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KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
you punch nazis!
(requested by anonymous)
these ads on the app that i keep ‘accidentally’ opening are really pissing me tf off. i never seem to accidentally open other regular posts so weird ? @tumblr @staff
Who is the last one standing in the children’s picture book classics death match?
* Amelia Bedelia
* Arthur
* Babar the Elephant
* The Berenstain Bears
* The Cat in the Hat
* Clifford the Big Red Dog
* Curious George
* Frog and Toad
* Ms. Frizzle
* Winnie the Pooh
* Someone else
* See results
Who is the last one standing in the children’s picture book classics death match?
Amelia Bedelia
Arthur
Babar the Elephant
The Berenstain Bears
The Cat in the Hat
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Curious George
Frog and Toad
Ms. Frizzle
Winnie the Pooh
Someone else
See results
- Frog and Toad get stomped immediately. They’re lovers, not fighters. They have no idea what to do in the situation, AND they’re soft and squishy. Toad is probably poisonous, so he may have some ramifications later in the battle if he gets chomped on, but he won’t be alive to see it.
- Curious George, while he has some buffed agility stats, is still narratively and functionally a human toddler. He’s one of the first to go down.
- Arthur could normally hold his ground for a good bit, but against these specific opponents, he’s toast.
- Pooh could put up a good struggle, but he couldn’t keep it up. He doesn’t have the heart for it.
- Babar has enough bulk to take a good few hits, but he’s too small and slow to deal any good damage and would eventually get chipped down.
- The Berenstain Bears actually last for quite a while. This isn’t because they’re bears, as you may think (their teeth and claws give them some advantages, yes, but the rest of them have the size and shape of regular human beings), but because there’s four of them. Couple that with Mama and Papa’s children being on the line AND the power of God on their side, and they’re the first on the list that actually mean business.
- Clifford can stay in the game due to his sheer size. Everyone above him here has literally no way to touch him, and could be easily crushed by a simple belly flop.
- Amelia Bedelia lasts almost until the end. Every attack directed towards her is dodged or deflected through a variety of contrived circumstances that Bedelia isn’t aware of. She also doesn’t even know that this is a fight.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to the Cat and Mz. Frizzle. Honestly, I can see either of them pulling through, but my money’s on the Friz. However, the Cat is the only one with an actual taste for blood.
Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO
And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.
With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.
Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.
I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies
Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito
I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.
"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.
The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.
Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th
A worker collapsed and died on the floor of an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon, on April 6, as managers ordered employees to keep work
Listen we all know NFTs were a grift and all that but it still baffles me that they got past the naming stage. "These are called non fungible tokens" yes most assets are non-fungible actually. Non-fungibility is the default. "Yeah but these are tokens" you do realise that the advantage of 'tokens' is their fungibility, yes? A US dollar is a US dollar. A chuck-e-cheese token is a chuck-e-cheese token. The fungibility is intrinsic to the function. What you've made is not something that it makes any sense to call a token. I know it's just spicy finance crimes but like. Let's put some effort into the PR. As least cryptocurrency got an accurate name. What kind of asset are you pretending to have here. "Non fungible token" pick a fucking side.
#this post made me realise i dont know what fungible means#english is my second language#but im basically fluent#but through all the nft bullshit#i never realised i didn't know the word#prob say something about the general understanding
Something is fungible when it is completely interchangeable with its own kind in a trade or exchange. For example, currency is fungible -- one US dollar can be traded with another US dollar and essentially nothing has happened. The two dollars might be physically different -- most currencies are marked with serial numbers in case they need to be tracked due to theft or counterfeiting or whatever -- but in trade this doesn't matter. The specific dollar you have has no effect on anything -- any dollar is every dollar. Electricity is another fungible asset -- once it's in the system, it makes no difference whether the electricity you're using was developed in a coal plant or a nuclear plant or a solar panel. (Electricity, unlike coins, is physically identical which means you can't even have non-fungible edge cases like collectible coins.)
Houses, or racehorses, or paintings, are non-fungible. You can trade these just like money or electricity, but one house is not equal to every house -- their values will change relative to each other, and which house or horse or painting you have matters. If you want to economically model the value of houses as assets and trade goods, you can't do so in the unit of "house" -- you have to convert it to a fungible currency, like the dollar or the megawatt-hour, first. (You can create an "average house value" and mark the value of every house as a certain percentage above or below it, but this is just currency with extra steps. Now you've invented a fungible token useful only in comparing and trading houses. Hooray.)
Animorphs fans get a +2 to knowing what "fungible" means because KA Applegate used the word wrong once in 1998 and the book was bad enough that we all eventually learned what the word meant from each other making fun of it.
