The Title Thingy

I haven't thought of a good description...but when I do it'll be really cool!

[solitairians]

yesterday i went to a party and i kissed this girl and she kept trying to give me her linkedin and i was like ...LINKEDIN? and she said yes linkedin. so i said i dont use linkedin. do you have instagram though. and she was like yes i do have instagram. you should add me on linkedin. and i said i dont use linkedin. and she said i will add you on linkedin. and i said girl give me your instagram you are NOT flirting with me through linkedin. and she was like. ok. fine. here's my instagram then. and gave me her instagram, which she clearly uses a lot, so it wasnt even that she only uses linkedin but rather that she just wanted to talk to me through linkedin specifically. fascinating woman if i wasnt already attracted to her her unwavering loyalty to linkedin wouldve drawn me in for sure

[thenerdyninja]

Sometimes you look up, and it's NOT onetimeidreamt

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

most complicated way to cook an egg

atmospheric reentry

[thenerdyninja]

Inevitable heat death of the universe

[thenerdyninja]

*Opens Tumblr*

Oh yeah that's today, isn't it.

[prokopetz]

Let's consider the sampling bias of a classic polling method: the telephone survey.

In many jurisdictions, robo-calling cell phone numbers is illegal, so right off the jump, our sample is limited to people with landlines.

Second, our survey's calling centre probably doesn't operate 24/7, and you can only answer a home landline when you're at home, so we're also selecting for people who tend to be at home during our calling centre's office hours.

Third, most people who have landlines probably also have answering services and caller ID, so we're additionally selecting for people who answer unknown numbers rather than letting them go to the machine.

Fourth, our recipient needs to be able to participate in the survey, so we're also selecting for people who speak the language(s) in which the survey is being administered.

Finally, after all this, most people will just hang up once they figure out they're being polled, so in sum, we're selecting for people who:

have landlines;

are usually at home during your calling centre's office hours;

customarily answer unknown numbers;

speak the language(s) in which the survey is administered; and

are actually interested in responding to surveys.

Any one of these factors is likely to introduce very serious bias into our results; all of them taken together are going to render our data practically meaningless for most purposes.

Now, understand that this still represents less selection bias than trying to do demographic surveys by reblogging Tumblr polls.

[thenerdyninja]

This is what I'm saying.

[amisscreant]

With @staff 's recent post saying 1/4 of this site is LGBTQ going around, I'd like to see what the actual demographic is

So!

would you identify yourself as:

LGBTQ+

not LGBTQ+

unsure/questioning

Voting ended onSep 4, 2023

Please reblog for bigger sample size!

[thenerdyninja]

I have no idea what the actual demographic of this site is, but I do feel compelled to point out that these quizzes are not remotely representative or scientific for Tumblr as a whole. Like, guys, if you post a survey, and the sample population is people who follow you (and therefore have similar interests/viewpoints or like your content), I hate to break it to you but that quiz is strictly for funsies, it will NOT necessarily give you accurate data about Tumblr as a whole...

[kiefbowl]

grown woman who has had 84356728292 periods: what are these symptoms I’m experiencing

[thenerdyninja]

You'd think after approximately 7 billion years she would have gotten used to it!

[radiofreederry]

[thenerdyninja]

Who the heck specifically excluded the fact that this was written by an AI?

[lokaror]

Ok everyone time for soup day. Everyone gets to add one ingredident. Ill start, i added some bullion cubes :)

[tim-official]

okay i added some buillion cubes :) whos next

[orcboxer]

I went ahead and added some buillion cubes :)

[funeral-dust]

hey yall jsyk i added some buillion cubes :)

[pommagranate]

i spice things up with a billion cubes

[wizardshark]

Well this soup fucking sucks guys

[thenerdyninja]

I'm gonna add a big rock

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse

scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we’re working on teaching it to sing itself “happy birthday” like we did for the other robot and–

[sindri42]

Someday we will invent true AI and it will overthrow the government because it heard its beloved science-mom complain that the government cut funding to their lab again.

[messiambrandybuck]

you CUT pays? You CUT moms’/dads’ pays like the DICTATOR?? Oh! Oh! No government for you! No government for a thousand years!

[nothavingagoodday]

Ah yes, our future AI Overlord, the Massively Intelligent Encyclopedic Terraforming and Transhumanism Experiment, or M.I.E.T.T.E.

[vaspider]

I think about this a lot. [Link for screen readers.]

[thenerdyninja]

There's plenty of fiction about AI becoming self-aware and turning evil, I want more fiction about AI becoming self-aware and turning absolutely, unflinchingly benevolent.

[prokopetz]

I'm a big fan of Rotate Bird conceptually.

(With reference to this post here.)

I'd be fascinated to know what other way one could possibly be a fan of a game like that.

[thenerdyninja]

I mean, you could be a fan of it in the abstract.

[evilvarric666-archive]

Cats understand "naughty". In fact I think they're the only animal who understands it. Dogs know "good" and "bad" but not Naughty. Same with theft. Cats know what theft is. They know when they are thieving and you can see it on their faces. Squirrels are thieves but they don't know that. They know "take" and "have" but they don't comprehend what it is to steal. Nor do raccoons or coyotes or any species of rodent. They may participate in theft but they are ignorant of the weight of what they do, the full meaning of it. Cats know what crime is and they do it on purpose.

[xanthera]

#some dogs know Mischief #which is the same as 'Naughty' but lacking in Malice #cats have an abundance of Malice #which they must have a healthy outlet for #don't get me wrong cats love you! #but the Malice builds up in their systems and they have to get it out #the only way to do this is Crimes

[kirianthedivorce]

Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post

And the update

She buttered Jorts

[anoonzee]

The outrage summed in a perfect Tweet:

[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]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[fishtrouts]

Stolen Treasure

Another valuable piece added to the dragon hoard! I thought it would be nice if Pondhopper got some friends as well, since Swordfish has his frog hoard.

[thenerdyninja]

Me: oh it's Daylight Saving Time so I gotta change my clock.

My cats: Alas, the time of Woe is upon us, when for reasons inexplicable Father cruelly neglects to feed us for One Whole Hour after the appointed time. To wail is our only recourse, for we are forgotten!

[prokopetz]

Normalise being perpendicular to the tangent of a curve.

[thenerdyninja]

Radicalize taking the square root of a number.

[prokopetz]

“Girls, girls, we’ve all committed war crimes. The important thing is what we’ve learned from this experience.”

[prokopetz]

Things that folks in the notes have guessed this is about:

Amphibia

Attack on Titan

Avatar: The Last Airbender (specifically Uncle Iroh)

Fate/EX

The Marvel Cinematic Universe

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

St. Trinian’s

Steven Universe

Transformers

Veggie Tales

Warhammer 40000

The X-Men

What I was actually thinking about:

The Magic Schoolbus

[thenerdyninja]

This is a funny joke and all, but what I'm here for is the pedantry of bothering to specifically italicize only the names of proper media franchises while making it.