ΑΚΛΝΣ's Thought Emporium @magicalsatsuki - Tumblr Blog

Nobody wants to tell you about the downsides of going on estrogen and becoming a curvy tmilf, but somebody has to, so I'm going to: After you take a shower you're gonna have to lift your boobs to dry off the spot underneath them. It doesn't take very long, but it is still an extra step and imo showering was already such an ordeal.

If you already have boobs though? May as well go on estrogen. The gynecomastic boy to happy tgirl pipeline is well established. It happened to me, so it can happen to you.

tpwrtrmnky

A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.

realflaminglily

there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut

whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

tpwrtrmnky

This, exactly.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Then, instead of being a non-sequitur claim you're just pulling out of thin air, the conclusion is the most reasonable way to assemble the provided puzzle pieces.

barbies-modern-cousin

has the term "oppression olympics" (and others similar) ever actually been used in a meaningful way or has it always been used to silence marginalized women who point out that the men in their demographic maybe just MAYBE have it slightly better than them

magicalsatsuki

or the racialized woman who points out that they have it worse than the woman of the majority group.

numberonevirginiansimp

Diversity win! Spiritual successor to the Folgers incest comercial is gay!

recreationaldivorce

we should bring back she/her as the generic pronoun

recreationaldivorce

im not joking btw im talking about how it used to be pretty common for communist writers to use she/her to refer to a generic worker/person/etc as a #feminist thing. it's more common to use gender-neutral language now but the problem is people are still constantly assuming that the default person is male, even when non-gendered language is used. she/her at least has the effect on the reader of like, giving them a stern look and saying "remember women exist". anyway i want us to bring this back

and before anyone gets silly, no it's not misgendering people who don't use she/her, unless you believe all the cis male writers who did/do this also believe that Everyone On Earth Is A Woman. it's a political writing choice

falestine-yousef

Dont skip 🔴

I am Falestine, Jad Al-Haq, I am 37 years old, married, and I have a eight-month-old child named Youssef. I gave birth to him during the war during very harsh conditions that no human being can bear. I moved from the hospital immediately after giving birth to the tent in which we were staying after we were displaced to it after the Israeli bulldozers completely bulldozed my house. and my suffering did not start from here. Rather, it began since the beginning of the war, and I am still suffering. I cannot provide enough milk for my baby or diapers. Even medicines and vitamins are not available.

I ask you for your urgent help in disseminating the link to my family and communicating it to people interested and able to help us. I didn't want to do it, but the tragic situation we are living in is what pushed me to do it. I feel sad and helpless, after we had everything, we are now homeless on the streets, living in a tent next to a dilapidated public toilet and there is sewage, dirt and waste everywhere, we sleep on it! We suffer from terrible heat, insects, scorpions, the danger of death, bombs and missiles, in addition to hunger of course, the danger of pollution and terrible diseases, especially the digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems!

. My father and mother could not bear it any longer. My father had a stroke after losing his home and his place of work, and my mother suffers from chronic diseases and needs treatment.

Do you have the right to imagine that when you spend your life building for yourself and your children to live a decent life, all of this disappears in the blink of an eye, and now when you reach the age where you should rest, you are forced to start again!!? But the most important thing now is to try to survive and protect your children from all the factors of death that surround us! I ask everyone who has humanity or conscience to feel our situation and put themselves in our place. How can someone who has lived with dignity all his life accept this? We are slowly dying every day.

Your donation, no matter how small, can have a big impact. It can provide a meal for my little one, a clean bottle of water, or a moment of safety under these difficult circumstances. Every donation brings with it a ray of hope, alleviating our suffering and giving us the strength to face a new day.

I ask you to donate and support the steadfastness of the Gazan people, and share this campaign with your friends and families. Together, we can make a difference and help my family get through this ordeal.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support.

Warm greetings,

Falestine

Hello Everyone,

p1nkiek1ttie

no, actually, i can’t be friends with someone who has opposing political views. this is mostly due to the fact my views are “people deserve rights”

deafmangoes

Look, it was the Ides of March and we got to talking on the server, and, well.

I present Roman Competitive Breast Growth.

===

Julius

I'd bumped into Gaius downstairs at the communal shrine, long after sunset and we were both meant to be asleep. He was wearing that pink-ish woolen cloak he'd been hiding in for the past week and holding a tiny glass phial. I had hoped he wouldn't see me and I wouldn't have to explain why I was offering prayers to Venus and Isis and Cybele and Vesta and anyone else who would listen to my desperate, impudent wishes.

But he did, and dragged me aside into a nook, his seemingly softer-than-normal face redder than his cloak.

dragongirlsweetie

you don't understand the only way to keep children safe is to isolate them from everyone except the people who are statistically most likely to abuse them

charlesoberonn

Does Tumblr know about the travesty that is the optimal (as far as we know) configuration to pack 17 squares in a larger square?

charlesoberonn

The little squares are all a side-length of 1 unit. The big square needs to be as small as possible while still containing all 17 squares in their entirety with no overlapping.

This monstrosity of a solution is the smallest one we found. Its side-length is roughly 4.675 units.

charlesoberonn

tempered-grace

@quantum-transmechanics this is how this works right

cult-of-yuri

Pas de deux, a troupe suicide

misamxsa

chu!

beeftony

Cosmic Princess Kaguya dares to imagine a world where the metaverse happened but for lesbian VTubers instead of incels

ultrakart

Yachiyo: Oh, so you'll kiss Kaguya on the mouth with tongue but not me?

Iroha: I would if you had a body!

