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I love the hagiographies that are like "St. Christopher was 12 feet tall and frost giants helped him build an abbey out of the bones of a giant pig, which were gold"
And then you Google the abbey and it's clearly just French and made of slate rock or whatever.
pig giant bones turn slate and french after a few years
that makes sense
serious answer: I ran some quick math (below the cut) and found out that this ant would impart about ten times the amount of energy as an impact by a 45kg Howitzer round, or one thousand times the energy yield of a typical handgrenade. Ordinarily I would expect something like an ant to disintegrate on impact at high speeds, but there is simply so much energy in that ant that it would have nowhere else to go but forward - even if it completely exploded on impact without penetrating, you would definitely die and definitely need a closed-casket funeral. If it simply went straight through without meaningful disintegration, carrying the majority of its energy away with it, with this being a hypersonic projectile (actually, it's a relativistic one) it still would definitely shred at least a grapefruit-sized hole in you just from cavitation damage. Given the ridiculous speed, it would also create a significant amount of heat and a concussive sonic shockwave as it did so, definitely killing you instantly and probably turning you into charred ground beef.
TLDR yes you would be super mega dead
oh but the ant so small I can take it
that's true I didn't think of that
had an edible earlier and ive been staring at this for 15 minutes
Oh so it's okay to judge people for their words and actions now?
One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback.
All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.
“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”
i think every news headline from now on should end with ‘What does it portend?’
you KNOW i don’t give a shit about celebrities of any kind. but Lizzo’s halloween pics are sending me flying around the room
crying
i could never leave here
runescape's history is so interesting. imagine getting banned for participating in the 'Falador Massacre' and ten years later they make you the main antagonist in their event celebrating the anniversary of it. wild.
what do you call the genre of aesthetic blog thats like *compressed google image jpeg of a bog body* *thin white girl without pants* *hindu swastika* *rural plantation house at night* *woman in a burqa* *black and white picture taken in early 1900s nepal* *hindu swastika* *mask stolen from south africa and held in a british museum*
orientalist chic?
that ones on me for failing to intuit that thats what its called. i was gonna jokingly call it "midwestern orientalism"