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Laura | she/her | 29 I have awoken from my slumber to post star trek

[guerrillatech]

[feral-ferengi]

Trektober "25 day 4. Caves

I had no plans for drawing this prompt, until i decided to join the hatred Cardassian dictator with a thorn up his ass nation lmao

[respocked]

who invited him

[rainbogen]

Charlie Kelly's American accent in the German dub is something special. 🤠

[zooophagous]

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[qonphuceingey]

I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.

[talesfromtreatment]

I can assure you that how I place an IV catheter, an endotracheal tube, a splint, how I draw blood, induce anesthesia and calculate meds, and my actual knowledge of drug interactions and species limitations is of paramount importance and if I had chatgpt tell me how to do or about those things I would kill people's pets through my ignorance and incompetence

[thesummoningdark]

Okay this started out as a tag rant but I'm promoting it to the main post because there are two things I want to say here that are very important.

Firstly, even if it were true that by doing a university degree you are simply "buying the accreditation that you can do these things", it is absolutely critical to an institution's reputation that they only "sell" that accreditation to people they can verify can actually do the thing. An accreditation from any institution known not to verify that will rapidly become worthless.

Secondly, and more crucially...

For my undergraduate degree I studied mechanical engineering. These days, if you're designing a structure which needs to be mechanically robust you'll run computer simulations to check how strong it is. These simulations will tell you with a high degree of accuracy how much weight your structure will be able to support.

Do you know what I spent a huge amount of my degree doing? Learning how to do all the calculations that simulation does, by hand, on paper, from first principles. Will I ever need to do that again? Probably not! That's what the simulation's for. But it was essential that I learned how to do it, because as a mechanical engineer it is critical that:

I understand the limitations of the simulation, so that I set it up correctly and give it all the information it needs, and don't ask it to do something it can't calculate reliably

I have an intuitive sense of roughly what the correct answer should look like, so that when something goes wrong and the simulation spits out an answer that doesn't make sense, I can recognise that there's a problem and fix it instead of blindly accepting the number it gives me.

It's my responsibility to make sure I understand what I'm doing. And if I'm going to give anyone else a number a machine came up with for me, I'd better be 100% fucking certain I know that number's right, because if that number being wrong gets someone hurt or killed it's on me.

[astrotastic]

^ this. We don't need another Hyatt Regency walkway disaster.

[hrghhhhhhhhh]

got to a certain episode of ds9

[doesitsparkjoytho]

[sindri42]

Every cat I have known would immediately climb up through the hole and start stealing everybody’s food.

[graycoin]

Crime porthole

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

this was designed by cats

[ilovecatsandbaking]

Just get one of these and put them over the whole, you can have cat and food protection.

[ap-kinda-lit]

The result

[unit-1312]

[kerink]

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[affectionsm-deactivated20260316]

reblogging because this is actually genius and i want more people to see this 🙂‍↕️

[respocked]

people on reddit roasting this outfit as if he didn't look cool as fuck in it

[astrotastic]

swagtastic

[drawingguitarist]

dumb

[seulgily]

If i ever space out just know that this is what’s on my mind

[waste-land-baby]

The further they get the more I trust him

[projectioniist-a-blog]

[scretladyspider]

This is my favorite post on this site

[sad-butt]

[astrotastic]

So do.

[skybson]

5x19 - Ties Of Blood And Water

[jus-s]

Кира и Одо в кардасианском подполье.

Kira and Odo are in the Cardassian underground.

https://vk.com/wall-232340793_115

[ellllapa]

This happened in my dream last night and scared me so bad I woke up in a cold sweat

[dunkstein]

I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist

[dunkstein]

https://youtu.be/Nl8xTqTUGCY

If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life

[theotheristhedoctor]

That was a near-religious experience 

[outburstsoftheordinary]

I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh wow they sure did vaporise that car into red mist

[thirdwizard-who]

@identifying-cars-in-posts?

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

1994-1996 Ford Aspire

[polyphonetic]

(formerly)

[adamtheredbeard]

I’m partial to the “Can a Snowplow Split a Car in Two” one. The answer was “No”, so they naturally ramped it up. Which led to this

A rocket powered, sharpened steel wedge slicing a car (with its engine!) in two, right down the middle

[the-most-adorkable-smile]

@identifying-cars-in-posts what’s this one?

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

1988-1989 Honda Civic

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

(formerly)

[alwaysshoutyinphiladelphia]