a collection of conundrums

{June/Juniper} {they/them} {Gisher since 2015} {aro/ace}

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: How to fold a paper bat plane with flappable wings (cr到车请故意，唛大叔)

[victusinveritas]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.

Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.

Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.

Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event

Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.

Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[simplyghosting]

Me, pointing to the mirror: Do NOT become The Joker about this. This isn’t even a Condiment Man situation.

[hppjmxrgosg]

"going out to get milk" is a common turn of phrase used to describe a man abandoning his family.

the "milkman" is a common figure in stories depicting a woman's infidelity and adulterous affair.

this implies that the ability to provide milk would both decrease the likelihood of a man abandoning his wife and children, as it would eliminate the need for leaving to get milk AND would secure that man's marriage, as his wife would have no need to seek milk from an extraneous source.

therefore, all men should produce milk, through various means such as:

- being a cow

- being an almond

- being a woman

- being a coconut

- being in the omegaverse

- being an oat

(list is exemplary and not finite)

in this essay, i will redefine the nuclear family and explain the seductive and inflammatory nature of the 1993 "Got Milk?" commercials.

[wiremothers-deactivated20230129]

[authorkims]

[heinous-bitch]

you forgot the best one

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[the-patron-saint-of-heelys]

l've had a thought.

We know that "color" is a concept that Eridians will never be able to fully understand, and that human perception of it is the only way they'll likely ever have of knowing about it (sorry shrimp colors). What if, after Grace becomes the resident alien science teacher, the concept of "colors" becomes like. the Eridian equivalent of knowing your star chart or something.

Grace kicks the whole thing off by accident by telling his students what colors and patterns they have and they go absolutely nuts over this. Turns into this whole thing where they build these light sensors that can tell what general color someone's carapace is and if there are any patterns, or by knowing what material your carapace is you can have a vague idea of what color you are (like the difference between knowing your whole birth chart and knowing your zodiac sign)

And it becomes the Eridian version of a daily horoscope to look up what the lucky colors are that day or if spots or stripes will have more luck with their relationships. Rocky’s specific shade of brown is seen as supremely lucky by virtue of his mission, but with some more somber implications as well due to the loss of his crew. I imagine whatever Adrian’s carapace is (I’m a green Adrian truther personally) that their color scheme becomes one coveted by Eridians looking for their ideal mate- I mean who else gets to say that their mate saved the stars and then defied death multiple times to return to them??? That’s some Eridian fairy tale material right there.

The color of Grace’s hair or eyes becomes the color of Eridians known to be incredibly curious but foolhardy. Every Eridian in their teen angst phase is hoping against hope that they’ve got a smidge of blue somewhere on their carapace to prove that they’re Not Like Other Rocks.

And Eva Stratt in her infinite knowledge and love of piracy most certainly uploads the Hail Mary with copies of Pantone color palettes, so whichever Eridian scientist who stumbles across this while working with Grace one day will be one lucky rock after they label and program their color scanner with all the different meanings to be used by the general public. Grace will never know peace once he discovers he accidentally created a pseudo Astrology-core movement on Erid.

[text-mode]

Emoticons from 1893, published in the German Kreisblatt für den Kreis Malmedy. h/t Gleb Albert.

[dogdayafternoon1975]

saw a post abt HBO removing shows that suggests ppl just “burn dvds” but everyone doesnt know how to do that so here is one way to do that

- get blank dvds (Both +R or -R work, I think +R is slightly cheaper, the difference is rewritability), these are not very expensive for the amount you can get in bulk (if you are in the US 100 of them is about 30$ at walmart)

- an external DVD drive that plugs in via usb is also around 20-40$ (it tends to be closer to 20)

- download DVDFlick (free)

- if you don’t already have the mp4/mpeg of whatever media you want to burn, you can download movies/shows off of sites like gomovies.sx and soap2day

gomovies.sx will have a download button that looks like this

below the video you can choose one of these

if you click streamlare for example and then the download button it will take you here where the mp4 is

(if you’re on an iphone/ipad, clicking download will save it to your files app)

- if you cant find the download button on soap2day you can also install a video downloader extension which will find the movie for you

- at this point you can drag and drop it into a google drive or keep it on your computer but if you still want it on dvd ->

- open dvd flick, drag and drop the video

- click “project settings”

- give it whatever title you want, you can change encoder to “normal” (default is below normal if you are doing other things on the computer). you dont need to change target size or thread count (unless you want to)

- insert a blank dvd into your drive, make sure you click “burn project to disc”

- click accept then click “create dvd” next to menu and project settings. it will create a destination folder and this dialogue box will pop up when you click “create” on more dvds, just click “yes” and then “okay” on the box that appears after it

it’ll take a couple hours, once its done take a sharpie & write whats on it and stick it in a case . or dont . im not ur mom

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[angeltiddies]

and by the way jensen they fridged your character in the final episode because the only other option was to make him gay

[hauntedpearl-deactivated2024060]

no no no exactly say that

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[chocolatecakecas]

when you accept a family member

[chuckwon]

not to be serious about the absurdity of repetitive discourse or anything but like... if we lived in a world where supernatural wasn't a censored queer text, then maybe jensen ackles (who is an actor and not a writer and also, first and foremost, a businessman) could stand on a stage and declare that dean winchester is bisexual and in love with castiel. but we don't and so he can't, unfortunately.

this is not necessarily a blanket defense of the man himself and whatever he says, and you don't need to take it that way. it's just an awareness of the big picture situation. the inconsistency in how the topic of destiel is handled at conventions is just a symptom/repercussion of this enduring fact of life. the industry + fandom politics that created the uphill battle for destiel that we're all familiar with haven't gone anywhere, and the situation will persist until/unless canon continues and makes this more explicit. it's not new, will never be new no matter how many years this continues, and doesn't change the fact that dean is canonically bi and in love with cas.

I know this, you know this, we all know this. and while it is a bitch of an unsatisfactory situation, and no one asked for my 5 cents, I simply think we should all remember the joke of "no peace and never done" exists for a reason and then maybe find some inner peace about the predictable chaos.

at the end of the day, jensen ackles is not going to say anything novel, or give anyone any unequivocal, permanent, and suddenly consistent validation about this topic because he has too many audiences to please. his blessing is not something anyone should need anyway. the story is clear. the text speaks for itself. the censorship is even a plot point and something that shouldn't be forgotten for this very reason. and the truth of the characters and of canon is uncomplicated, even if the enduring real-world situation is not and may never be.