#“Yes... that was a test... obviously”

[orcboxer]

"the correct answer to the trolley problem is to reject its premise" That's explicitly not an answer. If you are the agent in the trolley problem, and you say "I reject the premise", the people still die. It is a made up scenario, yes. It was made specifically to illustrate in a real-world situation where you have limited influence and none of your options are perfect. There are many problems in the real world that you cannot solve by pulling a lever. However, you also cannot solve them by doing nothing. And unlike the trolley problem, you can't just "reject the premise" and exit the scenario. The consequences still happen.

The point is to demonstrate your ethical reasoning. Nobody wants to accept the premise, we want to revise the scenario, or exit the situation, or just find the trick answer that solves everything perfectly, and ultimately, many people decide not to pull the lever. Why? Because it feels worse to take action in a shitty situation than to do nothing and pretend that you never had any influence to begin with.

Except, even if you do nothing, you are still just as complicit in the consequences as if you had pulled the lever. The point is that inaction feels like an inherently neutral choice, even when its consequences are demonstrably worse. The point is that there is no solution where you don't have someone's blood on your hands. Yes it sucks. Yes you want to reject the scenario. That's supposed to happen, you're supposed to feel that conflict, that's part of the test. What we're looking to find out is what you do with that conflict. Do you prioritize emotional comfort or external action?

Maybe one day we'll have built a future where nobody has to confront that sort of problem, but right now, those problems are real and numerous, because whether you accept it or not we were born into a world where people already built massive systems of cruelty, and we all have very limited influence over them. Obviously we don't want these systems to exist. Obviously it won't be solved by a single decision. But if you want to dismantle them you have to actually do something when you have the chance. If you wait around for the Perfect Choice That Fixes Everything, you will die waiting. You can't fix everything all at once. And doing nothing only makes things worse. So do what you can.

#orcspeak

[em-prentiss]

Tell your baby that I’m your baby

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Seeing Aaron’s wife at work takes you by surprise.

Cw: fem!bau!reader, angst, past relationship, use of pet names (honey, baby), no use of yn, young Aaron/reader

Word count: 1.6k

if you have any Aaron requests, let me know! <3

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1993

“Aaron,” you laugh as you plant your hand on his chest and try to shove him away.

“Yes, baby?” He returns innocently, taking your hand off his chest and linking his fingers through yours. He nuzzles his face into your neck, dropping soft, warm kisses on your jaw.

You sigh and close your eyes, sinking back into his chest. Studying is all but impossible with him touching you, but you still try. “I need to study,” you say weakly as his lips move over your pulse. He gently grazes the skin with his teeth, holding back a smirk as you hum contentedly. His warm hand slips up your shirt.

“Study then,” he murmurs, pushing you back so you fall against the pillows. You hear a thud and the rustle of papers as he knocks your textbook to the floor. “I’m not stopping you,” he leans over you and kisses you breathless, his lips insistent against yours. He only pulls back to redirect his attention to your neck, the sharp lines of your collarbone calling to him like a siren.

Your brain goes hazy. Aaron’s fingers skate across the sensitive skin of your hipbone, just under the hem of your sweatpants. He nips your skin and you go boneless beneath him. Your textbook is long forgotten, buried beneath the fog he put your brain in.

“Asshole.” You curse as you wrap your legs around his waist.

Aaron looks up at you and grins, obviously pleased with himself. The silver frames of his glasses glint in the low light of your dorm, his dimples digging deep into his cheeks. You fist his shirt and drag him down on top of you, shutting up the smart retort that was just on the tip of his tongue 

“If I’m sacrificing my test for this,” you breathe, burying your fingers in his hair and tugging at the strands, “it better be damn good, Aaron.”

He smiles, a thrill going through him at getting responsible, studious you to drop your revision for him. “Have I ever let you down?” He murmurs, dipping his hand down the hemline of your sweatpants. Your breath catches and you tighten your grip on his hair. “Don’t worry, honey,” his large hand cups your hip, warm and teasing as he lightly drags his fingers over your skin, “I’ll make it worth your while.”

