I posted a comment as a joke response to a friend years ago, definitely before COVID, I wanna say like 2018, saying that you can hold a raw potato to the "vaccine wound" and someone thought I was being serious, screenshot it, and spread it everywhere. So if you ever hear that people believe a potato will remove a vaccine, you now know who to blame for that.
This was 100% made up by me. I posted this. I personally am responsible for a small conspiracy theory.
https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/sector/large-molecule/news/11302667/anti-vaxxers-turn-to-potatoes
An article someone wrote about it, apparently it was early 2019.
This is exactly how easily misinformation gets spread around btw. Like there are multiple articles about this half-assed shitpost. I absolutely 100% invented it out of thin air. Zero basis. Just was going through my "potatoes are funny" phase.
yeah hi i've recommended this method with a totally straight face to several mothers and fathers who were upset at having to vaccinate their kids. i told them that because potatoes grew in the soil their structure was uniquely suited to "purifying" heavy metals, so the raw potato slice would help pull out mercury or "contaminants", and the kids would just get the actual medicine part of the shot without all the "extra crap".
im pretty sure i got at least a couple people to buy it. and vaccinate their damn kids.
There should be special "mercury & tracking chip free" vaccines that are really just the regular vaccines so that worried parents can still vaccinate their spawn while avoiding 'toxins'.
It wouldn't even be a lie.
Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.
For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.
I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.
The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.
Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”
Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”
The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.
Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”
Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.
Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.
lol
#Queued
Which means you saw this, could have told me, but instead, you chose this course. You chose violence. I'll be adding you to the list of traitors to be embroidered in the tapestry of my throne room.
oh fuck *falls back into old habits* *screen fades to black* *level loading* TIP: your belief that you are incapable of changing for the better will become a self fulfilling prophecy if left unchallenged
No nuance allowed. Put your nuance in the tags, I just want a yes or no answer
You know what fantasy stories don't use enough? Different measuring scales, and confusion caused by them. Because before the metric system, practically every place and culture had their own measures for weights, lengths and distances. It would be fun to add that into a story for added realistic cultural confusion.
The average dwarf is four or five feet tall, but not in human measures. Yeah they're still shorter than humans but the dwarf foot (and the namesake measure of length) is bigger in proportion to their body. "Is that in dwarf feet or human feet?" is a common question to hear on construction sites, wherever human carpenters and dwarf masons are working together.
A dedicated local Common Misconception Historian has a pet peeve about the whole "princess Featherblade was only 12 years old when she led the attack on Marshland Halls" -myth, because the historical recordings on the human side are off. While she was remarkably young, that myth came about back in the day when humans were still trying to apply "dog years" to elves, and in an elven life span, 120 years is not a direct equivalent to a 12-year-old human.
A whole culture whose smallest unit of weight loosely translates to "about as much as an apple", and varies from region to region depending on the size of local apples. These people are famed for their alchemists, whose uncanny ability to simply measure their ingredients by heart, making their recipes essentially impossible to replicate. This famed skill is a matter of survivor bias - the ones that don't have that knack ten to explode into fine mist.
As a sidenote. Medieval construction sites actually decided at the beginning of the project just exactly whose feet, inches and thumbspaces they were going to use for this site. Then they’d post them on a board at the workshops so everyone could be on the same page here.
I want to believe that there have been several incidents where this desicion was resolved with a fist fight.
Lyrics from the Fellowship of the Ring book + the scene from the Return of the King movie
we've done it again folks
ATTENTION TUMBLR
CHOCOLATE GUY'S BIRTHDAY IS IDES OF MARCH
Both. Both are true.