Tell me something I don't know --
So, yeah, tell me something you know that is not common knowledge!
I'll start with two things.
First, commercial airliners frequently take off too heavy to land safely. The plane is full of fuel for the flight, obviously, and fuel weighs a lot. Jet fuel weighs about 7 pounds per gallon. A Boeing 800 class has a fuel capacity of around 6800 gallons, which will weigh roughly 45,000 pounds. A fully loaded airliner often has so much fuel on board that, if an emergency were to occur that requires the plane to land within the first 30-120 minutes, the weight of the aircraft will crush the landing gear and underside of the plane. Also, the fuel tanks are located inside the wings, and the weight of the fuel will tear the wings off. Jet fuel will violently eject and might engulf the aircraft in flames. HOWEVER. Airliners in this emergency situation engage in "fuel dumping," which is exactly what you think it is. They open the tanks and pour liquid jet fuel out of the plane and onto ... whatever is underneath. Jet fuel rains from the sky. This is obviously a problem, yes, but if it makes the aircraft light enough to land without an inferno? It's considered a win.
Second, wood products today really do suck compared to wood from 50 or more years ago, it's not your imagination, they just suck. SORT OF. Here's the thing -- old growth wood is denser than younger trees. Older furniture, crown moldings, floors, built-ins, kitchen spoons, anything that was made from older trees, the wood is denser. It resists water more easily, it is better able to resist mold, it doesn't crack and split as much. It is heavier, it has that solid feel we associate with quality. Newer wood products are made from trees that are more easily farmed, so you have your pines, aspens, and other trees that grow fast and relatively straight up. These trees are softer, lighter, and the wood is less able to resist water. They feel cheaper and they degrade faster. HOWEVER. there are a number of wood-products made from these trees that are great. Pressed- and particle- based wood products have vastly improved in the last ten years. This ain't your father's plywood anymore. These take advantage of the fast, cheap, wood farms and manufacture real wood products that are imbued with glues and adherents that recreate the density of old growth trees. Now, you don't get the gorgeous grain that older wood has, obviously. These products need to be painted, or they need a veneer. But keep an eye out for them when you are considering re-flooring a room or replacing a window treatment.
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I may or may not be making a trollsona for reasons.
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What are some problems you have?
Being able to say something in full sentences without using the word "like" twice.
Having the ability to make eye contact and not having it feel weird and unnatural.
Knowing that when I say or write something that feels wrong, it really is wrong. Not just slightly off in some arbitrary way.
Knowing who I really am, as distinct from who my social groups think I am.
Feeling connected to other people in a way that gives me a kind of hope I can't find elsewhere.
The simple fact of being alive, and the life I lead.
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I’m pregaming for a party rn and is2g I’ve never crafted a better eyeliner on my first try. what kind of witchcraft is this
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I fuckin lovce women<3 thank you
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fionna's world being represented by a dandelion makes so much sense ... they're weeds. yet people make wishes through them, changing their whole meaning from something meant to be destroyed to something hopeful.
dandelions are also resilient and it makes sense that something associated with them would. you know. perservere despite the destruction caused by the scarab.
but ultimately i think what REALLY made me tear up over this is that dandelions are really boring plants. when you're a kid you blow on them and make your wish but they're not eyecatching or anything but still, fionna's final wish was for her old world to still exist as it was when she left it (> plain and simple. boring even).
like the moment she realized she would lose her friends, and that her friends might forget each other if the world got its magic back, she immediately decided she didn't want it and I think that ties back to the dandelion metaphor so well... like, do you really need magic to be real to find it everywhere? or can you turn something boring into something magical?
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top 10 incoherent hot takes:
this guy i'm seeing is an evil wizard in disguise
i hate this person and i would kill them for a million dollars
i'd have sex with that person
this is a mistake -- it could have been someone better (i know what i'm talking about)
people are always trying to tell me to kill myself, even though i have never been suicidal (i have visions)
when people look at me, they should see me as a person instead of a concept
i am an ordinary person but i am not a normal person (which is bad)
people are meaner than i remember
the world is a scary place (but the world can't be scary, it's just my fear)
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everyone shut up. argos is experiencing mr plant laugh for the first time 😤
a sound he'll remember for the rest of his life.
Starting off the new year with something sappy lol
i couldn't get this out of my head so now you get to look at it.
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