George Eubert, Victorian

I generally over-highlight.

[twocubes]

what if you combined a pressure cooker and a deep fryer and made a pressure fryer, the most dangerous kitchen implement in history

[baedlyweathered]

does this imply you want to heat cooking oil to past its boiling point at one atmosphere

[iatrophilosophos]

Its real and its called a broaster.

[garaged0g]

*grabs america by the shoulders* we have got to lock the fuck in. south asia and the middle east are running goddamn circles around us. we have got to come up with a more dangerous way of cooking food now or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

[squiddemons-deactivated20210324]

happy electric feel friday

[calder]

happy electric feel friday

[charlesoberonn]

This is a bell curve meme to me

Because the obvious (and wrong) answer is that Magneto beats Tony easily because he can control Tony's armor and crush him

But the smarter (and wrong) answer is that Iron Man's armor isn't actually made of iron, it's made of a non-magnetic gold-titanium alloy.

But then the smartest and true answer is that Magneto beats Tony easily because Tony has metal shrapnel in his bloodstream that he needs a powerful electromagnet to stop from reaching his heart.

[soup-mother]

My running bit of badly communicating the fact that souls don't exist via saying shit like "you know your boyfriend doesn't have a soul right?" is pretty good. one of my favourite jokes tbh.

[soup-mother]

Not one single US citizen has a soul and you can tell.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[kdinjenzen]

With how nasty things have gotten in the Pokemon TCG, Magic the Gathering, and One Piece TCG...

I have decided to go back and focus on Digimon TCG and Yu-Gi-Oh. Which, ironically enough, share similarities in having a lot of "ITS A GUN DRAGON! A DRAGON THAT'S ALSO A GUN!" creatures as well as having a lot of "IT'S NAKED LADY! THE MAGICAL NAKED LADY MONSTER!" creatures. Also both have creatures that are just cheese burgers.

[kdinjenzen]

For all intent and purpose, these are the same things.

[tiropat]

what is going on in pokemon and magic?

[kdinjenzen]

Pokemon TCG? Multi-millionaire influencers have joined in on the heavy scalping bullshit and have made actually playing or collecting the game impossible to do for anyone who just "wants to enjoy it" and have fully turned scalping and manipulating the market into a business.

Magic? Oof, where do I start...

WotC used Gen Ai art in their marketing. Meaning you cannot trust anything from them to not have Gen Ai bs in it now. (Hasbro, who owns WotC, has been very pro Gen Ai for a while now)

WotC sent Pinkerton agents to someone's home and the agents threatened the person's wife.

Literally all the Secret Lair stuff, the pricing for everything, and manufacturing artificial rarity.

The lying to tournament players who were promised a certain set of cards and were instead given TMNT Secret Lair instead.

The lawsuit against Hasbro because they lied about card production to their investors.

I can keep going...

[kdinjenzen]

Hi did you know that the use of Gen Ai and LLMs in data centers use around 5 million gallons of water per day and that their water sources almost always pull from towns that suffer heavily from a lack of clean water because of it?

Did you know that the use of Gen Ai has ruined the livelihood of artists from all walks of life and cause massive layoffs because tech giants choose to invest billions into Gen Ai instead of paying their workers a living wage?

Did you know that because of aggressive pushing for Gen Ai in search engines and other websites most young children on the internet do not know they are fully talking to a chat bot that has been filled with incorrect information and now has put those children at risks for a variety of variously dangerous activities and tasks?

Did you know that Gen Ai has pushed people into and heavily encouraged suicide?

Did you know that Gen Ai is entirely trained on stolen data, information, and craft made by humans to power algorithms filled with not just lies but shoddy work?

Did you know that Gen Ai has an extremely heavy bias against non-white people and has been, in most cases, trained to be extremely racist intentionally?

Did you know that all of this is barely the tip of the iceberg with the problems caused by Gen Ai?

Did you know that you should shut your mouth before saying things like “shoddy at best anti-ai shill” just because you, personally, don’t care about people being massively harmed by it and the use of it?

I fear you’ve never had sight of anything that matters outside of “big noticeable drama” that makes you feel like you can act superior to others because you “know a drama.”

I hope fix your heart or that you never darken a kind soul’s doorstep again.

[dogpuppy]

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[argumate]

so hard to find these guys

[uncuteartist]

Love how their method of locomotion on land is trundling while also oozing over the terrain

[cardboard-cut0ut]

[freeze frame] yeah, that’s not me. I don’t know who that is. [unpause]

[spacefinch]

Come get your gold stars

[confetti-cat]

[rongzhi]

POV you're ejected from imperial court

English added by me :)

[galindatopland]

women are half the population

[galindatopland]

pick your warrior

[galindatopland]

[pocket-deer-belly]

i know pearl fumbled a bbw but i honestly think it's funnier that lars fumbled an autistic 4 foot fat shortstack who was already down bad for him

[girlsackthing]

[dragonroar87]

legendary dashboard pull

[smuganimebitch]

To this day I still don't believe that anyone actually thought you could generate infinite chocolate via an optical illusion. That's a thing people tell themselves to feel superior

[smuganimebitch]

The defining feature of tumblr is not "the website where people actually think infinite chocolate is possible", it is defined by a group of people refusing to break kayfabe, another group being genuinely confused by an optical illusion (NOT the same thing as thinking infinite chocolate is possible) and a third group who is certain they are a lot smarter than the other two.

[sirompp]

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

[eater-of-the-sand]

can you please make one for Ireland

[sirompp]

yeah okay

[jellyfish-grave]

[mbrainspaz]

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

[mbrainspaz]

@sparrow-va Seen a lot of people asking this and here's a starter-pack, which others have also added in the comments:

Start on day one. It's almost impossible to scale back if you started out giving 100% —it might be possible though, so don't give up hope.

If you can get away with it, 'waste' roughly half of your time. You can work on a personal project if IT won't clock you, or go for long walks if you can sneak out of the office. I walked 3-4 miles every day when I started my current job. I also walked to Barnes & Noble to sit on the floor and read comics. I've spent a few days just watching TikToks or Fall of Civilizations. If you have Work From Home days, buy a mouse jiggler! (Don't install mouse jiggler software, that shit's traceable.)

If you're still not sure, pay close attention to how much work your worst coworker is doing, and copy that. I bet you it will be 40-60% of what you feel you could easily do, especially if they are 50+.

Never finish anything immediately. If you want to get a project done, knock it out, and then set a reminder to send it at least 2-3 days later. I fuck this one up the most, if I'm honest, 'cause shocking people with how fast I can accomplish things is like a drug.

Remember!!!! Being the fastest and the best will get you NOTHING—except possibly the kind of attention that gets you abused and fired. Promotions for hard work are a myth. It's capitalist propaganda you MUST expunge from your brain. Aim to be the worker your manager expects, not the one they're impressed by—except in a social sense. I got a $2 raise for singing in 3 part harmony with my bosses once.

Survive.