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theres no difference between exercise and black magic both of them hurt your body at first and drain you of energy but the more you dabble in it the more powerful you become
this is the most inspiring thing i have ever read
reblog to reclaim your power
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You are not supposed to tell people this
this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them
And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea
-Trigger warnings (um...."smoking"??)-
Not Waving but Drowning
Farewell
is that a nothing in your pants or are you just normal to see me
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“you support gay rights so you must be gay”
i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you
turns out i am gay
holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type
Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!
he was a llama
a llama?! he’s supposed to be dead!
horse with a dvd player on its back 2006-03-21
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sorry I have some kind of brain disease
I suspect this was meant as a visual pun because this server is rated for 733 watts, almost exactly one metric horsepower
if it wasn’t for some kind of brain disease, we would all have forgotten this punchline. everyone say thank you some kind of brain disease
@21st-century-minutiae This seems up your alley writ joke preservation!
In the late 18th century, James Watt, inventor of a version of the Steam Engine that made it practical for use in the industrial Revolution (and the man for which the SI unit of power, the watt, is named) introduced "horsepower" as a unit of power (that is to say, rate of energy over time). The unit was designed to help potential buyers reckon with the capacity of engines compared to a draft horse, which would be the closest comparison people would be familiar with.
Watt measured how much power a horse could provide by having it turn a mill wheel. Knowing the weight of the wheel, the distance of the circumference of the circle of travel, and measuring the number of rotations a horse could make in a single hour (at a pace it could sustain all work day), Watt defined a horsepower to be 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. And he could build engines that produced more power. This was before the advent of standardized measures.
There are many different versions of "horsepower" in the early twenty-first century, with different definitions, such as immaterial horsepower, metric horsepower, and electric horsepower. They are all within the same order of magnitude, and are seldom used for official, precise measures (watts are much more common for the purpose when precision and accuracy are required), so the distinction is effectively arbitrary. Horsepower is only really used in advertisement for heavy machinery, such as automobiles, and is usually used to compare within the category (e.g. this car's engine is almost twice as powerful as that car's engine).
In the early twenty-first century, actual comparison between horsepower and the power output of a horse is not really relevant, as most people do not interact with horses so frequently.. A biological system like an equine does not have a set, consistent output. In short bursts, they may be able to produce 15 horsepower worth of power. Over the course of a day, they can produce less than a single horsepower.
A rack-mounted server is a computer designed for the purpose of providing service to a large number of clients. This is distinct from computers designed for personal use (as PCs) or computers designed for specialized use in individual devises. Rack-mounted servers prioritize ruggedness against disruption and the ability to work with other computers in parallel for scaling increase in computational power (almost always computers of the same time physically mounted on the same racks, hence the name). They might not be capable or effective at generating graphics, and might not be set up with a graphical user interface. They are commonly used to support websites and web applications, or databases for entire companies. It is possible to use a rack-server on its own, but they usually are used in large arrays, working together in in concert.
As the above points out, the particular individual rack-server supports a horsepower worth of electricity, so it was placed on a horse as a visual pun. People in the early twenty-first century would NOT be able to recognize the particular specifications of a server rack off hand. Only with the added context of the specifications does the joke become apparent.
The fact the rack server was confused with a dvd player is not unexpected. Most people in the early twenty-first century do not encounter rack servers, and, if they do, it would be in the context of dozens of them all being placed on the same rack, not a single unit. While DVD players are far less common at the time of the above post, they were particularly prevalent in the 2000s, and enough people are old enough to consider them as an option.
Additionally, the rack server is equipped with a drive that can read DVDs; this component is visible on the right of both photos and mentioned in the excerpt of its specifications. It was meant to be used to load software and data onto the server, not to play movies, but the disc slot in the front of the server is a recognizable design element that may go some way to explain the original misidentification.
"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:
I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
But particularly women, and especially black women.
the enemy drank water today. did you?
i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win
just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony
random niche hill ill die on is that i think all languages should be called whatever they call themselves in that language. if it's español en español it should be español in english. what the hell is a spanish anyways.
the number 1 rule of fanfic is have fun and be yourself. the number 2 rule is the average healthy adult male can lose roughly 2 liters of blood before dying.
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Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.
