Four Paw Rule

A guy living in the mountains, (he/him) owned and operated by Sheltie Karybelle. This blog is dedicated to Shelties Maxx, Deja, and Harley, Tervuren Soleil, and Border Collie Runchkin, who are no longer with us.

[only-tiktoks]

[thenightgaunt]

She's 100% right.

So I work I healthcare. I'm in management. I don't touch patients. Not qualified for that.

But I help make sure the hospital stays open and the lights stay on.

I'm also massively prounion, and pro-universal healthcare.

So that said, I hope they rip that fucking prick in the recording a new asshole. I hope the feds come after him for that HIPAA violation and they beat him so badly that the other hospital administrators only dare whisper about his fate after a few drinks.

Follow this lady's advice. And if they are fucking you, get help and get what's owed. No mercy.

[fourpawrule]

I haven't had anything to say on this platform for several decades, but this brought me out of my cave. I have had a pile of medical stuff done to/for me over the last year or so, and some of the bills I got didn't pass the smell test. I called my health insurance company, and eventually got the ear of someone who actually listened, and this person agreed that some of the bills didn't look right. Instead of considering the specific bills, she ordered a complete audit of all my medical bills. After a few weeks I got a 3 figure check from them - There was apparently some duplicate billing going on. TLDR; If the records don't add up (figuratively or literally), call your health insurance and ask for an audit. They have the power to fix things.

[systlin]

GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old-roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists/ar-BBDO5VC

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[systlin]

I KNOW RIGHT?!???

[ella-raene]

I can’t help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying “it was done with this and this”, and some old rich white guys looked at it and went “oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover”

For a long time, archeologists didn’t know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle” in the descriptions. They went, “seems like we’ll never know.” Then a hairdresser took a fucking needle (big needle) and did the fucking thing you do with needles, which is sew - and by sewing the braids into place, she replicated ancient styles.

The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went “oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?” LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went “what if we did the thing the pictures said they did” AND GUESS FUCKING WHAT. GUESS FUCKING WHAT.

Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going “that’s a myth sweaty”

Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual analysis like spectroscopy or whatever, kudos, and no flame. But swear to god, if all these years, we’ve had the recipes and there was just this fuckin institutional bias against just TRYING THE THING THEY SAID WOULD WORK, HELLFIRE AND DEMENTIA.

[systlin]

In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. 

Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That’s so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn’t necessary, everyone knew that. 

But then the empire fell, other empires rose and fell, time passed, and by the time we were trying to reconstruct the formula the ‘mix the dry ingredients with seawater’ trick had been forgotten, until chemical analysis finally figured it out again. 

It’s sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that’s mentioned all the time, but we don’t actually know where it was located. Because it isn’t written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It’s Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It’d be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 

3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written down. 

[feitanswife]

So moral of story is be specific

[chronicmuppetbrain]

I was thinking it was stupid that they didn’t specify seawater but then I had the thought that we don’t specify to use chicken eggs in baking because DUH so we just write eggs

[aethersea]

2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense

[lierdumoa]

Forget eggs what about milk? They’ll look back at us, the ancients, and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they’ll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoo—

[drwhamp]

This is the content that keeps me on this site. 🦄❤️

[fourpawrule]

Along with the Land of Punt, another mystery from the ancients are the "Sea Peoples". They had a navy of sorts and beat the crap out a whole pile of Bronze Age Mediterranean cultures. But historians can't nail down exactly who these guys were, although there are plenty of theories.

[mapsontheweb]

The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

[largedad]

[impossiblepackage]

I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. A disgrace.

People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt.

So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. It’s a fucking crime. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience.

The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. You can’t even see most constellations.

Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars.

The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them.

[myothertardisisonthemun]

Light pollution must be reined in - there’s a phenomenon in protecting any aspect of the environment: after a generation or so, people don’t know what they’re missing. Be that stars, trees, birds and lizards in their gardens, everything.

Exessive town and street lights are the enemy. Trees, and rules around external lighting help, but Buffer zones, good old fashioned green belts are so important.

[a-river-of-stars]

I think a lot of people who seem uninspired by the night sky have never actually seen it.  I recommend everyone take at least one trip to an International Dark Sky Place to see what the night sky SHOULD look like.  And then, when you return to your own town, start advocating for change.

