what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes
what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes
Was talking to a 70 year old security guard at my university yesterday and I liked what he had to say to me and a couple of the younger freshmen chatting him up. I think you should hear it. I’ll paraphrase him (cutting out my half of the conversation);
“For people like us [POC] it’s always been a fight against the latest dude. Reagan and bush and Obama and trump. You know what they did when we started scaring them? They bombed American soil because they were about to piss themselves at black power. You know I can’t say out loud I was a part of that but that’s what you kids gotta do. Stay calm and build that black power, that neighbor power, that low class power against the latest dude, and when they bomb this neighborhood again that’s when you can panic, but you’ve gotta fight til then. The president was never on our side. Neither one.”
I feel like it’s important to know that the University of Pennsylvania had parts of the bones of one of the MOVE bombing victims without the consent of the (living) family, and they had them for like… nearly 40 years. Then fucking lost them. The ME gave Penn the bones, and they used them for teaching classes.
It’s become a huge issue bc a local reporter broke the story - Billy Penn is a Very Local Paper - and the public outcry has led to a cascade change of the way a lot of Philly institutions handle human remains, which to me says two things: they won’t even respect your corpse if you don’t make them, and local reporters are fucking important. It was Billy Penn that broke who the bones might be & went to interview their childhood friends. The potential people were Tree, 14, and Delisha, 12. (For context, I turned 8 a couple weeks after the bombing.)
All the content warnings, but like, I think knowing that the disrespect continues for a long time after is important to know, too. The work keeps on.
19th century science fiction author wowing readers with careful description of the atomic spittoons located throughout the rocket ship for astronauts to hygienically dispose of their chewing tobacco.
Okay this is really bugging me but “atomic” was specifically a TWENTIETH century science fiction adjective; fuck, “atomic ashtrays” was even specifically an Asimov thing in Foundation. Science wasn’t even completely 100% convinced that atoms existed as anything except a bookkeeping trick for chemists until the beginning of the 20th century!
yes this scenario is anachronistic in both directions.
On the one hand, I’m always up for making fun of New Yorkers. On the other hand, every city I’ve actually been to has zoned corner stores out of existence – apart from gas station kiosks, I literally have not seen a residential corner store in twenty years – so I kind of get the romanticising bodegas thing.
where do you people buy milk I am so confused by American lifestyles
I’m Canadian, but to answer your question, when you live in a city that doesn’t allow (or no longer allows) mixed residential-commercial zoning, and you need some trivial article you can’t buy at a gas station kiosk, you drive to the nearest grocery store – which may be kilometres away – for every little thing. This is considered normal.
(For my part, I went to a great deal of trouble to find housing right on the border between a residential zone and a commercial zone, because I don’t drive, and living next to a highway is worth having a grocery store in easy walking distance!)
To be 100% fair, there’s also been a recent-ish move to reintroduce mixed residential/commercial neighbourhoods in the form of apartment buildings with shops on the ground floor. In practice, however, the owners almost invariably set the ground-floor rent far too high for convenience stores, so you end up with shit like an apartment building whose ground-floor shops consist of eight different orthodontists’ offices. Which is great if you need a lot of dental work, I suppose!
if i had a lame ass boyfriend i would hype him so much i would make him wait out side so i could go in first and be like get ready here comes the most specialest boy ever if you dont cheer and clap for him ill fucking blow this whole building up
overheard someone say that lesbians don’t have male icons the way gay men have female icons…. baby you have not logged onto tumblr dot com. the lesbians are dedicating blogs to men who look like the default mii
Actually insane how most surgeons just outright refuse to operate on fat people for no real reason
Even more insane how many people within the trans community will tell fat trans people to ‘just lose x pounds’ instead of criticizing the BMI limits themselves
Here are a few resources for surgeons that will perform top surgery with either no BMI limit or a much higher limit than other surgeons!!! Note that the google doc also specifies surgeons that do bottom surgery and hysterectomies. Fat Trans ppl that want top surgery deserve the same care and compassion that thin people get when it comes to medical care.
Thank you so much!!
I wanna add that I just checked the FEDUP Collective mentioned here, which mentions some non-US surgeons (super excited about that as a Canadian!!) and is supposedly up-to-date.
In Toronto specifically it mentions the Women’s College Hospital and lists their BMI limit at 40, but this is no longer true! WCH actually has NO BMI limit currently, which makes it super popular. I was actually really hoping to get my top surgery done there, but their waitlists are closed due to high demand until 'sometime next year’ and from what I can tell waiting time is usually around 2 years anyway.
The fact that FEDUP still has a BMI limit for WCH when I didn’t even know they ever had one is honestly extremely reassuring. It could mean there are other surgeons that have increased or removed their BMI cut offs that I hadn’t even considered yet.
i hope tumblr never gets rid of the feature to press and hold the like button so a bunch of hearts explode on your screen you know? it’s the little things
“oh yeah even if your opponent has an unexpected advantage that completely turns the tides of battle (you thought they were unarmed when they aren’t) you shook totally just keep going with your current plan, otherwise you’re a coward”
he would not say that.
you’re just afraid of a big thick girlcock
Whether Sun Tzu would be into girldick is completely orthogonal to whether he would give bullshit bravado advice that will get you killed. He’s the “logistics win wars” guy.
His ladycock advice would be more like “The wise general chooses an adversary who uses familiar techniques.”
there is a lot we will forgive for girlcock on this site but misconstruing Sun Tzu is NOT on that list
fucked up blend of various pink inks I have, it’s primarily dahler rowney’s platinum pink mixed in with ferris wheel press’s pink eraser with some solvent and water, I think there might be a drop of ziller’s flamingo in there too idk. it’s a bit frankenstinian
For the first time ever, I managed to package a little utility I wrote and installed it “officially” with pacman:
(yes, my username is asuka)
What it does is, any time I change files or install packages with sudo, it goes “you wanna explain yourself?”. I can then add a comment to that change, and later if I forgot why I messed with the bluetooth config file or w/e I get to look it up ^_^
one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it’s a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real
i was wondering if the hits to kudos ratio on my fics is consistent so i did what any normal person would do and plugged all of that data into excel and did some calculations and it turns out its a pretty linear relationship which i wasnt expecting. i thought my fics with more hits would have a lower kudos ratio but nope. it fluctuates between about 10-16% for most of them. roughly 1 in every 10 people who clicks on one of my fics leaves kudos
look how linear that relationship is. thats crazy
the only outliers i could see were :
my longest fic, so most of the hits are people coming back to read each chapter and therefore not leaving more kudos because they have already done so
my most recent fic which hasnt had enough time to marinate yet
This pizza was made over here in Brazil and I’m happy to inform everyone that the method they used to get the toppings over the whole dough evenly is just slightly less funny than what the last poster in the thread suggested:
They hovered a guy over it using a crane and maneuvered him around by pushing him with a pole.
The thing about this website is that you can NOT predict what posts will do numbers. If you sit down and craft something and think ‘this is the most insightful thing I’ve ever written’ it will get one pity like from a ten-year mutual. If you flop over to the computer at 3am to drowsily type some bullshit like 'bones are perpetually unborn teeth’ before passing out over your keyboard it’ll destroy your notifications for weeks.
This is also true of writing short stories btw. The nonsense that you type out waiting for a computer game to download will be everyone’s favourite.
