my body may be a temple but i am the god to whom it is devoted
do not presume to tell me how i may decorate my altar
This is quite possibly the best way I’ve heard to say “I dress how I want, deal with it”
There needs to be more things like this
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#interesting
Leaderboard in the locker rooms, leaderboard while you plan missions, leaderboard while you train, leaderboard while you’re in class where there’s a window to the training room so you can look at the leaderboard in there too just in case you missed the leaderboard right next to the damn window, leaderboard in another part of the locker rooms, leaderboard in the recovery ward so that you can stare at the goddamn leaderboard just in case your grievous wounds fail to remind you that you fucked up, leaderboard in the damn mess hall so you can look at it while you cry into your mashed potatoes,
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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Has anybody… taken a tally of all the places the leaderboard was put up, though? It seems like it was posted in several rooms all over the MoI and I’m not gonna lie, that’s kinda creepy.
But now I’m just picturing it everywhere. Like, Freelancers waking up in the morning and there it is, projected on the ceiling above their beds. Someone goes into a bathroom stall and you hear, “I know I lost a ranking, what happened to the sports page?” Check inside your locker? Leaderboard. Pick up a toothbrush? Look again, the leaderboard’s projected on your teeth. The Counselor’s getting concerned. The Director thinks it’s great for productivity.
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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
curiosity-discoverer-of-worlds:
imagine data caring for you when you’re unable to care for yourself
imagine data being the constant in your life for seventy, eighty years
imagine data staying by your side because he is accustomed to your sensory input and he would miss you if you were gone
imagine data knowing that one day he will miss you and choosing to become accustomed to you anyway
imagine data.
Imagine Data knowing that one day he will miss you…
…unless he does something about it
Imagine Data developing new advances in technology
Imagine Data revolutinizing bio-engenering, genetics, prothesis and everything that can prolongue human life.
Imagine Data giving back to you the ability to care for yourself
Imagine Data being a constant in your life for seventy hundred or eighty hundred years.
Imagine Data knowing that one day humanity conquered the stars, that one day humanity created himself, proving that it could create life.
Imagine Data knowing that one day humanity (post-humanity, trans-humanity, alien-humanity) will conquer Death.
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It occurred to me, while I was thinking about this post, that Star Trek already has mind-uploading capabilities.
It is canon that the Borg keep copies of every mind they assimilate, which survive beyond the deaths of the drones they were copied from.
It is canon that under certain conditions, minds can be precipitated out of the hive-mind solution, even if you don’t have their original brain handy.
And, on second thought, the Trill also do exactly this, though under circumstances that are likely to have a lot more limitations.
(Huh, there are actually two Star Trek episodes focusing on how people there can live indefinitely, but only if they spend almost all the time as part of a hive mind, with no reasons given for why the technology couldn’t be used in a completely non-assimilating manner.)
The Feds have already used adapted stolen Borg technology to save lives. Think how many more they could save if they went a bit further.
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#Star Trek #transhumanism #I have never *called* myself a transhumanist #but I have noticed I tend to react to transhumanist writings with ‘I like the way you think’
A World Globe Made Out of Thousands of Individually Painted Matchsticks
part of me appreciates the art and part of me wants to set it on fire
you’re the kind of man that just wants to watch the world burn
WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE
IT WAS ALWAYS BURNIN’ SINCE THE WORLD’S BEEN TURNIN’
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#art #impressive as fuck #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived
BY: JOE DORAN （杜乔）
In 1801, a pirate named Zheng Yi was busy raiding Canton. Aside from the prerequisite plundering and rum-drinking, he had given his men one specific order: to break into a local brothel and bring him the prostitute Zheng Yi Sao (郑一嫂), or “Zheng Yi’s wife”.
One might expect a sinister fate to have awaited Zheng Yi Sao upon her deliverance to the pirate captain (rape, swiftly followed by murder, being the most obvious). In actuality, Zheng Yi’s intentions were considerably more gentlemanly.
He intended to marry her. And recognizing that her current future prospects were rather limited, Zheng Yi Sao accepted.
But Zheng Yi Sao didn’t intend on spending the rest of her days as some plunder-hungry pirate’s eye candy. She wanted to become a pirate as well, and she did – one of the greatest pirates to have ever lived.
That first part doesn’t do justice, here read this:
Right from the get-go, Zheng Yi Sao displayed a staggering degree of cunning. She happily accepted Zheng Yi’s proposal, but only on the condition that he share his wealth and power with her, equally. Then, while her new husband went about his pirate duties – further plunder and rum-drinking, presumably – she focused on the business side of things. The result was that in six years, she had engineered an alliance between Zheng Yi and his former pirate rivals, amassed a force of some 1500 ships (called the Red Flag Fleet) and created a swashbuckling empire that extended all the way from Korea to Malaysia.
