these teenagers and their dog are trying ruin our money laundering business. no tony put the gun down were doing this the old fashioned way. were gonna dress up as monsters and scare them
someone ordered our new limoncello cocktail, took one sip, and sent it back, and when the bartender saw it he just whimpered “they didn’t like it…?” and looked at the waitress like
Mythbusters is great because Adam Savage will be like “Could Sir Arthur have built a surface to air missile with Middle Ages technology? Probably not. Anyway here’s how to make a bomb.” And Jamie will be like “If all goes well this will not blow up instantly and kill us.” And the three other guys are trying to see if you could kill a person by throwing an egg really fast.
i now know that one of them wears white and the other wears black
It’s a good book! You shouldn’t read it!
I can’t tell if this is a typo or reverse psychology
It is neither! I do not recommend this book to anyone. It’s a million words long, 80% of which is pain unlike any you have ever felt and 20% of which is a kink of some kind. I love it dearly!
fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can’t eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they’re starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something
People finally think they’re attractive and cool and funny but they’re dead. People finally treat them well but they’re dead. Do you see the vision
Transforms into a shell of my former self and finally gains the respectability society never bestowed upon me before
wondering how to use A* search with gradient descent given that it requires a heuristic of how far a partial solution is from the goal 🤔
an admissible heuristic, which is to say an underestimate of the distance remaining to the goal, where the more accurate the heuristic the better the search performs, but the search breaks if the heuristic ever overestimates because that can cause it to neglect better solutions.
the cool thing about optimisation by gradient descent is that it tells you exactly which direction to go in order to reach a goal whose exact location is unknown, while A* search tells you which direction to go to reach a goal whose exact location is known but cannot necessarily be reached by heading straight towards it.
then genetic optimisation can be applied when you have an unknown goal and a nondifferentiable cost function, so you don’t know what you’re looking for nor which direction it must be in, which is obviously not a great situation to be in.
gradient descent has always kind of bugged me for all but the simplest problems, because not everything is differentiable and back propagation is annoying and numerical futzing around is unsatisfying but the most frustrating part is that it works!
but most neural network advances seem to come from running this insanely powerful optimisation process on a network architecture that was dreamed up by a shaman behind a waterfall operating on mushrooms and intuition; I want the computers to be doing this part of the job too, but you can’t differentiate over all possible networks, can you… can you?
You cannot. You may convince yourself of this by simply getting too creative in your choice of activation function.
then again I guess why limit yourself to networks, they’re just one slice of the space of possible functions after all.
hmm now I’m wondering what’s the most annoying possible activation function, one that allows a network to approximate any possible function in principle yet makes the network impossible to train in practice…
I'm only saying this for your sake, but objectively, it's not a smart idea to bring politics into normal hobbies. You might lose supporters of your blog just because of your political stance, and that would be terrible since you're so amazing!! It's only a suggestion, but I really reccomend not bringing politics into anything.
saying that Churchill is the chief villain of WWII is obviously very silly and a claim you would only make if you were being deliberately provocative to sell content (or a legit nazi of course).
it’s reasonable to say that Churchill was a villain, and that his villainy is often underrated, but one of the reasons for that is because he was facing a much greater villain!
while there is no shortage of competitors in the villain stakes, you can’t overlook the fact that Hitler started the war that he wanted, attacked the most countries, attempted the most genocides, and had the most villainous ideology, publicly avowed and clearly expressed.
while you could mount a valid argument that Japan was worse, I think it’s difficult to find one specific guy on the Japanese side that was as clearly responsible for the bulk of the atrocities as Hitler was for the Germans, and while there is a lot to say about Stalin since his career was much longer, Russia was fighting defense for much of WWII and his biggest crime was allying with Hitler at the start!
“Hitler was the villain of WWII and one of the biggest villains of the 20th century and perhaps human history” might be a tired cliche but only because it’s true; we should not forget that he was only one of so many other villains (many of whom he learned from!) but that doesn’t justify downplaying his villainy out of contrarian pique.
Discworld is an interesting beast in the age of ACAB.
Like, the city watch books are a story about police and the way in which a good police force can help and protect people. Which would make it copoganda.
And I’m not going to say that the City Watch books are completely free of copoganda, but they also do something interesting that fairly few stories about heroic police officers do, and I think it has a lot to do with Samuel Vimes.
A lot of copoganda stories like, say, Brooklyn 99, are perfectly capable of portraying cops as cruel, bigoted, and greedy, but our central cast of characters are portrayed as good people who want to help their communities. The result is that the bad cops are portrayed as an aberration, while most cops can be assumed to be good people doing a tough job because they want to help protect people from the nebulous evil forces of “Crime”. The police are considered to be naturally heroic.
