MaximusRalf

49.5% Evil is not Half Bad / RalfMaximus Approved

[captain-price-returns]

my like 60 percent confident take from the start of all this is that the strait is not ever opening back up so long as Trump is in the chair. even if he could be trusted to stick to a deal (he can't) he'd straight up forget about it 3 hours later

Trump has betrayed Iran over and over and over again for going a decade now, and capped it off with a Pearl Harbor style sneak attack that massacred most of the current leader's family and then a triple tap strike on a girls' elementary school all while being unable to even articulate a consistent set of demands

Doing a deal requires him to be conciliatory toward Iran, which he can't do because he can't tolerate looking weak so he's stuck. Took 80 years but he finally met a consequence of his actions he can't bullshit his way out of.

[depsidase]

[shadowtherat]

Donut is learning the “Rob a Purse” rat trick! 

[13lizardsinatrenchcoat]

CRIME RAT CRIME RAT CRIME RAT YEAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oswednesday]

dont act so high and mighty over twitter we literally have a post limit here

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

It's different here because we can only post so much but we can continue to scroll and interact with posts. On Twitter they have a limit on viewing posts. Once you read a certain amount for the day you are done.

[maximusralf]

And because of the idiotic way the limit was implemented, a typical twitter user will burn through their allotment of tweets in minutes.

See, every tweet viewed counts against your limit. The tweets above and below the one you wanted to read, 'recommended' tweets their algorithm wants to show you, the invisible tweets just offscreen ready to be scrolled into view that were pre-fetched for performance that you might never get to see if you close the app or do a search or otherwise change context.

Tweets you've already seen! Scroll back to re-read a tweet? That counts. Literally doing anything on the app or webpage hammers their servers with data requests that count against your limit.

Even if you paid for verification.

[lastoneout]

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot

this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)

you can set your likes and follows to private

checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing

follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric

drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally

DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!

tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7

be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3

[batshit-auspol]

2015: New Zealand holds a vote to change their flag due to its similarity to Australia's, leading to the submission of the 'Lazer Kiwi' flag. Designer Lucy Gray said her inspiration was that "Australia has a lot of animals that can kill you, so New Zealand should get one too"

[batshit-auspol]

Following the failure of the flag referendum, New Zealand's acting Prime Minister blamed Australia for the loss, stating on radio "we got there first"

[maximusralf]

Make your vote count!

[tchaikovskaya]

[maximusralf]

..is there any limit to how many you can wear at once?

[pupyjpeg]

Your dumbass balls

[pupyjpeg]

My dumbass balls... Stupid, worthless balls.

*Ties my balls into a knot on the end of a hobo bindle and trudges away like Charlie Brown*

[maximusralf]

[every-lemon]

(from the FAQ)

CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT THIS IS??? because as someone who works in digital marketing, my jaw literally dropped.

When I put out an ad for a client on Facebook, I can target like... new moms in their 30s who are looking for furniture within a 10-mile radius. Or people who have an anniversary coming up. People who have just moved. People who are in a new relationship. People who have elementary school kids and tend to vote Republican. People who have liked certain Pages. It's absolutely unnerving.

the utter chaos of this, though.

it's just... incredible.

[fallintosanity]

Honestly though, as someone myself who works in infosec and data privacy, what this suggests to me is that Tumblr either doesn’t have, or isn’t willing / able to use, that detailed targeting information about its users. Which is great!! Every other company out there - not just social media companies but everything from your grocery store to your car insurance company to your operating system provider - actively collects as much demographic data as it can about its users specifically for this kind of ad targeting purposes. 

Obviously Tumblr still collects some data and uses it for ad targeting; they do have this in their Privacy settings:

But the fact that they’re either unable, or are choosing not, to make that data available to people buying Blaze posts is such a huge win for data protection and a giant thumbing of the nose to the FAANGs who believe that the only way to make ad revenue work is to make ads as targeted as possible. 

I can’t express how much I hope Blaze succeeds with this insane and chaotic model. XD

[cyle]

[valtsv]

i refused to stay buried because i love you why are you running

[valtsv]

babe it's me i'm just covered in dirt and blood because i had to claw my way up into the light and crawl on my hands and knees back home to you stop screaming

[marinella-ela]

[chocolateismynemesis]

@todaysbird

[sabinerondissime]

[ayeforscotland]

I like this poster.

