I realize I’m 2 years late to this, but I’m just now digging in and trying to understand the full effects of Brexit, and it’s truly astonishing. I knew it would have the usual protectionist effects like higher prices and whatnot, but there’s a not improbable chance Britain runs out of food. They’re scrambling to make sure planes will still have access to the country. Important scientific research is stalling because British scientists can’t secure funding. And I’m still not sure what the argument for it is except something about regulations and telling your Polish maid she’s not wanted.
god i want the problems of a jane austen heroine so badly specifically sense and sensibility like oh no my dad died and my horrible brother left us destitute and by destitute i mean we only get to retain two of our Servants when we go live in a beautiful two story, stone house with a garden and farmland and caring if overbearing neighbors and it’s so sad bc despite attending balls I know I have no dowry so I’ll probably just have to marry for love ONLY instead of for love AND wealth as originally planned but little do I know in one month I’m going to marry rich anyway thank GOD life was getting hard having only two (2) servants : (
me: *goes for a walk by our wealthy young single neighbor’s house which by all rights is a Palace* oh no, I think it may rain……. *catches the cold in the rain and faints*
the neighbor, out on one of his brooding mid-rain horseback jaunts: >: O *picks me up and carries me into his home and insists to my family I shouldn’t be moved from his bed until I am well*
1. shark tank. like the show. he watched it once with bruce and they were like “your evaluation is too high, im gonna need more equity to match that im gonna need a 20% stake” and thor was like is this english
2. alexa/siri/any sort of “common” ai. he thinks every form of ai is like jarvis or friday and can carry on a conversation so he’s like “alexa do you ever think about the cosmos, the running river of time, and how even a god like myself is so small? sorry to burden you with this, i just find myself thinking of my brother loki lately and all the things i never said to him” and alexa is like “the temperature is seventy degrees”
3. um teenagers. not even like youth culture or whatever just like asgardian biology is different and he watches peter parker eat a whole pizza and hes like, how is there that much room in such a small body
4. he doesnt understand like merch related to the avengers he cant fathom why little children want toy mjolnirs because he’s like, wouldnt they just feel bad about not having the real working mjolnir
5. he doesnt understand why midgardians are so gd rude!! someones like “pal im walkin here” and hes like “so am i brother we are all on the same team”
Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.
Controversial opinion, but ur allowed to like things that suck
Like, sometimes there are just shows or books that are so goddamn awful for any number of reasons… But ya still like ‘em somehow, and that’s fine
It’s not required to write a 20+ page essay defending why you enjoy something shitty, you can just… Enjoy shitty things
Not all content is made equally and you’re allowed to like things that are far from perfect
Like, just, “This show sucks, but I like it anyway” is a totally valid response
“It’s comforting,” is a legit answer.
“I like reading about clothes,” is a legit answer.
“it’s brain popcorn, and I don’t feel like delving into something deep,” is a legit answer.
“I’ve read it so many times I can basically recite it, and it relaxes me by being familiar,” is a legit answer.
You don’t need to justify your taste. Stop feeling guilty about liking things, or liking the “wrong” things. Life is hard and bleak right now, get fun where you can.
King James (yes, the one that bible is named after) was gay. (x)
Here are some gay facts about him:
– He once said “You may be sure that I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else (…) I wish (..) not to have it thought to be a defect, for Jesus Christ did the same, and therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had his John, and I have my George.”
– He promoted his partner George Villiers
quite quickly, first to a Knight, then an Earl, and later Duke of Buckingham.
– Restoration of Apethorpe Palace (undertaken in 2004–08) revealed a previously unknown passage linking the bedchambers of James and Villiers. (x)
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Sir John Oglander observed that he “never yet saw any fond husband make so much or so great dalliance over his beautiful spouse as I have seen King James (over George)”.
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