shout out to my 77 year old nan asking my cousin to make her a “woke pride” shirt she can wear so conservative old people will stop assuming she agrees with them
all demographics and time periods and geography taken fully into consideration, some people were just born to lose
was thinking of this guy when i made this post. invented the two most environmentally damaging chemicals in history and then got polio and immediately killed himself with a contraption
“one-man environmental disaster”
they called that man an organism
as bad as your worst day has ever been, do you have a wikipedia article saying you “possess an instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny”
another writing pet peeve that I’m noticing more and more is, voice.
So… the words you pick, express more than just their meaning? I’ve noticed more and more in books published a kind of wooden? overly formal tone, a lot of words to impress your SAT tutor.
Particularly in first person the words you pick the way your character speaks and thinks and the words in which they do that, tell us the readers things about them. Are they smart are they good at school, bad at school, not articulate, etc you can tell me a character likes poetry without ever mentioning that they read it by how they express themselves.
and oh btw if you have two characters in dueling narrative, I should get a distinct difference between them, two different people shouldn’t be written just the same way, how they talk and think should be different.
Republicans deliberately use coded language to trick people to vote for them and radicalize their group. Many don’t even realize they’re radicalized or what they’re saying is even racist. This is why they think the Left is “over reacting” because the either know they’re using coded language and don’t care, or they don’t know anything at all.
China really did hit us with a cultural revolution by doing literally nothing. Seeing regular people from two geopolitical rivals do something as unprecedented as simply talk to each other is one of the few things giving me hope right now.
it sucks to realize just how many people outside of the USA really genuinely do believe the propaganda that this country spreads. like it affects more than just us- non USAmericans genuinely believe that everyone here is well off, that we all have the freedom to do whatever we want, that we all have the ability to choose what jobs we get, that we all have the ability to make as much money as we want if we just try hard enough.
but it is amazing to see people finally waking up and understanding that is is all propaganda to get people to move here and work until they die. i always felt like Chinese and USAmerican citizens have a lot to bond over. i’m glad we’re finally bridging the cap and just TALKING to one another. this is seriously a good thing. we need to keep this up. uniting Chinese and USAmerican citizens over the unique but heinous struggles we face and educating one another on what actually goes on in each others’ countries can help spark a revolution.
idk who needs to hear this today but you don’t have to marry a man if you don’t want to
this is not just about potential lesbians or bi women btw. straight women also do not have to marry a man. you can be with a man without getting married. you can stay single. you can do what my ostensibly straight mom did and form a long-term platonic partnership with a woman. if the idea of being married to a man seems scary or makes you uncomfortable you simply never have to do it!
It’s called a Laminar Flow. Water usually has a lot of turbulence in it, and that is that causes it to look rather chaotic when it’s spraying out of a hose.
Laminar Flow occurs when all the water is moving in the exact same direction, eliminating turbulence, and thus, creating a flow of water that looks like glass.
Still, the idea that this is creating Laminar flow randomly is quite incredible, usually it requires specially built nozzles to create it.
science side of tumblr coming back at us with hard facts and incredibly unexpected urls
That’s even cooler. I thought it had literally frozen on the way out.
I’d had no idea water could even LOOK like that, this is amazing and I love it.
The Null Hypothesis says there is no (zero) correlation between the numbers rolled by each dice, that they are both completely independent of each other.
You roll them together and they both come up with 20! Super lucky!
Or is it? How many times would you need to roll those dice to prove that they are linked to each other somehow?
The Null Hypothesis is the default assumption in science that two variables (things) just don’t affect each other. It’s the science equivalent of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. You need to prove a link between two things, you don’t assume it’s there.
So in this case we are assuming that the number rolled on the first dice will have no effect whatsoever on the number rolled on the second dice.
Ah! But both dice rolled a 20. So what does that mean?
It means your sample size was small.
You can’t reasonably make a conclusion about these dice based on a single roll. You can’t make a reasonable conclusion based on 5 rolls. The number of times you roll the dice is your sample size (often just called N when we’re discussing the experiment. So five subjects is N=5). If your sample size is unreasonably small, then it weakens your experiment and makes it harder to justify conclusions.
The sample size you require to prove your point varies depending on what you’re testing, but generally larger numbers are always better. An experiment with a sample size of 10,000 is significantly more meaningful than an experiment with a sample size of 12. This is quite simply a numbers game.
