the biggest problem with the world is that most people don’t think Correctly. If everyone thought Correctly there’d be no problems. why hasn’t anyone thought of this before
clearly we need to create a philosophers language in which only correct thoughts can be communicated. just gotta iron out formalizing everything that exists real quick
Chemistry: The model with 5 variables works for 99% of situations, and you’ve got another model with 11 variables for that 1% edge case. Unfortunately, you flipped a term in your stoichiometry and your answer was off by 6 orders of magnitude.
Physics: You have a choice of 3 models. The first requires only trig but is only accurate if the objects are both massless and frictionless. The second is perfectly accurate but looks like a Wizard wrote it to be intentionally obfuscating. The third is an effortlessly easy approximation but was empirically disproven in 1993 and will not be accepted on the exam.
Biology: So, um, I know we’ve never actually covered it in any of your mathematical courses, but, just a hypothetical; what if you suddenly needed to describe everything using recursion? You’d be fine, right?
Economics: What that? Accuracy? Predictive Power? Oh, no no no, we don’t need any of that, we just need something complicated enough to impress the Investors! You didn’t actually think we were accurately modeling The Economy, did you?
Game Design: Needs more triangles
Computer Science: We are the people responsible for implementing all the models. That doesn’t mean we’re good at it. Anyway enjoy approximating a differential equation using 10,000 finite steps and performing approximating a probability using 100,000 simulations.
Chemistry: The model with 5 variables works for 99% of situations, and you’ve got another model with 11 variables for that 1% edge case. Unfortunately, you flipped a term in your stoichiometry and your answer was off by 6 orders of magnitude.
Physics: You have a choice of 3 models. The first requires only trig but is only accurate if the objects are both massless and frictionless. The second is perfectly accurate but looks like a Wizard wrote it to be intentionally obfuscating. The third is an effortlessly easy approximation but was empirically disproven in 1993 and will not be accepted on the exam.
Biology: So, um, I know we’ve never actually covered it in any of your mathematical courses, but, just a hypothetical; what if you suddenly needed to describe everything using recursion? You’d be fine, right?
Economics: What that? Accuracy? Predictive Power? Oh, no no no, we don’t need any of that, we just need something complicated enough to impress the Investors! You didn’t actually think we were accurately modeling The Economy, did you?
Game Design: Needs more triangles
Computer Science: We are the people responsible for implementing all the models. That doesn’t mean we’re good at it. Anyway enjoy approximating a differential equation using 10,000 finite steps and performing approximating a probability using 100,000 simulations.
‘for technical reasons’ in a maths proof has the same vibe as 'for personal reasons’ in a tumblr post.
for personal reasons I will be integrating by parts.
Start accepting personal reasons in solutions. For personal reasons, I will be ignoring geometric approaches and instead calculating the surface area of a sphere by integrating along the parameterized boundary.
‘my beloved’ has made such an impact on me. made me much more likely to express my love of things. ah yes i do love this. i will now express it in a way that is comical yet also reflects my adoration. 'my beloved’ my beloved <3
A fucked up anime girl, with blood splattered on her face. But get this. She’s so fucked up that she’s smiling and happy about it. That’s the kind of person I am.
there’s a story in aesop’s fables, i think it is, about a human talking to a satyr or something. The satyr asks why the human is blowing on his hands during a snow storm and he says “to warm up” later inside the satyr asks the human why he’s blowing on the soup and the human says “to cool it down”
and the satyr has had enough and says “well I won’t have a guest that breaths cold air one moment and hot air the next” and tells the human to leave his house
- Haa is hot because your breath is warm from your lungblood
- Hoo is cold because, while the air is still warm, you’re blowing it at a greater pressure by blowing it through a smaller hole, and the effect of the windchill is greater than the effect of the slight warmth in the air
That story always pissed me off, because while people generally interpret it as “don’t be double-tongued” or “avoid those who are inconstant”, my interpretation was “satyrs are FUCKING STUPID”.
Y’all Netflix is trying to kick us off for using A DIFFERENT WIFI NETWORK from the “household”.
We are not more than thirty feet from the other tv.
We have FOUR wifi networks because out in the goddamn woods, all of them SUCK.
This is fucking ridiculous.
GUESS WHAT IT GOT WORSE!!
The verification process to prove we’re in the same goddamn house is a fucking SEIZURE TRIGGER
As in partner is ACTIVELY NOW HAVING AN EPISODE
It amped the tv’s brightness and flashed series of QR codes across the screen like a goddamn strobe light! Which you had to stand in front of and record for 15 seconds!
Website contact refused to provide a channel to make a complaint, insisted that we could only possibly be a household if we were all on the same wifi, and that if they couldn’t email or call the account owner all they could do was help us set up a new fucking account.
Partner isn’t in serious danger but jesus fuck if you’re a seizure risk do not go anywhere near it
Squidward only ever makes artwork based off his visage, it’s all very surface level and lacks any emotional depth
Squidward should start making artwork based on how Squidward feels and not how Squidward looks yknow? I feel like he’s experimented plenty with self portraits, but none of them really say much about Squidward as a person yknow
got drunk last night and got really emotional over Squidward’s potential and how much he holds himself back
Squidward only ever makes artwork based off his visage, it’s all very surface level and lacks any emotional depth
Squidward should start making artwork based on how Squidward feels and not how Squidward looks yknow? I feel like he’s experimented plenty with self portraits, but none of them really say much about Squidward as a person yknow
got drunk last night and got really emotional over Squidward’s potential and how much he holds himself back
i have a brain problem that prevents me from understanding people who need so much specifically newly-released TV shows that they’re upset by the prospect of going a few months without new ones being produced
like they could stop making video games and books today and I wouldn’t notice until sometime in 2026. honestly if they’d stop making new video games for a while that’d be kinda convenient. everyone take a break and let me catch up. I still haven’t even played Persona 5.
find me in 2029 going “you guys heard about this red plumber dude? little bastard just loves to jump lol. anyway it sounds weird, I know, but I’m kinda getting into it”
maybe just put “eww” near the bottom of the scale and it’ll be perfecto
you understand nothing.