Ok so my kid had an ear infection, right? As kids often do.
The doctor scraped out a bit of earwax to have a better look inside.
I was sent a bill for $200 PER EAR for this 5 second procedure which I did not give permission for them to do.
That was key- they did not ASK me if they could do this "procedure". And, as I OWN a medical practice (it's me. The medical practice is me, sitting in my house on video calls) I knew to call them when this bill came in to be like "You did not obtain informed consent for this procedure, and it was not en emergency procedure. You had full ability to gain my consent and didn't. I'm not paying."
And the massive hospital who owned the bill said "yuh-huh you do have to pay."
And I said "I own a practice. I know these laws. I do not owe you money for this."
And they conducted an "internal review" and SURPRISE! Decided I totally owed them money and they had never done anything wrong ever.
And so I called my state's Attorney General office, and explained the situation because, as I mentioned, I know the law. The AG got in touch within a couple days to say they were taking the case and would send the massive hospital conglomerate a knock it off, guys letter.
Lo and Behold, today I have a letter where said hospital graciously has agreed to forfeit the payment.
"How not to get screwed over by companies" should be part of civics class.
Know your rights and know who to call when they're infringed on. This whole process cost me $0 and honestly less effort than I would have expected.
May this knowledge find its way to someone else who can use it.
This post is super cute and all but like.... This isn't practical advice. I called the AG???? And they got involved over a $200 bill. Maybe because you yourself are a medical practitioner. Not just your knowledge but also your status.
Civics class wouldn't help most people in this case because the AG will not take on all these cases and most people cannot afford an attorney in this instance or more importantly, the hit to their credit.
The issue is not education over the system, it is the system
I agree the system is a mess but I think education does matter because people seem not to know that this is actually perfectly routine AG office stuff. I’m not the only person who’s done this- this is just what they do?
Were they going to get into a lawsuit over my $400 bill? No obviously not. But they printed up a letter on fancy letterhead to say to stop and it worked. They followed up with me the next day to be sure, and so ask how much money they had saved me.
They use dinky cases like mine to track habitual misbehavior of large scale companies to build cases they could actually go to court over.
And because people are shocked- I never spoke to the AG of my state directly. He operates mainly by overseeing a whole crew of people. And this is what those people do.
This didn’t happen because I’m special because of my tiny therapy practice.
This happened because this is what the AG office is for.
“The problem is systemic” doesn’t mean “and there’s nothing you can do”.
This is a systemic problem but that doesn’t mean there are no resources to help.
Thank you for clapping back on this. I'm here to reinforce. Yes, you CAN call your state Attorney General office when an entity is doing something illegal, even if it's "only" for $400. You think they don't care a hospital is doing a crime because it's not a big enough crime?
Then you've been trained well by "The System".
Yes, that System you say can't be fought? Where did you get that idea, huh? Who taught you that "small" acts of illegality don't matter? Who made you think that there's no point in fighting back because it will all come to nothing?
Might it be the same entities that benefit if you believe all that?
Gonna pause and let you ponder.
Never. Ever. EVER.
EVER.
Let companies or corporations or hospitals or organizations or any business big or small get away with screwing you over without a fight. Maybe you personally don't win every fight, but you lose 100% of the time you don't try. You'll win more often than you think you will. I know cuz I've done it.
So have others. Attorneys General offices bring lawsuits against businesses all the time. They do so because citizens contacted them to say "someone is doing a crime" and the crime doers did not stop when told and got into way more trouble than if they'd just stopped. FAFO. The Find Out can't happen if you don't even bother to report the Fucking Around.
On that note, as OP said, please know your rights! And, in a situation where you don't but suspect something is hinky, ask! The people of the internet can help! So can librarians! So can many others. Find out what is and is not okay for them to do. If it's not okay, report them! See something, say something.
Don't let the System win by default.
Fight, damnit!
Additionally, pay attention to State Attorney elections! Here in Minnesota, our AG Keith Ellison has made it a POINT to go after slumlords, has created an entire UNIT in the AG office dedicated to wage theft, and gone after debt relief for people who were conned by those scummy fake universities. And despite MN being a blue state, one of his elections was a fucking NAIL-BITER.
Absolutely fight the system, absolutely go to your AG office if you’re being screwed over, and also pay attention to the people running for AG in the first place.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people only works if the people make it work. That's you! You're the people.
"Don't bother doing anything because nothing will happen" confused cause with effect: it's really "Nothing will happen if you don't bother doing anything." Yeah, I know, it's a travesty that they don't hand you psychic powers when you take your oath as a civil servant, but until we fix that clear defect in our democracy: you're serving the public, too, when you report fuckers like this.
