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fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

1 CE: The Kingdom of Aksum, centered in modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea, is founded (approximate date).

E: General request to keep the "on this date" thing going, it's amazing how much stuff pre-1500 from the last thread I'd never even heard of.

# ¿ May 2, 2015 21:56

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:42

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

2 CE: The first census is concluded in China after having begun the year before: final numbers show a population of nearly 60 million (59,594,978 people in slightly more than 12 million households). The census is one of the most accurate surveys in Chinese history.
The Chinese census shows nearly one million people living in Vietnam.

2 BCE: The Aqua Alsietina Roman aqueduct is constructed.

Holy loving god, China's had a ton of people since basically forever.

# ¿ May 2, 2015 22:06

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Small Frozen Thing posted:

Hot drat, I finally fixed the router and Muttering Obama Global Warming guy just gave me 25 bucks of his $200 internet debt

Today is a good day

Edit: He also apologized for being a dick the other night
REALLY good day

that's cool and good to hear, seriously :unsmith:

paranoid randroid posted:

mostly i wanna know if the mysterious avatar benefactor just happened across an apropos picture to turn into an avatar or actually put work into making one. because, hell, i like it.

the mysterious avatar benefactor definitely puts some work in

I got a GIF for my gift av, and I know from the Steven Universe thread that getting gifs down to a small, acceptable size while still keeping the gif looking good can be a real pain in the rear end

and this is the original Latuff picture that was photoshopped to be Absurd Alhazred's avatar:

mysterious avatar fairy is good, and does great work

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:03

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

PupsOfWar posted:

what's this cartoon supposed to represent re: somali famine

It's really just a cartoon about the famine in Somalia that killed ~260,000 people, half of them being children under 5 years old: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/05/201352113337568731.html

quote:

Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report that admits the world body should have done more to prevent the tragedy. The toll is much higher than was feared at the time of the 2010-2012 food crisis in the troubled Horn of Africa country and also exceeds the 220,000 who starved to death in a 1992 famine, according to the findings.

"The report confirms we should have done more before the famine was declared," said Philippe Lazzarini, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia. "Warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action," he said in a statement.

Half of those who died were children under five, according to the joint report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network. "Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133,000 children under five," said the report, the first scientific estimate of how many people died.

It's depressing as poo poo, especially since it was partially preventable. :smith:

Latuff doesn't just do I/P stuff, he does cartoons about tons of events affecting people worldwide. Sometimes you just need to remind people that horrible stuff is happening, otherwise it just gets swept under the rug.

fade5 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on May 3, 2015

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:11

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

ZenVulgarity posted:

I'm scared of the avatar fairy

don't be scared, embrace it

42 BCE: War is happening in the Roman Empire.

Marcus Brutus begins to plunder the cities of Asia Minor, in order to obtain money and soldiers. The inhabitants of Lycia refused to submit to Rome, and Brutus besieged Xanthus. After destroying their suburbs, the Xanthians withdrew into the heavily fortified city. The Roman legionaries (2,000 men) forced the gate and fight their way into the forum. The citizens made an heroic stand by the temple of Sarpedon, as night falls the Roman army conquers the city. The Xanthians preferred to perish in the flames rather than to yield.

42 CE: War is still happening in the Roman Empire.

Romans take control of Ceuta, a port city on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar. The territories of the current Algeria and Morocco become a Roman province. The Dalmatian legate, Furius Camillus Scribonianus, revolts but his troops defect and his rebellion quickly withers.

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:19

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Badger of Basra posted:

you can't do a history post if you don't get the snipe

well then more people who end up getting the top of the page need to start posting history. :colbert:

seriously, I like learning about random events I've usually never heard of before, especially stuff that's pre-1000 CE.

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:27

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

ZenVulgarity posted:

If you would have done "war is happening in the Roman Empire" and people just ran with it I would have laughed real hard

Good actual posts though

If there's a date close to the CE line, do we typically do both BCE and CE?

And it's hard to edit history snipes on my phone.

I was tempted to throw in a battle from WW2 about a 1942 battle in Italy, but there wasn't much fighting happening there there yet. Although since the Romans were screwing around in Algeria:

November 8, 1942: Operation Torch: United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. French Resistance Coup in Algiers: 400 French civil resisters neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.) thus allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, and ultimately the whole of French North Africa.

