Fun Fact: A woodpecker’s tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain while it is hammering away at a tree or other hard surfaces. This, combined with other factors such as: super strong neck muscles, plates of spongey bone in the skull that act like a football helmet, and a very small amount of cerebrospinal fluid surrounding their brain, all help to stop a woodpecker scrambling its brain while pecking away with a force of over 1000g.
Imagine the first dumbass bird to try this before they developed this protection just like “hey guys check it out I’m gonna cut this tree in half” and everyone’s like “wait doug no don’t” and then doug’s just gone
i seriously cannot believe foldable phones are about to make a comeback. foldable smartphones are being made right now. you can finally end a call with a clat again.
finally I can hang my phone up in a dramatic way…again
The clat will be more dramatic due to the screen shattering
I never thought I’d be the person writing up an incident report for making a coworker cry, but as of today, I am that person. I made a stupid, lazy, cunt, cry tonight, because I told her to do her fucking job. And I had to file a report because she spent over an hour, being paid, crying to a supervisor in the office.
Sora does change. In all of the ways that count and hurt, he changes over the course of this journey.
They’re sitting on that pier, looking at this beautiful sunset, and Kairi’s a little uncertain but she’s mostly excited–she’s ready–she’s going to go on an adventure, and she can’t wait. It’s not scary, because “I know I can always come back here, right?” Riku’s desire to see the outside world has wormed its way into her heart.
But Sora–he’s actually the one of the three who doesn’t care so much about the quest. He loves his friends and he’s excited for the trip because it’s going to be a great adventure with his two best buds, but that’s the only reason he’s leaving. He doesn’t care about the outside worlds; in that sunset talk they had on the paopu tree, he offered that nonchalant “I dunno”, sat back, and disconnected from the conversation about the outside world until there was a lull and he had the opportunity to ask Kairi a question. He even rolled his eyes at one point. He doesn’t understand Riku’s wanderlust; he loves their island with all of his heart.
Then the world falls to darkness, and everything changes.
No friends. No island. Sora is alone in the outside world that he didn’t even care that much about–what’s the point of exploring if he’s not with his friends? If he can never, ever go back to the island that he loves? And this despair affects him–he’s not at all as carefree or go-with-the-flow as he was on the island. He holds onto his determination and drive, but he gets angry easily, he glares and he snaps at everyone and he and Donald can’t have a civil conversation to save their lives. And when he can’t muster enough anger to cover his hurt, he’s just so sad. Yeah, the smile he offers Donald and Goofy in exchange for going with them is a funny moment–but considering that he was ninety percent smiles before this all happened, the fact that he can only muster a garish mockery of a grin is a little heartbreaking.
He changes, in all of the ways that Kairi doesn’t want him to change.
The story, for his character development, is about that change being reversed, It’s about healing that hurt, getting him excited about all of the travelling he’s doing and the friends he’s making, putting hope back in his heart that the loss will be reversed. You can bet that KHII Sora would’ve been able to fly in Neverland on his first try, but KHI Sora? Happy thoughts and faith are just so hard for him, even that far into the story.
By the time he gets to Kairi again, he has learned and grown and healed so much that, for all intents and purposes, he hasn’t changed. He’s the carefree boy she grew up with and loves. But he’s infinitely stronger than that boy, because he had to lose and find himself again.
So this moment, where they’re both happy and content, Kairi’s profound foresight makes me so happy. Sora doesn’t understand, but Kairi knows him well enough that, even if she doesn’t know what’s coming, she understands that the most important thing for him is staying strong and not losing himself.
Jewish people who type the word “god” as “g-d”: Do you think you can fool the big man upstairs with a technical work around? When he goes through your emails/texts/facebook posts after you die, you don’t think he’s gonna see that dash and think “this sneaky fuck here, enjoy h-ll.”
this thought comes from someone who has no idea how Judaism works, but okay.
People avoid writing out God’s name, because you aren’t ever allowed to destroy or desecrate something with God’s name on it - you have to bury it instead. That’s what a genizah is. The most well known is probably the Cairo Genizah. It’s a box where Jews can put anything with God’s name on it to ensure that it gets buried.
So obviously Jews do write out God’s name. In fact, it used to be traditional to mark the top of pages with God’s name as a kind of blessing or mark of honesty. That’s why there are so many miscellaneous texts in genizahs.
Judaism reads “do not use my name in vain” pretty literally as a command to revere and respect the Y-H-V-H name of God.
Most rabbis agree that this commandment only holds for the hebrew, so not typing out God is more something people do out of respect or as a nod to this tradition. Some people use G-d because they want to parallel the fact that the tradition was put in place for people who would be speaking and writing in hebrew or a very near identical language like Aramaic.
It’s a matter of respect, not a matter of “don’t do this or you will be punished.”
Besides, Judaism deals almost exclusively with punishment in life and Judaism very explicitly doesn’t have a clear and codified notion of עולם הבא (the world to come). And there is certainly no notion of hell.
Also, Judaism is not nearly that harsh in response to small mistakes. We have a holiday every year explicitly devoted to the idea that we all fuck up and that we need to ask forgiveness from each other and God (and during which God does all the judging - God doesn’t wait until after we die. It’s an active thing that can be constantly adjusted).
Maybe world religions is not the best topic of contemplation during your shower.
As a tangentially related note, the Cairo Genizah basically didn’t get emptied for like, a thousand years, and in the late 19th century historians started going through it and found all kinds of writing in Hebrew and Arabic about day-to-day Jewish life, trading activity, etc. throughout the Islamic world and Indian Ocean region, there’s even writings from famous people like Maimonides.There’s hundreds of thousands of manuscripts. Some of them have been translated and published and it’s really neat to look at if you’re into that kind of thing.
So this tradition gave us a historical treasure whose value cannot even be described.
