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Quick! Quick! Everyone tell me, roughly, how many lives do you think you've saved? I can say anywhere from 7 - 31 bc I've donated 7 times, and every donation can save up to 3 lives. You want to save a life? You want to make the world better in a concrete tangible way? You and bloodo from your veins can do it in about an hour.
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing
learning new things about the german rail system today
His orgasam was like the London underground. It came every 3 - 5 minutes, was overcrowded, smelled of sick and body odour, was filthy but the best option for almost everyone in the city
I have learned a lot about various train systems thanks to this post
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Elaboration on your response so I feel justified in bringing this screenshot into the conversation
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batshit misinterpretation of the entire exchange
unnecessary addition several months later
gimmick blog addition
obligatory “it’s on my dash!”
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i thought this was a hospital drama why does he have a shotgun?!??!?
It's a really, really good hospital drama
I'm so glad I turned on the Audio bc it turns out this is set to Boney M's Rasputin and is basically perfectly synced
you're worried about the shotgun and not the bazooka
@falconwhitaker hey look it got some of your boys!
Fuckin love this :D
God I have got to re-watch house. And Lie to me for that matter, fuck it I'll throw leverage on that list too
I need these three fucking weirdos in one room. It'd be epic. Not one of them knows how to behave in public, they're all assholes, they're all always the cleverest man the room. I want too see them fight. Or possibly make out
i thought this was a hospital drama why does he have a shotgun?!??!?
It's a really, really good hospital drama
I'm so glad I turned on the Audio bc it turns out this is set to Boney M's Rasputin and is basically perfectly synced
you're worried about the shotgun and not the bazooka
@falconwhitaker hey look it got some of your boys!
Fuckin love this :D
God I have got to re-watch house. And Lie to me for that matter, fuck it I'll throw leverage on that list too
mouse girl commercial airline pilot who gets on the intercom and says "this is your captain squeaking... we've just ahhh, reached our maximum cruising altitude of 32,000 feet, which is very high and scary for me because I'm a mouse"
this could have been a completely normal, nonsexual post about mousegirls with various careers, but u just had to go and ruin it by implicitly referencing an airplane
What the hell does that even mean?
In case the link doesn't work or you don't have tiktok, Nestlé is committing mass deforestation and displacing the indigenous population in West Papua for palm oil production. The region is currently under colonial occupation by Indonesia, whose government allows the company to broadly do whatever they want. Difficult as it is, there are calls to boycott Nestlé over this latest in a long line of acts of widespread, unspeakable violence they have committed across the world. For more details, I'd suggest having a read of what Wikipedia delicately calls 'Nestlé Controversies' as a starting point. It includes detail of:
That last one has been estimated to have killed 10.8 million infants between 1960 - 2015.
I don't know if I believe in an actual flesh a blood devil, but if the devil is real he's a Nestlé executive
by calling it "time theft", the state created a crime that sounds even cooler than simply dicking around while on the clock, something which is already incredibly cool
It's like that time a copper in my hometown called the local taxie drivers "Steve's stunt drivers" because of how recklessly they drove and every one of them was puffed up like a peacock about that for weeks. Don't make the crime sound cool if you actually want people to stop doing.
Oh and always remember,
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
So I always piss on company time
"they're insects that only live in clean water!"
riko I have questions about your definition of "clean"
No she’s right, this is a thing in real world ecology too : )) certain orders of aquatic insect are famously useful as indicators of ecosystem health because they can only thrive in unpolluted water! For example, here’s the Maine Department of Health on aquatic plecoptera (stonefly) larvae.
Along with caddisflies and mayflies, they are one of the three most commonly used indices of aquatic ecosystem health. Because their habitat requirements are so specific, their absence from a water body does not inherently mean that the water body is polluted. However, their presence is a reliable indicator of a high quality, minimally polluted stream.
fascinating! but I do have to ask - does "high quality, minimally polluted" imply "potable"?
Yes, the “EPT Index” (or the measured presence of three taxa of insects — ephemeroptera, plecoptera and tricoptera) is linked to WQI (water quality index, used to determine stability and public health) in general. For example, here’s a project where the former was used to assess the latter.
The scores of EPT taxa richness of >10 in all rivers indicated all rivers’ habitats were non-impacted, having good water quality coinciding with Class I and Class II of Malaysian water quality index (WQI) classification of potable water.
However, additional tests of specific pollutant indices are likely to be done by official agencies because this will give more information than just checking whether insects are present. But it’s a good quick and useful indicator.
neat!
In university, when we were studying sewage treatment and water purification, we were taught to use the presence of dragonflies as a sort of eyeball test in the later stages of purification to see that things are working properly. Obviously you also take samples and do proper tests, but if the dragonflies disappear from your "clean" waterway then you might have a PROBLEM problem and it's time to pull the brakes and retest everything to find out why. I live in Australia and we have some of the highest water quality standards in the world.
I thought that the insects were indicators of lack of pollution, not of water safety. Like if they disappear that's a HUGE problem, but just because they're thriving it doesn't mean that there's no giardia. (Giardia is one of the main reasons that I'm never going to drink untreated water. I have a filter for backcountry, I'm not going to pull the "we dipped the water from the middle of the lake" trick.)
