Amanda🐼

believe what you want but i can make up a better imaginary friend without paying a church

[cityelf]

unnecessary sex scenes in movies

unnecessary sex scenes in tv shows

unnecessary sex scenes in fanfic

[classycookiexo]

[capricorn-born]

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

[weaselle]

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[vmohlere]

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[pixiedreamclub]

Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, 1997 [x]

[completed-nihilism-blog]

[labiodentist-deactivated2015021]

what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?

[awhdjksadaluigsjkdfasdk-deactiv]

y2k lol everyone was like “the supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!”

[jibini]

This is the oldest I’ve ever felt. Right now.

[the-ilyasaurus-deactivated20160]

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU WEREN’T BORN YET IN 1999.

[faisdm]

Ahh the Millenium bug.

It wasn’t a virus, it was an issue with how some old computers at the time were programmed to deal with dates. Basically some computers with older operating systems didn’t have anything in place to deal with the year reaching 99 and looping around to 00. It was believed that this inability to sync with the correct date would cause issues, and even crash entire systems the moment the date changed.

People flipped out about it, convinced that the date discrepancy between netwoked systems would bring down computers everywhere and shut down the internet and so all systems relying on computers, including plane navigation etc. would go down causing worldwide chaos. It was genuinely believed that people should all switch off computers to avoid this. One or two smart people spoke up and said “um hey, this actually will only effect a few very outdated computers and they’ll just display the wrong date, so it probably won’t be harmful” but were largely ignored because people selling books about the end of the world were talking louder.

In the end, absolutely nothing happened.

[ralfmaximus]

Oh gosh.

I’ve been a programmer working for various government agencies since the early 1990s and I can say with some confidence:

NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE WE WORKED VERY HARD FIXING SHIT THAT MOST DEFINITELY WOULD HAVE BROKEN ON 1-JAN-2000.

One example I personally worked on: vaccination databases.

My contract was with the CDC to coordinate immunization registries — you know, kids’ vaccine histories. What they got, when they got it, and (most importantly) which vaccines they were due to get next and when. These were state-wide registries, containing millions of records each.

Most of these systems were designed in the 1970s and 1980s, and stored the child’s DOB year as only two digits. This means that — had we not fixed it — just about every child in all the databases I worked on would have SUDDENLY AGED OUT OF THE PROGRAM 1-JAN-2000.

In other words: these kids would suddenly be “too old” to receive critical vaccines.

Okay, so that’s not a nuke plant exploding or airplanes dropping from the sky. In fact, nothing obvious would have occurred come Jan 1st.

BUT

Without the software advising doctors when to give vaccinations, an entire generation’s immunity to things like measles, mumps, smallpox (etc) would have been compromised. And nobody would even know there was a problem for months — possibly years — after.

You think the fun & games caused by a few anti-vaxers is bad?

Imagine whole populations going unvaccinated by accident… one case of measles and the death toll might be measured in millions.

This is one example I KNOW to be true, because I was there.

I also know that in the years leading up to 2000 there were ad-hoc discussion groups (particularly alt.risk) of amazed programmers and project managers that uncovered year-2000 traps… and fixed them.

Quietly, without fanfare. 

In many cases because admitting there was a problem would have resulted in a lawsuit by angry customers. But mostly because it was our job to fix those design flaws before anyone was inconvenienced or hurt.

So, yeah… all that Y2K hysteria was for nothing, because programmers worked their asses off to make sure it was for nothing.

[spytap]

Bolding mine.

[jaybushman]

Absolutely true.  My Mom worked like crazy all throughout 1998 and 1999 on dozens of systems to avoid Y2K crashes. Nothing major happened because people worked to made sure it didn’t.

Now if we could just harness that concept for some of the other major issues facing us today.  

[shananaomi]

this meme came so far since i saw it this morning. god i love tumblr teaching tumblr about history.

[forloveofreason]

As a young Sys Admin during Y2K, I can confirm that it was SRS BZNS.  I worked for a major pharmaceutical company at the time.  They spent millions of dollars on consultant and programmer hours, not to mention their own employees’ time, to fix all their in-house software as well as replace it with new systems.  Sys Admins like myself were continually deploying patches, updating firmware, and deploying new systems in the months leading up to Y2K.  Once that was done, though, the programmers went home and cashed their checks.

When the FATEFUL HOUR came along, it wasn’t just one hour.  For a global company with offices in dozens of countries, it was 24 hours of being alert and on-call.  I imagine that other large organizations had similar setups with entire IT departments working in shifts to monitor everything.  Everyone was on a hair trigger, too, so the slightest problem caused ALL HANDS ON DECK pages to go out.

Yes, we had pagers.

