Boredomistmoi

Some dumb stuff

[pierrotsoup]

GUYS EARLY MEDIEVAL SWAG IS REAL AND NOT FAKE😭💔 I LOVE YOU 300s-1000s . like I love the 1400s as much as the next guy sure. But the 600s 😛🌟🌟

[boredomistmoi]

Imo Elon’s problem is that he desperately wants to be a cool conservative but doesn’t get that cool conservatism in 2022 isn’t being a 2006 epic bacon Reddit chungus billionaire, it’s being a cokehead Brooklyn podcaster who is also a sedevacantist or a substack sophist who wants technofeudalism

[boredomistmoi]

Darkly amusing thing about this post from a distance of three years is that Elon became so much worse once he dropped the Reddit bacon chungus stuff

[boredomistmoi]

Imo Elon’s problem is that he desperately wants to be a cool conservative but doesn’t get that cool conservatism in 2022 isn’t being a 2006 epic bacon Reddit chungus billionaire, it’s being a cokehead Brooklyn podcaster who is also a sedevacantist or a substack sophist who wants technofeudalism

[girldickman]

This is probably the biggest news in paleontology to come out in a while.

Previously, the only remains we had of this group of humans were some teeth, a partial jawbone, and a fragment of a finger bone. But through examining its mitochondrial DNA, we were able to identify them as a group of humans distinct from Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis. Unfortunately, the remains we had were not enough to give it a formal taxonomy.

Cut to 2018, and a worker in China hands in a fossil skull to some scientists, claiming that his grandfather had found it in the 1930's and didn't tell anyone until his death. In 2021, it was identified as a distinct human species and named Homo Longi, or Dragon Man.

This year, another study was done on the Homo Longi skull, looking for DNA. The study was able to find some mitochondrial DNA, revealing that the Homo Longi skull was actually that of a Denisovan.

Now that we have a more complete specimen, I think it will be easier for us to identify remains in the future. I'm also expecting a small debate over whether the species should remain Homo Longi or be called something else, but I think it will end up remaining Homo Longi.

See below for an article on this

First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ reveals what ancient people looked like

Ancient proteins and calcified dental plaque identify heavy-browed fossil from China as a Denisovan.

[tampire]

#Me logging on Tumblr

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“Marge everything is corrupted by capital. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically the way we close a car door is fascist.”

[prokopetz]

It's always a trip seeing post-Homestuck webcomics try to emulate Homestuck's narrative structure without understanding that Homestuck's narrative structure only worked because of its extremely rapid update schedule. Like, yeah, you've got the whole elaborate acts-within-acts thing going on, but your comic has been running for nine years and you just hit the halfway mark on Act 1; I think maybe some reassessment is in order!

[prokopetz]

Like, you're doing this for fun and don't owe anybody your productivity, I totally get that, but you understand that if we compare your planned outline with your demonstrable rate of production, statistically you will die of old age before reaching the first intermission, right?

[prokopetz]

To be clear, this is not ragging on anybody for their update schedule. This is pointing out that if Homestuck had averaged three updates a week over its run – itself an extraordinarily aggressive schedule for an indie webcomic! – it would have taken fifty years to publish. Andrew Hussie is a freak; don't put that expectation on yourself.

[prokopetz]

(Well, Andrew Hussie is a freak and also made extensive use of unpaid fan labour, occasionally in ways which arguably violated child labour laws, but that's a whole other topic.)

[deacblues]

on andrew hussie's insane production output and unpaid fan labour, walkaround programmer (and accomplished developer) gankra recalled:

I can't emphasize this scramble enough. Andrew was a ceaseless content machine, and I don't think I was ever "blocked" on him producing content. Which is ridiculous considering how much content is packed into our games. (like, hundreds of pages of dialogue)... I honestly pushed myself too hard here. I don't think Andrew really understood how hard this stuff was on me; I think he's a good enough guy that he would've given me more space if he realized what I was doing to myself. But he's just so productive and I burnt myself out really hard trying to keep up with someone who, ultimately, was my hero that I didn't want to disappoint. I have two intense nega-tive memories from working on homestuck: * Begging Andrew (I think I was in tears irl) to just wait another day for me to finish one of our pro-jects, because he wanted to start posting more pages of the story (he was that far ahead of me). * Being so stressed out from working on one of our projects that I went to a party and drunk myself sick (I normally don't drink alcohol at all, for context)

tauhid bondia, a cartoonist friend from their gangbunch days, said:

We [Gangbunch] would often marvel at his [Andrew's] ability to start and then inexplicably finish things... Because he is a machine made of metal and lubricant.

it even got to hussie sometimes. from homestuck book 3's commentary:

This potato is RED FUCKING HOT! Gotta keep moving, keep writing, keep posting, posting, POSTING! This is how you do it guys, you never let not knowing how something looks or how a thing quite works yet stop you from making stuff at a dangerously unhealthy clip. You JUST. DON'T. STOP!

pretty intense stuff

[prokopetz]

Yeah, I'm seeing folks in the notes going "oh, Homestuck could do that because it was basically just a sprite comic" like, no, Homestuck could do that because Andrew Hussie is some sort of high-powered mutant, and for the later, more complicated bits he also had a whole team of unpaid assistants in more or less permanent crunch mode backing him up. A webcomic running separate morning and evening updates every day of the week for months at a stretch is not achievable under reasonable working conditions, and if you try it yourself you will die.

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[prokopetz]

I'm not sure what's more concerning here: the idea that the Tumblr vernacular, a principally written idiom, is discernible in spoken communication, or the fact that if you click through to the original post, its contents appear to have been replaced at some point in the last two months with Minecraft YouTuber fanfic.

[dayvan]

i love how whenever something gets popular the underground tormented avant garde bloggers start becoming self conscious of liking it/finding it funny, and it eventually evolves into aggression towards it. doesnt matter what it is. unrelated but i saw someone call isopods cringe today

[bogosbinted]

This is the most important post on this site

[goodzillo-deactivated20220127]

how fucking arrogant can you be to think any eugenics program could ever weed out “fascist genetics”. even if the “dark triad” was a reliable precursor to fascist ideology and even if “dark triad traits” could be reliably linked to genotype (they aren’t and they can’t be), how fucking far to jupiter are you if you think you can remove it from a population of seven billion, let alone in some “anarchist” manner? how do you programmatically sterilize anyone in an “anarchist” manner?

[ms-demeanor]

Do you ever see some discourse float by and think “Maybe I’m not hanging out on the worst parts of Tumblr, actually”

[professional-funposting]

jesus fucking christ

[totallynotagentphilcoulson]

[boredomistmoi]

“Dominant plagas” sounds like something from a particularly horny RE4 fanfic, the fact that they’re actually called that is nuts

[clonerightsagenda]

Homestuck Daily where you get the entire first five acts plus some intermissions in your inbox all in one day before not hearing anything for months

[joculine]

homestuck daily where you get a rockmail 64 million years ago and then no updates until the cenozoic

[prokopetz]

It's generally true that institutions don't make rules prohibiting things that nobody is doing (i.e., the existence of the prohibition demonstrates the existence of whatever it's prohibiting), but then I think about the moral panic back in the 1980s where people genuinely thought that shitty movies about white dudes dressing up in ninja costumes were teaching children to be ninja assassins, and passed a bunch of laws banning "ninja weapons" for which their only source of knowledge were those selfsame movies, with the result that, to this day, many jurisdictions have laws on the books prohibiting weapons which do not exist, and I reflect that every principle has exceptions.

[highlybread]

Murderer: "Tell me Lieutenant, are you say, a practicing homosexual?"

Columbo: "Gee wiz, yeah im practicing alright, never really got very good at it tho."

Murderer: "..."

Columbo: "My wife tho! She's terrific at the stuff, you wouldn't believe the things she's able to do, it'll knock your socks off. Unbelievable."

[transfemininomenon]

no offense but if someone referred to my natural voice as "boyvoice" i would never want to talk to them again

[transfemininomenon]

now dance fucker dance

[sharpshadowed-deactivated202406]

First Doctor, getting a replacement teenage girl every five minutes after losing his granddaughter: This is perfectly normal behaviour, I'm fine.