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2005

“Hi honey. What are you doing here?”

Hot knives bury themselves in your heart at Aaron’s voice, soft and low and not directed at you. You clench your hand into a fist as he walks over to his wife’s side, placing a hand on her waist and the other one on his infant son’s back. She smiles brightly and twists her face up to look at him, her body leaning into his like a sunflower searching for the sun.

You hadn’t thought much of the blonde with the baby in her arms making her way through the bullpen. She’d stopped at your desk—the closest one to Aaron’s office—and asked brightly if you knew where Aaron was, his office empty and the door slung open. 

You hadn’t made the connection, even as she shifted the struggling baby in her arms, calmed him down with a soothing rub on his back, shiny rings glinting on her finger. Briefly, you thought it was weird, but you vaguely pointed to the kitchenette, telling her, “I think he’s over there.” Only you didn’t think, you knew, because you’re still ever aware of his movements, his presence. 

You were still stuck trying to figure out who she was, why she called him Aaron. It all became clear when he approached, his eyes soft and his voice softer still as he placed his mug on an empty desk and went to her with his arms outstretched, his hand fitting itself on the curve of her waist. 

“Hi honey. What are you doing here?” He murmurs, his voice traveling to you and breaking you out of your shock.

Your chest tightens painfully and you look away, your vision blurring as you stare down at the dark wood of your desk, trying to force the tears away. You don’t hear her reply, still stuck on that one word.

Honey. 

That used to be you. 

Drive safe, honey, he’d say as he opened the door for you, jittery at the thought of you driving back home in the snow. Where’d you go, honey? He’d murmur when you would drift away in your thoughts, eyes unfocused until he’d bring you back with soft kisses on your cheeks and jaw. I love you, honey, he’d whisper when you were warm and sleepy in his arms, his fingers soothingly running through your hair as your eyes fluttered shut.

You tighten your grip on the pen in your hand, your eyes involuntarily darting back to them, two still figures in the bustle of the bullpen. Aaron smiles at her as she says something about taking their son to the park, his fingers drawing absent circles on her shirt. 

Just for a few moments, his usual stoic demeanor falls away at the presence of his wife and son, his dimples soft in his cheeks as he turns to kiss the baby’s forehead. 

It doesn’t surprise you that he forgets himself. Aaron was always hesitant with physical affection in public, but wherever you were, the whole world fell away. You stole his whole attention and he stole yours, anyone else a buzz in the background as he held your hand, sometimes in silence, but mostly as you enthusiastically talked to him while he listened with a smile.

He does the same now. Aaron takes his son into his arms and smiles when the baby starts fiddling with his tie, his dimples carving familiar half moons into his cheeks. It feels hard to breathe suddenly. In the 8 months you’ve been in the BAU you’ve never seen them once, the nature of the job and the tension between you two depriving you from seeing them again.

But Aaron’s smiles weren’t always hard to come by. 

You finally stand up on shaky legs, nauseous and slightly suffocated as you make your way past them and into the bathroom. 

You don’t see Aaron’s eyes on your retreating figure, a little startled, as if he just remembered you were there. For a fleeting second, you steal his attention again, like you so easily did before. 

But then Haley captures it again. And he turns back to her, smile only a little dimmer as Jack babbles in his ear, a small wrinkle between his brows as he stops himself from looking at the bathroom door again.

You don’t leave for another 15 minutes, stomach cramped and tears hastily pushed down your throat as you walk past them to your desk again. You hear their voices; a mixture of bright chatter and a low murmur and a high pitched, childish babble.

Don’t look, you tell yourself. Keep your eyes forward. And you do. And you almost make it. But morbid curiosity makes you glance at them again. 

This time Aaron’s eyes meet yours, the child he wanted but you never did cuddling closer to his neck.

Your breath catches and you turn away, walking back to your desk and feeling your whole body burst into flames. You sit down and turn your gaze firmly to your computer, fiddling around and opening emails you’d already read, trying to distract yourself from him.

