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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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leonardovincent:
“Wakanda Forever
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leonardovincent

Wakanda Forever

omahdon
one-time-i-dreamt

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reveals she regrets buying Tumblr instead of Netflix or Hulu.  Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1 billion, but by the time it was sold in 2019, the value of the platform was reportedly down to $3 million. pic.twitter.com/YfH5dpL4Kf  — Pop Base (@PopBase) May 7, 2023ALT

And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

red-mercer

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu

sreegs

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

noctumsolis

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

sreegs

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

omahdon
spooner7308:
“baratheas:
“phoenixflorid:
“ housetohalf:
“ did-you-kno:
“ Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face...
did-you-kno

Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source

housetohalf

But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?

phoenixflorid

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT “STAGE NINJA” WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS
baratheas

AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.

spooner7308

Ninjas wear stage blacks…that’s wild

omahdon
commandtower-solring-go:
“ayellowbirds:
“inthefallofasparrow:
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Always remember, living being: you are not now made of the same cells that made up your body at your birth. Your existence is not one thing, what is “you” is the continuity from the...
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Always remember, living being: you are not now made of the same cells that made up your body at your birth. Your existence is not one thing, what is “you” is the continuity from the first cell to the last. “You” are a verb.

commandtower-solring-go

Also, in defence of The Ship of Theseus, the thought experiment is over 2000 years old, and exists in modern contexts to break people out of the idea that an object is its constituent parts