jack

Rebloobin'.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is real

[plum-soup]

Simpsons Style AI Ad for Porn Addiction App

[blackpaintedtimbs]

[tallahasseemp3]

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

[lichfucker]

[image description: an excerpt of text that says:

“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

/end id]

[justahumblememefarmer]

TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

[weirdoughnut]

which, they later find out, is her second-best record

[mel-155-a]

There was a decent but ultimately forgettable fantasy novel I read a long time ago that had a single moment that stuck with me.

The protagonist has just won the world famous sword fighting competition in the big, rich capital and is talking to his mentor, and says something about being the best swordsman in the world. The mentor frowns and tells him that no, he isn't. He is the best swordsman out of the people that could afford to show up to this tournament. There could be a mercenary way out in the mountains, patrolling a snow encrusted fort's walls that could kick his ass and there was no way to know until he was already losing to the guy.

I think about that a lot, and how for every apparently dominant competitor, there might be a fucking ronin out there somewhere capable of destroying them.

[headspace-hotel]

Always reblog tetris ronin lady

[breakdown-voltage]

@computermuncher

[raccoonmilf]

When I was in grade school I used to send emails to biologists and zoologists asking them questions to get answers to include in school projects I was working on, and would cry when they did not respond because I thought I was stupid for thinking that some random kid would ever be deserving of a response from someone who does something as smart and cool and important as *checks notes* studies frog fungus.

Now, at 29, I’m lowkey having a panic attack because my academic email is filled with middle schoolers wanting me to answer their questions about pygmy raccoons and I keep putting off answering them because I’m so overwhelmed with all the other raccoon stuff I have to do.

Anyway, greatest apologies to any scientist I ever emailed as a child and also an adult.

[raccoonmilf]

I know your research is really important and I appreciate all you are doing but this is so fucking funny

[afloweroutofstone]

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

[nonbinary-jakey]

taking away a clowngirl's makeup telling her she doesn't have to be a clown she can just be a normal silly billy and correcting her any time she tries to juggle until she gets sadder and sadder and eventually stops talking altogether and just communicating via gestures and realizing with horror you've created a mimegirl

[nonbinary-jakey]

you get it

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

[my-dailydreams]

[anxeious]

bathe in your own sunlight !!!!!!

[morguesupplier]

[busty-shackleford]

choose abortion

Life kills!

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[oftlunarialmoon]

[3liza]

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experi

For any Canadians: the govt is having a comment period on LED Headlights for another week

[3liza]

someone on blusky got annoyed with this link/my post of this link because--if i understand their objection and i may not--very bright LED headlights were not objectionable, and furthermore they were no longer "in style", but rather the sole issue (as they saw it) was lifted trucks WITH badly-aimed lights, and this comment period on LED lights was a sort of halfassery about the truck issue. i disagree with this personally, i find even the compact cars with these specific type of lights to be an extreme dangerous presence on the road at night. speaking as an american though. in seattle there are certainly a lower per-capita number of shitty chud trucks around and more Subaru Foresters (lesbian) but regardless of the vehicle size or height the lights themselves are often a problem. so for me at least its both

[stewthegreat]

So kinda funny thing, part of the reason modern led headlights are so bad in the US is that they're designed for something called adaptive beam shaping. This allows the sensors on the car to detect other vehicles and shape the headlights around them so the driver gets bright light where they need it but the other drivers don't get blinded.

Unfortunately US regulations didn't allow them until 2022, and even then the new regs are far more restrictive than the rest of the world so the existing systems still aren't allowed. So there's tons of cars out on the road that have all the hardware needed to shape beams around other cars but have it turned off in software. Obviously that's not the only problem with led headlights and people should still complain, but it's frustrating that the situation could be a lot better with just a software update if the us regulators just aligned with the rest of the world.

Here's an article from a couple years ago that I found about it with a quick search.

Headlights are blinding in America but not other countries and this tech is why | CNN Business

Imagine if you could drive at night with your high beams on all the time, bathing the road ahead in bright light but without ever blinding o

[mx-dorkboy]

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

[mx-dorkboy]

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

[logically-asexual]

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

[kitvalkyrie]

THIS ^^^

[nyxwoven]

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

[dr-dendritic-trees]

I got coached so hard all through grad school, to say “I don’t know” and never bluff. Now I do it to other people in turn.

Much like frustration tolerance, it is a skill we beat out of children then beat back into graduate students.

[catcrumb]

[thesituation]

i still think it’s so silly how i made a post being like “are men more athletic biologically or is this disparity between the sexes a socially reinforced binary like what we’ve seen before with intelligence and pain tolerance and a million other things women were thought to be inferior for that was actually a result of social prejudice influencing data and creating a binary where there wouldn’t otherwise be one?” and every response disagreeing with me is like “look i want to believe in gender equality. i really do. but i go hiking with my friends — some of whom are men — and you just can’t deny the truth: they’re better at it than me. you have to just accept reality, testosterone makes all men better than women at everything” and i’m supposed to jsut like. pretend they didn’t ignore everything i said to go “boys rule and girls drool” in a slightly more verbose and self deprecating way

[clepshots]

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