[theinformationcollector]

TIL that when cable was introduced it was advertised as having no commercials due to being a paying service.

via reddit.com

[01189998819991197253andahalf-de]

>TV comes in on antenna >Has commercials >Cable offers TV without commercials >Cable starts airing commercials >Cable charges extra for bonus channels like HBO >Cable starts breaking up channels into a dozen extra packages with about half a dozen garbage channels for every one channel you DO want to try and convince you to buy multiple packages >People say fuck it and start pirating shit >Streaming comes out >Offers free TV with ads or no ads with a paid subscription >Subscriptions become required >Ads are shown anyway despite it being a paid service >Dozens of streaming services all have exclusive content requiring multiple subscriptions >People say fuck it and start pirating shit again We really came full circle on this one.

[kickassfemaleathletes]

Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War. 

[kdhumecurios]

Look at her. 

I know open water swimming isn’t really glamorous, but Lynne Cox is arguably one of the greatest overlooked athletes of the 20th century. 

And quite possibly a mutant. 

She can withstand water temperatures that you or I would die from because of her training and her body’s unique reaction to cold (you know how the blood will leave your fingers and toes when it’s cold, to preserve heat? her whole body does that, pooling her blood in her core and insuring her body temperature stays toasty where it counts).

She funded the Bering Strait swim herself, clearing out her bank account when she couldn’t get corporate sponsors. After she succeeded (to almost everyone’s surprise: if you get in the Bering Sea without serious gear you generally just die) Gorbachev mentioned her during treaty talks with Nixon: “Last summer it took one brave American by the name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and friendly the meeting was between our people and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.“

She wasn’t just the first woman to swim the Strait of Magellan. She was the first person to make it across. 

On top of setting multiple world records, she swam a mile+ to the coast of Antarctica, in just a bathing suit, and did not die. 

She’s swum over 50,000 miles. 

And look at her. This is a photo from when she was young, at the peak of her career and setting records all over the world. She is a great athlete. She is a human who can do things most humans would die trying. I’m sitting here at 1 AM getting all teary eyed because this is the first time I’ve looked up a photo of her and I am so surprised, so gratified, so overwhelmed to find out that this world record setter, this literal superhuman, has nearly the same body type as me. 

[aqueerkettleofish]

Since they wouldn’t let her be a fantasy creature in a video game, she just did it in real life, I guess.

[jenniferrpovey]

Anyone who thinks there is just one athletic body type isn’t paying attention during the Olympics opening ceremonies.

Her body type is optimized for her sport. The shape of her body and the presence of fat both provide insulation to keep her core warm while she swims.

A lot of open water swimmers aren’t this chunky, but that’s because most of them are actually triathletes, and their body type is a compromise between the ideals for the different sports.

There really is no one way to be fit and athletic. For some reason, we tend to get ourselves hung up on the body type of track and field athletes, especially that of marathon runners (who tend to carry almost no extra fat) as the ideal.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Dude HOLY FUCK she’s a badass.

[larkandkatydid]

When Lynn Cox was training to swim the English Channel at 14, her practice regimen had her swimming off Long Beach pier from 3am-6am each morning and then going to high school.  Her coach asked that she be excused from morning gym so that she could have extra time to shower and do homework. Her gym teacher refused to allow it because she believed that Lynn Cox was too chubby and too clumsy to be missing 9th grade gym. 

[hieronymus-bush]

And here’s a joyful, more recent photo of this tremendous athlete.

[yesperono]

it’s almost like human body fat isn’t evil and is actually an evolutionary advantage…

[a-yoda-a-day]

[talus-the-broken]

In any tomato based sauce, vodka, or any strong alcohol doesn't make the dish taste more like alcohol, it releases alcohol soluble elements from the tomato itself, making it taste sweeter, richer and more tomato than even just tomatoes themselves, this adds acidity, which is often tempered by the addition of dairy (usually heavy cream) a la vodka is not a delicate sauce, but any means, it's made with a full intention of every major ingredient hitting well above it's weight. And if you want it even better, try using a good botanical gin or a pepper vodka for even more intensity.

[chilewithcarnage]

[maximusralf]

Suggestions for somebody with dairy allergies?

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

If Scooby Doo taught me one thing it's that you can eat dog treats