why do jellyfish only sting when theres physical contact
why doesnt the electricity just surge throughout the entire ocean
why dont jellyfish rule the world
Fun fact! Jellyfish don’t use electricity to sting you. Whenever they feel pressure against their tentacles, it causes its cells to rapidly send out these stingers into your skin that then release its venom. Like this:
They are called nematocysts. They are what make box jellies and other fun lil critters so dangerous, because without these wee little daggers, the venom would have no way to get into your skin.
And yet something as thin as nylon stockings or pantyhose is enough to protect you, they are so small.
So if you’re scared of jellyfish? Wear sexy sheer undergarments into the sea like the regal creature you are.
I’m going to reblog this again because that is some of the best advice I have ever gotten on this blog.
Your opinion of someone should always be based on what you think they’re like if they smoke half a gram. But the way you treat someone should always be based on what they’d be like if they were the president of the United States.
Here’s why:
Someone is only going to show their truest intentions when they are unable to censor themselves. Weed removes the filter that is your conscience from your mind. When you smoke and you’re an asshole, you’re proving to everyone around you that your innermost desires are to belittle and disrespect everyone around you.
And obviously you should treat everyone like their time and opinions matter to you. Like they have great influence over the world. Even if you have an opportunity to treat someone like shit with little to no consequence, pretend like they could do the same to you. If they recognize that you’re treating them that way, they will feel more confident about themselves. Dont give them too much power, because many people will abuse it. Remind them that they have a responsibility to be a moral guidance for others.
That’s how Obama was such a great president. Idk if yall know this but he was apparently a huge smoker in college. But it was the fact that so many voters could see that he was visibly moral even when his filter was taken away. And he would always demand the respect from others, forcing them to bear responsibility onto him. He was a sturdy, yet fluid leader.
Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol
Yep
That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.
You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.
They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs.
AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild.
hosts millions and millions of fanfiction at no cost to site users
hosts millions and millions user accounts at no cost to site users
is an extremely high traffic site that rarely, if ever, experiences crashes
is an extremely high traffic site that could profit immensely off ads, but keeps the entire site free of ads
maintains a consistent and elaborate tagging system that allows users easy navigation through fanworks
maintains a simple layout structure so the entire site is easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to understand making it highly accessible to users – especially disabled users
maintains and updates the budget for users to know exactly where their donations are going to be used in the future and have been used in the past
works with the legal aspects of fanworks in order to keep their site and their users completely legal, and therefore not at risk of being shut down, or sued, or manipulated by large media/companies
works with users when it comes to decision making, includes members in voting processes, etc.
literally hosts millions of fanfiction at no cost whatsoever and doesn’t subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much they’re doing
y’all need to appreciate that – donations are completely optional and if you don’t want to donate then don’t, but spreading posts about how Archive doesn’t do anything for anyone and doesn’t do anything with all this money they’re getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.
by asking for 130k dollar 2-3 times a year, that means they ask each account holding user for about 0,08 dollar 2-3 times a year -> 0,25 dollar altogether. this doesn’t even factor in the millions of users who don’t have an account but visit ao3, cos if they pitch in as well, it’ll be even less for everyone who enjoys the access ao3 provides to 4.000.000fanworks and to create more every day!
so yeah you fucking bet i send them at least 50bucks or more a year for all of that. and if out of the 130k they use my 50 bucks to buy themselves some coffee for all the work hours they dedicate to ao3 running as smoothly as it does, keeping it free of harassment and adds without selling my data for it, and fighting for fanworks to remain accessible for everyone now and in future, then be my guest!
AO3 is entirely volunteer-run. Every dollar they collect goes to a) expenses of operation or b) advocacy. I’ve contributed at various levels over the years as my finances have waxed and waned, but I’ve never been less than a $10/year voting member. This year, I’m fortunate enough to be able to be a $10/MONTH contributor.
I am UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED that anyone thinks that running a site hosting millions of fanworks, transferring literally BILLIONS of bytes of data for millions of users could be done for as little as $130K/year. The sense of entitlement is staggering.
No changes? Well, all their code is written by volunteers. Want change to happen faster? Volunteer to join the coding team.
The Chaos Bitches 