Month: May 2016

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lizardywizard:

brin-bellway replied to your post: I was checking Hurricane over pre-ride and somehow…

Get well soon, Hurricane. (Huh, my road test is also on Wednesday.)

Aw thank you from both of us. <3

Oh huh! Bike, car or something else?

#also i realised you like my posts a lot #but i don’t think we’ve ever talked #so hiii

Hi!

We had an IM conversation once: copingkin, psychological otherkin, and the distinction or lack thereof.

As for the test, it’s car: I’ve got a learner’s permit right now, and I’m going for my intermediate license.

For context, getting your intermediate is, in terms of practical benefits, a much bigger deal than getting your full license. The difference in driving restrictions between intermediate and full in Ontario is very small, and even smaller if you’re age 20+ (which I am):

  • “Carry only as many passengers as there are working seatbelts“ (wait, that doesn’t apply to everyone?)
  • Zero tolerance alcohol rather than 0.05 (I don’t expect this to be relevant)
  • The legality of driving in America is unclear rather than explicitly allowed (we might just have Dad continue doing all the American driving to be on the safe side)
  • If your license comes up for five-year renewal before you get your full license (which it might; you have to spend a year with intermediate before taking the test to get full, and my five-year renewal is the end of July next year), renewing is trickier and more murky. It looks like if I end up needing to, I *might* be able to arrange to start my next five years directly as intermediate, or I might be kicked to learner and need to take the first road test again (but the “spend eight months in learner before taking the intermediate test” doesn’t apply to your second time, so I could re-take the intermediate test as soon as they can schedule me in). Hopefully I’ll manage to pass everything quickly enough that it doesn’t matter.

(The Ontarian terminology for car license types is “G1”, “G2”, and “G”, but I’ve used “learner”, “intermediate”, and “full” here because they’re more widely recognised terms.)

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#driving #reply via reblog #my driving instructor told me not to drive myself home from a successful road test if I can avoid it #because people who have just passed a road test tend to be intoxicated by the glow of success #and as such are at rather increased crash risk #so one should drive as little as possible until one starts to get over the excitement of passing #not sure how much of that is practical with a motorcycle

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wilwheaton:

the-future-now:

Netflix’s new site is a giant “f*ck you” to Comcast and Time Warner

Netflix launched a site late Wednesday night called Fast.com, where — in one click — anyone browsing the internet can see how fast their internet speed is. Although it’s great for consumers, some internet providers might not be happy about the new website.

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Fuck Comcast

Netflix didn’t invent that it’s been around

Netflix didn’t invent speed checks, but this site is Netflix’s.

Okay, so here’s why Netflix speedtest is so brilliant. 

Most of us know about Speedtest.net, right? Well Comcast and Time Warner know about it too. They know customers use it to check to see if they’re getting what they are paying for. Comcast techs even tell customers to check their speed with Speedtest.net. 

So, to make sure people think they are getting good speeds, Comcast and Time Warner prioritize traffic going to Speedtest.net. When you check your speed there it’s artificially inflated. That is NOT the speed you are getting when you browse tumblr and that is definitely not the speed you get when you watch Netflix. 

Comcast and Time Warner can not artificially inflate the results by prioritizing traffic to Fast.net unless they also prioritize traffic to Netflix, and they definitely do not want to do that. 

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#interesting idea #(my speedtest.net result was actually slightly *lower* than my fast.com result) #(but then I’m not on Comcast)

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muaddibbler:

I think we should start using more bio terms to describe what hours we’re most active in, because they’re frickin cool.

  • Crepuscular – mostly around dawn and dusk
  • Vespertine – specifically active around dusk
  • Cathemeral – basically whenever: “sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night in
    which food is acquired […]”
  • Diurnal – awake in the day, asleep at night
  • Matutinal – most active in the early morning hours

If I had any inkling that this would get reblogged I’d put something like “tag yourself” here (I made this post because I’m feeling crepuscular).

