Llama Facts

I failed both the Turing test and the Kinsey test.

[tlirsgender]

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[tlirsgender]

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

[sqbr]

Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?

Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

Me: No.

[mikkeneko]

[ycable]

welcome to body world (inhales shakily through my clenched teeth) a world where everyone has a body

[mavisofthemoon]

"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked a yellow door that wasn't there before and help I think I'm trapped...all these walls look the same and there's this weird laugh and no left turns and I don't know how long I've been in here

[black--stars]

Hey, when you talk to children, you know you can explain things to them right? thats theyre capable of comprehension? In fact you should be explaining things so they understand comprehension better?

Earlier my little sister slammed her closet and room door-- not out of anger as far as im aware, she just pushed them too hard. I yelled at her to stop it.

she said she would, but it was clear from her tone she just said so out of obligation and was annoyed. i tell her to stop making loud noises a lot, so she probably assumed this was just another example of that.

realizing this, i explained her the reason: our rooms are right next to each other. When she slams doors, the wall shakes. When the wall shakes, my mirror shakes, and if it shakes too hard it can fall and break

after the explanation, she apologized genuinely and actually understood the reason instead of just thinking im nagging her or just want quiet. the fact that she knows the reason means shes more likely to remember, and she can apply the knowledge in different ways: "even if my older sibling isnt home, their mirror could still break, so i still shouldnt slam the door." She knows im not just trying to annoy her or assert dominance over her like a lot of rules and demands we give to children do- i just dont want my mirror to break. It helps her understand cause and effect.

Would this result be the same if i had just screamed at her or spanked her? Or did it make more sense to just explain? After all, it was a simple mistake. I could see my parents doing the same thing-- when you close a door, youre not usually thinking about the walls in the other room.

Children are humans, humans use logic. Use logic with children. Its simple.

[longdistancepyromania]

Long before I was born, when my 3 older siblings were all under the age of 6, my parents hired an au pair for a year. She was from Brazil and thought my parents were insane.

Connie told my mother this story shortly before the end of her year.

About a month after she started, she went home for a visit. She told her mom and all of her friends, "these crazy white people want me to EXPLAIN things to the 3 year old! As if he can understand!" She was baffled - in her family, if a 3 year old acted up, you told them to stop or smacked them.

My parents never hit their kids. They didnt even spank us. We were never punished by being forced to eat something or not eat something (ex: as long as we at a veggie, we could pick any veggie). Hell, I dont think we were ever even grounded.

We were only ever disciplined in a way that directly related to the "crimes". For example, if you drew on the wall in crayon, then you scrubbed the wall. If you made your sister cry, then you had to come up with a way to make it up to her. If you slammed a door too many times, you had to go re-align and oil all of the hinges in the house (with appropriate help based on your age and capability).

Connie thought this was WAY too much work to come up with punishments when the kids were too young to understand anyway.

Then she watched them learn.

By the time she was ready to leave, she was telling my mom this story to thank her for the lesson. Connie had learned that the 3 year old really CAN understand, and will learn if you give him the chance. The 5 year old wants to learn. She wants to grow and ask questions and listen to you if you let her. The 1 year old even wants to learn. She may not talk much yet, bit she is listening to everything you say - and everything you dont.

My sister stayed with Connie when she went to south america a few years ago. She said Connie's kids and now grandkids were/are raised with that same patience for explanations, though much less of my parents obsessive philosophizing and debate lmao. Connie is way more decisive than anyone in my family has ever been.

[milkyenthusiast]

its outrageous that the ladies with the largest tiddies are practically dehabilitated by them. like thats just an indictment of our whole society. we should have entire industries dedicated to making life easier for these people. if you have boobs too big for any commercially avaliable bra, you should be treated like fucking royalty. you shouldnt have to work a day in your fucking life. you should get special letters from the president and get to cut ribbons at ceremonies and shit

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @clownrenown

no no no this is my current problem do you have ANY idea how hard it is to claw yourself out of the fanfiction pit when you're self employed

text: Quit your job. Read my fanfiction

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[anartisticnerd]

This is the vibe Eliot gives off when I imagine him btw

[roboticchibitan]

Human crewmate: smells like rain

Alien crewmate: you can SMELL that???

Human:. ... yes? Some humans can feel it in their bones, especially where bones have been broken and healed or have decayed. Most of us get it with age.

