if you refuse to get the vaccine the government should sneak into your room after you go to sleep and take out the little chip in your neck that makes the supermarket doors open when you go near them
You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?
I just found the greatest thing.
This is a canary resuscitator.
When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.
By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.
Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!
Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
REINETTE: In saving me, you trapped yourself. Did you know that would happen? THE DOCTOR: Mm. Pretty much. REINETTE: Yet, still you came. THE DOCTOR: Yeah, I did, didn’t I? (he smiles) Catch me doing that again. REINETTE: There were many doors between my world and yours. Can you not use one of the others? THE DOCTOR: When the mirror broke, the shock will have severed all the links with the ship. There’ll be a few more broken mirrors and torn tapestries around here, I’m afraid. Wherever there was a time window. I’ll— I’ll, er… pay for any damage. (Reinette laughs) THE DOCTOR: Um… oh, that’s a thought, I’m gonna need money. I was always a bit vague about money. Where do you get money? REINETTE: So, here you are. My lonely angel. Stuck on the slow path, with me. THE DOCTOR: Yep. The slow path. (He grins and holds up his glass) Here’s to the slow path.
Dom: I just thought of something else where um, Billy and I turned up a couple of hours early and it wasn’t dark yet, we were waiting for the light to dim. And there was all golf balls in the ground. [Billy, Elijah, and Sean laugh] Dom: In the ground that were there to map out certain people’s movements and all this kind of stuff. Elijah: [laughing] Oh no. Dom: And I came up to Bill and I said “Look, there’s some golf balls over there, Bill, I’m gonna have one!” And I just went over, picked up a golf ball, and walked off and Billy was saying [stern voice] “No, put it back. It’s there for a reason, Dom!” Billy: See, what people don’t understand is Merry and Pippin are completely changed ‘round, it’s a mirror image in real life. [Elijah giggles] Dom and me…I’m like Merry, and he’s Pippin. [all laugh]
-Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition cast commentary
Sean: Here we are in our orc armor. Elijah: And how screwed was I with that beak? Billy: Now, talking about comedy helmets… [Dom laughs] Billy: We thought we were in a bad place. Dom: [laughing] Then here come the bird people. Sean: They gave you a choice of helmets and you grabbed that one and I just remember thinking “Are you insane?!” [laughing] Like, “what are you doing?!” Elijah: For a good twenty minutes to a half an hour, you’re gonna be ‘beak guy’. Dom: It’s actually a good look for Elijah because his best features are his eyes. Billy: Yeah. Dom: Covering up everything else actually makes him look sexy.
-Return of the King Extended Edition cast commentary
Dom: Fascinating character, Gollum. You’re scared by him…well I, personally, am scared by him, and I love him. He’s adorable. He’s just been so tortured by the Ring that you must feel sorry for him. Billy: But you’ve gotta think back, you know, before he became Gollum. Dom: He killed his brother. Billy: Yeah, or was it his cousin? Dom: Either way, it’s family. I’d kill you, though, if we were fishing and I found a ring. Billy: What, even if it was like, a pretend ring, like from a Lucky Bag? Dom: Unless you swapped me for some piece of your own jewelry, I’d wring your neck and then chuck you in the muddy water. Billy: What if I had sherbert? Dom: ….yeah, if you had sherbert we could come to some sort of… Billy: [laughing] Arrangement? Dom: [laughing] Arrangement. Billy: Before you send me seaworthy? [both laugh]
“You know you want it, Granger,” Draco whispers softly.
Hermione feels his hot breath caressing her face as the words escape his lips, and shivers come running down her spine. When she senses his hand brushing up against her thigh, she closes her eyes. She’d like to say something. Anything, as long as this thing he’s doing to her stops. But she can’t. She suddenly feels his lips against her ear. He nibbles her lobe, and her heart skips a beat.
“You know you want me,” he finally adds, before he grabs her lips with his.
Legolas: Final count: forty two. Gimli: Forty two? Oh, that’s not bad for a pointy eared Elvish princeling. I myself am sitting upon forty three. [Legolas shoots the Orc Gimli is sitting on] Legolas: Forty three. Gimli: He was already dead! Legolas: He was twitching. Gimli: He was twitching ‘cause he’s got my axe embedded in his nervous system!
That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (via owlssayhooot, f-64)
Seamus: I know the counter curse! Neville: No! That’s all I need, you to set my bloody kneecaps on fire! Seamus: I don’t appreciate the insinuation, Longbottom! Besides, if anyone cares to notice, my eyebrows have completely grown back!
Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for. - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
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