“I have to go, Haley.” You hear him say gently. 

Her name is Haley. You never asked, but now it floats from his mouth to your ears, soft, suffused with love. Aaron and Haley. You wonder what his son’s name is.

Their footsteps fade as they walk out of the bullpen. Your shoulders relax the tiniest bit, air rushing into your lungs suddenly. You drop your head into your hands, welcoming the darkness and taking a deep, shuddering breath. You see him, in the dark. Him and you, intertwined on his bed, lounging in the park under the sun, hiding in a bathroom from all your friends. You can still feel the imprint of his dimples beneath your thumbs, the softness of his hair between your fingers.

Aaron walks hesitantly to your desk, blissfully alone. You feel him hovering over your shoulder and lift your head from your hands, not looking at him until he stands in front of your desk, one of his hands landing nervously on the divider. He opens his mouth, says nothing but your name before you cut him off.

“Was there anything you wanted?” You ask briskly, your voice a little rougher than it usually is.

It’s rude and definitely not something you should be saying to your boss. But he’s not just your boss. Aaron lets it go, for the same reason you snapped at him in the first place—you two have history, one he’s buried deep and never looked back on, one you’re still hung up over.

He clamps his mouth shut and shakes his head.

Does she know? You want to ask. Does she know you loved me first, does she know you called me all the same names you call her? 

From the look on her face when she first approached you, you know she doesn’t, but you still feel a strange urge to ask him, wondering if his reaction would give anything away. Your eyes meet his, all the warmth he reserved for his wife and once, you, gone.

You don’t ask.

Aaron leaves quietly, fiddling with his ring as he walks up the stairs and into his office. 

#aaron hotchner x reader #aaron hotch x reader #aaron hotchner fanfiction #aaron hotchner fic #aaron hotchner imagine #aaron hotchner x you #aaron hotchner angst #aaron hotchner #criminal minds x reader #criminal minds #aaron hotch x you #aaron hotch imagine #aaron hotchner x fem!reader

[sunkissed-zegras]

This is a ramble, apologies in advance.

Manager 100% just has that stare. Yk, like that “knock it the fuck off” momma stare and it always gets the girls to stop immediately. Manager doesn’t even have to say nothing, the moment that stare comes on you have like 30 seconds to act right, and the tiktok people eat it the fuck up.

Also, speaking of momma bear, the manager is so protective of her girls!!! Like talk shit about them she’s borderline gonna beat your ass, but she refrains.

I feel like the manager is a person who is sassy with a smartass mouth when they’re bantering with the group, but it’s all in good fun. However when someone says some slick shit to the team that smartass mouth is lethal, whilst still keeping it classy cuz of her job.

^ adding onto this the girls are the same way!!! they don’t play about their momma bear. Good luck to the unlucky soul that does something mean to their manager.

-🐹

AAAAAAHHHH NONNIE, THESE ARE ALL SO REAL. and pls spam me babe, i don't care!!!!!! esp with the manager series, it's sm fun 🩵🩵

oooo yes, one glare from manager and everyone is shutting up and quieting down. the only two people who test her patience constantly are kk and paige and they're the only two who've ever been yelled at by manager

no everyone on the team is TERRIFIED of manager bc she just holds sm power, and no one wants to make her mad. even geno lowkey is scared of her, like... she's just scary af

if she's having a bad day and she shows up at practice and kk/paige tests her patience, SHE'S SO DONE. obviously geno gets mad at them for getting manager all mad now so he makes them go run laps (cus a mad manager means = mad everyone)

OHMYGOSH, she's literally the protector of the team. bc the team can't respond to rude comments on social media, you bet she will. especially when people keep comparing paige to EVERYONE AND THEIR MOMS, manager has more than once put them in their place

oh and don't get me started on rude interviews, you're getting absolutely flamed cus manager does not back down. she won't stop until the interview is either embarrassed af or crying. baby girl tries to keep it classy but people test her patience SOO much, she just has to put them in her place (which has gotten her in trouble plenty of times but nothing too serious)

YES, the entire team just adores her. they will protect her with everything they've got!!!!! they hate when people talk down to her and are mean to her, you will get humbled really quick

SEND SOME MORE GUYS!!!!! i love hearing your thoughts

#uconn wbb manager ★ #uconn women’s basketball #uconn #uconn huskies #uconn wbb #paige bueckers #nika mühl #nika muhl #kk arnold #ice brady #paige bueckers x reader #🐹 nonnie!