(That said, context is also important. If you were publishing a study about the Norther White Rhino, for example, and your sample size was only 2 that may still be significant as you do your best with what you’ve got.)
Now you know, as a reasonable human being or corvid-in-a-trenchcoat, that rolling the dice once doesn’t prove they’re linked somehow, because you know how dice work. A single incident is not any kind of useful evidence. Yet people use single incidents as anecdotes as ‘proof’ all the time! Can you see how frustrating that is?
You rolled the dice once and thought maybe the two dice were linked. You roll the dice 100 times and you will probably see those dice are not linked. The strength of your evidence will only grow as your sample size does.
But what if, hypothetically, you rolled this pair of dice 5 times, and each time you did so they came up with the same number?
Statistics in scientific experiments get complicated and you will completely fall asleep if I try to explain it, but experiments should be looking for a significant difference which is an indication of how likely or unlikely you would be to get the same result if the Null Hypothesis is true.
In this case, rolling your two d20 and them coming up with the same number each time for all 5 times in a row is something like 64 million to 1, if it’s just random chance. That’s a pretty significant difference.
But if you rolled the dice a thousand times and only 5 of those times came up with the same number? Not so significant. Another example of why you need to include your negative results.
Most results report their significant difference to a confidence value of 95 or 99. That means they’re either 95% or 99% sure that their results could not have been achieved by random chance alone. You can’t get to 100 of course, random chance is like that, but the closer you get, the stronger the evidence to reject the Null Hypothesis.
And, look, I’m more of a visual person, so have a graph. If your data produces a confidence value of 95, it means that there is a 95% chance the data didn’t just come from random luck. That the data wouldn’t fall under the blue bit of this curve if the Null Hypothesis is true.
And Confession: I don’t find these numbers fun. If I was running an experiment I’d totally pay a lovely and clever statistician to tell me what sort of sample sizes I would need to achieve my desired confidence interval. I’m not going to run down how you calculate them, just what these numbers are and why they matter.
The larger your sample size, the easier to prove a significant difference with a sigh confidence value. The weaker any of these factors are, the weaker the experiment in general.
Did that give you a headache? It gave me a headache. But hard science often involves some serious maths.
Anecdotes give you an idea in the first place; statistics is how you see if that idea is likely to be accurate or likely to just be coincidence.
The Japanese ‘micro-forest’ method is transforming cities
“More than 420 million hectares of forest have been lost to other uses since 1990, according to the UN’s 2020 State of the World’s Forests Report.
With more than 85 per cent of the global population living in urban areas, micro-forests in cities offer an essential opportunity to combat deforestation.
The Miyawaki Forest Technique, invented by Japanese botanist and plant ecology expert Professor Akira Miyawaki in the 1970s, is the inspiration for micro-forests worldwide.
These diverse, organic small forests can be created on sites as small as nine square metres, and only use native species that would otherwise grow naturally in the planting area. They grow up to 10 times faster than monoculture forests, in just two to three decades.
Since Miyawaki’s work began, more than 280 micro-forests have been planted.”
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“In polluted urban areas, micro-forests can help to restore soil, water and air quality, according to the Woodland Trust.
Their small size allows plantation in relatively limited urban space, often taking advantage of unused spaces such as school playgrounds, cemeteries, and near metro stations. They can also help to reduce the impact of heavy rainfall, and to keep towns and cities cooler.
Micro-forests can create more habitats for wildlife in cities, such as blackbirds or hedgehogs. When planted in distinct layers, they can also develop plant communities of smaller shrubs and herbs, which allow the micro-forests to become self-sustaining after just three to five years of growth.
“Our pocket forests offer a myriad of benefits” says Elise Van Middelem, Founder and CEO of SUGi.
“Perhaps most importantly, they can support the positive well-being of communities. From a psychological perspective, interacting with nature reduces physical stress and can improve symptoms of mental ill health, including anxiety or depression.”
The link provided doesn’t really go over the method, so I looked into it a bit more. The key is planting a bunch of native trees close together. Like, 2ft tall trees, 2 ft apart. The overall garden can be just 3ftx3ft, any is fine really. By planting the trees close together, they grow upwards faster (rather than out sideways). Additionally, they make sure to prepare/improve the soil in advance to hold lots of water, and to apply lots of mulch over the top. You water it tons and weed it in the first two years or so, then it goes on by itself without maintenance.