Iroha: Wait. You do have a body.

Iroha: Kaguya is you.

Iroha: Why are we having this conversation?

Yachiyo: O(∩_∩)O

molabuddy

when u plug a phone into a computer the comupter always charges the phone even if she has less charge than the phone bc the computer thinks that due to her size she always needs to provide for those smaller than her even when it hurts her more than it helps others. btw

trippedintoa-volcano

Imagine that everywhere in the mechanical engineering world suddenly got infatuated with lasers.

Lasers have a lot of uses! Measuring things, heating things, cutting things, entertaining cats, particle physics. Lasers are pretty cool. Very versatile, very useful, potential to be very powerful.

Someone shows up one day and says "I have developed a never before seen technology! I call it a Death Star."

And it's a 3.4mW laser. Well no, we haven't seen this exact size of laser much since that's not really standard, but that's a bit of a misnomer, and I wouldn't call it new -

"HOLY SHIT GUYS! This Death Star is so entertaining! My cat loves it and it has such a nice color!" The Death Star becomes a viral novelty, and is mildly entertaining, as laser pointers often are.

Somehow, seemingly overnight, this leads to mania. "Lets stick lasers in EVERYTHING! The public loves them!"

More companies make 3.4mW lasers to jump on the bandwagon. Everyone that makes anything vaguely mechanical starts sticking lasers into their designs.

Everyone is calling them Death Stars. Any time there is a "Death Star innovation", it is just that they made a bigger laser.

Ford's next truck comes out and it has "Death Star integrated headlights", where they have just stuck giant lasers in place of their previously functional headlights.

An electric toothbrush is now "Powered by Death Stars" and shoots a laser at the tooth its cleaning. You think that maybe this could have actual applications as a sanitizing device if you're being generous, but when you actually look at the product, its laser has no purpose but to point at the tooth and drain the battery.

Mechanical products across the board get noticeably worse as everyone starts stuffing lasers in places where lasers have no right to be.

The lamp business gets in on it. "Here's a Death Star powered lamp!" These guys haven't even tried to stick a laser in their damn lamps. They've just started calling their light bulbs Death Stars and hoped you bought it before you could tell the difference. You at least appreciate that they haven't ruined their lamp about it.

Death Stars are lauded as the solution to all the world's problems. If it's not working, you should stick a laser in it! That'll fix it, everyone says. Once in a blue moon, it's even true! Weather prediction is really good now. But most things are garbage. Like "Death Star powered washing machines". What the fuck does that even mean?

Meanwhile, since all functioning mechanisms are being replaced with lasers, problems start showing up. All mirrors now cost $1000+ dollars, because the whole supply is being used up to make more lasers. The earth heats up, because everyone's blasting lasers at everything. People keep going blind, on account of all the lasers.

You, in fact, study optical mechanics. You know what a laser is, and how it works, and that it was invented many years before any of this nonsense actually started. People keep asking you about Death Stars, since surely you must know so much about them.

You explain that this is not really what lasers are for, except you have to call them Death Stars now, and that they're causing a lot of harm, so you don't like them much.

"Oh, but they're still such new tech!" they reply. "They'll figure out how to make Death Stars that don't burn your eyes out soon, and then it won't be an issue anymore!"

Somewhere, deep and buried, you remember lasers being used in particle accelerators, or in telescopes, or in laser cutters, or funny cat videos. They are, in fact, still interesting. Still cool.

But by this point they have replaced roads with "Death Star Powered Pathways", which are just laser pointers propped up on tooth picks pointing vaguely through the forests.

And you think you are going mad.

And they are still just FUCKING LASERS.

This post is about AI.

crazy-pages

As a laser research scientist with a professional grounding in machine learning (in particular on the nitty gritty math side), reading this post felt like walking through a nightmare and not being able to wake up because it's not actually a nightmare, it's reality.

Especially because this really is happening with lasers too. So many fucking laser pointers these days have enough power to permanently damage your eyes with glancing exposure, or shitty NIR filters so you get 100 mW of 1064 nm NIR light as well as 5 mW of 532 nm green. And yet people just. Think laser pointers are this fun, neat, totally harmless thing. And meanwhile I'm going absolutely fucking spare begging people to please let me take their laser pointer to work and test the power output so they don't accidentally blind themself, or their baby, or their pet. But we are in full on deregulating corporate hell and why would selling *permanently maiming warcrime weapons* as toys earn a company so much as a slap on the wrist?

People look at you like you're fucking crazy when you tell them that the Death Star they're holding isn't safe and they shouldn't be using it as a toy. Because it's a Death Star. Of course it's fine. They wouldn't be able to sell it if it wasn't fine. What's the big deal? You must be overreacting.

But no. No it is that bad. You should never ever ever ever use a laser pointer, or let one be used in your presence, unless it's been validated as operating at a safe power level with no NIR leakage by a professional. They're fucking warcrime weapons until proven otherwise (literally, blinding laser weapons is one of the few well observed international treaty weapons bans). I cannot express how dangerous they are in the context of a poorly regulated market.

And AI feels exactly the same way. Like. Yes it might be harmless. Sometimes. But why the flying *fuck* are you giving it write access to a healthcare information database?!?! Don't do that! That can kill people! Don't let your doctor use AI to transcribe your conversation and enter medical information/orders for them! Do you have any idea how wrong that can go?!?!?!

And then people look at you like you're crazy. Because it's just a Death Star. The little thing that keeps popping up whenever they use Google. It's fine. It must be fine. Why would Google do that if it wasn't fine?

Just like laser pointers.