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I reblog stuff I like. Pretty simple. If you see DemoJ around anywhere it's probably me. Latest fixation is DnD (5e and PF if you want specifics, interested in PF2), feel free to message me about it.

[zetrystan]

Technically true.

[zetrystan]

He got the job.

[zetrystan]

He takes his job seriously.

[vykodlak]

I’m meathead

[peashooter85]

Italian parrying dagger, circa 1600

from Czerny's International Auction House

[hella-amberpricefield]

The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sindri42]

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

[thyrell]

at my welding class we have a table for examples of things not to do, and today this showed up

[thyrell]

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

is that a fucked up machete back there

[thyrell]

yeah someone made a machete with the plasma cutter

[nicht-alles-gold]

I’m not usually one to hop (haha) onto the meme train but I found that comic absolutely delightful.

[sector-v]

This sent a very real chill down my spine

[gunsandfireandshit]

[bane-of-technology]

[viniter]

Yahoo! Answers is dead. Rest in peace my friend.

[viniter]

good news/bad news:

Archive Team didn't manage to save everything, we can't even be sure how much 'everything' was because there wasn't any central list of questions or such

but we saved nearly 300 million pages, which is around 4.75 TB of data (compressed)... that's a LOT of question which will be available through the Wayback Machine

also if you actually used Y!A you can still request a download of your data until June 30th

[queer-trashmouth]

with the casting call for Percy Jackson out and everyone’s manifesting their dream casts I need y’all to hear me out

Jack Black for Dionysus

[multiversal-andra]

I read the purple text first, and for just a moment, I thought you were saying that you were voting for Jack Black to replace Dionysus, and I was like, “Yeah, makes sense.”

[cripplepunk-sylveon]

Jack is absolutely one of Mr. D's kids, he would fit perfectly.

[turbro]

I’m just trying to clean up my hard drive what is this bullshit

[jasper-rolls]

loadbearing silver the hedgehog jpeg

[parkchanwoohoo]

“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

[shencomix]

Help me be a better souls boss on Patreon

[bunjywunjy]

what's your favourite bat?

the hammer-headed bat!

[bunjywunjy]

people sure do seem to have some Opinions about this animal

[ovengoats]

you dont know how fast i started lookijg for this post after getting this ad

[bunjywunjy]

alright which of you Maniacs saw this post and bought an ad space for this man to live in

[toastbutteregg]

[otherwindow]

tall viera

[catchymemes]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[jaspurr]

the best thing about this is that when there’s plenty of resources, domesticated cats will naturally form colonies. in these colonies female cats raise their kittens communally with their kin. so you get situations where moms will raise kittens with their daughters from a previous litter, cats from the same litter will raise kittens together, etc. so not only does this little old kitty see her human as family, she is also excited to help her with her kitten.

[bogleech]

Sometimes a grandma is a little creature that lives on the floor

[totallycorrectffxivquotes]

Urianger: Octopi have the ability to blend in with their surroundings. when they do, it’s called-

Yda: An octo-lie.

Urianger: Metachrosis.

Thancred: ...Mocktopus.