For hard numbers IDC’s 2006 calculation put the total US cost of remediation, before and after, at $147 billion - that’s in 1999 dollars.  That paid for an army of programmers, including calling up retired grandparents from the senior center because COBOL and FORTRAN apps from the ‘60s needed fixing.

Also note that there were some problems, including $13 billion in remediation included in the figure above.  Some of these involved nuclear power plants, medical equipment, and “a customer at a New York State video rental store had a bill for $91,250, the cost of renting the movie ‘The General’s Daughter’ for 100 years.”

Y2K was anything but nothing.

[tamashiihiroka-deactivated20200]

Reblogging because this is a side to the story I had never heard.

[phantomonabudget]

Yes, but also there are people who weren’t born yet in 1999 and they’re old enough to be on the internet.

[australopithecusrex]

Everything about this is just….wow.

[shoshanah-ben-hohim]

My dad, who was a reporter for Business Day at the New York Times, started covering Y2K in the late 1980s. 

That’s how early people started figuring out there was going to be a problem and working on a massive effort to fix all their systems, a huge undertaking that brought them right up through January 1, 2000.

And that’s why nothing happened. Although no one knew for sure nothing would happen until it didn’t - they just had to wait and hope.

[mementt0mori-deactivated2020051]

stop saying yes to the shit you hate

[dejavuindigo-deactivated2023071]

stop saying ‘its fine’ to the shit that aint

[shephardatwork]

Stop saying ‘don’t worry about it’ to the shit that makes you uncomfortable

[eraemx]

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

[i-amneveralone-deactivated20201]

wow.

[robotsandfrippary]

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

[dannysneksbang]

Going to put my two cents in here. I grew up next to the Great Lakes, specifically Lake Michigan, and this post applies to these lakes as well. There have been a handful of times where I warned people (typically families) that they are setting up to swim right next to a rip, and they were under the impression that because Lake Michigan is a “lake” they would be fine.

Folks, please remember that the Great Lakes (especially the larger ones) are literally freshwater inland seas. They act exactly like a sea, even having their own tides and are able to create their own weather easily (look up lake effect snow!)

My point is: Use caution when swimming in ANY body of water large enough to possibly create rifts! Swim safely!

[7th-seraph]

what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

[bardofspades]

J = Next Post K = Previous Post L = Like N = View Notes Space = Show Photo Shift + R = Reblog Shift + E = Add to Queue Z + Tab = Switch Blogs

[itsblueandboxy]

[tyleroakley]

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

[starkstrider]

I just reblogged this with the command, shit

[enjolrasjosette]

Do you know how much this helps people who have trouble with the mouse? (Me, other disabled people) thank you

[femmecrip-deactivated20151212]

Yup, I use these when my hands get particularly weak (like now)

[spiritofcamelot]

Alt + R is the new command to reblog Alt + Q is the new command to queue

[sea-mists]

feels like every few weeks I have to relearn how to exist, that I do need to sit in the sun and move my body and not drink too much coffee and dress in clothes that make me feel good and talk to my friends and journal and get off my phone sometimes and eat vegetables and drink more tea and generally reclaim the space in my life for myself ya know

[naomistares]

sun & moon dynamic yupyup, also prayer circle for them to catch a break in the 3rd book and just dance it out or sth ☹️

[adulthoodisokay]

Me in therapy today: so I started listening to music again.

Therapist: …sorry, what? Have you not been listening to music for the last year?

Me: yeah…pretty much no? Like occasionally some lofi hip hop beats to relax/study to but for the most part…no?

Her: and you work from home? What do you have on in the background?

Me: I listened to NPR during the day for a while but *gestures wildly at the world and news* so I stopped

Her: you just sit in silence all day?

Me: look I’m starting to think not many people sit in silence all day which is maybe something we should address but the important thing is that I’m listening to music again

Her: right yes that’s very good and healthy let’s talk about that!

Me: *infodumps about my emotional connections to Frank Turner and Cat Stevens*

[adulthoodisokay]

Anyways have a song:

Sometimes it’s hard to remember: I couldn’t do this on my own.

[funnytwittertweets]

[omghotmemes]

floppy disks are like jesus

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[bjornwilde]

Better with sound

[titkoks]

my jaw hit the floor

[cipheramnesia]

excuse the fuck out of whoever this is

[karrakazz]

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

[karrakazz]

positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream

[ares-skittles]

Been a moment since I saw this. Glad it’s back on my dash when I needed it.

[animezinglife]

Positivity has the depth of a bumper sticker slogan. Warmth is given and felt from the inside out.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Source

[findsomethingtofightfor]

[insufficiently-advanced]

ok this is a poignant visual metaphor tho

[your-instructions-from-moscow]

if you’re reading this, it’s too late

I already sent good vibes your way… they’re coming. there’s nothing you can do to stop them