That Guy

Mostly just some dude, with a variety of interests from fiber arts to mathematics to whatever seems fun that week. Content not usually related to any of that, howerver

[enchantingruinscandy]

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

[enchantingruinscandy]

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine that one day as you're walking on a hot sunny path, your hat jumps off your head and lands into a muddy ditch. And you look at your muddy hat and ask it: "What did you do that for?"

"I don't want to be a burden anymore", your hat answers. "You are always carrying me around, and I can't carry you. That's not fair."

"I don't mind carrying you, little idiot", you tell your hat, "you hardly weight anything at all, and you shelter me from the sun."

"But that's different", your hat protests. "I don't mind the sun scorching on me. That happens anyway. It's literally no trouble for me to shade you too."

"Just the same it's no trouble for me to carry you. But now, because you wanted to stop inconveniencing and bothering me, I am now hatless and you are in the dirt."

[jantesika]

hello Aesop; how's the underworld been?

[homunculus-argument]

Every day I wake up and Hades kicks me in the nuts.

[puppygirllaika]

fun fact: "large language models are not conscious intelligences they're just predictive typing algorithms, they don't have minds, and they cannot be the victims of racism because they cannot be the victims of anything because they're literally just fancy text generators please for the love of god stop personifying them you're playing right into the hands of these big tech companies that want to act like they're the new Promethei so they can sell that vision to their shareholders" and "wow you were really quick to jump on the idea that you could make up slurs for robots, and the speed and degree of glee with which you did so makes me feel like the judgement of your peers was literally the only thing holding you back from dropping actual slurs all the time, that all you needed was an acceptable target, and that is honestly pretty worrying to me." can both be true at the same time. these are not antithetical concepts.

[puppygirllaika]

people in the replies of this post are arguing about star wars and i just gotta say. y'all are missing the point of this post so fucking bad.

[emeraldincandescent]

You ever see a post you have no context for and think, wow, my great decisions on who to follow are protecting me from some really wild shit

[puppygirllaika]

[micknikblanket]

i'm a math major at a liberal arts school, so when I say that I hate my math class everyone assumes I just hate math. I have to be like "nooo sorry I just wish I was in my favorite class, another math class"

People here cant comprehend 1) that there are different types of math and 2) that some people actually like math

[depsidase]

[narcissistcookbook]

i had a dream two nights ago where i was being shown around a fancy medieval port, and my guide said "this coast used to have two ports, Mangeet and Totoga, but in recent years we've combined them both into one - Port ManTo" and i actually woke up with a fucking start

[theonion]

Arguing that there was no conceivable reason they should be anywhere else, local woman Nora Jay confirmed Wednesday that the good scissors weren’t in the fucking drawer where they belonged. “God damn it, where the hell are they? I don’t know how I’m supposed to finish wrapping this birthday present without my one decent pair of scissors,” said Jay, 30, as she tore through her home in search of the Fiskars premier craft scissors she’d paid over $15 for at Michael’s. Full Story

[prokopetz]

I've been seeing fandom content for both Void Stranger and In Stars and Time crossing my dash a fair bit lately, and I've just now realised that these are not in fact the same game.

And here I was thinking "wow, that's an ambitious tonal range".

[ceswest]

[tothechaos]

phones love to go "do you want to clear up .3 GB by deleting these cherished pictures that you havent looked at in more than 30 days?" while also installing random apps and AI bullshit you didnt ask for. and you cant even uninstall half the apps

[tonystarksanxieties]

No, but literally

[ieee-official]

Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

[yoneda-emma]

this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like

[maladaptations]

[amateur-artist]

Sounds like something a wizard mocking another wizard for their poorly written spellbook would say

[brucebocchi]

[brucebocchi]

you’re not gonna believe this

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[funeralcity]

instead of gay poems about some two headed cow they should make poems about a two headed ogre mage. would be way cooler and more relatable, to the average person

[memewhore]

[depsidase]

[tribeofthedrunkenweasles]