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Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.
usamericans living in houses made out of paper set an impossible standard of masculinity for angry men in other countries
kyoulle (french kyle) downing a nicotine redbull and attempting to put a hole through the thousand year old cobblestone wall in his bedroom
RIP. If your walls are the good shit, remember why people use the invulnerable door fallacy. You can normally fuck up a door much more easily than a wall.
Not my experience, my brother's, but that's what siblings are for :p
Conspiracy theorist discovers basic geometry
citing wikipedia is harsh but citing khan academy is going for the fucking jugular
I mean, it's even easier than that. three points define a plane. A plane intersecting a sphere is always going to be a circle.
So it's not just true on the map. It's also true in space.
every day I learn bot comments on ao3 are stooping lower and lower
anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.
THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.
report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)
MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAMS PLAGUING AO3’S COMMENTS SECTION HERE
they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan
WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!!!
if you're wearing the same pan, either you need more pans...
Or you HAVE more pans but that one is your favorite.
Be nice and wash your favorite pan.
How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know
Ever seen the whole "conspiracy corkboard with strings and pins" ? It's admittedly a bit of a trope.
One of the reasons is it interesting is that it allows you to get into the way the character is thinking. What connections they're making, their overall goals. Add to that red string is visually striking, and you have an easy, cinematographic way to handle researching into abtruse subjects.
So here's my shower thought.
What about a fake conspiracy corkboard ?
First of all, why a fake conspiracy corkboard ? Well, obviously, it would exist as a distraction. The point of a conspiracy corkboard is to draw and structure attention into a number of patterns of thought. If you're following the patterns of thought, then you're not looking for the secret door behind the corkboard. Or you could be sent into all sorts of red herrings from the idea associations of the corkboard.
Second question would then be, how ? Admittedly, you could make a conspiracy corkboard with random articles, but it would either imply to the exterior person taking a look at it that you're insane, or that you're trying to distract them. And the issue when someone knows you're trying to distract them, is that they become harder to distract even if you've probably gained some time by then. It makes them look at everything with suspicion. While this might be an occasion to later do mindscrewy things, I believe designing a corkboard around a fake purpose with functional, but artificial, connections stands a better chance.
This leads to the end of my shower thought. There are two very fun things that can happen to the character setting up their fake conspiracy corkboard. One would be that they start getting into it. The second would be that they actually start happening onto a real conspiracy.
Depending on the bent of the character, one of the two is more likely to happen. In particular, the second can make for an interesting plot opener for a semi-villainous protagonist, while the first is admittedly more suited for an antagonist.
before cooking an egg, do you poke a little hole into the shell?
no, why would I?
No. (I know the reason people do it but I don't do it.)
yes, obviously??
Yes (I don't really know why, though)
other/press button!/don't like eggs/vegan/slurp my eggs raw/vanilla extract/tags
Before I… crack them open?
....before you put them in here:
the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:
sorry i meant boil not cook
WHAT IS THAT
It's an egg cooker!
It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.
#is this specifically a German thing#because Germans tend to have Opinions about eggs#also the only people I know who actually know how to use an egg cup are German#teach me your ways - I still don’t understand why you’d use an egg cup. and I can’t imagine boiling eggs not in a pot on the stove
no egg cup:
egg cup:
#why is the wobble an issue you pick them up one at a time shell then and eat them like not whole but just#you hold them and bite them and eat then till there's none left? why does this need extra tools
...at this point i'm sorry to introduce...the egg spoon.
Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly
No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane
nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.
The guillotine device from a couple of reblogs above is der Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher
das Ei (pl. die Eier) = egg
die Schale = shell
sollen = to be supposed to
der Bruch = crack, fracture
die Stelle = site, place, location
die Bruchstelle = site of fracture
die Sollbruchstelle = predetermined breaking point
verursachen = to cause
-er =suffix to turn a verb into a noun (genus m)
der Verursacher = causative agent
der Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher = device to cause a predetermined breaking line around the perimeter at the top of a boiled egg so it can be opened neatly
Also: Eierwärmer, egg warmers to keep the eggs warm during a long Sunday breakfast. They are often handmade and knitted or crocheted in a decorative shape, but they can also be bought. Popular as a gift for Easter.
...I never considered that we might be the only ones doing this
wdym thats only grrman i dont believe this we are not the autistic egg country all yhat is NORMAL and NESSECARY and good brrakfast eggs are DIVINE
Extremely German egg eating
..... I don't know about you but uh I eat my eggs scrambled, sunny side up, or so hard boiled they make noir detectives go woah. None of those need gadgets, just a pan and spatula or pot. And they don't need a hole either.
A smug medieval noble : "Clearly..." *he side-steps to reveal a monk with dreadlocks* "You do not own a hair friar." Alternative version from my friends :
A smug fantasy noble : "Clearly..." *he side-steps to reveal a wizard with a fireball* "You do not own an heir fryer."
This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.
Oh no
Oh no no no NO
Do not trust AI to guide you through wilderness and unknown terrain. This is a terrible idea.
The funny thing about humans is given enough time they will reinvent the fey from first principles.
