There’s this philosophical dilemma known as The Ship of Theseus. It goes something like this: there’s a ship made out of wood. One of the planks is rotting, so that plank is replaced with a new one. It’s still the same ship as it was before, right? Just with a new plank. Overtime, more and more of the wooden planks start to rot and are replaced. Eventually, after many years, every piece of wood is replaced. The question is, is the ship the same ship as it was before? How many planks of wood have to be replaced before it is an entirely different ship. One? Two? Half of them? All of them? The point of the thought experiment is to understand how objects survive change. At what point does an object fundamentally, irreversibly changed? Nobody really knows.
Being in a sick body is comparable to Theseus’ ship. First, one thing goes. Then another, and another, and another- until you are no longer the same person. How much hardware can a body hold before it is no longer a body?
At what point, when there is more titanium than bone, more drugs than blood, more scar tissue than skin, more electric impulses than nerves, is a body- and the person within that body- no longer the same? At what point are you more medicine than flesh?
Are you really the same person you were before? Are any of us?
I️ know this is trying to make a point but yes you are still you. That ship is still that ship.
We are more than the sum of our parts just as that ship was. The capitan who ordered a new mast for the ship still sees the ship as their own and as the same ship – changed yes but the same. We are not defined by what we are made of. We are defined by ourselves, that being. That ship is that ship because the captain and he crew and everyone believes it. You are still you because you know it to be true.
Change does not equate distraction, only strength. For every time a plank was replaced that ship got stronger.
i took a pic of me watching the pickle rick episode to piss people off but like somehow i managed to take the pic so that the frame on the tv was…. a different frame to the reflection on the desk?
cursed image
this is the most fucked up scenario that accurately depicts that movement of photons through space and time
Einstein would be so upset that you proved his theory in one moment, cause in his day it took fuckin months to setup an eclipse pic to prove relativity n you did it by accident, in ur living room. congrats.
this is actually called the rolling shutter effect!! the camera captures images in a rolling fashion, from the top to the bottom. so objects that are moving fast like a car, or a airplane propeller, or frames on a tv being reflected will always look distorted. the closer to the top of the image you get, the further back in time it represents, just by a few split seconds. all this means is that the frame reflected on the table was probably the one right after the one on the tv, and it changed before the camera’s rolling shutter had time to get to it.
here’s some more pictures with the rolling shutter; remember that the top of the image just represents a fraction of a second earlier in the action
rolling shutters also move side to side in some cameras, leading to more spooky imagery
I’ve always found the best rolling shutter images to be lightning.
i took a pic of me watching the pickle rick episode to piss people off but like somehow i managed to take the pic so that the frame on the tv was…. a different frame to the reflection on the desk?
cursed image
this is the most fucked up scenario that accurately depicts that movement of photons through space and time
Einstein would be so upset that you proved his theory in one moment, cause in his day it took fuckin months to setup an eclipse pic to prove relativity n you did it by accident, in ur living room. congrats.
Protip for if you’re alone and find yourself getting jumpy because ‘oh shit this feels like the start of a scene from a horror movie’:
Do something that a director of a horror movie would never put in a final cut. Pull sudden and inexplicable stupid faces. Make up a ridiculous shuffle-dance. Sing that song with the weirdest lyrics you know, loudly and as off-key as possible. Be completely unphotogenic and uncinematic, and it counteracts the irrational fear quite nicely.
Pretend you’re in the blooper reel of a horror movie
I swear those fandom storyboards on YouTube are messing with mind. Like, in my head, John Mulaney’s “The One Thing You Can’t Replace” standup bit is something that actually happened to Mae from Night in the Woods. I can vividly picture the relevant cutscene as though I’d played through it myself, even though I know it doesn’t exist.
The video in question, for reference:
Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics — if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.
Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson for Bookslut (via bostonpoetryslam)
Sometimes I get SO EMBARRASSED writing about feelings!
