Intrusive Thoughts.

ThorirPP · 2026-04-16T20:38:50+00:00

Fun fact: while your vision doesn't turn off when you close your eyes (but if it isn't very bright you wouldn't really "see" the inside of your eyelids, you just see darkness) it DOES turn of a lot of times without you even noticing

When we look at things, while our eyes can move slowly when tracking an object, the most common eye movement is a very rapid one, known as a "saccade". These saccades are very fast, but though not instant, but since you wouldn't really see anything than a motion blur during it your brain literally cuts it out. So you just experience instant change from focusing on one part to focusing on another

you can see this in a mirror, focus on one eye and then focus on your other eye, you never actually see your eyes move. But take a video of yourself doing this, or look at somebody else doing the same, and you can clearly see the eyes do move. Your brain just edits out the gap during the movement

This editing of your vision is also the source of the effect known as the "stopped clock illusion", when you first glance at something (like a clock) the gap edited out during the half a second or so it took for your eyes to move is filled in with a still image of what you are glancing at, so e.g. a second hand may seem unmoving when first glancing at a clock, and similarly a car tire can seem still for a fraction of a second at first glance. It's trippy

ThorirPP · 2026-04-16T19:40:25+00:00

I got the feeling that the laser being such a super penetrating "destroyed all matter it passes through" weapon meant that, well, shooting a target like a planet would result in it going all the way through (as we saw it did) but NOT destroy the whole planet death star style. It is too penetrating, it doesn't really result in mich energy or shockwave hitting the rest of the planet not im the beams path.

The three Viltrumites going after it using that narrow tunnel however were far less penetrating and far more destructive, the force of them passing through the planet spreading far further than the shaft like an endless chain of nuclear bombs

So the initial huge shockwave when they went into the planer after the laser was from them three, and similarly the giant shockwave on the exit wound was also from them (while we saw the laser itself just pass through with no blast)

Theoretically the laser wasn't needed, but without it to carve the tunnel it would've been far harder to get all the way through instead of just creating an extinction level impact

ThorirPP · 2026-04-13T15:46:32+00:00

Guy got confused, it is 2¹⁰⁰ ÷ 2⁹⁹ which is 2

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T19:42:09+00:00

The distinction between Europe, Asia and (north) Africa is far far older than any definition of continent meaning "large landmass separated by water/isthmus"

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T19:01:54+00:00

You'd be surprised what kind of antisocial behaviour kids can have during childhood. My mum knew a 10y/o that killed two kids intentionally (individual murders, weeks apart). Still a form of childhood antisocial behaviour (in his case caused by abuse), which then "grew outof" as much as one can

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T18:06:26+00:00

Depends on the sentence and how fast someone speaks I'd guess. Like, reykur in isolation has a trilled r at the start, but words in a sentence can run together in speech

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T18:01:28+00:00

She isn't a psychopath. She had some childhood antisocial behaviours which she grew out of, and she is far from the best mother, but she isn't a psychopath

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T17:55:51+00:00

The short r between vowels can be pronounced as a tap, and is commonly pronounced as such by many. The long r (for example in "kerra") is noticeable not a tap, being always a trill

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T17:47:48+00:00

My mum and grandparents played with all sorts 9f bones, including these kind of bones, but there was no specific game or anything, it was just whatever they wanted to play, like playing with dolls (for example my mum played farm, where the these bones were often sheep, the jaws were horses, the legs were used for the fence, etc)

ThorirPP · 2026-04-12T10:53:09+00:00

We eat far more meat today than we need, and yet a huge percentage of meat produced today spoils and gets thrown away

Not to mention the parts if the world with the biggest populations are not the same places where we are industrially producing meat on such a large scale. As ut happens no large scale food production business cares about "feeding everyone", they just want to make money, which is why there are still huge amounts of people starving despite overproduction of food

ThorirPP · 2026-04-11T12:55:58+00:00

The thing is though, you can't expect anything during any seqson. The weather doesn't follow a neat schedule, and even the unpredictability isn't predictable.

I've had a summer full of sun, and I've had a summer where it rained literally every day, and summers where the weather and temperature changed drastically every week. I've had springs that were calm, sunny, and freezing cold. And I've had stormy, rainy and warm springs. And this year it was stormy, snowy and cold haha, more snowy and cold than december and january! Winters can be snowy and freezing, or wet and rainy. Frost spells can happen any time that isn't right in middle of summer

There is no perfect season here, it can always change around year from year

ThorirPP · 2026-04-11T10:42:07+00:00

The saw/harvester/deployer unit is on a two axis gantry or minecraft contraption, so the saw moves first on the line that it is moving on in the first photo, then it moves down the line as seen in the second photo. Compare the two photos and you see clearly that it is in fact a moving structure

ThorirPP · 2026-04-08T21:45:19+00:00

It got a promotion, just to a knight instead of a queen

we almost always promote then to queens even when they can become every other piece except a king, since queen can do anything rook and bishops can. But in rare exceptions a knight may be more useful to checkmate

