Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.
But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.
you mean like
@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares
I shall never find peace.
Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.
There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.
Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.
So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.
So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.
Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post
Elves are flat-earthers
This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage
So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes
Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us
After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”
To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil
There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”
Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever
Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across
That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads
Lord of The Flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads
I accepted a full time position today. If I earn the promised performance based raise in Jan, then I will officially be making enough to afford to live on my own.
I’ll be able to afford my own tiny apartment. <3
I’m not looking to leave my current living situation anytime soon, but there is something so relaxing about making a goal I’ve had for literally ten years. Same calculations over and over, twist this pinch that, stretch and stretch, and the numbers almost worked. Three roommates, four people in one house, better than the six I left. Now three people, but the math guys.
I don’t need to manipulate or reason or reformat this and that. I pull all of the taxes, expenses, debts, and it Still Adds Up.
My ankle hurts from twisting it last week, my knees hurt in general cause arthritis. My brain hurts because my desk is overloaded for a short work week.
My tax return showed up and it’s going right back out the door to pay for new breaks
I can’t decide if I should carry a cane or not, because what if it just exacerbates my knees
But overall life is going good guys. Full-time job, graduated college, making $17 an hour now, and I have a dog now!
The 12 Biggest Myths about Raising Taxes on the Rich
Some politicians are calling for higher taxes on the rich. Naturally, these proposals have unleashed a torrent of opposition – mostly from…the rich. Here are the 12 biggest myths they’re propounding:
Myth 1: A top marginal tax rate applies to all of a rich person’s total income or wealth.
Myth 8: The estate tax is a death tax that hits millions of Americans.
Baloney. The current estate tax, which only applies to assets in excess of 11 million dollars, or 22 million dollars for couples, fewer than 2,000 families.
Myth 9: If taxes are raised on the wealthy, they’ll find ways to evade them. So very little money is going to be raised.
Myth 10: The only reason to raise taxes on the wealthy is to collect revenue.
No. Although these proposals would generate lots of revenue – and help us reduce the national debt while investing in schools, roads, and all the things we need – another major purpose is to reduce inequality, and thereby safeguard democracy against oligarchy.
Myth 11: It’s unfair to raise taxes on the wealthy.
Hogwash. It’s their country, too. They couldn’t maintain their fortunes without what America provides – national defense, police, laws, courts, political stability, and the Constitution. They couldn’t have got where they are without other things America provides – education, infrastructure, and a nation that respects private property. And to argue it’s “their money” also ignores a lot of other ways America has bestowed advantages on the rich – everything from bailing out Wall Street bankers when they get into trouble, to subsidizing the research of Big Pharma.
So the next time you hear one of these myths, know the truth.
When he’s a 19 year old fascist and you’re a 24 year old democratically elected politician but he has a tiny braid so you’re helpless to his charming pear floating powers
Like, not to be That Fan, but Anakin’s a former slave serving the government that flat-out refused to attempt to clean up his home world’s slavery issue (or, yannow, free his mum) and lashing out like teens do and looking for simple solutions, and she’s a politician in the hopelessly corrupt government who spends her time crusading against its corruption and can understand that Anakin was uneducated, justifiably mad, and venting.
Like, saying “I should MAKE them do something” about your mother having a bomb inside her to keep her enslaved is kinda understandable for a teenager. Or even an adult.
Tbh the thing that moved me the most about RotS, not at the time it came out but as I’ve gotten older and rewatched it a few times, is that I honestly can’t fault Anakin *too much* before he started, you know, actively engaging in evil acts like mass murdering kids. His fall may have been a dramatic plunge into ‘for the evulz’, but the getting there was not as blunderingly obvious as people think.
Between the super-corrupt bureaucratic government refusing to deal with slavery on Tatooine, the aloof and dogmatic Jedi whose response to “I got a vision of my wife dying and I need help” was “dump her and move on”, and the manipulative surrogate father figure luring him to the Dark Side, Anakin reacted about as well as a young man his age would have.
That isn’t apologizing for fascism; it’s more commentary on how fascists twist emotionally vulnerable young men into their puppets, and is imminently relevant to today’s world.
oooooo that last bit is spot on
The only way this could have been more on-point is if Anakin’s mom had died from a lack of health care.
it’s more commentary on how fascists twist emotionally vulnerable young men into their puppets, and is imminently relevant to today’s world.
The only way this could have been more on-point is if Anakin’s mom had died from a lack of health care.
not to be a “this whole website is one giant social experiment” but it honestly blows my mind on how tumblr has completely twisted the genuinely good philosophy of “be thoughtful and think critically of the media you consume” and turned it into this extremist mindset where something is either completely ideologically pure in every single way (which, bad news. is impossible) or it’s the work of Complete Evil and must be banned and ignored in its entirety if found to be slightly problematic. and from this mindset has blossomed a black and white lens on human nature and a terrifying 1 strike and you’re out system with no growth mindset whatsoever
