this feels right

[waterandsilver]

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

[waterandsilver]

i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage

[in-the-drowning-deep]

I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.

then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.

and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.

moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.

[netherworldpost]

printers do not want to be printers because they want to be problems

[strayknight]

the club sucked so bad so me and my pikmin are going home due to aforementioned club being so sucks

[saejima-nyan04]

OP why did you bring your pikmin to the club

[strayknight]

he likes the espresso martinis there

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

[finnglas]

this is it, this is all of it. By arguing about things like healthcare (including abortion, narcan, insulin, transition care), queer rights, environmental racism, infrastructure, war--all of these things. What you're arguing about it what lives are worth saving.

The answer is: All of them.

[beniial]

[werechicken-deactivated20241121]

The first three are literal genetically enhanced space warriors and the last one is just some twitchy nerd who got lucky

Besides Samus would cream them all

[purplepokili]

your mind

[tlgtw]

Isaac's First Good Day

[rowanisawriter]

[spitblaze]

"30 years old isn't old man" what privilege do you live in where your life expectancy is far past 30 years

This post blindsided me so bad I spent a full minute staring at it in shock

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

Somehow you got an anon from an ancient sumerian

[babybluebitchface-blog]

those fuck ass animatronics would not have stood a chance against this absolute god

[toexploretheworld]

Baltit, Pakistan (by toufeeque)

[swampthing07]

[swampthing07]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i get high and start acting like frances dolarhyde

[northerlyfilms]

Eating paintings

[cheaphalloweencostume]

eating paintings babe

[hornetstabber]

bro fuck my life

[megan3kk0]

[angelofdykeness]

none of these edits are as good as the original. we are losing our culture

[bananasheriff]

No, I don't think I will

[polkadotmotmot]

Rory Hutton - Vita's White Garden, 2023 - Silk

[anexperimentallife]

[tricky-pockets]

seems like there's a whole genre of:

society: autistic people fundamentally don't comprehend [x]

autistic people: no, I get it, I'm just Not Gonna Do It

[thebestworstidea]

just because I understand doesn't mean that I agree

[redskyeatnight]

At some point in my childhood someone quoted, "You've gotta know the rules to break them," at me and I took it to heart

[silver-tongues-blog]

[whyenn-reader]

reblogging for the last addition

[jack-of-blades]

[pandemic-info]

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV

Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.

[stereotype-embodier]

Unbelievably fucking cool

[carrieneuman]

A twice-yearly shot could help end AIDS, but only if it can get to everyone who needs it

A twice-yearly shot has shown to be 100 percent effective in preventing HIV infections in a study of women, and published results show it wo

Between that and new preventative shot, we might be able to eradicate HIV in the near future.

[jam-does-audio]

Do not forget this. No matter what happens do not forget we’re this close to finally ending this awful virus

[raddagher]

Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

[jay-wasreblogging]

Why would utility prices go up because of ai?

(I am not defending the usage of generative AI/ChatGPT/Character.ai etc etc i am very much against it - I am just curious as to the correlation between using it and utility price surge please don't come at me this is a genuine question)

[raddagher]

Happy to help.

ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY'S electricity.

ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.

The AI boom wastes so much electricity that we are very immediately risking US cities having to have rolling blackouts just to keep up with the energy demands, as early as NEXT YEAR

Gen AI's water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027

More AI use = more data centers = power drain on local cities = gas, electricity, and water utility prices rise because all of our resources are being funneled into a machine that makes garbage