Don't Be A Drag Just Be A Queen

Are there any trilobites on Tumblr or did they all die in the second Cambrian extinction of 2012?

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

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[Cueball is holding two pieces of rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail and White Hat are in the background.] Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.] Cueball: Boop! Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!

I see a lot about how peppers are upset because humans eat them for the thing that was supposed to prevent them from doing that, but capsaicin was supposed to help pepper seeds propagate since mammals couldn't propagate them, and we cultivate pepers on a massive scale because of the capsaicin. So I think that it was a net win for the pepper and the capsaicin did it's job, just in an unexpected way. Like, yeah, task failed in stopping mammals from eating you, but you did manage to become wildly successful because a particular group of mammals like the capsaicin.

Cool thing about this is that it is almost a completely outdated idea in that it isn't really necessary anymore, but you can't easily move a whole city. It was originally because when those areas flooded and then receded it would leave far more fertile soil, the Nile is the most famous example. So when people started farming they needed to stay in one place and the place where all the fish and yearly refertilised soil and a body of water for irrigation are is really nice. Later trade was a lot harder over land so coastal cities near rivers were important trade hubs, so there were more jobs, so more migrants, so more people and bigger cities. Nowadays overland logistics networks are efficient enough that inland cities have a lot easier of a time existing. So that's cool.

Where we put Cities

In addition, the way he got power was similar as well. To regular people he tries to portray himself as someone who will advocate for the little guy, to Christians he's a devout, and to big companies he's a fellow businessman. And then of course he gives a scapegoat to everyone's problems and an alternative to the current government overseeing a bad economic situation.

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

I've gotta bring this to MUN and debate club

So I just found the most useful photo album in existence for tumblr arguments

Another version I've seen is to think about it like you traveled back in time from ten years in the future to do this, and now you get to redo these next ten years

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I don't get what everyone's fetish is with death. There's no fucking glory in in death, no honor or pride to be had in killing people. All dying accomplishes is leaving behind broken people. People who ask you to stop doing that are contemptible, naive. There's no other way to solve our problems but war. Yes there fucking is. You've had so many fucking chances and every single fucking time no one does it. They have to murder or oppress or hold onto useless desert for fucking sentimentality I guess. Oh, I killed millions of people who didn't have anything to with whatever I set out to do? Oh well, at least I got to make my own drawing on a map. I left a minefield and an unknown number of whatever else that will kill civilians long after whatever I was fighting over means nothing (it didn't mean anything to begin with but I guess I'll humor you)? That's fine. Let's just force a bunch of children to fight each other, then take a video of them being terrified of a military uniform and call them fucking cowards for being traumatized after watching their friends die. Oh, you have money? Then you don't have to go, definitely not a feudal levy system, no siree. We just force marginalized groups and poor people to fight wars while the rich people get to sit at home and complain about not having chocolate. Even our war heroes don't think there's glory in war. The reason Audie Murphy jumped on that tank was because they were hurting his friends, it was vengeance. The day you earn a medal of honor is often described as the worst day of your life.

I have become the first victim of calculator related accidents that my physics teacher has had in his fifteen year career.