I’m not sure what this proves. It’s not like walls with photorealistic pictures of roads on them are things that human drivers regularly meet and overcome
It shows that camera-based systems can be prone to optical illusions that lidar-based systems (which detect objects and their distances directly instead of trying to interpret an image) wouldn’t be fooled by.
There was a news story from several years back where a semi truck was making a left turn across a mostly empty highway and a Tesla on autopilot plowed directly into the trailer at full speed, decapitating the driver, because the cameras were fooled in much the same way as the test above by the white trailer blending in with a cloud on the horizon.
FDA warning letters are awesome. you can tell how pissed off some of the people writing them are. a few highlights of the dozen or two letters I read today:
when one company found out an inspection was happening, they deleted a ton of files related to manufacturing. when asked why they deleted those files, they said they simply did not want to talk about their contents with the inspector
a company had dripping pipes on manufacturing equipment that said it was clean and ready to use. they said it was fine because that manufacturing equipment was not being used. the inspector watched it get used
a website selling oxy without a prescription
if you put on full sterile garb with your bare hands and before putting on gloves it is not fucking sterile
STOP CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR. AND IF YOU CRAWL ON THE FLOOR, CHANGE YOUR FUCKING GEAR
one company saying they test their water for contaminants to make sure their water is being filtered correctly. the FDA inspector then pointed out their water tested positive for contaminants dozens of times and still used it in manufacturing
if you sell drugs in the united states you have to follow united states drug laws. yes even if what you did is fine back in your country
inspectors being pissed about unsafe and badly tested products being sold to children
to add to this “humans are weird” thing did you know that humans are the only species on earth with the ability to throw things with any significant degree of accuracy and force (apes can throw with about the force of a human ten year old, but cant lock their wrists well enough for accuracy)
and we just never really think about it bc its so easy and simple to us that pretty much all of our sports are based around the concept of throwing things accurately
so what if the concept of projectile weapons takes most species FOREVER to get the hang of, or even come up with in the first place. a human goes onto a ship and throws some trash into the nearest reclaimer, shouts “kobe!” and all the other aliens on board absolutely LOSE THEIR MINDS
“But Councilor Xilphin, why must we forge a contract with humans on this venture? Surely our limited resources would be better served hiring companions from our own warrior caste? The humans smell strangely, and they are so small and… squishy.”
“Ah, child. You are so young. But no, I am not angry. Did not the Great Leader once say that seeking answers to that which we do not know is the path to glory? When I was a child no older than yourself I thought the same. We had a bonded pair of humans aboard the ship I was stationed aboard. Molly and Jane (such charmingly bizarre names, are they not?). My age-mates and I thought little of them, until, at a supply drop on a backwater planet, we were waylaid by a band of Akskar pirates! Yes, well you might chitter in fear! We did the same, certain we were to be killed and our chitin harvested for their barbaric armor. It would have come to pass, if it were not for our brave Molly! Sie screamed a rending shout, grabbed up a stone from the earth, and sent it whizzing through the air to strike the pirate captain directly between the eyes! Lest you think this was a chance hit, no, she did it again! And again! A dozen stones flying through the air far too fast for the eye to track. The Akskar, with their deadly spears, could not even approach to harm her, and fled in panicked disarray!”
“But Councilor, how could anyone do such a thing?”
“This is one of the great strengths of the humans, child. By instinct they defend themselves by flinging objects, but the brave warrior Molly had been a champion of the war game ‘cricket’ in hir youth and was even stronger and more accurate than most. Molly and Jane raised up spawnlings, trained also in this ancient and terrible art. Now, their spawnlings-spawnlings know it as well, and it is to them we go to forge a contract to bless this venture. By nature they attack from a distance, and they are never disarmed, for there is always something that can be thrown by their powerful arms. Do you now perceive the wisdom of this course of action, child?”
“This child bows to your wisdom, Councilor Xilphin. It is unassailable.”
Using radical acceptance therapy techniques to get people to stop making themselves sad by anthropomorphizing Pluto.
Pluto didn’t do anything wrong, we just put the wrong expectations on it. Pluto was never a planet, and that’s okay. Pluto is perfect just the way it is.
If I could take a second to direct people’s attention to a very good song by Tom Cardy that is about exactly this:
Humans being the first. Not the strongest or the smartest or the weirdest or the most violent. Just the first.
We called out into the dark over and over. We sent out messages in hopes. We searched every planet we could reach, in hopes of any sign of life. Any at all.
