The Universe as I know it

willgrahamscock:

willgrahamscock:

It’s all fun and games when people joke about Hungarians being obsessed with paprika but I’m here to tell you it is no exaggeration. We even use it as decoration inside our houses. When we need it it’s right there hanging.

It’s in (almost) every traditional Hungarian dish.

#the fact that it’s even called ‘paprika house’ #i love hungary sometimes

For those that don’t know the paprika house is located in Tihany and it’s a grocery store. Here’s a closer look inside

yes it’s a grocery store for paprika.

amtrak-official:

berio-visage-asmr:

depsidase:

@amtrak-official

We should try that

mumblingsage:

My medieval and ancient ancestors watching me trying to charge my laptop and connect to WiFi: Ah, yes, she must feed her magic mirror on the telluric current and summon the spirits of knowledge from the aether.

My ancestors watching me proceed to doomscroll on Twitter: Alas! She is beguiled by the cruel babblings of the demons within the mirror; soon she will descend into melancholy from the things she has witnessed.

el-im:

cryptic-ink:

psychoticallytrans:

feelthemonster:

I’m not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are “dumped” in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. “As soon as possible” is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Here are the links given in the screenshot:

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Tetris has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has

PubMed Central (PMC)

Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms — Department of Psychiatry

A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that

psych.ox.ac.uk

Here is the paper that the second link uses as a source:

Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof

After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are

Nature

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

calamitys-child:

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

Examples:

- guy at work “Yes, and -” ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff

- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the “- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*” as loud as possible

- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names

- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change

- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler’s questions like we were on Letterman

The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing

airyairyaucontraire:

wongbal:

the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

• the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don’t seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs
• the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years
• the Tellarites, who don’t like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and
• humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

like imagine you’re the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who’ve barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others’ guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

I agree that it is very funny AND also I think it’s pretty important and something that may be overlooked as a message today: that the Federation is not an idealistic union of people with the same beliefs who all like and approve of each other. It’s a pragmatic union of people who can generally agree on enough to work together, because they can do better and thrive more together than they can separately. Because that is how people can get things done. Even, including, and especially when some of them are really annoying, off-putting or total weirdos.

gauntletqueen:

unrelenting-usurper:

Sign at my local movie theater that feels like a desperate warning

Eggman’s security system during a break-in