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Blossom Bubbles and Buttercup live with their rich white father who makes a six figure income in the STEM field and although they are racially classified  as Chemical Accidents they are white passing and experience white privilege. Their lack of understanding of intersectionality is further highlighted by their violent antagonism towards Him, a non-binary demon, and Fuzzy Lumpkin, a bear who lives below the poverty line. In this post I will examine the 

This is one of the first props I made in high school theater. The script called for a huge catfish with a hidden pouch to pull shit out of. I was 15, had a bunch of chicken wire, a roll of gaff tape, a dream, and no idea what a catfish looks like. Busted this shit out in 30 minutes and named him Steven.

It’s often been remarked that video game characters who wield very large weapons - for example, Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII - must be wearing very heavy shoes in order to get away fighting as they do. Intuitively, this makes sense: if you try to swing around something that substantially outweighs you, you’ll just end up swinging yourself around instead. It doesn’t matter how strong you are if you don’t have the mass to balance it out!

What’s less intuitively obvious is that it’s not just a matter of mass: it’s also a matter of surface area. In order to push or strike a target, you need to generate enough friction with the ground to counteract the equal and opposite force that your target exerts upon you. If you don’t, you’ll simply be pushed away. While mass is a contributing factor here, an equally important one is contact area with the ground. Even a very heavy object can be displaced with relative ease if its ground contact is minimal.

In short, if you wish to avoid being sent skittering along the ground every time you hit something with your cartoonishly large sword, beyond a certain point it’s not sufficient to wear very heavy shoes: you must also have very large feet.

And that’s why Sora from Kingdom Hearts is the most realistic Final Fantasy protagonist.

A lot of people have been mislead by a post that talks about the “lumpy” Earth, and unfortunately it seems that people genuinely believe the Earth is this shape. As one person pointed out, we have images of the Earth from space, and while it would be disingenuous to refer to it as a perfect sphere, it very much is spherical. A rudimentary reverse Google image search tells me that the image in the misleading post is a simulation of the Earth without water… which is just plain wrong.

In fact, the shape you’re seeing is a geoid, which is a simulation of what Earth would look like if you neglected the influence of anything other than rotation and gravity. A geoid is a dynamic equipotential surface, which means that every point on the surface has the same gravitational potential.

Since it was recently NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, this seems like a good opportunity to talk about a geoid that is something more than a context-less gif: the Potsdam Gravity Potato, pictured above. It’s the result of efforts by a group at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam to create a highly detailed map of the Earth’s gravitational field. Like in a heat map, red elevated levels indicate stronger gravitational effects, and depressed blue levels indicate that they’re lower. The potato-like shape occurs due to the Earth’s uneven gravitational field. This is why high places such as the Himalayas coincide with local maxima on the geoid—but of course not all maxima and minima are the result of noticeable physical features; the Earth has inhomogeneous variations in its density, which account for much of the gravitational difference.

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everyone’s having their mid-life crises at like 19

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