Avocados at Law

History buff. Tragic pasta.

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Titanic: Project 401 allows you explore a jaw-droppingly authentic recreation of the RMS Titanic, from first class all the way down to the engine rooms.

Read More & Play The Alpha, Free (Windows)

[luckyhobbitsfoot]

Can't wait for the submersible DLC

[the-big-mood]

[rad-roach]

I say this with affection: the Honor & Glory guys are absolutely fucking insane. They’re going on? Eight years of work now? With the eventual end goal of recreating every inch of Titanic in painstaking historic detail. There used to be an actual game planned for the environment as well but I think at this point it’s 100% about the ship.

Godspeed, you lunatics. Hopefully my computer will be able to handle the end product.

[tendernaiad-deactivated20231220]

when charles schulz said "all you need is love. but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt" and anthony bourdain said "your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. enjoy the ride" and mark twain said "part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like." when erma bombeck said "i am not a glutton- i'm an explorer of food," voltaire said "ice-cream is exquisite. what a pity it isn't illegal" and when kurt vonnegut said "you can't just eat good food. you've got to talk about it too. and you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."

[catchymemes]

[bl1tzkr136fr1tz-62nd-attempt]

[rudjedet]

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

[wine-dark-sea]

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

[teaboot]

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

[ophilosoraptoro]

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

[rudjedet]

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

[interstellar-lamb-deactivated20]

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

[nikkiitalks]

[drtanner]

Just unmute. :')

[mitchipedia]

[vaspider]

You know what, though? This is actually not bad advice, as silly as the typo on the sign is.

If you drive in the snow as if you have an unsecured giant sheet cake on the back seat because you're on the way to the birthday party of your favorite friend, you'll actually probably do okay! Be cautious, keep a steady speed, leave lots of space around your car. Don't speed up too quickly or brake too sharply. Take turns at a steady, smooth speed. Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.

Genuinely, this is similar to how I taught friends from places where it doesn't snow how to act in a car when it's icy or snowing, so let's go with it:

Drive with cake.

[nudityandnerdery]

It's like the classic advice says:

[browniefox]

Getting a weird little hobby is actually so important bc it opens your eyes up to the world. You start crocheting or knitting, and now you see scarves and sweaters differently. You try identifying plants, now you’re seeing opposite and alternate leaf pattern. Bird watching? Every chirp draws attention and interest.

Get into weird little hobbies.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Kidnapped and experimented on by aliens but I was in the control group so nothing happened

[thundergrace]

🎞: Lisa Gilroy

Absolutely could never be an influencer or tik tok famous anything. People are so disrespectful. Sorry to this woman.

[esmeraldatgg]

[catchymemes]

[bl1tzkr136fr1tz-62nd-attempt]

[coughloop]

puddle water is basically cigarettes for dogs

[birdingbutch]

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to run low on storage space

[contagiousgrace]

it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.

[everythingfox]

So unphased

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[scarfacemarston]

Actually, as someone who does academic research for a living, Springer is a terrible example. Tons of articles require a paid subscription or require you to pay per article depending on the paper.

World cat is extremely glitchy and I’ve hardly had success with it and finally, pdfdrive has had malware and is quite shady.

Do your research before blindly accepting posts like these.

[s-n-arly]

Actually, as someone who does research for a living, I’d suggest you check the notes to make sure you’re not grumping on an out of date version of a post since Tumblr doesn’t include updated info on reblogs off the original (which is well over a year old).

I haven’t had problems with glitchiness in World Cat but not all ISPs behave the same on the same sites, so with all sites (as is always the case) YMMV.

But I agree. Do you your research before accepting either touted facts or complaints so you can make informed decisions.

Here’s the most recent version of the post.

[aliiiiiiice]

why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

[aliiiiiiice]

everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot

[earlgraytay]

this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike? 

bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do. 

what i’m saying is

[fiberglassbunny]

sometimes all you can do is lay under 3 large blankets while holding onto a stuffed animal