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“self portrait as a cat knocking over a glass of water” // CortHartle

I think this script sums up the reason I got into the old guard and couldn't get into the avengers/other 'superhero' or action movie teams. And that reason is plain and simply that the old guard look like they do their own vacuuming.

good morning i thought it was going to be something about found family and actually writing relationships between your characters and the easy familiarity between all of them but you know what? you’re fucking Correct

gunsandfireandshit

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

gothcostco

From another article i read today 😭

hustlerose

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rincewindthecheese

he wasn’t even there to be a contestant he joined the crew as a CHINESE TEACHER but the directors noticed his good looks and begged him to compete. poor guy made it to the finals and if he had been one of the winners he would have been contractually forced to be in a boy band whether he wanted to or not

lastvalyrian

this is the closest any human being has ever come to actually being sold to One Direction

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sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

lifehacksthatwork

Just a family of bears chilling in a pool.

parakeet

hold on i just had the funniest idea

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wutheringheights78

epic win for one 2015 ship and epic L for the other

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I hope this posts in order! @twink-on-the-brink @gracefulvaudeville

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glumshoe

so The Lion King is based on Hamlet and has animals replicating dynamics of European monarchy and at the beginning of the movie we see Rafiki acting in some sort of official capacity at Simba’s birth

is Rafiki like... the pope??? is he the head of the savannah state religion? does the animal pope get legal protection from being eaten by the king? do herbivores who get cushy government jobs all get royal pardon from predation? are they class traitors? is Rafiki’s baboon church responsible for recognizing and upholding the divine right of kings and pushing circle of life propaganda to ensure that herbivores accept their lot in life and see it as an honor to be consumed by the aristocracy?

glumshoe

when Scar takes over, he and the hyenas fuck over the ecosystem and transform Pride Rock from a lush savannah into a barren wasteland and kill off most of the herbivores

but like.... how? did they just stop fertilizing the soil at all? did they eat all insectivores? did they stop shitting? did they refuse to allow their dead to decompose? there is not a single plant growing in the entire kingdom. did nothing take advantage of the disturbed soil? did Scar try to implement industrial agriculture using shallow-rooted plants and create a dust bowl?

cryoverkiltmilk

And then it all comes back when Simba takes over. Somebody had a real boner for the whole divine right to rule thing.

glumshoe

I like to imagine it was a decade-long process of careful habitat restoration in which the lions taught themselves to plant plots of native seeds and prevent topsoil erosion and reintroduce biodiversity and send emissaries to herds of prey animals like “babe come back”