Pratchett does something very interesting, which is provide us with Vimes’ perspective, and present us with an Unnaturally heroic police force. In Ahnk-Morpork, the natural state of the watch is a gang with extra paperwork. It’s the place for people who, at best, just want a steady paycheck and at worst want an excuse to hit people with a truncheon. Rather than be an army defending people from the forces of Crime, the Watch is described as a sort of sleight-of-hand, big burly watchmen in shiny uniforms don’t stand around in-case a Crime happens in their vicinity, they stand around to remind people that The Law exists and has teeth. The Watchmen are people, when danger rears it’s head, their instinct is to hide and get out of the way. When faced with authority, their instinct is to bow to it out of fear of what it might do to them if they don’t. Carrot is a genuine Hero, but his natural heroism is presented as an aberration. Normal Cops don’t act like Carrot does.
The fact that the Watch ends up acting like a Heroic Police Force is largely due to the leadership of Sam Vimes, but Vimes himself is a microcosm of the Watch. The base state of Sam Vimes would be an alchoholic bully of an officer, one who beats people until they confess to anything because that makes his job easier. Vimes The Hero is a homunculous, an artificial being created by Sam Vimes fighting back all those instincts and FORCING himself to behave as his conscience dictates. Vimes doesn’t take bribes or let his officers do the same because, damnit, that sort of thing shouldn’t happen, even if doing so would make things a lot easier. Vimes doesn’t run towards sounds of screaming because he WANTS to, he forces himself to do so because somebody needs to.
It’s best summed up in Thud
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Your Grace.” “I know that one,” said Vimes. “Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr. Pessimal.” “Ah, but who watches you, Your Grace?” said the inspector with a brief little smile. “I do that, too. All the time,” said Vimes. “Believe me.”
In the hands of another writer, or another series, this exchange would be weirdly dismissive. To whom should the police be accountable to? Themselves, shut up and trust us.
But from Vimes, it’s a different story. Vimes DOES constantly watch himself, and he doesn’t trust that bastard, he’s known him his entire life. The Heroic Police are not a natural state, they’re an ideal, and ahnk-morpork only gets anywhere close. Vimes is constantly struggling against his own instincts to take shortcuts, to let things slide, but he forces himself to live up to that ideal and the Watch follows his example.
Discworld doesn’t propose any solutions to the problems with policing in the real world. We don’t have a Sam Vimes to run the NYPD and force them to behave. We don’t have a Carrot Ironfounderson. But it’s at least a story about detectives and police that I can read without feeling like I’m being sold propaganda about the Thin Blue Line.
So there’s the idea of “kitchen table poly,” AKA “everyone in the polycule needs to be able to sit at a kitchen table together and get along like friends.”
One of my roommates just came up with a counter idea, which is “poker table poly.” Everyone in the polycule must be enemies. No one is allowed to get too chummy or they’re kicked out. They all also likely owe eachother money.
laptop husbandry tip: the fans spinning up just means its EXCITED, not DISTRESSED. this is a COMMON MISCONCEPTION and it does not need to go to the vet
that they have infant forms (that appear to have external gills like salamanders)
that they rely on water for their life cycle to complete
that, related to #3, they like chomping on snowballs
that they’re neutral and even friendly when not dehydrated like a frog in summer
In addition to the points in the graphic:
Flat faces with the eyes at the front, like many amphibians
smooth skin
mouth that looks tiny until opened (have you seen an axolotl or caecilian with its mouth open?)
fireballs may be analogous to skin and saliva-based weapons in amphibians
has zero mercy
cannot aim at all
makes sounds quite like the axolotl when you think about it
operates on 1.5-2 brain cells at all times
… We may be able to conclude that ghasts are amphibians.
If we look at this phylogenetically, then we may be able to speculate that ghasts are highly derived (specialized) temnospondyls, which are huge prehistoric amphibians who were like 25% mouth.
When I see a video of a cat minding its own business with nothing else going on I unmute immediately cause I know that mf is about to make a funny noise
y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc
not once do i ever see a summary
What more info do you need?
A SUMMARY
WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT
i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?
I- it’s gay the gay
i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.
“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality
do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”
do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them
Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.
not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!
If you work in a movie theater and you do this I have no respect for you.
My younger brother is Type 1 Diabetic.
When we go to a movie theater, we always get him diet soda. If he were to get regular when we asked for diet, we would not give him the insulin he would need for it. If that happens, his blood sugar level could go so high he could go into a coma, go blind, or even die.