I've also been trying to throw in more BCE stuff, since last thread was basically all CE events. We can't have negative page numbers, so ya gotta put BCE events somewhere.

fade5 fucked around with this message at 18:39 on May 3, 2015

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:35

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

joeburz posted:

kill yourself your gimmick is past its prime

# ¿ May 3, 2015 18:38

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

nutranurse posted:

another guy legit believes jared diamonds is a godsend and swears by guns germs and steel

Wait, what's wrong with Guns, Germs, and Steel?

I thought it was a fairly decent explanation/documentary, although the last time I saw it was (I think) an early high school history class, so there might be some bad parts of it I'm forgetting.

# ¿ May 5, 2015 00:45

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

V. Illych L. posted:

it's ok, mostly, but it contains some rather pernicious oversimplifications

euphronius posted:

People get spergy about the details even though imho the point of the book was to get people to think in new ways about old issues.

Oh yeah there's definitely oversimplification, even back in high school I picked up on that, but it definitely did its job explaining how the Europeans had the deck stacked way in their favor from the first time they set foot on the American continents.

In my history classes I'd always had a sense that there was more to the story of why the Europeans always seemed to have the upper hand in world events, and Guns, Germs, and Steel laid it out in a way that didn't pretend that the Europeans were innately superior because of some sort of "culture".

# ¿ May 5, 2015 01:04

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

mooyashi posted:

how the gently caress did francis get elected by the conclave

They didn't think he was serious about the whole "follow the example of Jesus, and act like he did" thing. They were wrong, and it is great. :getin:

Even with some of Francis's crappy anti-gay things he's still an amazingly good pope, and I hope he continues on for a long, long time.

# ¿ May 7, 2015 03:03

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

The Warszawa posted:

can't believe fiorina and huckabee are both running

I keep reading her name as a combination of Florina/Fiora/Farina and it's annoying

# ¿ May 7, 2015 03:05

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Badger of Basra posted:

he's already talking about his rapidly approaching death

# ¿ May 7, 2015 03:07

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

Quote of the day, �If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it�s him.� ~ Jeb Bush, on George W. Bush.

quote:

When asked this week at an exclusive Manhattan gathering about who advises him on U.S.-Israel policy, Jeb Bush surprised many of the 50-plus attendees by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor.

�If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it�s him,� Bush said Tuesday, speaking to a crowd of high-powered financiers at the Metropolitan Club, according to four people present.

Ahahahaha

Hi Jeb, nice to meet you, glad to finally know where you stand on Israel.

So, you planning to wait a month or a year into your first term to invade Iran?

# ¿ May 7, 2015 20:16

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

nutranurse posted:

my white peers never look at me when talking in groups. honkeyposters, this is a subtle form of racism FYI

where's the dogstare gif that just shrugs halfway through

cause yeah that sounds about right, sadly enough

zoux posted:

commiegir is about to get into r/athiesm mode in uspol if yer interested

I remain slightly dumbfounded that apparently a majority of Republicans literally want Sharia law, as long as it's Sharia Christian law.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so goddamn insane

# ¿ May 7, 2015 20:52

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

zoux posted:

they knew

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/listeria-found-blue-bell-ice-cream-plant-2013-30880007

quote:

Blue Bell ice cream had evidence of listeria bacteria in its Oklahoma manufacturing plant as far back as March 2013, a government investigation released Thursday says. The company then continued to ship ice cream produced in that plant after what the Food and Drug Administration says was inadequate cleaning.

Three listeria deaths in Kansas are now linked to the ice cream. The company recalled all of its products last month, following several smaller recalls.

The FDA released its investigations into Blue Bell's plants in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama after a Freedom of Information request by The Associated Press. The most extensive violations were found in Oklahoma, where the FDA released 16 separate positive tests for listeria on equipment and in ice cream from March 2013 through January 2015.

Blue Bell did not immediately respond to a phone call or email seeking comment.

Violations in the Oklahoma plant include dirty equipment, inadequate food storage, food being held at improper temperatures and employees not washing hands adequately.

There were also violations at the Texas and Alabama plants. In Alabama, FDA investigators observed at least two employees working with the food wearing soiled clothing. In Texas, investigators saw condensation dripping directly into food and onto surfaces that came directly in contact with food. In all of the plants, the FDA found dirty equipment and infrastructure that made cleaning difficult.

So basically

zoux posted:

Welp, RIP Blue Bell Ice Cream.

# ¿ May 7, 2015 21:09

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Basically, with this new info it's amazing that it's taken until now for people to start getting sick/dying in large numbers, especially with how widespread Blue Bell ice cream is.