[rabbitcrimes]

Wangxian Fic Rec: Science Fiction Double Feature 🤖🚀

Mostly wangxian fics with sci fi elements - space, dream science, mindlink, androids, cyberpunk cities etc

Out of Nothing by Pip (Moirail) - zhanchengxian - 27k Summary: You and me, Wei Ying had said. Jiang Cheng is going to take him at his word. Command says that the first neural link is the one that stands out the most, the one that everyone has to be the most careful of, because a navigator’s thoughts can get tangled up with their pilot’s and become inextricably linked. Entangled. My Notes: All time fave. If I ever shut up about this fic you should assume I've been body snatched. Transhumanism, nostalgia, space opera, mindlink.

In Imitation of Life by travelingneuritis - wangxian - 70k Summary: Lan Zhan stops in front of one of the bespoke duplicates— a male figure, small, creamy-skinned and lithe. The name on the plinth reads Mo Xuanyu. Lan Zhan tested it on his first pass through the room. The doll was empty. No signals bouncing around its artificial brain, no operating programs queued to autostart. Not even a blinking dormancy light. "Hey big guy," says Mo Xuanyu, chrome eyes sparkling with fun. "Who do I gotta fuck around here to get unplugged?" Wei Ying is a rogue AI come to life. Lan Zhan is… handling it. My Notes: This is my Neuromancer. Actually one of my favorite cyberpunk cities EVER. When I figured out what OP was doing with the city and plot structure I legitimately went insane. Android erotics, cyberpunk city.

More fics under the cut!!

via AMONG THE STARS BY PLONK (a series of oneshots set in Firefly's CU, all really excellent but I want to draw attention a few all time faves) A Monk and a Myth - wangxian Summary: take_me_to_church.mp3 My Notes: This is THE and I mean THE final word on science fictional religiosity and devotion. Can not imagine trying to tackle those concepts without having read this. Man as myth, folk heroes, Lan Zhan's canon typical devotion. a grease monkey, a companion, and some pals aboard the lil apple - wangxian My Notes: Lan Wangji is a very prim and classy companion (in universe style of sex worker) and Wei Wuxian is a ship repair guy and Lan Wangji teaches him the ways of the secular flesh. My fucking god do I think about this sex scene all the time. Like, weekly. a chatty mechanic and a silent academy survivor aboard the lotus - wangxian genderswap Summary: Just really excellent. Wei Wuxian is a ship mechanic and Lan Wangji has psychic abilities from medical experimentation from which she's been rescued. Solidly space western, the end of this one is just wonderful. Love the mindlink elements here. escapees aboard the radish - wangxian Summary: So absolutely crazy about this one. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are both ex academy students or have both been victims of psychic medical experiments. I love it as a story about trauma and living in aftermath. Mindlink.

promises of the future by spookykingdomstarlight - wei wuxian/wei wuxian - 3k Summary: His ocular sensors spin themselves to life. In the mirror, he sees himself. And he sees himself, himself but different, reflected from the mirror he’s resting against into the mirror he’s facing. Himself but slighter, features sharper. Himself, with eyes brightened by the power of a star. Himself, crouched above himself, close enough to kiss. My Notes: Yes you read that pairing right!! Give it up for robot eroticism!!!! Android erotics, cyberpunk sensibility.