[fourpawrule]

I live in a Dark Sky community in Colorado, and last night the Milky Way was so bright it looked like illuminated clouds.

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags what ethnicities or nationalities people have (incorrectly) assumed you are (if any), and your real ethnicity or nationality

[fuks]

[fourpawrule]

Reminds me of this millennial girl I know who basically doesn't listen to any music that was created after about 1977. The rare exceptions are those bands that sound like they came from the seventies.

[happyheidi]

It’s the end of the week maybe you need to see a bitty otter bowl. x

[katsen13]

I totally did need to see a bitty otter bowl.

[fourpawrule]

2kg of cute.

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

For people with anxiety about filing taxes, here’s what things that happen when you make a mistake on your tax return:

- it gets corrected

- you get a letter in the mail either asking for some additional information or a letter showing the adjustment

- you pay the amount (there’s options for payment plans too!) or get a refund

Things that do not happen

- you’re “in trouble”

- you are charged with fraud

- you go to jail

I know that most people are probably just joking/exaggerating when they say a mistake on their return means they get thrown in jail but when I worked with the public I always would encounter people who believed that would happen and they would be panicking about it. So I like to put this out there every year because if I can even prevent one person from feeling that way, it’s worth it

[k-she-rambles]

Also the IRS will NEVER cold call you. If you get an upsetting phone call about your taxes it is a scam.

[ndcirque]

The last is the most important point: THE IRS WANTS PAPER. They do things with paper. They had to be drug kicking and screaming into letting people file electronically. They will not call you on the phone demanding money. There’s no legal record of a call. If they have a problem with your return they will send you a letter.

The IRS want’s money. They will not ask you to pay with iTunes gift cards, or anything else other than money.

The IRS has a process for escalating a problem. It does not involve sending police to grab you out of your home after a phone call. There would be letters, and more letters, and audits, and summonses, and lots and lots of paper. Nothing they do happens that quickly.

If someone calls saying they are from the IRS or any state tax agency IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.

If someone calls saying you owe the government and can pay with anything other than money, IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.

If someone calls you telling you to pay up or they will send the police to arrest you IT IS A SCAM. Hang up.

The IRS doesn’t work that way.

[fourpawrule]

Also, the IRS screws up from time to time. A boss I worked for got audited, and at the end the IRS owed him $8K. I've been fortunate to be able to have a CPA do my taxes, and it paid for itself years ago when the IRS sent me a letter asking for several thousand dollars. It turned out that they simply had not read the entire tax return. My CPA got pissed and she sent them an official registered letter that said, in formal financial speak "CAN YOU FUCKING READ?" along with some documentation. A few months later I get another letter from the IRS that read: PENALTY: X thousand dollars - REBATE: <same number as penalty> AMOUNT YOU OWE: $0.

[animatedtext]

[fourpawrule]

Now I know the true meaning of the name of Microsoft's texting app.

[peachnlov-moved-deactivated2019]

reblog this and tag the first vine that comes to ur mind. mine is the one of the people yelling at cabbage

[fourpawrule]

This one's the best.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

educate me tumblr

[dat-physics-gal]

There is (probably, by current models) a state of degenerate matter in neutron stars called nuclear pasta, and that’s exactly what it sounds like. They are atomic nuclei condensed into varying configurations increasing in density as you go towards the core, and these configurations are named after different types of pasta due to the surface level similarity.

there are:

-the gniocci phase, where some nuclei stick together into blobs of 2 or 3 nuclei, just like gniocci tend to do

-the spaghetti phase, where they form long strings

-the lasagna phase, where they form connected sheets

-the bucatini phase, where it’s solid except for some holes

and

-the swiss cheese phase, where it’s solid except for a few empty bubbles

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I ASSUME YOU WERE JUST STRINGING WORDS TOGETHER BUT WIKIPEDIA BACKS YOU UP

I REMAIN UNCONVINCED PHYSICISTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO NAME THINGS

[diekerel]

Gaud, all scientists are like this. There’s molecules or chemicals or something in our body named after Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu. There’s a bee named after cartoonist Gary Larson. No field of science is sacred.