Blue Bell might have had a chance at recovering from this before, but now they're ~~dead~~ listeria-infected ice cream walking

fade5 fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 7, 2015

# ¿ May 7, 2015 21:14

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Optimus Subprime posted:

we can only hope

also it owns that Arabs and other wealthy foreigners from former imperial vassal nations are a major driving force for the UK housing bubble

Hey, the British started it with the all the loving colonization and the Sykes�Picot Agreement. Payback's a bitch. :colbert:

_{Seriously though, that sucks that the loving tories won}

Joementum posted:

also: Israel

loving netanyahu

He even somehow put together a non-unity coalition, albeit at the slimmest majority ever, 61/120 seats.

Just gimme a Labor/Meretz/Joint Arab List Israeli government, is that too much to ask?

# ¿ May 7, 2015 23:35

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

V. Illych L. posted:

even up in scandinavia everything is getting hosed - elections are around the corner, the Danish blairite PM is likely to get tossed out, the swedish social democrats are governing in a fragile-as-all-hell situation and norway has the most right-wing government we've had since we were occupied by nazis

breaagh

good luck to you guys, sounds like you need it

euphronius posted:

Lol Obama is like the only thing holding back complete right wing orthodoxy in the anglosphere

thank loving god for Obama, seriously

# ¿ May 7, 2015 23:38

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Optimus Subprime posted:

I for one am glad the US never went to war with Iran. AFAIK

We were pretty drat close in 79, but somehow we didn't.

And if you want war with Iran, well then Jeb Bush will be happy to provide:

Joementum posted:

Quote of the day, �If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it�s him.� ~ Jeb Bush, on George W. Bush.

quote:

When asked this week at an exclusive Manhattan gathering about who advises him on U.S.-Israel policy, Jeb Bush surprised many of the 50-plus attendees by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor.

�If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it�s him,� Bush said Tuesday, speaking to a crowd of high-powered financiers at the Metropolitan Club, according to four people present.

Ahahahaha

Yep, that+Jeb's foreign policy chart confirms it, the only question remaining is if Jeb would wait a month or a year into his first term to invade Iran.

# ¿ May 7, 2015 23:48

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Huh, that looks a lot like an American FPTP election (assuming we had some sort of proportional representation)

Two main parties in Tories vs Labor+SNP, with a smattering of tiny leftover parties that don't really amount to anything
(I'm laughing at the Liberal Dems losing like 80% of thier seats)

V. Illych L. posted:

now, now i wouldn't go so far as to call american policy under the dems non-idiotic

Hey now, at least we only did a tiny bit of austerity :colbert:

and if you're talking foreign policy, I'm just fine with our current foreign policy

# ¿ May 8, 2015 00:01

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

paragon1 posted:

Luckily Florida and Ohio and ??? don't make up 3/4 of the states. But yeah.

How much of our hosed up foreign policy do you guys think can be traced to special interest lobbies that have influence with some locally important but nationally irrelevant constituency in a swing state?

Everything involving Iraq.

It's Bushes all the way down

fade5 fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 8, 2015

# ¿ May 8, 2015 00:28

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Venom Snake posted:

burn scott walker at the stake

How do you flip between having bad opinions and then great opinions like this

also what happened to your kill la kill avatar?

paragon1 posted:

I've heard something similar for why the Israeli lobby is so influential.

Pretty much, but investigating AIPAC's money properly is hard as gently caress. You can find solid numbers without too much difficulty, but finding out who funds AIPAC is is the super hard part.

And on that end you end up running into/getting sucked down the "NWO jews pull all the strings in America/the world" anti-Semitic poo poo.

And then you run into the part where Sheldon Adelson really is pulling a shitload of strings:

Jewish Birthright posted:

Eligible individuals are those who have at least one parent of recognized Jewish descent and who do not actively practice another religion, between the ages 18 to 26, post-high-school, who have neither traveled to Israel before on a peer educational trip or study program past the age of 18 nor have lived in Israel past the age of 12. A Taglit-Birthright Israel trip includes airfare from major cities, hotels, most meals, all transportation within Israel, and costs associated with touring the country for the ten-day trip. A US$250 deposit is required which is refunded upon return from the trip. Airfare or transportation from a participant's home to the gateway city is not included, although the trips depart from multiple cities.
--
In 2007, annual capacity was increased to 20,000 participants a year. That year, Sheldon Adelson pledged $25 million to Birthright Israel to take applicants off waiting lists and to increase annual capacity from 25,000 to 37,000 in 2007 and 2008.[6] The Adelson Family Foundation has contributed many millions of US $s annually to Birthright Israel since 2007.[7] In 2011, he pledged an additional $5 million toward the effort. In 2013, Adelson doubled his past annual commitment to Birthright Israel, announcing a $20 million challenge grant that will match new and increased gifts or pledges through 2015. This raises Adelson's total support of the program to over $250 million as of February 2015.