But I love it. I mean, just look at that last sentence: I love it. That’s why I do it. I love to write about people (who are not real, but I love them, and they love each other, or hate each other, or both). Writing about feelings is a confession in itself, shameful and sincere.
now feels like a good time to let you guys know that the tumblr mobile website, unlike the tumblr mobile app, works entirely normally. it’s a little tough to post but not meaningfully so, and it doesn’t serve ads, scramble posts, give you push notifications, screw up your activity page, or break your phone
okay so im level 20+ already after two days of playing so i’ll give you guys some tips for gaining levels and the general game
fruit trees refresh every 3 hours, if you don’t have the inventory space for the fruit just shake the tree and leave them on the ground, they won’t rot, and you can maximise your harvest
the shops rotate every 6 hours- 6am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am
do requests for every villager regardless of if you plan to invite them or not for mats, experience and bells
spend your leaf tickets on giving yourself the extra crafting slots ASAP!
the quarry resets every 24 hours to get in for free, add as many people as possible so you can use it
make sure to scroll your friend-list and help out people to get into the quarry, you get 100 bells each time!
every 1 hour, the villagers at your campsite will let you talk to them for gifts and friendship points
when you get a new villager, click ‘auto-arrange’ for their new furniture. it’ll put what they want down and after it gives you the option to revert to your original layout. you do not need to keep their preferred furniture out!!
always have an amenity crafting, always. they take forever and you will need to have them all eventually
the stretch goals are very generous with rewards and very easy, work on them as fast as you can
save up as many materials as you can, the furniture becomes incredibly expensive (60-120+ mats per piece) very fast
don’t be afraid to use your request tickets/calling cards, the game is generous with giving them
when listing items in the market box, be aware that the price does not automatically reflect the quantity. you have to put the price up the more items you add!
feel free to add anymore!! i hope these help your game!
you’re gonna have more than one tree of some type (it’s different for everyone) so sell ur extras in the market boxes for the good $$$
link the h*ck out of your nintendo account and get those sweet my nintendo rewards u can get tons of bells and materials real easy (if u link ur twitter/facebook u get tons of reward points; u do that from the “add friend” button–u can unlink em immediately it doesnt really matter)
use request tickets by asking if a dude wants anything after doing all their requests (it’s not really made clear…)
u can make friends with the random passers-by u can find in the wild if u are lonely and don’t have real friends
i’ve literally never seen a villager ask for a tuna sell it for that sweet sweet cash (they’re worth 5000 bells; theres a bunch of stuff worth 1k+ that u can just sell… ones that are worth 100 do get asked for sometimes and the villagers’ll give u 1k for em)
i don’t think anyone wants coconuts i dont’ know why we keep putting them in our market boxes
i’ve had critters ask for coconuts. of course they did that right after i’d decided coconuts were vendor junk and offloaded them all. 😛
i’m not sure i grasp the utility of calling cards. why would you want to call a critter to a different location?
Specifically to help max out an animal that is not currently in your camp or on the map at the time. I’ve been courting the cats and dogs, so if the ones I’m looking for are currently not in the rotation then I can call them to the area (and then there will be TWO animals at that location for you to help).
do you ever watch something and think “this was written by a man”
i was up late night watching an episode of criminal minds fairly recently, for lack of a better thing to do. in the opening scene there are these two girls getting into their car in like a supermarket parking lot, not very well lit, in the middle of the night. another car drives up right behind theirs and won’t move out of the way so this one girl is like “im gonna go see what this guy’s problem is” and gets out of the car, in a poorly lit parking lot, to confront a man who was behaving aggressively to them.
so that was the precise moment i realised that episode was written by a man.
I was watching an episode of CSI where the entire reason they were going forward with the case was that ‘no woman would wear a bra this expensive without also wearing the matching panties’. What porn logic is this? I was, at that moment, wearing the exact bra the Jane Doe was wearing and fuck no I didn’t spring for the matching panties. Even if I did, I wouldn’t wear them as often as a bra. Panties I wash daily. Bras? Not so much.
But in CSI World, police resources were being mobilized on how irregular it would be for a woman to wear a $36 bra, but not caring about how she would look in just underthings.
Never mind not matching, but that they think $36 is expensive for a bra is probably the number one sign it was written by a man.
In Star Wars Padmé goes for Anakin while Ewan McGregor is around
Oh! Oh!
That episode of Supernatural where Sam had this fairly competent go-get-em love interest and they got locked in a house with a ghost. They’re frantically looking for iron or salt to defend themselves and someone tips over a container of fireplace pokers. Sam takes one. The woman… doesn’t? Arm herself? With anything? She could wave wildly? To try to keep the bad thing away??
basically every episode of every show where a woman approaches a scary noise or a stranger in a dark place without arming herself or being on the phone with 911 or something.
just moving along like everyone else 