Welcome to Rock-Bottom Ranch!

🎃 certified sleepy head, 🌈 love nature and the outdoors, 🍎 70s and 60s vibes, 🍀 ALL lgbtq+ cousins are welcome! 🍒 18+ 🍉

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[arborealkey]

It's something.

[thememedaddy]

[teaboot]

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[goth-queen]

[prokopetz]

Horses exist in zoos, you're pretty sure. That's where they, more or less, belong. It's not like there's a stable next to the auto shop or something. Are there… wild horses? In… nature? Presumably, at some point, there must have been. Probably not, anymore. Oh, the race tracks, though. Duh. They probably have stables. Couldn't lose twenty thousand wen a day if there weren't losing horses to bet on. Horses don't belong at the gas station, but there's one here anyways. Its rider is wearing a leather jacket studded with old military medals; what looks like a torso-sized cogwheel, slung over her back like a shield; a broadsword, underneath the cog-shield; and a pair of holo-screen shades. She dismounts. She slides her card through the machine. The pumps start pumping. The horse sticks out its neck, dips its snout, and begins drinking gasoline directly from the nozzle. The rider holds the spout up to the horse's mouth, at a bit of an awkward angle. She meets your eyes, and shrugs. You know how it is. You don't know how it is. Later, you will see her on the news, clotheslining a police officer on horseback at seventy miles per hour. You will understand even less, and also, so much more.

— Emily Zhu, Ten Thousand Days For the Sword

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

let’s be honest with ourselves here one of the best kinds of RPF involves a storyline in which two people had a brief but intense fling and after it’s over one of them never moves on #LetsYearnForever

[rock-bottom-ranch]

@beebfreeb hard times in Houston

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

let’s be honest with ourselves here one of the best kinds of RPF involves a storyline in which two people had a brief but intense fling and after it’s over one of them never moves on #LetsYearnForever

[spookynest]

Oceans of bloood 🩸

[cxrvidteeth]

antigone

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

Hey mutual ? What the fuck. Shirley temples are for EVERYONE

[caustic-light]

#grown ass man enjoying a fancy ginger ale and having some reason not to drink alcohol how dare

[6ixgatsu]

ᴛᴇɴɢᴜ

[were--ralph]

saw this on bluesky

he's trans now happy pride

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[yodaprod]

[dietspam16]

[foone]

Hi, Foone here, I'm a retrocomputer educator! I'm here to explain the real reason this laptop is like this.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

Next question!

[perdvivly]

I will say the standard advice of “money doesn’t make you happy! Look at the poor people who only earn *checks notes* 3x more than you! They’re basically fine. And the people who earn 10x more than you are just as happy as the people who earn 11x more than you. So money won’t make you happy.” Does make me want to start biting people

[humanfist]

Its been awhile since I looked at any studies, but when I took postive psyc the scientific consenous was that money had sharply dimensioning marginal returns on happiness...starting at noticiably over the *American* median income.

[sergal]

my favorite mashup emoji is this one and i wish it was real so bad

[coastal-mangos-one]