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#language #the more you know #(I only knew two of these myself) #(”crepuscular” and ”diurnal”) #from what I can tell I’m naturally diurnal but this has been partially suppressed by decades of habit #I was raised sleeping ~2:30 AM – ~noon #(bear in mind I was homeschooled and therefore rarely had anything that *required* me to be awake before noon) #and upbringing dies hard #I’ve managed to push back to ~12 AM – ~9 AM #I like mornings but I haven’t fully managed to shake the feeling that being awake in the morning is Not Done

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lizardywizard:

fierceawakening:

osberend:

fierceawakening:

osberend:

bakrua:

bewbin:

Why do people drink alcohol it tastes disgusting

you don’t drink it for the taste. u drink shit like apple juice for the taste. you drink alcohol to get rid of the bad taste that every awful person in your life has left

Maybe you don’t drink alcohol for the taste, but plenty of us do. I do like getting a good buzz, but frankly, the amount of alcohol I want to drink because (many) alcoholic beverages are fucking delicious vastly exceeds the amount of alcohol that would take me over the line from enjoyably to unpleasantly altered. Hell, depending on my mood, it often exceeds the amount that would take over the line from alive to dead. (Needless to say, I therefore do not drink as much as I want to.)

A lot of people who are just starting to drink drink the cheapest shit that’s available, and often that’s not very good. If they like the effects but dislike they taste, then they often keep drinking the cheapest shit that’s available, because “it all tastes like shit anyway.” It’s a vicious cycle. If your experience of alcohol is limited to Natty Ice and/or whatever vodka happens to be cheapest at the local liquor store, you’re not going to have a very good basis for understanding “what alcohol tastes like.”

if all alcohol tastes bad, does that mean people who like wine are doing absolutely nothing but posturing?

Remarkably, there are multiple people (who are active on the forum of a single comic) who actually believe this (and multiple others who believe different things that are equally nuts)! See this completely asinine xkcd comic, and an alarming fraction of the official forum discussion of it.

There’s enough of this going around that when I type “xkcd beer” (without the quotation marks) into Google, the third suggestion is “xkcd beer stockholm syndrome.”

The hell?

(And I say this as someone who hates 97% of all beer I have ever tasted, even.)

I find beer to be delicious and refreshing. Not all beer – I used to think I hated beer until a few years back when I was getting a tattoo and was having drinks with the artist afterwards (she’s a cool person, owns many reptiles). She gave me a Tecate and maybe it was because I was wired and dehydrated from several hours of being inked, but it was the best thing I could have had in that moment.

So I don’t like a lot of beer. I’ve tried fancy microbrews and supermarket brands alike, and a lot of them are shitty. But I will knock back a Tecate any day.

I don’t assume that people who like alcohol have Stockholm Syndrome; I simply assume their perception of alcohol is different. I’ve shared drinks that the people I was sharing with liked, that the people I was sharing with could distinguish flavours in, but all I could “taste” was the sensation of pins and needles.

I also perceive carbonation as causing pins and needles (before you ask, non-carbonated alcohol is still stabby). Similarly, I assume that people who claim to like soda perceive it as tasting more pleasant, and are not merely choking it down for the caffeine high. My avoidance of soda and alcohol alike is not a reflection on others.

(I note that–very often in speech, but occasionally in text–I have trouble expressing my theory of mind even when I actually do possess it. Acknowledgements that other people are unlike me tend to get lost on the way to my mouth. If someone sounds like they are claiming alcohol tastes bad to everyone, you might want to double-check that they actually meant it that way. I can guarantee you there’s at least one person in the world–*gestures at self*–who is likely to say that and not mean it, and where there’s one there might be more.)

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#alcohol #reply via reblog #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see

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rangi42:

> title text: “here I am using the Squirrel Girl theme song in Dinosaur Comics!  WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO??“

Ryan North is also the writer for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Know what this means? “♪ I’ve got radioactive pee ♪” is the canon Squirrel Girl theme song.

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#Dinosaur Comics #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #urine cw

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queenofzan:

all i want is more mundane shows in sci-fi and fantasy verses

i just want friends, but set on ds9, and they had to pull some strings to keep their quarters on the habitat ring next to each other with the nice view of the wormhole, and they sit around shooting the shit and loitering in the promenade and having like dating crises and in the background the star fleet officers are running and yelling and the station goes to red alert and they’re like “ugh we just got comfortable!!!”

when the environmental controls fail they have to split up by species gravity tolerance and put all the breakables in someone’s bedroom

one of them works part time as a dabo girl but we never see them at quarks, we just hear complaining about the boss and sometimes horrendous work outfits

i want like “my dog got stuck in the station ventilation shaft, we have to sneak it out before star fleet notices”

 

queenofzan:

