out if an artist is drawing trans and/or poc charcters in an inhuman way because they’re bigoted or if they’re just a furry who’s gotten too used to cartoon animal proportions

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The only argument you should need for weekly releases is what happened to the JoJo anime. For five straight series, JoJo was the hottest thing in the anime community. Then they switched to bulk releases for Stone Ocean, and it was gone. No more JoJo fridays. No discussion, no memes, no hype. The fumble was downright painful. Weekly episodes are the proven way to keep engagement high, keep people talking, attract new viewers. I'm still salty.