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xkcd #3288: Archery Feat

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protagonist confidently aims completely off-mark (not even in the right direction) and shoots; arrow gets halfway and sprouts cartoon eyes as it realizes how hilariously bad the aim was; stops midair, bends like a straw as it changes direction and proceeds to slalom its way through all the targets and 5 extra things just for the hell of it.

After embedding itself in the bullseye target it produces a cartoon gloved hand to wipe the sweat off the arrowhead and goes "fhew".

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The world's passenger railways: 1,166 notable train routes on one map

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Don't take this map as representative, especially India and a lot of Asia have WAY more passenger lines than this.

The only places i'd confidently say are actually representative of a miserably small network of passenger lines are North America and Australia.
In fact i'd say Australia is a bit optimistic since even just the route between Melbourne and Adelaide runs a couple times per week and is pretty terrible for commuting.

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In Point Break (1991), Keanu Reeves’ character buys 2 meatball sandwiches, a tuna sandwich, and 2 lemonades for $7.84. This is a reference to food once being affordable in America

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There's a swedish song about how our welfare system is structured to basically just funnel tax money into private hands via poor people.
Landlord raises the rent, government raises the housing welfare in response, end result is landlord gets more free money from the state.

Blå Tåget - Den ena handen vet vad den andra gör

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Queer flirting as a guy in a nutshell [Rule]

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two autistic people fall madly in love with each other at first sight

they proceed to stare blankly at each other for an eternity (4 seconds) while imagining getting married and living a long and happy life together, then immediately go "oh god that was SO intimate fuck i'm so creepy oh noooo they probably think i'm a pervert now" and flee the scene posthaste.

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After a couple dozen hours, this is a mood.

i really don't get why they wouldn't just have a short version of the cutscene, yeah sure it's an excuse for garbage collection but surely that can be done in just a couple seconds?
Just have a couple different short clips of the moon and randomly play one of them, and zelda says "The blood moon rises again.."

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Rebecca Sharrock, one of the only people in the world with Hyperthymesia She can remember virtually every single day of her life in vivid detail, including being in her crib at just 12 days old.

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i give about equal odds that either there's some evolutionary downside to it (requires more energy, or makes you more vulnerable to brain injury somehow), or it's just completely irrelevant to our survival and so it's neither selected for nor against.

It would be very funny and miserable if the only thing holding humanity back from perfect memory is evolutionary indifference.