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Two kids and a ram pose for a portrait. Djenne, Mali. ©Nybe Ponzio

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lemonsharks

Queue this up for six months after we break population immunity

saintsatellite-deactivated20240

2038 is going to be soooo bad

dyatlovpassingprivilege

sam please tell people about 2038

saintsatellite-deactivated20240

In short: almost all computers count time by counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 – this is the Unix Epoch. Older computers store all their numbers using 32 bits, with one bit reserved for the sign (since computers have to refer to time before the Unix Epoch too). So 2³¹ seconds after the Unix Epoch, all the 32 bit computers will instead think it’s 2³¹ seconds BEFORE the Epoch.

Most of our computers use 64 bits now. But lots of embedded systems going back God knows how long DON’T. And so the BEST case is that the computers go back to thinking it’s 1901. The worst case is they break and nobody notices until it breaks something much worse.

freyjapup-blog

Its been NINE YEARS and i still dont think anyone knows exactly why teen titans was cancelled

mediumsizetex

Same reason Young Justice and Green Lantern The Animated Series were canceled: Girls liked it. Bruce Timm finally up an’ said it out loud in an interview a while back when he was asked why in the hell GL:TAS had been canceled when it was doing so well on every front; DC’s animation department has institutionally decided that feee-males don’t/can’t/shouldn’t like superheroes, so even if a show is drawing in great viewership numbers and has great toy sales, once they find out that it’s popular with women and girls, they pull the plug on it. Cartoon Network loved Teen Titans— two million viewers for new episodes will do that— and wanted a Season Six, and the production staff was already in the planning stages for it; they were going to have a big arc about Terra and why she was Living Normal, and do a lot more with the extended Titans team members.

silkktheshocka

This is so fucked up.

prokopetz

To elaborate on this point a bit, the reason this happens is that modern television merchandising aims for total market segregation.

In a nutshell, it’s much more efficient to sell things to people if you can divide them up into tightly defined subcategories that have no interests in common; that way, you never risk accidentally competing with yourself.

This is why children’s toys (and toy sales channels) are actually much more strongly gendered these days than they were forty, thirty, even twenty years ago: one of the basic market segregation splits they’ve decided to use is “boys versus girls”.

Ever wonder why you see Avengers t-shirts that leave Black Widow out of the group shot, or Guardians of the Galaxy action figure lines with no Gamora? That’s market segregation in action.

The upshot is that shows with crossover appeal can actually be cancelled for being too popular with girls; they’re viewed as “stealing” the female market from the specifically girl-targeted media that rightfully “owns” it.

This is the sort of thing folks are talking about when they say gender roles are socially constructed, by the way. The gender split in media merchandising? It’s not just artificial, it’s deliberately imposed as a top-down marketing strategy. When folks try to justify it by saying “this is the ways it’s always been” or “this is just what the market wants”, they’re lying through their teeth - this is, in fact, the merchandisers dictating to the market what it wants in order to sell stuff more efficiently.

(Interestingly, the reverse isn’t always true: if a specifically girl-targeted show unexpectedly becomes popular with boys, sometimes rather than being cancelled, its merchandising will shift to court the male collector’s market. TV execs are so sexist, even their sexism is sexist.)

taxfrauddotcom

It gets worse.

Paul Dini, a writer/producer said this on a podcast: “ That’s the thing, you know I hate being Mr. Sour Grapes here, but I’ll just lay it on the line: that’s the thing that got us cancelled on Tower Prep, honest-to-God was, it’s like, ‘we need boys, but we need girls right there, right one step behind the boys’—this is the network talking—’one step behind the boys, not as smart as the boys, not as interesting as boys, but right there.’”

Cartoon network and Warner brothers deliberately made the conscious decision to dumb down their female characters because they want to push female viewers away. In fact, Tower Prep was cancelled because it had too many female viewers because the writers made too many well written female characters.

So shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning just so the execs can make more money.

And it’s not just cartoon network. I mean, why do you think Nick fucked over Korra so badly? Remember them telling Bryke they didn’t want a female Avatar? Why do you think there are no Korra figurines or action figures?

Source: http://www.themarysue.com/warner-bros-animation-girl-market/

misspetsyourcats

“shitty representation of girls isn’t something that just happens. It’s the result of deliberate planning”

official-mugi

And then these same corporations will try to play the “boys gatekeep girls out of hobbies but not us please give us your female money”

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kokkuri3

Heated argument

hustlerose

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josukespimphand

Posting this old wip here since it’s still Jolyne day and idk when I’m gonna get around to finishing it lol! So happy!!!!

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smallrat36wagon-deactivated2021

LOL whos tye saultry little binch on the bottom lsft????

foxyclock

this post is less than 1% away from being completely incomprehensible

sixpenceee

Crazy simulation of what we will see if we had a giant banana in orbit | source

mercowe

Daily banana eclipse.

quietmouth--loudmind

I am frightened but intrigued

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Mamma Chicken vs Hawk

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"bruh"

thetyrannosaur

body checked that mf before he even touched the ground

kaynayinhara

really wish you guys would stop treating “unchecked racism” and “uncritical media consumption as a pillar of personal identity” as inherent autistic traits :/

kaynayinhara

“it’s ableist to find fault with this person’s actions because they’re autistic” “some people are autistic susan!” actually… it’s ableist to decide autistic people are incapable of growing and improving. nice try tho

jewblog

also: this perpetuates the extremely prevalent idea that autism is a “white people thing"—what really gets me with this is that it’s really obvious that the people making the argument that op is criticizing not only don’t care that they’re robbing autistic people of agency, but also generally don’t extend their sympathy beyond society’s “acceptable” autistic person (white, fully verbal, ~quirky~, lacking multiple disabilities, etc)