Deep Space 90210

CSI: Bajor

community, but in space, at the shitty knock off academy that people who didn’t test into star fleet go to, for fucking interstellar trucking or something

featuring a pseudo jeff winger who’s an academy washout and he’s always like WELL IN STAR FLEET and everyone else like groans and throws crumpled up candy wrappers at him

TEEN WORF

i want fucking war horse, but set during the cardassian occupation on bajor

goddamn patriot about like kahless or something, fighting to unify klingons against a larger threat and with inexplicable modern accents and clothing

goddamn pocahontas in space, with first contact, where it makes no sense with what we actually know about. physics. and history in the larger world. and it’s obvious propaganda

(like i couldn’t think of an example like pocahontas that wasn’t. just as racist. but like! if you want your weird romantic colonialism, just set it in space, with fake history, and no one will know my guys! no one will be mad you aged up the fucking vulcan princess or whatever and then we can all enjoy this ridiculous story and the talking sand dunes or whatever)

HOUSE HUNTERS BUT IN SPACE! THIS INTERSPECIES COUPLE NEEDS QUARTERS ON A STATION THAT CAN DO BOTH OXYGEN AND CHLORINE ATMOSPHERES….PLUS A BIG KITCHEN FOR ENTERTAINING like please. spcae

real housewives of alpha centauri b

the office, but in space, about the small self-sealing stem bolt company that gets a boost in sales after they accidentally make a huge sale to the new federation-run space station outside bajor

  • manager: why would they order from the federation if they didn’t breath oxygen
  • me: *looks into the camera like in The Space Office*

THE DEADLIEST CATCH, BUT WITH STUPID SCI-FI ANIMALS

it’s always sunny on rigel 7

i could go all day hollywood call me you can reuse whatever’s in the backlots and the rental houses i don’t care man! just! do it! space!

 

nehirose:

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE easy to reblog post compilations ANYWAY I WANT

ALL

ANY

OF THESE

also for the new people in the back: i may look like all the crying about nerds in space i do is about star wars, but let me assure you. that i am ALWAYS crying about any given franchise with ‘star’ in the name at basically any time, ever.

 

jeshala:

ONCE AGAIN FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT:

Eye-batting Garak

 

hazeymarie:

My mom is requesting NCIS: Cosmos

 

nehirose:

YES GOOD

 

glitterspacequeen:

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY ON RIGEL 7

 

piraterogue:

PunQ’d. Q’s pranks people all throughout the neutral zone, but always where Picard will find out about it, juuuust to annoy him.

 

patrickat:

House Hunters: Interstellar. Tom and Becky have a home on the Terran Moon along the shores of the Sea of Tranquility, but now they’re in the market for a vacation property on Risa. Their budget is 1.2 million bars of gold pressed latinum.

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#Star Trek #story ideas I will never write

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egobuzz:

when in doubt just ask a dog 

 

egobuzz:

someone send “BOOF!” to your crush/significant other and share the results with the rest of the class please 

 

marblespiders:

Boof 1

better response than expected!

 

lyinginbedmon:

IS THIS WHY YOU SENT ME THAT MESSAGE?!

 

markruffalwhoa:

Boof 2

 

sweetapplestrider:

Boof 3

 

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair:

Boof 4

 

trixify:

Boof 5

 

haizcraze:

Boof 6

i honestly didn’t expect anything less

 

n-e-p:

new ask meme where u send a boof on anon if im ur tumblr crush

 

owlmylove:

i honestly just checked urban dictionary to try and figure out why someone sent “BOOF!” to my inbox holy heck this is adorable

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

aarongertler:

Whenever you ask yourself the question: “Does anyone else ever do this weird thing // think these weird thoughts // feel this weird way?”

The answer is almost guaranteed to be yes.

There are a lot of people in the world. They all do and feel things every single day. Every minute for you is 7.1 billion minutes for other people. The collective human experience is vast, and even though we’ll never know about most of it, it still exists. 

The odds are very good that someone in the world, if you were to explain your circumstances, would gasp in recognition and explain that they, too, have exactly the same bad habit or strange fear or bizarre fantasy.

So: Whatever you’re feeling right now – whatever it is you’ve done – you have company. And even if you can’t see them, trust that they would like you if they were lucky enough to meet you.

#endorsed

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#I do take some comfort in this thought #when I am feeling that type of loneliness #but I would like to *actually* meet some rather than merely knowing the generalised likelihood of their existence #sexuality and lack thereof #(is where the loneliness currently tends to hit me hardest) #the wondrous variety of sapient life