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like yes okay im in love with my boyfriend and yeah I guess that makes me a little gullible to what he says because I trust him . So yes I believed him when he said the odyssey was translated from ancient greek into urp slurp english. I believed in urp slurp english. For a beautiful moment, urp slurp was real and my boyfriend wasn’t so much of a bastard. Sue me or whatever

#‘just plain old regular urp slurp?’#what? urp slurp? spell it?#‘ur rur puh suh luh rur puh’#yeah that didnt help #the odyssey

epilepticsaints

chloebangbang

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

smsomah

Peru, 1972. René Groebli

I just wanna say big thank yous all for being funny and normal while my boyfriend is playing tumblr on my account. The spirk fanart was a nice touch. Went down well. He finally worked out the like button.

xekstrin

Something to keep in mind…. building muscle is so hard people compete to see who can do it best. If you’re a woman worried about “getting bulky”, i promise you that you cannot achieve that physique by accident. Now go lift weights to increase your bone density & protect yourself from osteoporosis and improve your insulin resistence and eat a fiber + protein dense meal with some carbs to refuel and fat for satiety + energy 🫵

xekstrin

trans women this goes double for you especially the part about eating 🫵 you are not immune to your bones becoming tapioca in your old age pick up the weights and the fork sister we’re all gonna build our new bodies if i have anything to say about it

#also women stop being afraid to get bulky #you dont have to be tiny and frail to be feminine #prev also peanuts are very fatty yes #but id still say they are a source of protein #especially if you get the 100% peanut ones with no added anything #its still a great fat source though.#both

catasters

eowyn7023

Ungoliant.

keatxu

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

omikronsoul

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

justletmeremember

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

jollysunflora

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

parkchanwoohoo

thememedaddy

pangur-and-grim

hey now

#I knew this was about those stupid fucking sharpened bananas before I even read the url

molabuddy

crabussy

thinking about diatoms again

crabussy

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

crabussy

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

crabussy

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

halles-comet

things I love about my country, because it's the 4th of july and why shouldn't i get to love this country where i have lived for all my thirty years. he's the one who sucks

ice water

the common use of dryers for your clothes

carbon beach in malibu california

fall foliage in boston massachusetts

central AC

that thing where if you pump your arm at a passing 18 wheeler they'll honk their big loud horn just for fun

your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia

that it's appropriate to wear blue jeans almost anywhere

rock music, and all its parent genres

these really beautiful string art earrings i bought on the agua caliente rez

mexican, italian, and chinese food all on the same street

no official national language or religion

how we smile too big and shake people's hands too hard and immediately give ourselves away in foreign countries by our gregariousness

broadway musicals

the james baldwin quote "i love america more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, i insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." actually james baldwin in general. he was so fucking rad even when he got too drunk at parties and screamed at other guests about their systematic white privilege in a way that brought the vibe down. because that's also deeply american

mangled-by-disuse

most of these are wild but

your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia

is fucking sending me. this is the biggest attempt I've ever seen to spin a lack of standardised education as Good, Actually.

(also, op, most of the countries I can think of that base university entry on one set of exams base it in exams you take at 17 or 18. Highers, A-Levels, Abitur, AISSCE, baccalauréat, Japanese university entrance exams... I have no idea where you got 16 from, is my point)

cythraul

I do believe OP is deleting comments.

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Also you can become a "mature" student and go to uni through direct entry from 21 years old onwards over here, and I don't think that's unusual. You could fuck your exams as a teen so badly they burn the papers, and you can very much still go to uni

Like I get where OP was coming from with this post but it's amazing how quickly they used it to try shit on other countries to make America look better and they weren't even right about it.

I find the part about "no official national language or religion" pretty funny, given how US presidents swore their position by the bible, and actually it was a big deal that a couple of them have been *gasp* practicing catholics *the horror* instead of some flavor of protestant. I don't think there are a lot of countries that are not actual theocracies where religion and politics are son intertwined together as the US.

(oh, also, I don't know about other countries, but in Spain, the university access exam / scores only really affect your chances to enter public universities... you can always pay your way into a private university and have a US-like experience if you messed up your scores and don't want to retake the exam next year)

icefeline

Someone brought up freeways in the comments. I think they're joking because those are a failure of infrastructure that destroy primarily poor and racialized neighborhoods for the convenience of rich assholes.

When I think of things I like about living here, it's usually to distract myself from all the obvious bad like heat trapping stretches of pavement, collisions, and pollution that a guy like Robert Moses threw down over a Latin housing block. The fact that we pay exorbitant fees to travel daily in a dangerous manner is not a win for anyone but the police state and the auto lobby

deerfishing

buddy…..yous don’t give yourself away in other countries because you’re smiley and nice. It’s because you all yell at full volume to each other in all public locations, in your extremely distinctive American accents. We can hear you before we see you.

#idk why americans seem to hate their country every day but the 4th whats up with that