I care far too much for fictional characters.

I don't even know

[only-cat-memes]

[teaboot]

Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

[republicansaretheproblem]

[aromanticduck]

Not all construction work is equally enjoyable. For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.

[marzipanandminutiae]

this joke would get the exact same reaction in 1870 that it gets in 2021 and I love that about it

[fishandshesmygills]

my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

[fishandshesmygills]

brother dubious

[punchesco]

"My liege, I'm afraid I have reason to believe your concubine plots against you. Worry not, your eminence, you can still trust me, of course..."

[wikiipediabf]

we don't give percy enough credit tbh honestly if i was 12 and my mom died and my best friend was a goat and my father was a sea god and i was expected to go around the country looking for my uncle's thunderbolt with a girl that i was pretty sure hated my guts while literally everyone in my life was hiding things from me and never giving me any information so i had to peice everything together and still being called dumb i would go on a homicidal killing spree. i think percy managed to beat up ares because of the unhealthy amount of rage and agitation that was building up inside of him. honestly i don't blame him at ALL pop off king

[blackdisneyprince]

I’m not crying, I got Clone Wars in my eyes.

[ginkgo-bilobas]

I was born in the late nineteen hundreds

[argumate]

only nineteen hundreds kids will remember these

[adhoption]

normal brain: I'm a '90s kid

big brain: I was born in the late nineteen hundreds

giant brain: I arose from the final years of the 20th century

galaxy brain: I was brought into this world amongst the dying breaths of the second millennium AD, and grew amidst the warmth of its ashes

[argumate]

born some decades before the Calamity

[ilikeyoshi]

me: i wish i could turn off certain mobs. i’d love to play more survival mode but the spiders really upset me :(

my dad, the most stoic person in existence, LEAPING out of his chair with great concern: I AM NOW OBSESSED WITH THIS PROBLEM. I WILL PROCEED TO SPEND THE NEXT MONTH SCOURING THE INTERNET FOR NICHE MODS OR CONSOLE COMMANDS IN HOPES I CAN BRING YOU AND THE ENTIRE MINECRAFT PLAYERBASE PEACE.

my dad, a week later, more distraught than i’ve ever seen: brittany it’s awful. i’ve been googling around for solutions to your spider problem and lots of little kids have asked for help on the same issue and people online were Mean to them. i cannot type fast enough to stop all of them. this is a crisis right now

[deepslate-redstone-ore]

if you play java edition i can make a datapack that kills all spiders when they spawn so you don’t get a chance to see them

[ilikeyoshi]

hi!! i do play java edition, and any help would be amazing!! my current method involves a small redstone machine in the spawn area and command blocks, but i’ve not looked into datapacks since getting back into playing. they seem like they’d be more intuitive though, so i’d love some help!! :0

[deepslate-redstone-ore]

it’s done :]

https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/no-spiders-5590849/

[ilikeyoshi]

EEEEEEE thank you so much!!!!!! i can’t wait to try it out!!!! :D

[gothicashworld]

For arachnaphobes this is a game changer, thank you OP

[thequeenwanderer]

This is great news for all the gamers who get the jeebies from spiders but we can not ignore the stoic Super Dad who is on the forums beating back Minecraft bullies with a stick defending the youth.

You are my hero, Brittany’s Stoic Dad

[odos-bucket]

Hey where do people watch star trek online? Streaming services keep cutting it

edit: legally or illegally, I'm not picky

[setyourphaserstoslutty]

Star Trek Repository - Google Drive

[blueskittlesart]

Azula always lies. 

saw this post by @heavenly-dusk and kinda went insane thinking abt it so i drew it, i hope you don’t mind! 

[counterspelling]

[quiddie]

Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see…

[funnytwittertweets]

[drwcn]

cellars. obviously.

[ed-edward-blackbeard]

Can't. The cellar is full of Amontillado.

[ceekari]

Where? I don't see it

[cal-is-a-cuddlefish]

Just down here. Come this way and I'll show you.

[marisatomay]

i used to work in cosmetics. we would get a lot of people, mostly older women, who would come in clearly just looking to talk to someone. they had a lot on their mind, a lot of pain in life—regardless of socioeconomic status or how they presented themselves, and, for an hour, they could come in and talk to the pretty, young girls about anything.

we could talk about make up and skin care and and about how their cancer treatments were going and how hard it’s been since their spouse passed and “do you think my granddaughter would like this blush? she’s visiting soon and i want to get her something. oh let me show you her picture! she’s getting so grown up!” and in return, for an hour, we would get to sit with someone who wasn’t yelling at us because they didn’t have a receipt and wanted to return a product they had used completely. they would ask us about our families and offer condolences for the aches in our lives too. and, for an hour, two strangers would be connected.

“why should i even answer a service worker when they ask how i’m doing? i know they don’t mean it. i don’t mean it when i say , ‘i’m fine.’ it’s better that i just don’t answer and ignore them.” every day one person told me about their aches was better than days where 100 people treated me like a kiosk, unworthy of even the most basic of social niceties. it reminded us both that we aren’t alone in life. the connections made it worth it.

[cloversnotes]

This is my first coding assignment for my software engineering class that started today. It’s going to be a really good semester.

[cloversnotes]

UPDATE: I got my grade back and

“100″

[cloversnotes]

Since this post has gotten some attention, I feel like it’s worth mentioning that this was just the first half of the assignment.

The second half, which we weren’t made aware of until the day we were meant to turn this one in, was to trade USB drives with the person sitting next to us and MODIFY their “unreadable” code without getting any help from them.

This was to teach us two things:

1) In this field, you’ll spend more time working with code written by other people than you will writing original code from a blank slate. The people who wrote the original code will probably not be around to help you. Learning to read code is IMPORTANT, even if it seems unreadable.

2) There is a strong brotherhood/sisterhood among programmers and software engineers. Respect that bond when you’re writing code and documentation. In my professor’s words: “When you write code, pretend that the person who will have to maintain it after you’re gone is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.”

This class and professor are incredible.

[toruandmidori]

[theculturedmarxist]

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[monitor-offist-deactivated20250]

fastest reblog in the west

[dduane]

Yeppers. :)

[the-original-sineater]

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

[them-faetale]

Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.