[dat-physics-gal]

and there are math things named shit like ‘tendril perversion’, ‘the monster group’, ‘the ham sandwich theorem’ and ‘the hairy ball theorem’

not even math is safe my friend, nothing is sacred anymore

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

babe what the fuck

[fourpawrule]

Hey, let's not leave out the thagomizer, another Gary Larson tribute, this time from paleontology.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

it’s funny because yes, you CAN disable right click save, but it takes like an extra two seconds to get around it because of how images are displayed on websites. (technically you could also just screenshot but this gets you a real jpg)

for example, instagram has disabled right click save. here I am trying to save a picture of this girl with a pumpkin sweater, but I am thwarted by the lack of right click save!

to get around it, right click and go to “inspect” or “inspect element” (it’s called different things depending on what computer you’re using)

shimmy around the webpage code until you find the “src” bit. It will helpfully tell you when you’ve found it because the image, and only the image, will light up as if you selected it.

that source is the link to where the image is hosted on the website. click the link.

find the actual hosted image. right click on that.

check and mate.

[anarcho-red-jay]

reblogging this version so people can piss off the NFT bros better

[fourpawrule]

I added this update to my other, older blog, but you don't have to "shimmy around" to find the src attribute. Most inspectors have a search box. So this is even easier than the OP indicates.

[quasi-normalcy]

Elon Musk's only real act of genius was casting himself into a fictional archetype (the Tom Swift / John Galt / Tony Stark-style billionaire inventor) that so many people want to believe in so badly that they will overlook the mounting evidence that he's actually just an unstable idiot with enough money to hire better engineers than himself.

[quasi-normalcy]

And in some ways, clever people *have* to believe in it. If it's real, then they're living in a meritocracy; the world is fundamentally just, Everyone Can Become Rich in America, and all social problems can be solved through visionary engineering and rugged individualism. If it's a lie, on the other hand--if he only bought his way into his position using the proceeds of a stolen emerald mine worked by stolen labour--then how will *you* ever become a genius-billionaire-playboy philanthropist with *your* engineering degree? And worse, if the system is unjust enough to promote someone like that, and if electric cars and underground tunnels and colonising Mars aren't going to solve the problems that capitalism creates--then don't you have a moral obligation and practical obligation to change the system?

No, it doesn't bear thinking about.

[reembodied]

this is the most concise and clear explanation of elon musk’s popularity among my fellow engineers that I’ve found, and I agree pretty resoundingly.

[fourpawrule]

I'm no fan of Musk at all (unless its Sex Panther ;) ) but someone with his level of ego actually hiring people smarter than himself is an extremely rare thing. (See the entire former Trump cabinet for the counterexample.)

[miiilowo]

tumblr is the root of half the internets trends and memes

[miiilowo]

the curse of being on this website is knowing that shit like cottagecore and dark academia and the obsession with mushrooms and whatnot started on this godforsaken platform and not tiktok

[feralfens]

the mushroom thing started with a fucking shitpost where it ends with "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" "im not fucking scared of you!"

"op what does this mean" "decay is an extant form of life"

I KID YOU NOT

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

[fourpawrule]

Tiktok is a (PRC government funded) baby compared to this hell site. Having been here for 12 years, I can safely say that whatever memes that didn't come out of Tumblr came out of Reddit.

[c-ptsdrecovery]

For those who have overactive guilt complexes like me…

[fourpawrule]

The ruins of the ancient city of Pompei has 89 thermopola (singular thermopolium) which are basically fast food joints. Takeout is a very old thing.

[bookpillows]

all articles about tumblr’s “decline” boil down to 2 things: you can’t get famous on here and you can’t make money on here. And they don’t get that that’s why we like it here.

[transarsonist]

Au contraire! You can absolutely get famous here

It is however, explicitly a bad thing.

[fourpawrule]

Yeah, Tumblr is that cul-de-sac in the woods where the road isn't paved and it never gets plowed in the winter. But also, no one thinks to burglarize any of the houses there because it's too far from civilization, and the homeowners are all armed and weird.

[memewhore]

[fourpawrule]

I liked it a lot when @hyperspacial posted this back in 2016.

[king-monky]

yeah i understand women. they all want daggers and swords. it’s quite simple really

[fourpawrule]

Basically, if you’re a woman and I really like you, I’ll buy you something with blades - A cute little shiny multitool from Gerber, some little wide folding knife designed by a guy who lives nearby, something for EDC.