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shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

sergeifyodorov

FUCKING HELLO?

- jessie holmes (current race leader as of now, 3:37 pm EST, first out of Rainy Pass) punched a moose in the face

- dallas seavey, previous 6x champion (currently in 3rd and in Rainy Pass checkpoint) killed the moose and, per rules, had to field dress it

- paige drobney (currently 4th, somewhere between Finger Lake and Rainy Pass) then later RAN OVER THE MOOSE WITH HER TEAM

prokopetz

"Decrease the increase" is actually a completely reasonable thing to say, but it feels like it shouldn't be.

open-sketchbook

this makes me think about how 'rate of change' stats are inherently infinitely nested

hold on i promise this is interesting

so, you have position. that's where you are. we figured that one out early by being places.

then you have velocity, which is how fast you go from where you are to somewhere else. we figured that one out too the first time somebody had to run away from a bear.

the rate of change of velocity is acceleration, which is a thing that presumably got coined the first time somebody stumbled upon the bear from a standing start still and suddenly it matters a lot how fast they could get fast.

everyone knows this.

but what about the rate of change of acceleration? this was something that didn't matter for the majority of human history, because the rate was never really fast enough in any situation where somebody was going to sit down and do math about it. wagons and trains can get by knowing just their acceleration rate. most situations where rate of change of acceleration mattered were usually terminal, i.e. falling off a thing and very suddenly experiencing deceleration at the bottom.

but then we invented planes, and planes go fast and turn fast. so fast than when you rapidly change direction, it emulates the effects of gravity and pulls the blood in your body in unexpected ways. World War 1 pilots (as in, canvas biplanes with motorcycle engine motherfuckers, people who rarely broke 200 kilometres an hour) started noticing that if they held a hard turn for a while at speed, they'd started to get dizzy. if they pulled hard out of a dive and their wings stayed on, their vision would start to go grey. and if they nosed down quickly, it fucking sucked 1

through the interwar period, we learned a bunch of stuff about acceleration and the effects on the human body. using this cool information, we invented things like autopilots that pull people out of dives that might knock them out (through GLOC, g-induced-loss-of-consciousness caused by the blood flowing into your feet when you pull up super hard) or masks that use air pressure to make it easier to breathe when you weigh eight times more than you should.

That all makes sense and is cool.

then planes started to get real fast, and some fucking asshole invented the jet fighter. during and after WW2 we started doing a bunch of very, very detailed testing into g-forces because now a pilot can literally kill themselves if they pull the stick too hard.

it doesn't take long before somebody points out that how quickly the onset of gs occur is important to the survival of pilots; slow gs are way different than fast gs. so you need a stat for the rate of change. so we coined 'jerk', the rate of change of acceleration. physicists knew about it as a concept, but had never really needed to care about it before this

then, when we started doing rocketry and fucking around with ejection seats, which subject the pilot to tremendous forces in the course of yeeting the pilot out of the plane with a barely controlled explosion, somebody in the big science lab presumably asked

'hey boss, what do i call the rate of change of jerk?'

so after sighing and probably pinching the bridge of their nose in frustration, the king of science or whatever was like, okay we're doing this, that's snap now. then, some smartass asked what the rate of change of snap is. and some even smarter ass went "its crackle. and before you ask, the rate of change of crackle is called pop."

so, to recap, pop is the rate of change of crackle which is the rate of change of snap which is the rate of change of jerk which is the rate of change of acceleration which is the rate of change of velocity which is the rate of change of position

we have not yet formerly defined what the rate of change of pop is, presumably because whenever somebody tries all the physicists and engineers get together to draw and quarter them 1 yes this post has footnotes. this distinction is positive gs (blood going to your feet) and negative gs (blood going to your head). human beings can handle shocking amounts of positive gs before passing out from lack of blood (and thus, tasty oxygen) in the thinking zone. by contrast, a very small amount of negative gs can just mcfucking kill you as the blood pressure in your brain spikes and all the delicate tissue take issue with that

ever stand up too fast and get dizzy? positive gs. wonder why being upside down for too long kinda sucks a lot? negative gs.

this is why planes always roll over onto one wing and turn 'up' into turns. turning 'down' into turns with any real force can literally make your eyeballs explode.

if you enjoyed learning about this distinction you will love reading my roleplaying games because its basically the only thing i ever talk about

bluecatwriter

I've been rereading some of my old travel diaries from my early 20's, and one of them seriously reads like a slow-burn fanfic. I was on tour with a small indie band and there was a cute guy my age traveling with the band. And we spent two weeks "accidentally" hanging out and sitting close to each other at the merch table in smoky bars and reading Tolkien poetry to each other and taking walks at the beach and sharing food and stargazing and sleeping next to each other on living room floors and giving each other back rubs and talking late into the night gazing into each other's eyes.