some lovely, perilous think by varnes - wangxian - 24k Summary: Jingyi makes a sympathetic sound. “I’ve got a buddy in one of the Hefei labs, and he says there’s some evidence to suggest that people stuck in limbo develop, like, whole new neural pathways. And you go in and out of it all the time, right, so who knows what your brain is up to.” His eyes light up. “Oh man, would you let me — ” “Obviously no,” Wei Ying says, voice flat. “But you’re close enough to right. I can keep you all safely in the level, but it’s tiring. I can’t be both dreamer and extractor.” “I’ll do it,” Lan Zhan cuts in, before Jingyi can protest or Wen Yuan can ask any further questions. “It’s not a problem.” “Are you sure?” Wen Yuan asks, brow furrowing. “If your sub-security picks up that Xian-gege doesn’t belong — ” “They won’t.” Wei Ying frowns. “Not for nothing, ge,” he says slowly, “but the last time we were in your dream together, I fell off a cliff.” Lan Zhan looks up and over at him. There is something in his eyes that Wei Ying can’t quite read: something fierce, and faraway. “I remember,” he says, voice quiet. “Do you?” - Wei Ying takes a dream heist job with an old friend. My Notes: God this is wonderful. We've got a full cast and some case/heist fic flavoured science fictional elements. I think it plays very nicely with a lot of the other cool mindlink stuff on this list.

world.runExecution by pip (moirail) - zhanchengxian - 30k IN PROGRESS Summary: What does it mean to be human, anyway? “Here we go,” Wei Ying mumbles, and Jiang Cheng doesn’t have the chance to ask what that means before Wei Ying’s squaring up his shoulders and moving in a way that cuts a swath through the crowd. My Notes: my group chat commissioned this for FTH in 2022 and it remains the love of my life. Pip you beautiful genius. CYBERPUNK I LOVE YOU.

i will be chasing a starlight by feyburner, sundiscus - wangxian - 71k Summary: “You know what?” Wei Ying said. “I think we should be friends.”

“Vulcans do not have friends,” said Lan Zhan. He was staring very determinedly at the screen in front of him.

Wei Ying frowned at him. “That can’t be right.” My Notes: I am so insanely crazy town about this fic. God there has not been a filler entry on this list YET! below the clouds, above the lakes by northofallmusic (tofsla) - wangxian - 22k UNFINISHED Summary: Wei Ying was not formally considered a Jiang until it became necessary for a Jiang to marry a Lan as a guarantee of alliance. Now, in the habitat dome which houses the palace known as the Cloud Recesses, he has to navigate a new role, a new marriage, and an unfamiliar tangle of political relationships and loyalties. My Notes: I remember LOVING the worldbuilding on this and really enjoying the space OP was playing in, I thought it was worth a read. Thank you so much to everyone who recommended fics!! It's coming to my attention that this list is going to get massive so I'll reblog as I read and update it 🚀

#absolutely loving how much mindlink this fandom produces #you guys are so smart ur brains are huge and i love you #put a BUNCH of stuff in my to - read so i'll update as i go :) #wangxian fic rec #fic rec

[cas-theghostking]

a summary of my first few giutar lessons

cause this was funny

Lesson one: pretty good, learn the pentatonic scale

Lesson 2: started learning song joker and the thief

Lesson three: getting better

Lesson d: I accidentally taught you the song wrong oops. (It was fine) + tiny riff

Lesson five: I managed to notice another part of the song we missed while listening to the song. Decided to start off with living on a prayer instead.

#We were both in so much pain when I pointed it out #Then my teacher was like #“Yes... that was a test... obviously” #Then he was like #“You have a really good ear for this.” #Living on a prayer I asked to learn #As like a second song while we put the first one on the back burner #Originally he asked what my song goal was and I said open your heart by crush 40 #Way too complicated for what I know right now #I'm really excited to get there though #Giutar has been fun #I'll keep updating if something else fun happens

[justladders]

a friend very threateningly told me "I will baby talk your springtrap" so

#obviously yes im still changing the design around including changing it from this one #im kind of just testing things by drawing them out bc i always find them looking different conceptually vs in practice #so enjoy a bunch of variations for a while #fnaf #springtrap #yn insert #springtrap x reader #laddersarts

[pinkeoni]

"Neither one of us is going to start eating until Laura washes her hands!" "He's washing his hands?"

