The Mad Scientist

Male/gay/32/white / I like Animation & Cartoons, Math, Programming, and a lot more I guess

[fnfstudio]

I’m making a cartoon pilot about a sad little minion. No ETA because I’m slow, but  it’s been fun so far!

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

Hey y'all! I know I haven't been on in awhile, but I desperately need help getting out of a -$50 overdraft on my bank account. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you so much!

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[fnfstudio]

Hey everyone! The prelaunch for Gadzooks! & The Cryptoid Kids is starting! Please check out the official trailer on our YouTube!

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

Rating my study subjects:

Physics: 5/10; too vague, covers too many topics. A few months ago I was doing thermodynamics and now I'm doing electrical systems

Calculus II: 7/10; It's a good thing I like integrating

DC Circuits: 8/10; Zigzags...

Digital Logic Design: 6/10; keeps calling multiplication "ANDing" and addition "ORing"

C Programming: 7/10; engaging but nothing works if you don't tell the computer what type each variable is, potential for catastrophic memory failures when doing it wrong increases excitement Differentials: 7/10; like calculus if it had a hyperfocus

[inthesensethat-deactivated20240]

[weepingchoir]

Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

[weepingchoir]

Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head. You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.

[darkshovels]

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

why is he trending twice

[brucebocchi]

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

I want to share the secret surprise thing Ive’ been working on but I’m still waiting for like, the last-ish round of edit notes before it goes live

[afloweroutofstone]

Midwestern Democrats are on fire recently. Over the last few weeks, the Minnesota legislature has passed measures which would turn the state into one of the closest things the US has to a social democracy. They have passed bills:

creating universal paid leave

codifying abortion rights

legalizing weed

making public college free for families earning under $80k

universalizing free school lunches and increasing public education funding

creating plans for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040

investing more in public housing and homelessness prevention programs

creating a new child tax credit to cut child poverty

creating a refuge for those seeking trans healthcare

instituting automatic voter registration

expanding voting rights to former felons

banning anti-gay "conversion therapy"

creating a new tax to fund public transit

banning worker non-compete agreements

strengthening anti-trust rules in healthcare

creating new labor protections for gig economy drivers, teachers, construction workers, warehouse workers, and more

investing in efforts to prevent chemical pollution

creating billions in bonds for public infrastructure and lands

strengthening gun purchase background checks

indexing the gas tax to inflation

creating a public board to regulate pharmaceutical costs

increasing support for public defenders, and

expanding access to health insurance and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants

and still more!!!

Extremely, unfathomably based

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

I don’t know why people like my physics and math posts but thanks.

[fiddlefordhadronmcgucket]

I’ve been studying a lot lately and the textbook i’m reading really hates ohmmeters. It gave me like multiple pages on ammeters, voltmeters, potentiometers, and bridge devices but was super passive aggressive to ohmmeters and only gave me one paragraph

i think its because the ohmmeter claims to measure resistance when it really uses ohm’s law by measuring current and then calculating the resistance? the textbook even called it the “so-called ohmmeter” even though that’s technically correct...I mean the ohmmeter is called that because it’s named after “ohm’s law,” it’s not called the “resistmeter” or something

[albertserra]

[hungwy]

this frame left a profound impression on me

[afloweroutofstone]

Was trying to think of how to phrase a TDOV post in the year 2023 without it a) getting bogged down in the serious political moment we're in or b) sounding corny and tone deaf in its optimism, so let me give up on trying and just say that I love all of y'all, and that despite everything I really do believe things will get better

[femmenietzsche]

I wonder if this is the funniest bank run in history. It's probably up there

[firebendinglemur]

looked into this a little, and it seems that there have been other funnier bank runs, most notably the Toyokawa Shinkin Bank incident

On the morning of December 8, 1973, three female high school students talked about their jobs after graduating, in a car on the Iida Line, Japanese National Railways. Two of them (B, C) mocked A, who worked at Toyokawa Shinkin bank, remarking “that is dangerous". This remark was not a statement about the financial security of Toyokawa Shinkin bank, but rather that an armed robbery might target the bank.[1] This was intended as a joke but A took it seriously. That night, A asked a relative of hers, D, "Is Shinkin Bank dangerous?" D assumed that she referred to Toyokawa Shinkin Bank, and asked another relative, E, who lived near by the main branch of Toyokawa Shinkin Bank "Is Toyokawa Shinkin Bank dangerous?"[1]

On December 9, E spoke to F who was the owner of a beauty salon, whether "Toyokawa Shinkin Bank might be in danger (of bankruptcy?)"[1]

On December 10, a cleaning service shop owner H, and his wife I, who happened to be present there heard the rumor when F talked about it to relative G.[2]

On December 11, the rumor was a topic of conversation among housewives in Kozakai.[3] The rumor had taken on an assertive form such as, "Toyokawa Shinkin is in danger" at that moment.[3]

On December 13, J who had borrowed the telephone in H's shop, ordered the person at the end of the line to withdraw 1.2 million yen from Toyokawa Shinkin Bank.[4] J had not heard the rumor, and just requested the withdrawal in order to make payment. However, I who overheard the ordered withdrawal assumed that Toyokawa Shinkin Bank really was going into bankruptcy.[4] She also withdrew 1.8 million yen. H and I then spread the rumor. Amateur radio operator K also spread it widely.[4] Following this, 59 depositors came into Toyokawa Shinkin Bank and withdrew 50 million yen in total.[4]

honorable mention to the Washington Mutual bank run of 2008, thanks to their CEO's memorable 2003 quote "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe's, Home Depot did to their industry. And I think if we've done our job, five years from now you're not going to call us a bank."

[femmenietzsche]

Yeah okay that's much funnier

[afloweroutofstone]

Michigan Democrats have had a truly incredible afternoon: they're about to end the state's anti-union "right to work" law, repeal an abortion ban from 1931, enact universal background checks on gun sales, and pass an LGBTQ anti-discrimination law. All in the last 24 hours