If somebody gave him regular soda instead of diet without telling us, that person could be responsible for a nine-year-old being killed or blinded.
Just thinking about that makes me so angry. I get scared every time we take him to a movie in case the people working there saw this picture and decide to do the same thing.
Please signal boost this so people know.
This also applies to baristas
Fun story about the baristas doing this kind of shit.
I am very sensitive to lactose, not Lactose intolerant but because of stomach ulcers that are still healing. A couple years ago I went to Starbucks right after my classes with some friends and asked for a green tea latte with soy milk. The barista, for some reason out of malice and/or hate for her life so she took it out on me, gave me whole milk in my latte.
5 minutes after my first sip of latte, my stomach cramped BAD. Not the “Oh! time to poop!” kind of cramp but it felt like someone had stabbed me with a knife and twisted it. Now I’ve had this happen before so I knew the cause of it. I went up to the barista clutching my gut screaming at her that she put dairy in my latte rather than soy LIKE I REQUESTED. She denied it and called me a “pretentious white girl for wanting soy”and so my friends got the manager. I had to explain that I had stomach ulcers that were still healing and if I were to go to the hospital for this incident, they would be responsible for it.
Manager flipped his shit and the barista was terrified out of her mind. Pretty sure both thought i was gonna sue. Manager actually fired her on the spot because of the negligence. My friends managed to get me home in one piece while I stayed home for 3 days in absolute agony and missed my midterm.
So remember kiddies, if someone is asking for Diet or “Skinny” or “soy” or anything that is not regular, give them what they requested because it may not be them being healthy, but a dietary need that can possibly be life or death
also if they ARE trying to be healthy you should give it to them to!! Its not your decision to police or question others food choices!!!
also im lactose intolerant AND ive had stomach infections/ulcers so i feel this.
I have Celiac Disease, so I’m very gluten intolerant. When I go out to eat at restaurants a lot of people just assume that I asked for my food gluten free because of the gluten free diet fad (which is usually a bullshit diet btw).
Last month I went out to dinner with a friend at an italian restaurant that had a small gluten free menu. I had been there once before and had their gluten free pasta and it was great! I think one of the managers had been there and was super helpful when taking my order to make sure that everything was gluten free for me. When I ordered the gluten free pasta again this time though, the waitress who took my order all but rolled her eyes at me. I didn’t think much of it at the time, because the restaurant was so accommodating before, I just assumed it would be the same this time.
But sure enough, they brought out my pasta, I ate it, and about an hour later I had extreme stomach pains and was throwing up (in a movie theater no less).
Barfing and agonizing pain aside, eating gluten when you have celiac causes a lot of internal damage that’s hard to notice. The biggest thing is that it damages your intestines, preventing your body from absorbing nutrients properly, which can take months to heal.
So PLEASE, if you work at a restaurant or anything with food and someone asks for something a certain way, please listen to them and don’t just disregard someone’s order. It’s not funny and it can have serious consequences.
I will reblog this with every single story about someone getting sick because of an asshole giving them the opposite of what they ordered until it sinks in for everyone.
Recently on the news a 16 year old boy with a dairy allergy had gone to eat at IHOP with his family. The specifically asked if they could make dairy free pancakes and they said yes. Not too long after he had a reaction and was rushed to the hospital. This kid died because the was dairy in his pancakes that they asked for no dairy. His epi pen that his mother had wasn’t enough to help him. I know working in fast food or any job that’s serves food and beverage sucks but not as much as causing someone to get sick over negligence.
My youngest cousin – who is now five, he just started kindergarten – has Celiac’s disease. You would not BELEIVE the amount of times I’ve heard my aunt say she’s ordered something gluten free, only to watch the waiter or waitress’s eyes go huge when she gives it to my cousin – my cousin with the medical id band on his tiny five year old wrist proclaiming I HAVE CELIACS and have to take it back.
Shit like this could kill my cousin. Knock it the fuck off.
I cannot tolerate caffeine–it makes me have chest pain and a racing pulse, and also gives me horrible body pain, so I always ask for decaf if I order coffee when I’m out, and doublecheck with the waiter/ress when they bring it. but instead of saying “is this decaf like I asked for?” I always say “oh, did I remember to order decaf?” I shouldn’t have to act like I’m the forgetful one (because I know damn well I asked for decaf) but it seems to work better than implying that they screwed up when I take the blame on myself like that. and if there’s any hesitation when they answer, I tell them, “if there’s any doubt, please get another one, or just give me water–if this is regular, it’ll mess up my heart” and lots of times when I say that, they look alarmed and go change it or get another one.
but I shouldn’t HAVE to share my personal medical history with strangers just to get my order right! no one should! how is it their business? it makes me really uncomfortable to have to do that. JUST GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY ORDER!