We thought, hoped we were the last, because we couldn’t bear the idea of being the one ones this awake and alive in a world as vast as this.
And we died alone.
When the others are born, many many years later, they find us, everything we left for them.
They recover The Golden Record and look at it a million times over, they dig up our fossils and put us in museums, they study us for years and years, loving us as we love our ancestors’ painted hands on cave walls.
In a lot of their languages, the word they use for us has the same root for “mother”.
You’re fucking delusional if you think starving people have BOT accounts. The ones that send me messages and that do not listen to the fact that my blog says in 3 different places NOT to send me those requests, have ALL been spam accounts. That dumb shit cunts like you give real money to instead of doing anything of any actual value to give ANY relief to anyone from Palestine.
The fact that people like you exist, so up yourself that I am pretty sure you just mainline your own shit for breakfast, insisting that ALL these Palestinian blogs with stolen photos and who do NOTHING but post all day, and you go to a twitter account that also used those same pictures and they are something posting multiple times per minute but you wanna give them grace?
Do what the fuck you want with your money, but I think actually swallowing every nickel and penny you find is a better use of your time AND money than sitting here and defending bot accounts that no one is really attached to.
Nothing says “born a fuckwit and I’ll DIE a fuckwit” more than that. Peace.
Edit: actually the fact that some of you guys give the girlfriend experience to these bots SO MUCH that I saw a list of “verified” tumblr users being shared that absolutely and unequivocally included impossible bot accounts is wild. Y'all will do anything other than give your money to a charity who can actually help people in Gaza.
“uh but it’s been vetted!” By whom? Do you know the vetter? Do you know their process?
Anyone can add a line on their post that says “vetted by gaza-donations” or whatever the hell.
Your regular reminders:
1) @90-ghost continues to refuse to explain his vetting process even after he’s been caught “verifying” bot accounts
2) same for @el-shab-hussein
3) people who’ve been inside a Discord server for “vetters” have confirmed that there are 100% people who openly and freely admit that they just say “yes, I vetted this person” without doing anything at all
These people are scammers and grifters. If you want to actually provide relief and aid to the people of Gaza, the following charities are actually real and have transparency policies that ensure money and supplies are going to civilians, not Hamas:
(For those who may not know: the Red Crescent is the Islamic world’s version of the Red Cross, so as weird as this is going to sound for something with a totally different name, the PRCS is actually a Red Cross chapter.)
Dang, didn’t know about some of that.
I do not know why people would happily declare there is no vetting. Makes me wonder if someone is getting money, or they just…legitimately are not able to comprehend that someone saying “I’m from Gaza” does not…actually, make them from Gaza? And that people are just as capable of exploiting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as they are….any other thing that scammers exploit.
I have given to WCK in the past and will likely do so again.
Okay this is cool and cause Sam Neill is a kiwi and I was just thinking about what a new NZ flag could look like, heres the nz flag with the Maori flag instead of the union jack:
The maori flag looks so cool what the heck
I love that there is this genuinely nice detail in a movie about a space ship that goes through a hell-dimension
Gosh I hate grind culture. My little sister just started medical school and all of her orientation leaders are like “you absolutely cannot have a life WHATsoever you WILL have to give up EVERYTHING besides this program say GOODBYE to your hobbies and relationships” and now she’s calling me feeling guilty for running and going to the grocery store and that’s just WRONG! And that is exactly what I was told starting law school as well, and rejecting that mentality was the best thing I ever did but it was so hard not to buy into. Anyway if any of you are in an intense academic program PLEASE take time to sleep and eat and exercise and maintain your relationships and keep up your hobbies! you are not a robot who exists solely to study and I promise that living a life and staying physically and mentally healthy is not going to make you fail
Workaholism is not just a “millennial quirk”, it’s a very real psychological problem that should not be normalized and praised. Diligence and self-realization? Awesome!!! Working so much you forget to eat, sleep and socialize? Not okay under any circumstances.
Trying to inflict psychic damage to a tumblr user is like trying to irradiate a cockroach, like it can be done, but the lethal dose is not safe for humans either
Besides the point, but you could always try physical damage?
Yeesh these are just like… an idea that suddenly popped up in my head, honestly ideas always popled in my head every like… 10 seconds or so Im just having a hard time fighting the demons off before they make me burnout lol
No comics for this one, cause again, it’s just a fleeting idea. A fleeting idea that somehow made lore for this. Anyways. Enjoy!