Hi im a calvin and hobbes enthusiast and the context for this comic was calvin was trying on different glasses at the mall of different colors just wanted to share
why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs
like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it
“hold out your hand, Frodo – don’t worry, it’s quite cool”
if the piece of metal you just yoinked out of a blazing fire is so fuckin’ cool why are you holding it with tongs ya eejit
He means cool in the 😎 sense.
Gandalf knows all the hip slang in all the tongues of elves, dwarves, and men
it really isn’t acknowledged enough how mentally draining it is to consistently fuck up the same thing over and over again. The kind of thing that make people ask “how could you possibly fuck that up again, you’ve been doing that consistently for the past 10 years” and all you can give for an answer is “if I knew how I manage to keep doing this wrong, I would simply stop doing it wrong.” And they don’t like that answer, either.
Your brain isn’t designed to do that. The hunter-gatherer survival instincts that are pretty good at determining what’s sensible and what isn’t will just go “don’t do that, then.” There’s nothing in the natural environment that human beings developed in in which consistently doing something that you find unpleasant that consistently yields no reward would be worth doing. If you keep failing at the same thing again and again, then clearly the thing cannot be done, and wasting your energy doing something impossible to achieve that isn’t enjoyable to do is detrimental to your survival. Your brain punishes you for trying to do that.
And there is no way to explain to my caveman brain that I cannot simply stop doing laundry.
Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
it really isn’t acknowledged enough how mentally draining it is to consistently fuck up the same thing over and over again. The kind of thing that make people ask “how could you possibly fuck that up again, you’ve been doing that consistently for the past 10 years” and all you can give for an answer is “if I knew how I manage to keep doing this wrong, I would simply stop doing it wrong.” And they don’t like that answer, either.
Your brain isn’t designed to do that. The hunter-gatherer survival instincts that are pretty good at determining what’s sensible and what isn’t will just go “don’t do that, then.” There’s nothing in the natural environment that human beings developed in in which consistently doing something that you find unpleasant that consistently yields no reward would be worth doing. If you keep failing at the same thing again and again, then clearly the thing cannot be done, and wasting your energy doing something impossible to achieve that isn’t enjoyable to do is detrimental to your survival. Your brain punishes you for trying to do that.
And there is no way to explain to my caveman brain that I cannot simply stop doing laundry.
Huh, my posts where I enthusiastically talk about something I love seem to get ten times as many notes as the ones where I explain why I hate something.
In New Zealand, there is a man legally known as ‘The Wizard’ who is an educator, comedian, magician and politician. Some of his political ideas include:
Abolishing old-fashioned gender roles
Travelling to find the “center of the universe”
Replacing God and the Church with Wizardry and the World Wide Web
“Wizard, The”
This is The Wizard, reblog in 35 seconds to reveal the secrets of the center of the universe and abolish old fashioned gender roles.
The Wizard of New Zealand is not just legally named “The Wizard” so he can appear on his driver’s licence that way. He is actually, literally, officially, the Wizard of New Zealand and was appointed to that role by Prime Minister Mike Moore in 1990.
Why when a rat boggles its eyes when happy it’s a cute thing, but when I do it all of a sudden I’m a “Freak of nature.” and “Need to get in the FBI van.” like what the hell? God forbid a trans man does anything. Ffs.
“oh I’m too old for stuffed animals” skill issue. sorry you can’t appreciate little creatures made to hang out with you, I on the other hand am full of joyous whimsy and therefore vastly superior.
So I just made a joke that “more women should poison their husbands” to my cool boss and then immediately found out that he got divorced because he was poisoned by his ex-wife
I’m apologizing profusely and he’s like “oh it’s fine it was funny” and then he offhandedly mentions that his next girlfriend tried to poison him also
ELMO DOES NOT LIVE ALONE. HIS PARENTS ARE CLEARLY SHOWN SEVERAL TIMES IN SEVERAL PIECES OF SESAME STREET MEDIA. YOU’RE A FAKE FAN. HIS PARENTS NAMES ARE LOUIE AND MAE. HE EVEN HAS EXTENDED FAMILY.
ELMO DOES NOT LIVE ALONE. HIS PARENTS ARE CLEARLY SHOWN SEVERAL TIMES IN SEVERAL PIECES OF SESAME STREET MEDIA. YOU’RE A FAKE FAN. HIS PARENTS NAMES ARE LOUIE AND MAE. HE EVEN HAS EXTENDED FAMILY.
Funniest thing in the whole wide world is opening a completed fic and seeing the author’s note for the first chapter say something like “unlike my other fics, this will be a shorter one! Expect it to be complete within three months or so” and then you look at the stats and the fic is 100k+ words and took two years to finish
Second funniest thing is progressing through a fic and reading the authors notes and every three or so chapters they’re like “you might have noticed the chapter count has increased from five to eight! Some scenes have gotten away from me” and “okay so the chapter count is updated from 14 to 19. just. just ignore that” and the actual completed fic is 37 chapters long