#my first gif set :) #kinda if you dont count that paris texas one #consider this a test one #i came up with another idea as i made this one im excited #and yes its another laura and will set becuz obviously #userrobs #<- that'll be my tracking tag btw #if thats how that works #twin peaks #stranger things #laura palmer #will byers #my gifs #pinkeoni gifs

[dreamsy990]

on the first day of school one time one of my teachers was asking the class to share all their opinions as like a get to know each other thing and one was 'is cheating okay' and apparently my opinion on this. did not align with almost anyone else (that couldve just been because they didnt want to admit it in class) so i am asking the people. to be clear when i say grade school i mean from grades 1-12. This is NOT about anything past that.

#personally! yes i do think it is okay to cheat!!!! #im fine with admitting ive cheated before #i think everyone has at some point #dont get me wrong i think school is important #obviously learn the material know what youre doing etc etc #but i think the actual class is way more important than test grades #i think my latin teacher has the right idea honestly #he completely cut out test grades from his class. he doesnt give tests he doesnt really give homework #your grade depends entirely on the amount of effort you put in #its learning for the sake of learning instead of memorizing things for a test #and i have learned just about as much latin from 2 months of classes with that teacher as i did in the couple years of spanish i took #i think the way tests in schools work is fundamentally flawed honestly. it works in theory but thats about it #okay im gonna stop now but. im curious!!

[boyheros]

welcome to my hlvrai au we have *reads notes Bullying Gordon in New and Fun ways.

#i like how you can see me get more detailed as it goes. it was supposed to be simple ass doodles because im notoriously bad at comics. #also 'did i need to dedicate two whole panels to tiny bubby sitting on the floor?' yes. obviously. #for context. in my AU the hev helmet gets stuck on gordons head for a decent amount of time. benrey is also here early because he goes to #find gordon in the test chamber after the rescas. yuh #hlvrai 2nd run #please believe me when i say i have thought over SO MANYYYY au scenes but. no way i can draw em all as funny as i think they are #myart

[crushofdoves]

…Isn’t it weird to call your wife ‘Daddy’ like she’s a girl

no, it’s hot. sorry that ur a pussy & can’t hang.

also she’s not a girl, she’s a dyke - hope this helps 💕

#hi i’ve had 2 margaritas #don’t test me #like yes she obviously IS a girl but that isn’t the point #iykyk

[benbamboozled]

Man remember that time Talia tried to get Slade to think that he was Damian’s dad and Slade was like “Nuh-uh” and Talia was like “Ah, well. Nevertheless.”

And now it turns out they do have a (secret test tube) baby.

Oh except no ‘cause he’s dead (for now).

DC is fucking wild.

#is that one of those storylines we’re not supposed to talk about? #because I think it’s hilarious. #talia al ghul #slade wilson #damian wayne #i know at the end of the arc it was like ‘AND JUST SO EVERYONE KNOW’S Bruce Wayne IS Damian’s dad FOR REALSIES #but consider—no he isn’t. #i will forever go with ‘every batkid is a secret bio child of Bruce Wayne *except* Damian.’ #Damian is obviously Jason’s kid. #especially now that they have added canon weird test tube fast growth nonsense. #look it would just be HILARIOUS and would make so many people SO ANGRY. #yes it doesn’t even make sense how all the batkids could be Bruce Wayne’s secret children. #i don’t care. #even Steph? yes her too. #‘it ruins the whole found family’ blah blah idc I’m in it for the comedy. #Damian would be so SPITTING mad that he wasn’t AT LEAST Dick’s bio-kid. #Damian: THE DEAD ONE?! I’M THE DEAD ONE’S CHILD???!!!! #Steph: Hey I died too! #(Jason: that’s no way to talk about your father young man now go to your room.) #(Damian: *RAGE*) #Steph would be just as indignant at being Bruce’s kid. #Steph: *jabbing her finger at Bruce* HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?!! #and yes it *would* be weird that Steph and Tim were together for—uh—a while. #Tim: *arms curled around his knees* it’s fine…it’s Luke and Leia… #Steph: *grabbing his shoulders and shaking him—spit flying from her mouth* TIM! LUKE AND LEIA DIDN’T FUCK!!! #Everyone present: *takes untold amounts of psychic damage* #(I actually think Jason would be really cute as Damian’s dad.) #(outside of everyone’s psychic damage.) #Bruce: oh it was a weird test tube thing right? #Jason: …