Alien crewmate, aside to another alien crewmate: what the fuck

[whimsical-catacombs]

why are time loops always only like 1 day long?

the real horror is a months or years long time loop. no speedrunning your torture here. you have to sit with the consequences of your actions for a loooong time before the release of knowing the consequences and actions have been erased.

but oh, all the actions and consequences are gone. those relationships you built? empty. you can never build them again without the constant guilt of knowing that it's not as real the second, third, thirtieth time when you already know all their secrets and they none of yours.

but you can't hide. you can't isolate yourself because what if this is the time the loop breaks and then what? years gone by of missed chances with people who have changed you a thousand times and now circumstances have changed. you can never build back what was washed away by your own inaction. they'll never be able to meet you like they did the first time if you don't choose to meet them the first time every time

[sandmandaddy69]

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

[waspsinyouryard]

admittedly i know little of the subject but one would think, at 45 years of age, he would be a ryan goose by now

[urmomswifesworld]

[dietspam16]

nobody gets us depressed girlies like albert

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[cosmictuesdays]

NASA webpage on the Gallaudet Eleven.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[ms-demeanor]

I'm working on a client report and my CEO looked over it and asked how made it. I asked him if he meant, like, the graphs and he said "No this whole thing is really nice with the text and the images put together so well. Did you use an AI tool or something to arrange it like a book?" And I just have him kind of blank look and said "No, I've been doing print layout and design for twenty five years. I'm building this as a template we can use with other clients that will just need images dropped in. And the graphs are all screenshots from tools we already use."

And then he gave me kind of a blank look and said "Okay, that is. Very good to know."

I suspect I've unexpectedly solved a problem that I was unaware of.

[ms-demeanor]

For the record: the CEO *hates* AI and nobody else at the company has any experience with InDesign.

The deal is that we just fired a member of the executive team who had been asking our practice leads to put together scorecards each month so that he could put together 20-slide powerpoints to go over data that he didn't understand particularly well. The scorecards were taking up at least 10% of each practice lead's time with work that we couldn't bill to the client, the clients thought the presentations were confusing, and the CEO tasked me with putting together three slides for each client and leading those parts of the meetings.

I built a dashboard in our PSA that collected most of that data, have collected links to the info that the practice leads gathered so I can screenshot it for each presentation, and totally on my own because i like data and design i decided it would be a good idea to create a client report "book" with the data we were presenting before and insights from the trends over time in case the clients asked about the info that was no longer in the presentations that i can share with the clients after the meetings along with answers to any questions they asked me in the meeting that i needed to dig into.

So I basically freed up about 100 billable hours a month (six practice leads at four hours a week) for our T3 techs and apparently also alerted the CEO to the fact that I was not fucking around about professional design skills so he is no longer looking for a contractor to do our client education materials all while costing decidedly less than $120k a year.

So I'm not really worried that he's going to take credit or that I'm making myself replaceable with the templates, I'm mostly worried that I'm setting myself up to make more work for myself, but realistically doing it this way saves me time over the way the former exec had me doing it so really I'm just annoyed that this means they're going to make me go to more meetings.

[ms-demeanor]

Everyone thinks I'm very funny in meetings because I am but also because my "I have an infodump prepared on that topic if you'd like to drink from the firehose" face is very obvious to our team and it is apparently amusing to watch both me and the clients when I'm given the opportunity to, like, talk about password managers or server licensing models or access control protocols.

Also apparently I'm better at live data lookup than anyone was aware of until they started watching me do it in meetings? I don't know if that's because I'm better at using our RMM than the people who lead the meetings or if it's because I can recognize the part number, serial number, and processor model patterns of desktops and servers from major manufacturers for the last fourteen years on sight so i don't *have* to go digging in the records to figure out when something was purchased i can just tell you what year the processor was released and if the serial number was late or early into that model year because I know it off the top of my head.

Which I did not realize that other people at the company didn't know also until they started including me on lease replacement meetings.

[bigolechompers]

totally not bragging at all

[ms-demeanor]

Why would I not brag? I went from feeling like an exhausted failure banging my head against broken processes in a job i hated in February to having half my coworkers and my whole management team look at me like I'm doing arcane magic when I do something that's easy for me in April.

It has been very weird to see what "normal" is for the rest of the team since I'm no longer isolated in procurement but it has also been very gratifying for coworkers who thought I was stupid or flaky to understand that I'm not, i was just ill-suited to my former role and burned out after doing it for over a decade.

[ms-demeanor]

Also i did my time in the product mines - i was genuinely surprised that people didn't know about the processor lines and serial numbers (literally some of the serial numbers encode the manufacturing date, this is tremendously handy to know, I figured everyone already knew that) and such so after gaining that knowledge while kicking and screaming its nice that the team knows that the project leads don't have to do a bunch of tedious research (it is *annoyingly common* for computer manufacturers to make it hard to find the manufacture date or look up warranty start date by serial) and they can just give me a spreadsheet and i can get them estimates accurate to the year by looking at a couple data points we already have.

Ideally the database I'm working on will use APIs to collect this info in the future but for now API stands for "Alli Probably knows It."

[ms-demeanor]