Now, lest you think you can be an awesome smartass and use the trip/Sheldon Adelson's money for anything remotely Pro-Palestine/Pro-Palestinian related:

quote:

Security policies in place during the trip "ensure a comprehensive safety umbrella":

No travel to the West Bank, Gaza, or East Jerusalem other than the Jewish Quarter of the Old City
Participants in each group remain together at all times and follow a set schedule of activities
Participants do not leave the groups to travel, explore or visit with Israelis on their own during the ten-day trip
Public transportation is not allowed at any time
At least one highly trained, armed escort accompanies each group throughout the entire trip

fade5 fucked around with this message at 00:59 on May 8, 2015

# ¿ May 8, 2015 00:55

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

how?

People are assholes

And Top Gear was cancelled :v:

# ¿ May 8, 2015 01:01

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

Lib Dems now telling reporters that the exit polls look right https://twitter.com/bbckamal/status/596471514171572224

The bloodletting begins.

:unsmigghh:

# ¿ May 8, 2015 01:39

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Badger of Basra posted:

lol qv is posting in the uk thread now

Is he accelerationist-posting?

And if he is, someone needs to offer to buy him a plane ticket to Syria/Somalia for the full experience of acclerationism. :unsmigghh:

# ¿ May 8, 2015 02:12

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Huge Road trips own

Family Vacation road trips own even more

But I'm back now

And somehow San Antonio escaped being underwater while loving everywhere else in Texas and Oklahoma is

Seriously it's loving bad in ~~parts of~~ Dallas, Houston, and Austin; we got really lucky avoiding flooding here.

# ¿ May 26, 2015 20:56

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

sudo rm -rf posted:

do admins need to approve probates

If I remember right, I think that 6 hour probations don't need approval, but everything else does

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 01:28

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Oh yeah, this happened:

Phone posted:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/matthew-apperson-stand-your-ground_n_7472894.html

quote:

An attorney for a Florida man charged with shooting at George Zimmerman said Friday that he planned to use a "Stand Your Ground" defense � the same legal strategy considered but ultimately not used by lawyers for the former neighborhood watch leader who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

The person who shot at George Zimmerman is white, so he may actually be able to pull off a SYG defense.

I sorta want the guy to successfully win his SYG defense.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 01:33

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

sudo rm -rf posted:

can you do less than 6 hours.

or are there pre-set times

It's pre-set times. Probation times are 6 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, or 100,000 hours (11.3 years). The last one is a essentially a perma-ban, and not really used all that often.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 01:38

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Exclamation Marx posted:

you forgot the almost entirely pointless 12 hour, but yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJubf9y45g

Huh, I didn't know that actually existed.

I was going off of memory and the last page of the Leper's Colony (which hilariously has every single probation time I listed except the 100,000 hour one)

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 01:45

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Exclamation Marx posted:

shoulda looked at page 2 � i think aa is trying to bring it back, and in a big way

Huh, so he is.

I've been sorta out of the loop since I was on family vacation for a couple of weeks

When did AA become a mod exactly?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 01:52

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Small Frozen Thing posted:

I have a hormone disorder that stunted my growth severely and makes me look much younger than I really am

I like to cosplay

I cosplayed at a convention

I cosplayed as Flandre Scarlet, the emotionally unstable basement-dwelling vampire Touhou who looks much younger than she really is, because I thought it would be funny

Some gross person felt me up when it was crowded and I wouldn't be able to spot them when I was there, even though I look significantly underage

I hope this has been informative

It has been depressingly informative, but thanks for being willing to share it.

You found a cool-looking picture of Flandre Scarlet, the one I found made your story even worse/creepier in my mind:

On that note:

Trabisnikof posted:

Quote of the Gay:

�Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I�m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, �Coach, I think I�d rather shower with the girls today.'�
-Mike Huckabee

Congratulations Huckabee, your quote gives me the same sense of alarm/fear/disgust that Small Frozen Thing's story did.