Zheng Yi certainly knew how to pick ‘em.
Unfortunately, Zheng Yi was killed in 1807 after a misunderstanding with a typhoon. Unfortunate for him, but extremely fortunate for Zheng Yi Sao. Refusing to step aside like a good, diligent widow, Zheng Yi Sao took charge of the Red Flag Fleet, convinced her late husband’s First Mate to support her and swiftly set about making herself the most respected and/or feared individual in all the East.
If films/books/video games have taught us anything, it’s that pirates were a rowdy bunch at the best of times, and their attitudes towards women were…less than progressive. Zheng Yi Sao, of course, was having none of that and quickly established a new pirate code to keep her peg-legged men in line. Anyone who looted a town that had already paid tribute had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean. Anyone caught, or even suspected, of stealing from the treasury had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean. Anyone who raped a female prisoner had their head cut off and was dumped in the ocean (there’s a pattern there somewhere).
Needless to say, Zheng Yi Sao was not messing around. Not all her laws were quite so decapitation-happy, though. Ugly female prisoners were to be set free, and when a crewmember purchased one of the prettier captives, he had no choice but to marry her.
But if he was unfaithful…head cut off, dumped in the ocean.
After just one year leading her pirate hegemony, Zheng Yi Sao had formed one of the largest navies on the planet, with some 17,000 men under her command. Extorted tributes from merchants across the Chinese seas and from the coastal towns between Macau and Canton swelled her treasury to staggering levels, and her power was so great that she became the de facto government of the region. No longer was she merely a pirate; she was an entire political entity.
So this is awesome.
Is there a historical fiction novel about this? I want to read a historical fiction novel about this.
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6 Amazing Videos From The Olympus Microscopy Competition
“Every year, the Olympus BioScapes competition celebrates achievements in light microscopy and the scientific insights they provide. Scientists from around the world submit their photos and videos, and a team of PhD-toting judges pick their favorites. The entrants are judged “based on the science they depict, their beauty or impact, and the technical expertise involved in capturing them.” And this year’s winners have just been announced!”
See some winning videos at popsci.
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#tardigrade #adorable #the power of science
Dear necromancers, why would you bother summoning human corpses when dinosaurs are an option
Option 1: Money. It’s easier to convince human ghosts to tell you about secret treasure they left behind than to ask Dinosaurs about what oil field they become part of.
Option 2: Laziness: It’s easier to break into a graveyard with a shovel than into a natural history museum.
Option 3: Quantity has a quality all its own: A t-rex weighed in at about eight tons. A human corpse weighs in at about 160, 170 pounds. You can get 100 zombies to the T-rex.
Option 4: Do the corpses you’re raising have the brains they had in life? A zombie army that’s an actual army with weapons and maybe a haunted tank or two raises the worth per zombie by a good bit.
Option 5: Maybe it’s not either or; you might need the human zombies to get to the T-rex.
I love you so much.
Option 6: You want the zombies to carry something.
“Zombie T-Rex nooooooo! We do not carry the waterbed with our teeth! We…oh, man, Mom is gonna kill me…”
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#death #zombies
It is currently colder in Canada and in the northern US than on Mars!
Thanks to the polar vortex, it felt like -35 degrees Celsius with the wind chill at our headquarters near Montreal, Quebec this morning (January 8th, 2014). That’s colder than where Mars Curiosity is roving in the Red Planet’s Gale Crater!
Source: CSA
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#our home and cherished land #…fucking *hell* #I mean that is with windchill and all but still #I’m increasingly glad we cancelled our grocery trip for tomorrow #we’ve got more than enough food to last until next week #we’ll just go without red meat and unprocessed fruit for a few days #and potatoes #and whatever else it is that we’re missing
– now you’ve shat in the blue cupboard
– the taste is like the butt
– there’s no cow on the ice
– i sense owls in the marsh
– to walk like a cat around hot porridge
– don’t paint the devil on the wall
– to be out biking
– cake on cake
I’ve taken the liberty to give you the original Swedish versions and their meanings:
– Att skita i det blåa skåpet (to finally cross the line, to go too far)
– Smaken är som baken (no accounting for taste, to each his own)
– Ingen ko på isen (there’s no immediate danger)
– Ana ugglor i mossen (to sense something suspicious)
– Att gå som katten kring het gröt (to beat around the bush, to not speak directly on a topic)
– Att måla fan på väggen (to assume the worst)
– Att vara ute och cykla (to be very confused, to misunderstand something)
– Tårta på tårta / kaka på kaka (too much of a good thing; unnecessary repetition)
zephindles, I found a reblog chain with the meanings if you’re curious.
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#language #the more you know
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