Some googling shows this painting to be Una Pareja (A Couple) by the Spanish painter Benito Belli in 1884. This doesn’t matter all that much but I had intended to use that information to get the average weight of a woman from that time and location. Wasn’t particularly successful but still wanted to add that in here.
I started from a trebuchet simulator with values that got a 90kg projectile roughly 300 meters. Assuming a weight of 60kg (and pretending a shape of .5 meter diameter sphere), she’ll travel over 400 meters.
Lots of assumptions here but the short version is that while the fling may be quick, it’s still pretty serious.
I think doing math would imply a more solid understanding of what’s going on and a reasonable process. All I’m doing is feeding things into a search engine and flipping switches on somebody else’s simulation.
The human body is a not-scary amalgamation of a trinity of horrors: the bones, the meat, and the skin. Take away any one or two, and you’re left with nightmares.
I agree. But I also wouldn't mind forgetting one or two things. However, I've also watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, so I know it ends with me having perpetual dementia-like fever dreams.
Sidenote: It’s weird to me that more people don’t talk about the inevitability of that one with the soldiers with cybernetic HUD implants that, shocking twist later, can make civilians look like monsters to be purged.
On the other hand, why bother when the Boston Dynamics murderbots are probably cheaper?
Stories I’ve heard in the last year from my friends and co-workers:
Bragging about how they got 5 hours of sleep last night because their newborn finally slept until 6am
A “funny” story about how their 5 year old managed to get a hold of some chewing gum and got it stuck in their hair and all over a rug
A potty training “success” story about how their toddler remembered to pull down their pants, but remembered mid shit they should have sat on the toilet, so they shat all over the bathroom.
They found a juice box their kid bit a hole into and then tucked under their car seat… By smelling it rotting
Trojan just needs to get a group of parents together to tell stories about their kids and paste them word for word on the back of their boxes.
As someone about to be a parent for the first time in the next couple weeks, I’m starting to understand why parents are so enamored with those little stories.
I’m so excited about being able to raise a little girl and really want to be able to teach her everything. My wife and I will be able to experience the world in a completely new way because our child will have that excitement about everything that adults lose over time.
To each their own, I completely understand why someone wouldn’t want kids, but I definitely think those stories are really the greatest things in the world to the parents. Because generally, a parent’s kid is the best kid in the world to them.
But he doesn’t have a kid yet, just an expectation.
I’m all for optimism, but always be aware that children might not meet your expectations. There’s a family with 3 severely autistic kids, all of them need constant supervision and can’t do anything themselves.
Be excited about kids, but also mindful that it is going to take a lot from your life.
I’m totally aware it’s not all going to be perfect all the time, if ever, because that’s not how life works.
But I definitely already feel unconditional love for the little thing. And I feel like it’s giving my wife and I a different kind of purpose in life.
My mom told me once that the unconditional love is hard, especially when life gets difficult. But the proudness she feels and the fulfillment having kids brought to her life is indescribable.
It’s not for everyone, but for those who enjoy it find more fulfillment than any singular other life pursuit could bring.
I love hearing all your positive attitude, and wish you all the best. I truly wish you have the best kid in the world, and I hope you both make each other the best version of yourselves. Have a good day.
I have coworker that is very good at her job, but lunch break is a pain. All she talks about is her kids. And when she does, she dominates lunch until lunch is over. If we talk about something else, she is quiet until there’s a split second pause in the conversation. Then she’s right in there with tidbits of what her kids said, did or something like that. Her kids are 10 and 12. They’re not cute anymore. She identifies her entire personality with her kids.
Luckily we can dictate ourselves if we want to come in to the office or work from home
They had it so easy but didn’t realize that that’s not the norm at all. They still expect the same to happen now. As if one can work through college and pay off all debts, or if just going to college meant landing a job, or even if you landed a job it would do little more than just make you live paycheck to paycheck.
They had it so easy they’ve all been conditioned to believe that life is simple and easy. Not that it had nothing to do with their “effort” or “skills”, was easy as a direct result of complex external geopolitical and economic conditions (by chance), or that previous generations fought hard and paid for those conditions.
People are also shit at math, and inflation is unintuitive. My boomer parents are extremely sympathetic to the situation of younger generations, but still thought their mortgage in the 80’s was comparable to current. After I punched it into an inflation calculator it was about 30% less than I would pay on a 2 bedroom UNIT; they paid that on a 2 bedroom HOUSE, and only for a couple years at peak interest rates.
TL;DR: people are simple creatures and civilizations are complex machines 99.99% of us couldn’t possibly understand; even the most intelligent and best intentioned. Every one of the best minds in all of history were deeply flawed in some way (in hindsight).
Even if it were literally 99.99% of people that didn’t “get it”, that’s still almost a million people across the world who do understand it. How many politicians and “leaders” are there in the world?
There are barely over 500k elected officials across the entire united states, for ALL elected positions. Only a few hundred of them really “need” to understand the big picture…
It should not only be possible, but fully expected that people seeking the f*cking POTUS position be the kind of person who DOES get it.
Not even just that. My dad didn’t go to college, he joined the military at 18. He walked away from that and landed an engineering job with no degree. Now, he’s in a position that would ask for a masters minimum making nearly 300k a year.
I joined the military and walked away with bad knees and a list of phone numbers to get a job in the trades. Don’t get me wrong, I took it, but damn I’m sure as hell not making anything near what he was at my age.
Boomers were hardly coddled by the greatest generation. My grandfather was downright abusive by today’s standards. He would pour hot sauce down his kid’s throat when they cursed, probably hit them though they don’t really talk about it. Was it “beat them with a 2x4 and lock them in the shed” level abuse? No, but they didn’t exactly come out well prepared for the world and how they were raised probably was a part of it. I know I wouldn’t consider any of my grandparents’ punishments for my child, they are not the model for how to raise kids.
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