I’ve reblogged this maaaany times before but there’s a few new stories on here so i’m doing it again.
cut this shit out
don’t be that kind of asshole.
As a diabetic, this would make me so beyond angry. Skinny doesn’t mean they don’t have a life threatening illness. Skinny doesn’t mean they can process sugar the way you do. People that do this are the worst kinds of people. DO NOT DO THIS!
Me and my family went to a restaurant a few years back and one of the dishes we ordered was made with wine vinegar, which I am allergic to, so we asked the waiter to skip it, and he said sure, no problem, that’s fine.
So my food gets to the table, and I start eating and then my throat closes and I can’t breathe and then I start coughing and throwing up right there in the middle of the restaurant and it was very fortunate that I was with my family and they knew what was happening to me.
I had to be rushed to the hospital, and admitted, and I came damn near close to having my throat cut open so I could breathe through a whole on my neck.
Because they put wine vinegar in my food when I explicitly told them not to, because they were assholes, and I could have died.
They probably didn’t mean to hurt me but they did. I missed class, and work, and, again, I COULD HAVE DIED.
i have cyclic vomiting syndrome and can’t tolerate dairy or red meat. violating my dietary restrictions triggers an acute episode, and i have to be hospitalized and given iv saline, ativan, and anti-emetics to stop the (extremely painful and incapacitating) vomiting. if somebody put regular milk instead of soy milk in my latte and i didn’t notice the taste immediately, i could wind up in the er and then spend several days in bed recovering, eating nothing but saltines and dry toast and clear liquids until my body was able to tolerate food again, unable to work or go out or do anything besides rest. whenever i go to starbucks, i WATCH them make my drink. cvs episodes are horrible and i hate them, and i can prevent them if i do everything right, but that means my damn barista has to cooperate. if somebody decided i was a stuck up white girl and gave me whole milk instead of soy they could put me in the hospital and cost me days of income. give ppl the food they fuckin order. it’s not that hard.
Reblogging because it’s so important. I’m “lucky” I don’t have any food allergies or intolerence, but it makes me mad when people take them not seriously, think you are picky or just following a “white girl diet fad”.
90% of people don’t take my cats and dog allergies seriously when I tell them I’m allergic and wondering if a cat or a dog is present at X place. They think it’s just watery eyes. Nope. Well yeah, watery and itchy eyes, but I start wo wheeze and have trouble breathing. They don’t give epi-pen for those (anyway you have to go to the hospital after) just inhaler. It’s no miracle, specially if I didn’t take other meds before.
When people tell you about their allergies or restriction, trust them!
Reblogging for all the stories here because this is sooo important!
I have a severe allergy to gluten and relate to MANY of the stories above. My daughter has a severe allergy to milk fat, and I have had to hold her hair many times while she vomits on the side of the road because we couldn’t even make it home from the “accidental” whole milk instead of skim.
I’m super lactose intolerant so accidental milk is always fun. Severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, bloating, and gas like you wouldn’t believe. Better than death you might say but, I have other medical conditions, so that diarrhea could lead to vomiting(it’s so bad the vomit comes out my mouth AND nose) and dehydration that in turn becomes low cortisol and adrenal crisis. A bitchy barista can land me in the hospital with an intramuscular shot and saline iv. Hun, it takes no time to listen and follow my order. It takes me at least 24 hours to get out of the hospital. Be nice.
I’m allergic to pork. Legit allergic. I can’t count how many times I’ve had to ask it off my food only to receive it with bacon or ham or something on it.
Please respect peoples food requests. It costs 0.00$ to not be a dick.
I actually have customers who say they’ll only eat at my restaurant when I’m there, because they know I require all policy to be followed, as in “I will kick you the fuck off your shift if you skimp,” if someone says the words “I have an allergy.” I developed our allergy policies, for that matter, because what we had in place before was “I guess you shouldn’t change your gloves … . ?” On my shifts your gloves get changed, that line gets wiped down with a new cloth, paper under EVERY ITEM for the person with the allergy, bag their food separately to prevent contact. If there’s a risk of cross-contamination with an allergen, like tomatoes in the guac because stuff spills when you’re moving as fast as we do, I’ll open a new bag of food. I learned the ingredients in every item we serve so I could advise people on hidden allergens (e.g., there’s a small amount of wheat in our beef as a thickener; we fry with safflower oil). We have a grease pencil to mark special builds and I use it liberally on allergy orders. If all of this sounds like overkill, you’ve never watched a child suffer from anaphylaxis. I don’t play around.
