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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
alicenginger
ranidspace

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

ranidspace

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

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https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

Pinned Post what the hell important PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND STAY SAFE
mirrorfalls
oldshrewsburyian: “ mapsontheweb: “ The countries that got tea via China through the Silk Road (land) referred to it in various forms of the word “cha”. On the other hand, the countries that traded with China via sea - through the Min Tan port called...
mapsontheweb

The countries that got tea via China through the Silk Road (land) referred to it in various forms of the word “cha”. On the other hand, the countries that traded with China via sea - through the Min Tan port called it in different forms of “te”.

oldshrewsburyian

I liked this so much I became curious… and it checks out! The explanation lies, unsurprisingly, in who was interacting with whom in early modern long-distance trade.

Source: youtube.com
words fandom history food for thought life goes on within queue and without queue
relenafanel
ineffablelunatic

Something I love from the book is that when Crowley traps Hastur in the answering machine, he genuinely considers taking the tape and leaving it in his car so that it turns into Queen.

He decides this is too cruel a fate. This is right after he has killed Ligur with a bucket of holy water. Agonisingly melting? That's cool, but becoming a Queen track is too far.

hkblack

No but wait, this shows the brilliance of Crowley! And demonstrates why when pressed Neil Gaiman says that Crowley isn't nearly as bad as Heaven thinks but not nearly as good as he'd like us to believe. And it shows the wonderfulness of choice and what I like to call the Crowley Code.

You see, the bucket of water is no different than the apple and knowledge. It's a consequence to YOUR (Ligur's) action. Crowley has done nothing to guarantee the safety of Ligur and Hastur as they enter his domain. He has put a bucket of holy water on a door. If Ligur and Hastur have any reason to not trust him, they'll check for booby traps. If they don't check, that's on them. Crowley didn't toss a bucket of water on them. They walked under it. Sure he threatens with a mister, but it's a bluff. He could've filled that with holy water too. Enough to get the job done. But that would make his role active, and he doesn't actively murder or actively torture unlike his demonic counterparts are implied to do. He just asks questions and leads people to temptation (doom/demise)

Similarly, Hastur doesn't have to follow him in the telephone lines, but he does. And in doing so he gets trapped. But when given the choice on how to then deal with the tape, Crowley decides that HE isn't going to be responsible directly for doing harm to Hastur. So he doesn't.

This is mirrored in how he encourages Aziraphale to kill the antichrist, not him. Never Crowley pulling the trigger. It's against his very nature. He's not the do-er. His job is to lead folks to their undoing. Not to do it for them.

fandoms good omens food for thought actually tho life goes on within queue and without queue
mentalisttraceur
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I’m convinced it was an interdimensional portal

2ndgengeek

Oooh, I know this one! The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration - they make the rules for flying here in the US) has designated “roads” in the sky to keep all the commercial jets from running into each other. When you’re headed the same direction at the same speed, you don’t get in each other’s way. If you’re heading east you fly at one elevation, and west-bound planes fly at a different height. There are lots of rules to keep mid-air crashes to a minimum.

However, if you’re running late, or weather in one spot is bad, you can call up Air Traffic Control and ask for a new route! And they will look at their little radar screens and maps of all the airplanes in the area, and tell you what shortcut you can take.

cicadianrhythm

I am a little bit overcome by this. We made actual imaginary tunnels in the sky so our giant metal birds can fly through the open air in the most organized, polite way possible. We check in over our designated long distance thought projection machine channel that anyone can listen in on but we all promise not to interrupt to get permission to swap imaginary sky tunnels. We come up with the weirdest impossible shit and immediately give it boundaries! Humans are ridiculous. I mean yes these are good rules and many many people would die if we didnt have them, a+ on these rules, but if you take a step back wanting to sunder every natural limitation we can find and then going ahead and building our own so nothing gets too messy is a fucking hilarious art for a species to compulsively pursue.

mentalisttraceur

It is extremely important that you all understand that we didn't pursue it compulsively. We have never pursued it compulsively. We were forced to pursue it by the mangling of bodies and metal over our heads as planes flew into each other.

Humans are not built to see and predict hurling planes, tiny among a vast sky. People knew this. Pilots had close calls. Those with the right amount of caution told anyone who would listen about how it is possible to not see another plane until after it hit you, and maybe we should do something about it. And we still had "see and avoid, otherwise feel free to have fun with it" flight rules until it killed people.

It used to be normal for flights to swing and circle around a bit at a whim to give passengers a better view or whatever. So normal that what eventually happened was inevitable, predictable, and it still had to actually happen before humanity learned.

We built those imaginary sky tunnels out of lives.

We could've built them with foresight and caution instead. But most people neglect, ignore, and dismiss very unlikely things as if they can't happen, instead of systematically making them actually unable to happen.

Mind that cognetic opening or the next thing will need lives to build too.

important food for thought actually tho life goes on within queue and without queue
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