Not gonna leave this in the tags:
Suspicion of The System™️ is one of the ways The System™️ perpetuates itself.
If you believe The System™️ is only for Them™️ and not you, it will only ever be so.
Know the rules so you can make them work for you. Or better, how to break them in ways that hurt The System™️ and help you.
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all
Reblog if you are a freak who is justifying their gross actions
You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.
I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.
Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.
holy shit this person in the notes
Anyone got that comic about making up a strawman to make a point and then turning around and the strawman is standing there
This one?
a person from 150 years ago would be terrified by modern stuff . however , a duck from 150 years ago would just be all like ,still got lakes? yes ? okay cool
“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935)
Reblogging again because I thought they changed the quote so I decided to look up the actual quote and it’s not fake that is very much the actual quote
the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men
this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men
to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men
im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them
Girl I was scrolling through your blog and I had to google "shane dawson" and "pewdiepie" back to back who are these people 😭
you might be the only pure soul left
why does most anti-ai sentiment nowadays feel reactionary?
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Because people are exhausted and pissed off and no longer have time to re-re-re-explain all the details of why it's trash to the whiny evangelists who are convinced it writes a better paper than they can.
Because the base arguments against AI are:
It produces slop. Sometimes entertaining slop, sometimes marginally useful slop, but slop.
It cannot produce anything better than slop. This is, perhaps, the key point. The proponents claim otherwise, without any evidence to support them.
Some of the slop is actively dangerous. (See: Suggestions of safe mushrooms, inaccurate legal advice, and whatever the hell is going on with the character chatbots that teens are talking with.)
People who auto-produce slop, fail to learn the skills they would have developed by writing/drawing/coding/singing/etc.
Gen-AI is utterly useless as a teaching tool. It is worse than useless: it actively discourages people from developing their own skills.
It's an incredible resource drain. Exactly how bad gets debated, but the point is: In order to have AI slop not be the random 5-legged horse with green mush tree backgrounds, you need a LOT of computer power.
The only reason we have the current level of entertaining-to-useful slop (it's still slop) is venture capitalists sinking billions into a pipe dream that is never going to happen. AI will never produce insightful, entertaining fiction; it will never produce a coherent movie; it will never produce blueprints for a house or an Ugly Christmas Sweater knitting pattern. The "hallucinations" are never going away; they're part of the process. Again: Proponents claim otherwise, despite computer experts saying, no, that isn't how this can work.
Part of that "investment" includes widescale data & content scraping, some of which is definitely illegal, much of which is immoral and might be illegal, and, importantly, they are very aware that paying market value for the content they're using would tank any chance of profitability.
There might be useful potential aspects to gen-AI. (The same way there might be potentially good uses for blockchain.) Those are not the aspects the venture capitalists are sinking money into, because those are not "replace human creativity with a robot" features.
And once the pro-AI contingent has loudly declared that none of that matters and the haters are wrong because any day now, AI is going to be able to make apps that meet HIPAA security standards, or good knitting patterns based on particular types of yarn, or a chatbot that can act as a therapist without suggesting you get divorced or commit suicide, or beautiful artwork that doesn't hit the uncanny valley and definitely isn't copyright infringement, I promise bro, just wait, the NEXT version will fix this problem...
The anti-AI contingent has to fall back on "AI is stupid and it sucks and I hate it" because the people who are invested in it succeeding have blithely ignored, not refuted, every single problem with it.
The most reasonable analyses I've seen, say we've got another 2-3 years of it at most before the bubble collapses.
Because, and again, this is important:
It cannot produce better than slop.
There can be value in slop. The billions being thrown into it are not based on "let's find the best use for the kinds of slop this can make."
It's also literally killing the ability of people to buy and make computers for consumer and small business use, and is going to make it nearly impossible to get phones even at the current level of technology let alone the upgrades people are used to. You know planned obsolescence? Good luck replacing your shit because ai data centers are sucking up all the RAM and storage and they want to rent access to "compute".
The manufacturers decided they would rather have 7 ginormous bulk clients than deal with selling to consumers. I hope their bubble pops so hard.
there’s a big difference between “i’m sad because a character i was emotionally invested in was killed off” and “this character’s death served no purpose, was used for shock value, and is the product of bad writing and i’m upset about that”
you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:
that last one is literally a LOOK
yes!
but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:
AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.
Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)
This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.
Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…
…and his Minister of the Interior.
A Type B-15 steam locomotive…
Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…
The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…
…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.
Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.
Nice hat…