Like, I bitch about my job a lot, but food allergies and special needs are not something I will ever bitch about. Even if you’re a complete asshole I won’t risk contaminating your food. (Although people with allergies seem to be way nicer than the general population, I gotta say.) Don’t do it. If someone’s a petty asshole to you, give them too much ice in their drink. Don’t play with their health.
DO NOT FUCKING SCROLL PAST THIS P L E A S E
Reblogging this again because it is important. Doing the right thing has no cost but doing the wrong thing can cost a person’s life. Don’t be a dick, give the person what they ordered
yes, finally this is on my dash
luckily i haven’t had many problems with this but if someone gives me an “accidentally” non-decaf drink after i’ve taken my meds I WILL OVERDOSE. don’t fuck with ppl’s orders.
i have severe allergies to gluten and dairy and large amounts of sugar make me really sick, and i cant imagine what would happen if someone did this to me. dont scroll past this.
My partner is extremely gluten intolerant, and really badly sensitive to it. He’s very chill about the whole thing, but every time we go out to eat, a part of me is absolutely terrified - it wouldn’t kill him, but I can’t bear to see him in the pain that he goes through when he accidentally has gluten
Imma just… hit that reblog button.
Many in my family have severe gluten allergies and lactose intolerance. If there’s a lazy food handler, that could severely hurt them. Please don’t be lazy with food. It can kill and incapacitate people.
Hey this is really important please read and reblog this post
People who ignore dietary restrictions are assholes. There is no excuse.
Medical issues aside, this is also straight up body shamin. If you’re someone who calls folks “skinny bitches” you’re a cunt.
My girlfriend has Celiacs. She went to the spaghetti factory, where they even have different SHAPED gluten free pasta. Thought she could trust this system. But she gets to the bottom of her bowl and finds a piece of regular pasta. Whole bowl was contaminated because someone couldn’t be bothered to fuckin’ wash a colander. She’s got 4 kids under 15 at this point, was in school for her teacher training, and had to spend four miserable days in bed.
Your clean restaurant kitchen makes you a hero. These little things make a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
I have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The acid reflux is just barely controlled with medication. Eating any of my major trigger foods will set it off.
Like anything with capsaicin. Or any black pepper. I don’t need to be able to taste it to know I’ve eaten it, because my reflux will break though and it will be hellish.
So that’s another thing to watch out for. If someone says they can’t eat spicy food, maybe they’re not being an asshole gringo. Maybe they just don’t want agonizing reflux breakthrough and stomach acid eroding their teeth.
“Just a little pepper, she won’t even taste it.” I don’t need to taste it, I’ll know when it hurts me.
My brother-in-law was actually the worst offender with this, until he went on a medication a few years ago that has acid reflux as a side effect. Now he’s all sweet and solicitous whenever I’m over, and like. I know it’s the guilt, fucker.
I love forever people, whether at home or in food service, who listen and respect people’s food limitations. Thank you for helping us live.
I’ll never forget the day that I went out for dinner with my grandmother- I picked her up and drove her and it was so nice. But we went out, and when she got up to use the bathroom, I ordered our drinks. She LOVES diet coke, and I do too. So I ordered two diet cokes.
The waitress looked at me funny, rolled her eyes. And when she came back with our sodas, I insisted on tasting them both.
Yep. Regular coke.
Fun fact about my grandma. She’s diabetic. Has been for a long time. So she drinks diet sodas. I got my love of diet coke from her because I first tried soda at her house, and it was her diet coke. So I call our waitress over and tell her that this is regular, not diet. And after a bit of back and forth she says “Well, it’s not like it matters.” while looking at me.
I’m fat, for the record. And I cannot tell you how many people are rude or dismissive or even laugh and make “bit late for that!” Comments when I order diet soda. I get diet coke because I like it better than regular.
My grandmother was sitting there and had to hold up her medical alert bracelet and inform this woman that she is DIABETIC and needs diet soda. I was about ready to start a fucking fight.
Don’t be a jackass. Just don’t. Because you may think you’re being clever and sticking it to the fatty or the skinny bitch or whoever had the AUDACITY to ask for something “trendy” or for a diet that they’re “too late” for. But you could be fucking killing someone. And no matter how big of a dickwad you are. I really don’t think you want that blood on your hands.
IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE SOMEONE’S DIETARY RESTRICTIONS. THEN DO NOT PRETEND YOU CAN. RESPECT THEM OR TELL THEM NO.
shoutout to the tumblr users who play terraria. we’re a quiet bunch of folks, but we’re here, reading and writing posts everyday. we are everyday people. and we blog
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