We never kissed. We never even held hands. I pretended to fall asleep on his shoulder once in the car, and one day I gave him a little kiss on the cheek. And that was it. We said goodbye two weeks later and we both thought it was forever and I pined so hard that I threw up.

A month later he sent me an apologetic letter saying that he was sorry for being so presumptuous when I clearly had no romantic interest in him, but that he had to be honest that he was in love with me. And I was like, "What?! He was in love with me this whole time???"

So yeah, we're married now (celebrated ten years last autumn) but if you're ever wondering if your slow-burn fic is too slow, or that your characters are too oblivious, just remember me and my now-spouse mutually pining over each other every single second of the day for two weeks without ever saying a word to each other about how we felt. I was reading my own diary yelling, "JUST KISS HIM ALREADY!"

archerinventive

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." -W.B. Yeats

A happy Sunday to you all!

Recently, the new spring light has brought with it a little gift.

On sunny mornings, my room is filled with prisms, only for an hour or so, but for a brief moment I get to bathe in rainbows. 🌈

So, while recently waiting for the paint to dry on a few new orders going out next week, I did a small lighting test, and captured this sliver of time.

May your days be filled with rainbows, and your senses ever sharpening.

Thank you all for following me on this magical adventure. ❤️

vintagegeekculture

Dorian Cleavenger.

designer-fiction

Caitlyn’s dad appreciation post

The parenting challenge:

Your daughter dissapears for two days. She turns up breaking into her own room, wounded, and smelling of sewage, brothel and gunpowder, with a complete stranger. Your wife is threatening them with a hunting rifle.

His reaction:

1- Hug. Tight. No questions asked.

2- Give the stranger a good once-over. Like, 5 seconds long. His eyes probably said to Vi thank you ♡ oh… wow, okay… wow… all at once.

3- *Glower* at his wife, upper lip pursed in utter disgust, when she called the person “a stray”.

4- Remove suspicious bits of metal from his daughter’s leg while she rants and curses. Still no questions asked. No eyebrows raised. Only delicately pulling really sharp bits of metal fireflies (okay?) from her leg, while she moves quite a bit.

5- Deploy most powerful weapon in his arsenal, The Puppy Eyes, to obtain permission for his daughter to rest (yes, “rest” with that girl waiting in her bedroom). Of course, The Puppy Eyes work. It gets her an audience with the council AND a moment of intimacy.

[As a side note, Cait is absolutely going to deploy those same Puppy Eyes on Vi, all the time. Vi is so fucked.]

Her dad is definitely where Caitlyn gets *that* attitude from. You know, the “I don’t fear difference and I’m going to treat you like a person and care for you now” attitude? Yeah, it’s from him.

His name is Tobias. He gets the trophy for best dad. 🏆

assignedmale

ritabuuk

Completed: July 8, 2020

breadlesbian

i still do not understand what possessed so many well-respected actors to do the spy kids movies like

did they pay really well? did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a blemish on your career forever?? why

antonio banderas did so many high-profile movies then in spy kids he looked like this

tony shalhoub has won multiple emmys but he did spy kids and

even fucking george clooney wtf

steve buscemi is pretty goofy but still

salma hayek’s pigtails in this wow

elijah wood was the lead in a movie that’s tied for the largest number of oscars of all time and he played a character creatively named “THE GUY”

sylvester stallone is like a cultural icon and he played not one but FOUR ridiculously dressed weirdos

alan cumming is the only one i can understand

anothercleverjedimindtrick

Spy Kids is a national treasure

behelix

how dare you talk about spy kids as though it is not the most brilliant franchise ever created

stoppunchingmyllamaog

They did Spy Kids cuz Spy Kids fuckin SLAPS. Bad post op

dashaibo

Real answer: because Robert Rodriguez’s experience working with Tarantino lead to him developing a way to make movies with essentially no budget AND made him a lot of friends in Hollywood, plus he was making these movies specifically for his kids and had such an infectious energy about it, he was a joy to work with and those big-name actors did it almost for free.

tabbythekouhai-deactivated20201

So, basically, they did it for fun. Is that it?

dashaibo

Yeah, and because it was very little work, the movies were shot in record time almost entirely on greenscreen.

crazydiamonds

adults are allowed to have fun too op

olowan-waphiya

Read this pdf of the book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer and maybe you’ll calm down

but seriously everyone should read this. humans arent evil. the future is indigenous.