Hey, welcome to my blog. I'm Caroline (25 she/her pronouns), live in the U.S., and spend most of my time daydreaming about parallel universes. I've given up on consistency a long time ago so fair warning I usually just post whatever I find interesting. Hope you like what you see.
I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part
Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it’s done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.
There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.
Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:
No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.
My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.
And if you had asked me, even back then, whether I would rather lose my reproductive capacity or suffer irreversible brain damage, I know that I would have chosen the former without a second’s hesitation.
Football is fundamentally a brutal sport that rapidly degrades cerebral function and mobility.
It shouldn’t be a sport and it definitely shouldn’t be a high school sport.
I saw a study years ago that talked about the fact injuries, especially brain injuries, are becoming more common because of how much “better” the armor is. Players and coaches think it protects more, but it doesn’t because they’re playing even more aggressively. The skull might not be moving, but the brain inside it is bouncing and bruising inside it. Then there are the various terminal spinal injuries.
One of my husband’s uncles had an injury like that, and I can’t remember what it’s called, but he had a thing installed to drain spinal fluid near his skull. The condition is terminal and can take years to manifest. It starts with small things, but as it progresses, the body starts to shut down. Loss of motor function, inability to speak, paralysis, inability to eat or breathe on their own. His uncle was injured in college, and it took 20 years for his body to just…shut down. But he suffered problems starting the day he was injured. His coach tried getting him to play while dealing with the injury, because apparently it was bad enough.
Football armor needs to be less extreme. Then players will suffer fewer and less severe injuries because they won’t be playing so aggressively. They won’t be trying so hard to destroy one another for a damn ball.
Season one and two Steve Harrington would sit fully naked if you walked in on him changing, completely unfazed. Season three and four Steve Harrington would do the thing where he grabs a sheet or a towel or a shirt and holds it to his chest to cover his body.
You know Elon probably saw this and was super mad he still canāt fire Halli.
Iāve already had one person in the notes claim dropping the bombs was the āonly optionā to end the war.
No.
Shaun has a wonderful breakdown of all the nuances surrounding the Japanese surrender.
If you do not have 2 hours to spare (or you canāt watch it at 2x speed), I will give you some bullet points.
Several American leaders of the time felt the bombs provided no assistance in ending the war.
Japan was already defeated. They wanted to surrender but were stubborn and wanted conditions.
Their only concern was their god-like emperor stay in power and not be executed.
That was their concern before the bombs. That was their concern after the bombs. Nothing changed in their minds.
They didnāt actually care that the bombs killed people. It took them several days to even have a meeting after the first bomb dropped.
The idea that dropping the bomb would save millions of casualties was invented *after* the bomb was dropped and was pulled out of someoneās ass to cover said ass.
There was never going to be an invasion.
People think we dropped the bombs and the Japanese leadership was like, āOh shit! We give up!ā
But in reality, we dropped the first bomb and they were like, āIām busy tomorrow, can we have the bomb meeting on Thursday?ā
We dropped the bombs to show the world we had the bombs.
Japan was a convenient and timely excuse to that end.
Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.
Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.
Oh that’s cool! And a vastly cleverer plot point than the original story
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