god I wish Tumblr was still a place where all my favorite people online lived now at best it’s more like coming home after moving away and driving past all the houses of your old friends, “people I love used to live there” you’d say.
there are only two occasions in life where you can truly assess your loneliness and these are when you are driving at night and the streetlights are passing over the hood of your car, and when you stand barefoot outside alone in the night and no one knows you’re there
smiling is so good water is so good lying in clean sheets with a wheat pack is so good talking to your best friend is so good witnessing a tree is so good the sound an apple makes when you slice it is so good the smell of lavender is so good hot showers are so good holding my own two hands together is so good
everything that makes everything amazing is not excessively expensive i have always had what i always needed
Satellites capture historic images of 2019 Solar Eclipse.
Visible to Earthlings
only along a narrow band of Chile and Argentina, Earth’s first total solar
eclipse since 2017 crossed the Southern hemisphere Tuesday, July 2nd,
2019. Satellites orbiting both the Earth and Moon captured historic,
never-before-seen images of the eclipse from their unique space-based vantage
points.
NOAA’s GOES-West satellite,
orbiting 24,000 miles above the Equator, captured the shadow of the Moon racing
eastwards towards Chile and Argentina, while the Category 5 Hurricane Barbara
can be seen to the north.
A quarter of a million miles
further away, China’s DSLWP-B satellite captured the Moon’s shadow on a rising Earth while the limb of the Moon itself was visible in the foreground. This is
the first time that an eclipse’s shadow has been visible on Earth while the
Moon itself is in the same photo.
The illuminated western
hemisphere is clearly visible, with the Southern Pacific and South America
visible near the Moon’s shadow. A portion of North America and the Florida peninsula
is visible among clouds in the northern hemisphere.
Although often taken for granted, Google Earth is an incredible feat accomplished by mankind that people 300 years ago would have considered completely mental.
Bruh that shit was completely mental to me when it came out when I was a kid and I still think it’s crazy. When they introduced street view I lost my shit. There was really a group organized enough to go around photographing every street? In vast areas of the world? Insane
Remember the whole family crowding round the computer just tolook at your own house from the outside???
i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.
go outside. go for a run. move out of the city (rent is cheaper i promise). what is stopping you from curating this life with intention
Why do some people hate the way their body looks? For real, if you’re one of those people, message me. I feel like everyone says it’s because of unrealistic beauty standards, and maybe that’s part of it, but that’s far from the entire picture. I was raised in American culture as well, and I don’t remember ever feeling compelled to compare myself to others in a way that makes me feel bad about myself. Obviously I look at people who are more muscular and want that for myself, but it doesn’t make me hate myself. I don’t understand and I can’t think because I have a migraine
my favorite Millennial Thing™ is when a group of us are standing around and talking and someone asks a question that no one knows the answer to and suddenly it’s a race to get out your phone and google it and be the first to know, and then someone starts reading the Wikipedia article about the thing aloud to everyone else, and what started as a casual conversation is now A Learning Opportunity and we all walk away a little more knowledgeable about a random topic
Like, Boomers hate when we do that, but I think it’s one of the best things about us.
So long as we have internet or a cell signal, all of the world’s collective knowledge is at our fingertips, and damned if we aren’t going to use it.
My dad always get mad when I do this. He’s always like “We didn’t need to know.” That makes no sense to me. Why would that make me ignore my ability to learn something? I don’t always *need* to know but that doesn’t mean I’m going to pass up an opportunity to learn something new.
Why carry a supercomputer around in your pocket if you’re not gonna use it?
I actually think the ability to do this has made us all a little more humble in our opinions. You can’t just confidently make an argument based on incorrect facts. Wikipedia is always there to undermine you and I love that.
Are you kidding me!? Have you not read this website, or the internet in general? It’s absolutely full of millennials and zoomers confidently making arguments based on incorrect facts, and then blocking people who point out that they’re wrong.
yeah and those arguments are less valid today than they would be 20 years ago and more people know it