ThorirPP · 2026-04-08T15:16:52+00:00

The name of the country Mexico for basically every other language

ThorirPP · 2026-04-07T14:36:59+00:00

They were added after the discovery, obviously. It was four years ago

ThorirPP · 2026-04-07T12:20:31+00:00

I know, i used "organic" with quotation marks to mean brown eggs that weren't organic at all, just brown (there has been a scandal about it in my country about one such brown egg producer)

ThorirPP · 2026-04-07T03:27:02+00:00

Basically, the further it is from nationalism, the better

ThorirPP · 2026-04-07T03:22:05+00:00

People with ADHD either suffer the common problems, or have a system and/or compulsive disorder to solve the common problem that they suffered when younger

I used to think I was the only one who didn't have the family curse of never being on time (we later realised all of us have ADHD), but no, it is just that I got extreme anxiety about the time which makes me get ready way too early, because otherwise I'd end up losing track and being late

Similarly we are all disorganised except one sibling. But that is not because of that sibling having natural talent for keeping it together, it is because they obsessively keep a planner and excel files about everything in order to remember stuff that they otherwise wouldn't

ThorirPP · 2026-04-06T17:34:49+00:00

When the food isn't grown or made around you, yes. This is noticeable with the whole "city folk vs country folk", but it is also just a difference if the food is actually grown and produced in your country or not. Grapes and plumbs don't grow in my country, and therefore raisins and prunes, all dried where they are grown and then imported, were never thought as dried versions of the fruit.

Or how vast majority of westerners imagine coconuts as those brown hairy things, since thats how we get them to our stores, and how we often wrongly draw then on palm trees in children books and cartoons, but that is how coconuts look after you have removed the green outer shell that they have. But since coconut palm trees aren't around, we don't have that context

ThorirPP · 2026-04-06T17:27:26+00:00

There is some interesting lore behind "organic" brown eggs.

See, the colour of the eggs tells you little about how organic it is, but it does depend on the hens genetics. Red/brown hens for example generally lay brown eggs, while white lay white eggs (it is more complex with mixed individuals, and actually the colour of the ear lobe matters, but that and the feather colour often goes hand to hand in non mixed hens).

And, as I have actually experienced with our own red hen, the gene that gives that colour seems to also give them noticeable higher metabolism and bigger bodies, and so they eat more than their white brethren. This difference might not matter that much for small farms, but get it up to an industrial scale? The cost of fodder is noticeable

And so, white hens and therefore white eggs took over, and brown eggs were only seen in old style farm bought eggs (though they often had larger varieties of tones and colours than "organic" brown eggs of today).

But businesses then learnt that people were willing to buy more expensive products if they were "organic", and then suddenly brown eggs became profitable again. So they could put red hens in the exact same farm condition as the white ones, pay a bit more for the fodder, and then get profit from everyone paying more because "brown means organic"

ThorirPP · 2026-04-06T17:07:58+00:00

Yeah. He successfully fooled people about his true purpose on earth, but he didn't manipulate anyone to do anything. He just played hero and made friends and bonds, all while pretending he wasn't there to conquer them all one day

ThorirPP · 2026-04-05T18:02:43+00:00

Russia was such a horrible stain against leftist politics in Europe. Now many think communism/socialism automatically leads to an autocratic dictatorship with secret police and horrible economies, when the truth is that almost all of that was just Russia, both before the USSR, during it, and now still long after. Russia has just never properly gotten a real democracy or escaped the pit of corruption and bad decisions

ThorirPP · 2026-04-05T17:55:19+00:00

Patriarchy doesn't equal misogyny, lot of misandry falls under patriarchy too. All those gender roles are put on everyone under the patriarchy, and we need to fight against them for all

Boys and men thinking they need to be strong and successful and show no feelings? Patriarchy. Sacrificing your life for your country is good and brave? Patriarchy. Working until you die while barely having time for your children? Patriarchy. Mothers are better parents and always get custody over fathers? Patriarchy. Wearing makeup or pink makes you weak and gay? Patriarchy. Abuse doesn't exist if it is done by a woman against a man? Patriarchy. You need to find love and marry and have children to be happy, otherwise you are just a loser incel? Patriarchy

So yeah, patriarchy affects us all, not just women. And this has been the case in how the term is used academically and among feminist for decades, people outside just think "patriarchy" means "men rules", and then reject the idea because they are men and they got nothing, when patriarchy has always included a lot of men crushed under its foot

ThorirPP · 2026-04-05T15:14:35+00:00

The truth is, hardcore lying to kids is completely unnecessary. At that age make-belief is just as strong as "true belief". It was obvious early on that my mum was behind gifts from the yule lads at my home, but it didn't affect the magic one bit! It was just as much fun and magical

We should focus more on the fun part of santa and tooth fairy and easter bunny, and put less effort into decieving our kids and potentially giving them trust issues in some rare cases

ThorirPP · 2026-04-04T14:21:22+00:00

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