[winepresswrath]

exorcist rules of social engagement seem pretty janky, but then you've got natori who (understandably) doesn't want to play by those rules and has (somewhat less understandably) resorted to reinventing "how to make friends" from first principles.

#press says nbf #look at me tagging! i've come so far #anyway i also think their relationship is extra interesting in terms of where it comes in the story #natsume starts out really alienated from both yokai and humans #he was obviously a sweetheart the whole time #but for the first few issues he's constantly citing the kindness he's recently been shown #as the reason he's started to like people and wants to protect them #it's also when he starts opening up to the idea of actually being friends with yokai #natori shows up and instantly showers him with attention #affection #understanding and connection #and yes he's a creepy weirdo about it lmao i sent a giant paper man into your bedroom to test you and showed up at your school #let's be besties #but if natsume didn't see him as a threat to the other relationships he's already invested in i think he'd feel very differently about him #in some ways natori is too late! #otoh a natsume who believes in friendship has also in some ways been softened up #i'm sure everyone has already had these thoughts i'm just spitballing

[perdvivly]

Just got one person’s modus ponens is another person’s modus tollens-ed so hard it actually made my head spin a bit.

#you see if we throw out [bad hypothesis testing method] then we’d have to throw out [a bunch of pseudoscientific nonsense] #me nodding along like an absolute rube: yes. we would get to do that #them: an this shows that we obviously shouldn’t throw out [bad hypothesis testing method] >:) #me: *shocked pikachu face*

[starswallowingsea]

doing some theme testing for next month... thoughts?

#shay speaks #obviously i'll add icon credit in the pinned post when its implemented here #but i just loved this itaru icon and i think it fits nicely with this header... #also yes liminiia is my theme testing blog now you can go see it there for yourself if u want ig

[qqueenofhades]

to go off your post abt the atomic bomb, totally agree with everything you said except people DID know that radiation was incredibly dangerous. they didn't know about some of the long term effects, like cancer, but people had been getting sick from working with radiation for as ling as it had been discovered. two guys working on the manhattan project died from radiation. this podcast will kill you has a really good episode on radiation that dives into the history of its discovery and use.

Yes. When I say "they didn't know what the hell it would do," that doesn't mean that they didn't know about the harmful effects of radiation, especially in the short term/immediate range. Rather, they weren't sure what the hell would happen long-term PRECISELY because they knew radiation was so dangerous, and that is why they would never drop that kind of giant lethal question mark on mainland Europe, which they all anticipated living in again after the war was over. The fact that radiation is a different and especially lethal weapon is a huge part of the unique danger of a nuclear bomb, over and above the actual property destruction/blast radius. That is, as noted, why they didn't take that risk in Europe and chose Japan specifically as the theater to use it.

#anonymous #ask #history #american history #obviously yes they knew radiation was dangerous #which is why they chose to test out its long term geographical physical territorial etc health effects on a non-european population/region

[nicojoe]

objectively deranged that netflix used THE OLD GUARD as a selling point for an unrelated film only to completely ignore its own sequel during their Tudum event.

#they even promoted things coming out in 2024 (like LIFT and their live action Airbender series) at Tudum but not TOG 2 #i honestly don't even know what to think anymore #it finished filming in September - it started test screening in late May #we haven't even seen a single still image from the film #i have no idea why they even hired a huge star like Uma for the sequel if they're not even going to use her to promote it #the old guard #the old guard 2 #netflix tudum #EDIT: yes obviously they do this all the time to promote other movies. that isn't the issue at hand #the situation is so upsetting and insidious because of the demographics involved w these respective projects #perhaps most specifically: the lgbtq characters