The presence of insects does not necessarily indicate that water is safe to drink. In general, you should assume that any water in nature is unsafe to drink without boiling unless you don't have another option. (Your options will sometimes depend on where you live; many societies drink unboiled well or river water, but this is not advisable in areas with large human or farm animal populations for reasons of disease). Indicator species like these can be found in purified waterways, the water is clean but NOT sterile. It might be pumped to rivers or lakes or the ocean fairly shortly after this step but to go into the drinking water supply it needs to be further sterilised. It will be treated via heat, chemicals, filtration or all three, and tested for the presence of known local pathogens before being pumped into homes and soforth. (When I went to the USA a decade or so ago I found the water there absolutely fucking disgusting, because the places I went to sterilise their water with high concentrations of chlorine and leave it in there. I don't know how people can live on the stuff.)
The standards of quality will depend on where you live, and how good an indicator one of these species is for safety will vary depending on the water source; river water far away from humans and farms will be safer (although not really safe) than town runoff being purified, in terms of the likely presence of pathogens, even if indicator species are present at both. But these species are very helpful in places that lack the infrastructure to test or purify their water to our standards, as well as being a handy eyeball test for water purification efficacy. You have to work with what you have, and sometimes what you have isn't perfect.
Isn't there a city in Poland that equipped 6 clams with the ability to push a button when they closed and gave them control of the cities water supply because they're so good at detecting contamination?
they're working with what they have and what they have is clams
Genius behaviour
dislike and discomfort are normal and healthy parts of the human experience actually
"I find this off-putting" and "this is harmful to me" are surprisingly not the same thing. i know, i'm as shocked as you are
As it turns out, suffering is, in fact, an unavoidable part of life. But! On the brightside side, so to is it unavoidable that suffering will pass, and joy is also an unavoidable part of life
"they're insects that only live in clean water!"
riko I have questions about your definition of "clean"
No she’s right, this is a thing in real world ecology too : )) certain orders of aquatic insect are famously useful as indicators of ecosystem health because they can only thrive in unpolluted water! For example, here’s the Maine Department of Health on aquatic plecoptera (stonefly) larvae.
Along with caddisflies and mayflies, they are one of the three most commonly used indices of aquatic ecosystem health. Because their habitat requirements are so specific, their absence from a water body does not inherently mean that the water body is polluted. However, their presence is a reliable indicator of a high quality, minimally polluted stream.
fascinating! but I do have to ask - does "high quality, minimally polluted" imply "potable"?
Yes, the “EPT Index” (or the measured presence of three taxa of insects — ephemeroptera, plecoptera and tricoptera) is linked to WQI (water quality index, used to determine stability and public health) in general. For example, here’s a project where the former was used to assess the latter.
The scores of EPT taxa richness of >10 in all rivers indicated all rivers’ habitats were non-impacted, having good water quality coinciding with Class I and Class II of Malaysian water quality index (WQI) classification of potable water.
However, additional tests of specific pollutant indices are likely to be done by official agencies because this will give more information than just checking whether insects are present. But it’s a good quick and useful indicator.
neat!
In university, when we were studying sewage treatment and water purification, we were taught to use the presence of dragonflies as a sort of eyeball test in the later stages of purification to see that things are working properly. Obviously you also take samples and do proper tests, but if the dragonflies disappear from your "clean" waterway then you might have a PROBLEM problem and it's time to pull the brakes and retest everything to find out why. I live in Australia and we have some of the highest water quality standards in the world.
I thought that the insects were indicators of lack of pollution, not of water safety. Like if they disappear that's a HUGE problem, but just because they're thriving it doesn't mean that there's no giardia. (Giardia is one of the main reasons that I'm never going to drink untreated water. I have a filter for backcountry, I'm not going to pull the "we dipped the water from the middle of the lake" trick.)
The presence of insects does not necessarily indicate that water is safe to drink. In general, you should assume that any water in nature is unsafe to drink without boiling unless you don't have another option. (Your options will sometimes depend on where you live; many societies drink unboiled well or river water, but this is not advisable in areas with large human or farm animal populations for reasons of disease). Indicator species like these can be found in purified waterways, the water is clean but NOT sterile. It might be pumped to rivers or lakes or the ocean fairly shortly after this step but to go into the drinking water supply it needs to be further sterilised. It will be treated via heat, chemicals, filtration or all three, and tested for the presence of known local pathogens before being pumped into homes and soforth. (When I went to the USA a decade or so ago I found the water there absolutely fucking disgusting, because the places I went to sterilise their water with high concentrations of chlorine and leave it in there. I don't know how people can live on the stuff.)
The standards of quality will depend on where you live, and how good an indicator one of these species is for safety will vary depending on the water source; river water far away from humans and farms will be safer (although not really safe) than town runoff being purified, in terms of the likely presence of pathogens, even if indicator species are present at both. But these species are very helpful in places that lack the infrastructure to test or purify their water to our standards, as well as being a handy eyeball test for water purification efficacy. You have to work with what you have, and sometimes what you have isn't perfect.
Isn't there a city in Poland that equipped 6 clams with the ability to push a button when they closed and gave them control of the cities water supply because they're so good at detecting contamination?
Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do
I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.
Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.
Gandalf's attitude towards Pippin just took on a whole new layer.
Gandalf: lol who's idiot child is that?
Gandalf five seconds later: OH SHOT THAT'S MY IDIOT CHILD
Galadriel: That's what you get for messing around with hobbits
the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
I found him a friend!
He's a Megalictis, the largest weasel and was estimated to be roughly the size of a jaguar with a head the size of a black bear! The most amount of weasel you can have
why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.
Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing
learning new things about the german rail system today
His orgasam was like the London underground. It came every 3 - 5 minutes, was overcrowded, smelled of sick and body odour, was filthy but the best option for almost everyone in the city