It's like people don't understand is that asking genAI to do stuff is fundamentally asking an unprofessional bullshitter to do stuff.
If you're lucky, whatever it's pulling out of its ass is accurate. You do not want to bet on it.
BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.
Give your support !
Please sign this if you are a citizen of an eu country
Everyone(!) please also reblog this so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible!
A voté !
Note, the number of missing signatures is down to a third of a million. It's working !
I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.
My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - "Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?"
I shook my head, incredibly confused. "Uh. That's. Not my jurisdiction. I'm good." Boss nodded but was sure to add "Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan."
@vangoggles THAT WHAT I WAS SAYING .
And I was finally on a shift with this guy. We were both sitting in silence because we had the ass-crack-of-dawn slot.
Over my coffee and twirling my Magen David necklace around my finger, I say "So. Ahmed. Ramadan.
And Ahmed over his energy drink, sighs - "don't you say shit about that."
#what's the bet Ahmed was just asking for certain shifts during Ramadan and Boss got excited and was like “just take the whole ramadan off!”#“don't even worry about it! we support you! take the time you need!” I'm scheduled to work with him tomorrow morning so will find out then 🫡 .We're both STEM majors who use the early empty hours to study so I will report if I get more than a grunt out of him about it.
another stupid-early morning, and between our respective course loads- him organic chemistry and me pathophysiology- I asked for the full story in how he got all of Ramadan off.
He sighed, and let me know that he did indeed try to explain to our manager that all he needed was to get shifts not around sunrise or sunset. But that in him explaining what Ramadan was, the plot very quickly got lost into this unhinged confusion where our boss was trying to google how people could survive an entire month without food or water.
So halfway through, he decided to pivot and go along with it, expecting less shifts in March because that's a difficult academic time anyway. Then, he had to keep a straight face when the end-product was the entire time off with paid leave.
So, now, he's in a hell partially of his own making where his boss genuinely believes he doesn't eat for a month and is trying to offer all non-Christian workers March off. I offered him time off for Hanukkah. He hit his head against the desk, and groaned.
You know, Christian workers could get something similar if we tried. Lent is a thing after all. It's nowhere as extreme as Ramadan, but...
Sometimes I see people from countries with public healthcare systems post videos that are like “This is the reality of socialized medicine. I had to wait in the ER with my sick baby for 4 hours.” “I had to wait 8 months to see a specialist. That’s egregious.” or “They didn’t have a bed for my loved one in mental health treatment.” and it’s like. Come to America babygirl. You can experience all of this and have your insurance deny it and pay thousands and thousands of dollars for it. Like I know healthcare systems in countries with public health can be bad but when I see someone imply they’re bad because the healthcare is universal, I want to jump through the screen and put my elbow on their throat. “The NHS is deeply flawed, therefore we should abolish it and go back to private healthcare. That will definitely make healthcare in this country better!” I am going to Kill You.
I mean, you can have private healthcare as long as you have a mandatory universal public insurance scheme, allowing the government to weigh in to keep health care costs down.
After all, it's what we do in France. But I don't think the US is ready to nationalize health insurance or to bring in mutualist insurance - the descendants of French mutual aid societies.
The big issue with the US is that the Federal government isn't allowed to negociate directly with Big Pharma. So they price gouge.
Of course, there would be alternate ways to handle the price gouging. Introduce additional competition ! What would IMO work best in that respect is creating a public sector company whose job is to produce the medications, at cost, while deliberately overpaying on material costs, personel costs, and so on. They don't have a profit motive, so they will be cheaper than price gougers... but they will be structurally inefficient, so that a motivated private company could still undercut them and make a profit.
Shame I don't think that fits with US culture.
I wanna pet a hyena so bad but that would not end well for anyone.
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I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL
Stop says the red light, go says the green
Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.
KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL
THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY
@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.
“[X] should be run more like a business”
No, no it shouldn’t. “Run like a business” is shorthand for “cuts corners, preys on consumers, and rewards those who do the most work with the least compensation.”
Schools should not be run like businesses, they should be run like schools — focused on educating students, not making money for shareholders or forcing employees to become de facto customer service agents
Government should not be run like a business, it should be run like a government — spending every last dime it pulls in for the sake of protecting its citizenry and making society more beneficial for all
Businesses shouldn’t even be run like businesses — they should be focused on providing a useful product or service and compensating those that provide that product or service fairly for the work they put in.
I don’t want jack shit run like a business, I want our society to be run like a fucking society. If you want society run like a business, that just tells me where in the business hierarchy you see yourself — the part that does not belong to a healthy society
im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes
I will note that it wasn't always unhindered. The Papal infallibility doctrine is a consequence of the Vatican conciles; the Pope has known multiple periods of contestation of his authority within the church even setting aside schisms.
In fact, that doctrine of papal infallibility, known as ultramontanism, is in direct opposition to another tendency known as gallicanism because the French, right until they decided the Church sucked (under the IIIrd Republic), really liked having control over the Church.
However, by now the Vatican conciles are over seventy years old, so really it's just how things work nowadays.
