Much hilarious. Made of Win. Clever & smart as fuck.
Still the best/my favorite Burnham bit.
Damn it Amazon! Plus, the world is always weirder than you think. - Amazon is making it harder to sell Bigfoot porn ebooks:
"Business Insider has an interesting piece up about the issues monster erotica writers have encountered lately with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. We may chuckle a bit about stories featuring sweaty encounters with velociraptors, but there is a significant market for ebooks featuring extinct and mythological animals. Virginia Wade, one of the authors interviewed in the piece, says that during a good month, her 12,000-word Cum For Bigfoot could net $30,000.
However, after a media storm surrounding the availability of ebooks featuring rape, incest, and bestiality through major retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Waterstones, things started to change. Authors of fantasy erotica found their books taken off the virtual shelf with little or no explanation. Although Amazon has been vague on what literature it deems offensive, even when talking to Business Insider, many of the writers and folks tracking this issue suspect that these ebooks got caught in Amazon's net because they involve sex with non-human entities and are therefore taboo."
Well, this is awesome. So many feels.
Yelling Stop: Low-Carb Athletes: World-Record Ultra-Runner Zach Bitter:
"Hold your hats: World Record, ran 101.66 miles in 12 hours; American record: 100 miles in 11:47:13. The world record he broke was Greek God (that's not ironic, it's literal) Yiannis Kourus's* record. That's a 7:04 pace, for more than 100 miles. Wow. And, just to make it extra cool, he did it wearing minimalist shoes and eating a low-carb paleoish diet."
"The moderate drinkers... demonstrated an enhanced immune response—better even than the teetotaling control group. The researchers can't yet fully explain the results, but one possible explanation is that modest amounts of alcohol stimulate the immune system."
"Now I know exactly what I have to do..."
"The 2% Rule is this: If a particular negative result has a less than 2% chance of occurring, don’t worry about it. Don’t even think about it. Proceed.
...I’ve seen mothers not allow their kids to go on beach field trips because “what if there’s a tsunami???”. I’ve also seen women say, “I have to leave the TV/radio blasting all day! What if there’s a tornado headed straight for my house??? I need to know!!!” Are those above things possible? Yes, they’re possible. There is indeed a 0.06% chance or 1.2% chance of something like that happening. Are they likely? No. Are they even remotely likely? No. The 2% Rule says if any action has a less than 2% chance of resulting in something horrible, then go for it. You’ll be fine...
Stressing out about things that have a less than a 2% chance of happening to you in real life damages your happiness, raises your stress, restricts your actions, limits your freedom, and makes you sound like a spazoid. Relax. Take a deep breath. It will be fine...
Any time you’re considering a course of action, and see a negative possibly, research it and look dispassionately at the real odds of it and consider: 1. The actual mathematical odds of this actually happening in real life. 2. The actual mathematical odds of this actually happening to you personally, not to someone you’ve heard of ten years ago, or read about in a news article, or someone living in the 1700s or in some distant third-world country. I’m not talking about general statements from a friend, family member, doctor, article, or even some asshole on a blog like this. I’m talking about real stats. I’m also not talking about the middle ages or Uganda. As always, I’m taking about the modern age and the western world. Crunch the numbers, then ask yourself if the odds are 2% or less. If they are, then don’t worry about it. Proceed. And relax."
Yes, I opined on the awesomeness of Breaking Bad here, but this... this is what the internet is all about. Via WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR
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