Please gently caress off and die at the first opportunity, and take the entire hosed-up Duggar family with you, thanks.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 03:21

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

MIGF apparently sent me a PM last night about Jesse Jackson and Indians or something, and I'm not sure exactly what it all means, but I'm pretty sure that it's at least mildly racist.

It's MIGF, of course it's ~~mildly~~ racist.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

The joke is that I was cosplaying as myself

Because I am also a blond basement-dwelling socially inept creature that looks like a little girl and is burned by sunlight

The friends I went with liked it

Sounds like a cool and funny idea to me. (Seriously, it does.)

oh, and permaban migf
E:

Literally The Worst posted:

MIGF just sent me a pm that basically amounted to SFT was asking for it can we please ban him

seriously, at least ban MIGF, that poo poo isn't funny even if it's ironic/"ironic"

fade5 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jun 3, 2015

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 03:33

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

I got a book in the mail yesterday

Apparently it's Seventh Day Adventist crap, and they sent a fuckton of them out for free.

Skimmed it, did not find a chapter about gay marriage and the apocalypse, was disappointed. Still keeping it as a trophy, and adding 7th Day Adventist tears to the list of tears to collect when gay marriage becomes the law of the land.

Sidenote for the unaware:

quote:

On December 17, 2012, the Ugandan daily newspaper New Vision published an article reporting that the Adventist church president for East and Central Africa, Blaisious Ruguri, had delivered a speech at Mbarara SDA Church in which he declared that Adventists "fully" supported the government's "Anti-Homosexuality Bill". The article, which includes a photo of Ruguri standing alongside state MP Medard Bitekyerezo, quotes Ruguri saying:

�Our stand is 'zero tolerance' to this vice and to western influence on this crucial issue because God says no to it. We are together with the President and the Speaker and we fully support the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. I call upon all religious ministers, all Ugandans, and all Africans to say no to Homosexuality. Let us stand for our sovereignty as Ugandans and as God fearing people even the heavens fall."

Seventh Day Adventist fuckers supported Uganda's "Kill the gays" bill, so they're on my permanent shitlist right next to the Quiverfull assholes, ACE supporters, and other crazy hosed-up evangelicals.

fuckin' Millerites can't accept that they're wrong even 160 years later

fade5 fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 3, 2015

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 20:34

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

baw posted:

i will be literally shaking if he says he is running president

I hope you mean shaking with laughter

Seriously, how many idiots have their hat in the ring on the Republican side now? It's more than 10 right, otherwise fox wouldn't have to literally do a "top ten" thing for their debates. :allears:

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 21:46

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

baw posted:

i'll be shaking with excited anticipation if he is running and hopelessly dejected if he isn't

What makes Trump so special as opposed to the rest of the hilarious cavalcade of clown car participants?

I mean besides "Went bankrupt running a casino", although it really does take a special kind of idiot to do that.

Also

Berke Negri posted:

what's everyone's type classified in the DSM V

ADHD-inattentive, also known as regular ADD; I am apparently not alone in this even in the chat thread. No wonder I like it here :v:

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 22:00

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

baw posted:

I�m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody�s ever been more successful than me. I�m the most successful person ever to run. Ross Perot isn�t successful like me. Romney � I have a Gucci store that�s worth more than Romney.

I concede to Donald Trump's hilarity.

His Comedy Central roast was also hilarious.

I hope he spends millions running for president, it would do my heart good to see him lose money on yet another half-baked idiotic endeavor with no chance of success. :getin:

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 22:26

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

mooyashi posted:

a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

I see the mysterious avatar fairy has struck again

or at least sometime in the past 2 weeks

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 22:34

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:42

fade5: May 31, 2012; by exmarx

Berke Negri posted:

sometimes i wonder if i will face death fearfully or with a sense of calm resignation

these fritos aren't so bad

V. Illych L. posted:

you'll be terrified

what i fear most about death isn't really that i'm going to die, but that i'll probably be so undignified in the process

Ironically, following ISIL/the Syrian Civil War has actually made me less scared of death

Not sure exactly when it happened, but I think it had something to do with that Canadian ISIL dude who ended up dead to a US airstrike in the middle of Kobani (read: loving nowhere) Syria, and who is now probably buried in an unmarked grave and would be completely forgotten about if he hadn't starred in an ISIL video a few months back.

Also, have a giant "you are here" courtesy of Wikipedia that will make you feel super goddamn insignificant:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe_VERTICAL_%28JPEG%29.jpg
I'm linking rather than timging it because holy poo poo is it a big image.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 22:52

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