HighOctarine

Will post about One Piece, Wildbow works, Discworld, maritime history, history of technology, etc.

[haunted-skitty-doll]

Sorry to post shit I found on reddit but this video has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[editionsmatiere-blog]

Cocaine and Minecraft, Nacho García, 2018

[highoctarine]

catfishing.net

711 - 10/10 🎉

🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[ploobytumbls]

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

[ploobytumbls]

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.

[fieldbears]

#there's still good in this world mr frodo ( @scoutdoesstuff )

[cilantrhoes]

[route7massacre]

I'll take the blame. I'm okay with being the bad guy, he thought. Just so long as you get to live.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[theserpentspsalm]

[ashmindpalace]

average first sentence of a math wikipedia page:

A snorkle basis is a particular sort of set that has some properties and is generally "nice" (in a rigorous sense) and can do many things and is very practical.

[segamascott]

[capacity2]

Silk is so beautiful. Thank you worms

[michkovs]

u know they boil them alive for silk right

[capacity2]

They’re worms…

[michkovs]

ok im not gonna argue with a sociopath

[capacity2]

Thank god

[tonyzaret]

Which of these count as 'Using AI'

Generating a video about pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog marrying Jar Jar Binks

Having ChatGPT draw you a picture of a tree

Downloading a tree picture from Google and later someone says it 'looks like AI'

Editing a picture of a tree with a Photoshop plug-in Adobe claims is 'AI'

Using a solar-powered local LLM to generate a video of pregnant Sonic's wedding

Using a computer

Voting ended onJun 4

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[animate-mush]

The thing about the whole AD vs CE vs whether it's all just cosmetic discourse is that it totally ignores where this numbering system comes from. We should just call it what it is: Bede notation.

It was invented by one person for a specific purpose - to have a universalizable way of establishing historical dates, rather than having to deal with dynastically based date systems. And it was a really good idea. This is not surprising, since Bede is basically the father of Historiography. He also is the guy who gave us the notion of Primary Sources. Bede is amazing.

When a guy revolutionizes the entire way calendaring is done, he has the right to set his zero point wherever he pleases.

People have pointed out that one problem with CE notation is that it presents itself as neutral when it is exactly the same system as AD. What exactly is "common" about this era? The zero point doesn't become neutral just by effacing its source.

(Also BCE is nonsense. Just use negative numbers)

It makes sense for scholarly tradition to not want to be tied to a specific religion. But scholarly tradition is very enthusiastic about being tied to earlier scholarly tradition. The convention of AD was established by a scholar for a scholarly purpose. We know his name. We know what he was doing, and why, and how. And he was doing it better than anybody else. That is worth honoring.

Rather than pretending that it's a neutral system, acknowledge that it's not. It's not some naturally occurring "common era," it's the system developed by Bede, centered around dates that were important to him personally (but which he intended to be universally applicable).

Like we should be honest about the facts that (a) an awful lot of people have been measuring dates this way for nearly 1400 years and changing it in a non-cosmetic way would involve a lot of seriously obnoxious bookkeeping, and (b) the zero is where it is because that's where the guy who invented the system decided to put it. "Anno Domini" is meaningless to people who aren't into that particular Dominus, and "Common Era" is meaningless period (and imparts a false appearance of neutrality). Pinning it to its creator, though, is already scholarly convention and is objective. It may or may not be the year of Our Lord, and it certainly isn't Common (whatever that means) but it is unarguably the schema developed by Bede, for better or for worse. So unless we're actually going to rebuild it from scratch, we may as well call it that. And even if we do rebuild it from scratch, we should still call it that. Because that is what it is.

[animate-mush]

Reblogging in honor of the feast of St. Bede today.

I have been informed that Bede notation may in fact have been first devised by Dionysus the Humble of Scythia to calculate the date of Easter more accurately. But my broader point stands.

Bede, yo.

[realifesiations]

Bastard tumblr blog: before you go outside to pokemon go, do not forget to uwu and stay safe okay!!!!!!! Fuck you

Me: wadda hell…….. ….bulnosaur

[captain-price-returns]

[knilolas]