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debris-hime

a comic about a worm on a string

speremint

why am i allowed to draw

hjarta-deactivated20260124

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

scienceoftheidiot

They existed *before beetles*

somethingaboutsomethingelse

weaverdev

Made a quick breakdown of the GeccTecc™

the-bubble-jesus

cube

argumate

give him the cube

zzhayixx-deactivated20230511

oh god oh fuck this is so fucking cute im going to cry

shiftythrifting

Pooh's ass. Pooh and Tigger examining their ass's ass.

bamsara

you know when you’re overwhelmed and you just stand in the middle of your room like this

yeah

doeberman-deactivated20210530

sorry for trying to kill and murder you its just that my laundry wasnt dry even though i put it in for a full cycle and it sent me into an apoplectic haze :/ you know how it is

phoenixyfriend

I don’t want to end Amazon, because it provides an incredibly useful service to the disabled community, the elderly, and those who simply don’t have time to go shopping due to working three jobs and the like. There currently isn’t a major alternative on the market that is the same level of cheap and accessible.

What I do want to do is enforce some goddamn antitrust laws on major web-based companies like Amazon and Google and Facebook, and roll back their attempts at monopolizing entire industries, and make them pay their lowest-rung workers a fair wage and stop running their warehouses like a scene from a dystopian nightmare.

catchymemes

Credit: https://imgur.com/gallery/4LXnrWO

Original comic: https://www.buttersafe.com/2019/03/21/the-water-cycle/

rook-the-catechumen

This is what stepping on a landmine feels like

bigmeansweatydyke

this felt like getting punched in the throat

stressed-wizard

Tumblr PLEASE let us reblog ads i beg you, because this is the funniest shit I’ve seen pop up yet

trashboat

not a single fucking cat in the ad. this was a choice, a work of art

peternautico

Anuncios de tumblr, ese mundo maravilloso 🤣🤣

whitepeopletwitter

sindri42

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.