[procrastinates]

Hi, I'm Sas | mid twenties | any pronouns are fine

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[segamascott]

let's bring back the stop taking videos of strangers without their knowledge discourse because you really must stop doing that

[honoriaw]

ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"

--Isaac Asimov, January 21, 1980, "A Cult of Ignorance", Newsweek magazine

[mikkeneko]

AI tool use is becoming mandatory for more and more roles at my company, unfortunately including mine, so I've spent the last week or so undergoing training courses and practice exercises for Claude Cowork, and here is my conclusion:

Congratulations, you made a computer that cannot successfully count to ten.

[mikkeneko]

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[appendingfic]

so as someone who isn't required, how do they know you used ai to do work?

[mikkeneko]

Each person's account is given 'credits' which are centrally tracked and if you aren't using any they ask why not.

[canuckerrant]

[self-loving-vampire]

Trans women are just strictly superior at everything I guess.

Truly speechless at this. "Cis women are so dainty and fragile that moving chess pieces for too long exhausts them."

Please acquire some self-respect (and maybe learn statistics). I am taking psychic damage over here.

So much of transphobia is just exaggerated sexism (or reheated homophobia).

[vintage-vermin]

This one is always on my mind. And always relevant.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think sometimes we get too caught up in world of a story to remember what it's really about- of course Orpheus fails because no one can bring the dead back to life. of course Orpheus looks back because that's what grieving is- looking back at someone you can't be with anymore, looking back and losing them again and again.

[german-enthusiast]

the beauty of compound words:

"Altes Huhn, das keine Eier mehr legen kann"

-> old chicken that cannot lay eggs anymore

"Eierlegende Eierlegende am Eierlegende"

-> Eierlegende - egglaying

-> Eier-Legende - egg legend

-> am Eier-leg-Ende - at the egg-laying-end

[ryebreadgf]

just learned americans have different standard paper sizes than everyone else. what do you MEAN you don’t have A4 as the standard. what do you mean your standard paper size isn’t even the same size as an A4. apparently it’s like. ’letter’ and ’legal’ and whatever else. help!!!

[ryebreadgf]

this is so scary

[huggingtentacles]

That has to be false. That's misinformation hold on

[huggingtentacles]

holy fucking shit

[hydro-dragon]

So I work in engineering; and always wondered who used these weird “A” sizes I’d see in large printer settings that I’ve never seen any company even have paper in stock for. Now I know.

And now I have to be one of those obnoxious US Americans because WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU USE THESE WEIRD UNEVEN DIMENSIONS!? Even in metric most of the “A” settings are an annoying ratio! 210x297mm? 594x841mm!? What’s the point of using such small units of measurement if you’re not going to make sensible sizes!?

[psychuan]

because the largest standard paper size is A0 which is exactly one square metre of paper with an aspect ratio of the square root of two. this gives us a nice simple measurement of area for the paper as well as allows us to do the halving/doubling magic. A1 is 0.5m², A2 is 0.25m² etc.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The halving/doubling magic that psychaun refers to is the fact that you can get each paper in the series by cutting the previous one in half. I fold some A4 paper in half, I have an A5 booklet. I tape two A4 pieces together along their long side, I have an A3 piece. Each piece of paper is half the area of the previous and half the width of the previous' length with a length the same as the previous' width. The aspect ratio is exactly the same for every size. This makes it very easy to resize things, fold things inside each other, and calculate the size of paper you've never used before based on its name. "I can resize this to fit any other paper size because the aspect ratio is identical," "I can fold a standard size in half to get the next standard size down" and "the area I'm working with can be multiplied up to fit into a metre squared without any messy fractions of leftover paper" are all far more practical considerations for a paper size than "the millimetre length of this paper size isn't a round number".

[earhartsease]

fyi there are also B sizes in paper, which fit in between the A sizes - less often used but good for book covers and stuff

a Bn size is the mean between An and An-1

and then C sizes for envelopes, such that a C4 envelope fits an unfolded sheet of A4 etc

[prismatic-bell]

....this actually explains a lot about some of the stationery I get from other countries, though.

[notaplaceofhonour]

A24 must be really tiny

[the-orion-scribe]

Also the A papers follow the golden ratio which is why they are foldable and you get the same size

[wowbright]

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

[minyardlumberyard]

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

[anxiette]

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

[palamedeez-nuts]

"the most unrealistic thing about project hail mary is that a woman is in charge" WRONG look up the glass cliff. women are much more likely to be promoted to positions of power when things are going poorly and people need a woman to blame. she refers to herself as the "world's whipping boy." the person put in the position to have to commit ecological and humanitarian crimes of that scale in order to save the earth would only ever be a woman.

[hatikvah-shalom]

I feel like in the past ten years, boycotting has stopped being a tool for forcing action on specific policies and become a form of harassment and monastic self-denial. Less “I will not be giving my money to you until you improve these specific conditions” and more “don’t touch the contaminated thing, lest you also become contaminated.”

[shamesonlydaughter]

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

[fiyero3305]

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

[blueindeed]

I tell this story all the time but I'll tell it again! When I taught kindergarten full time, we had a working bee one weekend where we did a bunch of gardening/landscaping in the outdoor area. One of the dads put up a bit of fencing, then stood back and had a look, kind of frowning like he wasn't sure. His wife then came along, and the following conversation ensued:

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

Absolutely LIFE CHANGING acronym, friends and enemies.

[oh-frederik-what-a-day-its-been]

[pansytheleia]

please vote for new European bank notes

if there is two things you should remember me by it's both loving birds and being very pro Europe.

Anyway we'll apparently get new bank notes with either historic figures or nature and I'm not telling you to vote for birds buuuuuuut -

[pansytheleia]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share/

[official-kultur]

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknotes/share

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings

[pseudomasochist]

You wanna know what's fucked?

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I don't like that fact

[pseudomasochist]

No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Hey.

Yeah you- the person reading this. Stop scrolling for a second.

You’re going to be okay. You have to believe that. It might take a long time and who knows how much work, but you’re going to be okay.

You’re going to be okay.

You’re going to be okay.

[thepeacefulgarden]