Month: October 2017

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stuffandsundry:

eff-word:

kuttithevangu:

purified-zone:

kuttithevangu:

If the ocean ever disappears DONT GO LOOKING FOR IT… go in the other direction

i know this sounds like a shitpost but isn’t this like, real advice regarding tsunamis

Yes this was about hurricane Irma it is not a shitpost

This is actually really good advice so let me elaborate a bit: if you notice the tide is retreating very quickly at a very odd time of day, get as far away from water and as high up as you can. I live along the ocean and a long time ago we had a small tsunami and a relative of mine tells me how her father saw the tides retreating so he just picked her up and just ran, which probably saved their lives.

 

So yeah DONT LOOK FOR THE MISSING OCEAN just run away

ocean not lost, ocean is actually winding up to kick you very hard in the nuts.

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#hurricanes #PSA #the more you know #(yes I’m reblogging this very late) #(I haven’t gone through my ”consider whether to reblog this” tabs in a while) #((but good information for next time))

Definition of “rationalist”

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plain-dealing-villain:

inferentialdistance:

plain-dealing-villain:

fuck-planets:

A person who thinks Eliezer Yudkowsky got some things wrong

oh shit I’m a fake rationalist

What, you agree with him about onions?

oh wait nvm I’m a rationalist.

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#high context jokes #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I say this as someone who agrees with Eliezer Yudkowsky about onions) #((I still remember the time I accidentally left the onion out of my quiche and was shocked at how much better the quiche was without it)) #((been deliberately leaving it out ever since)) #food

hogwarts memes

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devilrie:

– everyone answering “no, i’m fred” to “are you [insert Y/N]” even hermione
– everything draco does ever
– calling blast ended skrewts “power bottoms”
– calling newt scamander bad variations of his name like nerd sandwicher etc
– colin creevey using that one picture he managed to get of hermione punching draco as a reaction image
– shouting “spank me daddy” at the whomping willow
– [pointing at random object] that’s a portkey
– every single cat is professor mcgonagall

 

bookavid:

why

 

tawghasa:

– POTTER

 

yourjacketisnowdry:

– ever since snape’s “bottle fame, brew fortune” speech students just go on and on with it – “flambé success, bake brilliance” “Can you tutor me in charms?” “TUTOR you? I can teach you how to SAUTÉ EXCELLENCE.”

 

caffeinepants:

– [random object] is totally a hufflepuff

– remember that game where someone yells “SHATNER” and you have to overact? same thing except it’s “TRELAWNEY” and you have to use whatever you’re holding to make a ludicrous prediction

– a more popular variation is “LOCKHART” to make up a pompous story about using whatever you’re holding to drive the [monster] out of [town]

– calling hippogriffs “leggy birbs”

– “Our beloved headmaster Albert Dumpsterfire/Aqueous Disillusionment/Aberdeen Decapitation…”

– shitty incantations ( “The Graying Hair Charm? Make-me-bloody-ancient-osia.” )

 

sleepyysalamiri:

reblogging for albert dumpsterfire xD

 

classicantics:

-the dumbledore one, except you keep adding incorrect names, like albert pensive wallace herbert richard flamingo sherbet tango luthor…

-*peeves appears* IT DAT BOI

-”i’d rather be petrified”

-”so a shack gets to scream and it’s all normal and haunted, but when i do it i’m disturbing class and a nuisance”

 

parseltonquinq:

I will sell my soul for all of this in a fic

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#Harry Potter #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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brin-bellway:

God, the Internet is amazing.

I was thinking fondly of a song from a childhood video game, but I could not recall how the song went or the exact name of the game. And I thought “Maybe I can fix that.”

Armed only with the information “there was this M&M-themed game on CD-ROM, and the song was the background music for level 5″, it took me all of a couple of minutes to track this down. (If you would like to skip to the best part, that is at 1:03. I tried linking to that timestamp, but it looks like you can’t do that with video posts.)

Bonus: apparently the game disc’s ISO is available from the Internet Archive.

(I wonder if Windows 7 is backwards-compatible with Windows 95 games, or if I would have to take stronger measures?)

Update:

I downloaded the ISO, installed some software that lets me run the ISO in a virtual CD-ROM drive*, and tried the game.

It works! Windows 7 had no problem (nor even complaint) installing and running this Windows 95 software. I played through level 1 and most of level 2 (out of, I think, 10). When I ran out of lives, I decided to stop for the moment rather than restarting the section.

*I do have a real CD-ROM drive, but I didn’t want to bother obtaining a blank disc to burn the file onto.

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#games #my childhood #food mention #oh look an update #Windows versions 8 and newer have virtual CD-ROM drives built in #so if I had one of those it would have been even easier than it already was #(assuming they didn’t break backwards compatibility with the game in those versions)

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Unexpected side effect of fast-food job: listening to current Top 40 music while sitting at home feels very disorienting.

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#brain: ”wait if this song is playing how come we’re not at work” #”shouldn’t we at least be standing up?” #not related to the previous post #oh look an original post #in which Brin has a job #music

Video ~ ~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

God, the Internet is amazing.

I was thinking fondly of a song from a childhood video game, but I could not recall how the song went or the exact name of the game. And I thought “Maybe I can fix that.”

Armed only with the information “there was this M&M-themed game on CD-ROM, and the song was the background music for level 5″, it took me all of a couple of minutes to track this down. (If you would like to skip to the best part, that is at 1:03. I tried linking to that timestamp, but it looks like you can’t do that with video posts.)

Bonus: apparently the game disc’s ISO is available from the Internet Archive.

(I wonder if Windows 7 is backwards-compatible with Windows 95 games, or if I would have to take stronger measures?)

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#games #my childhood #music #oh look an original post #food mention #proud citizen of The Future

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preoccupiedpepper:

staff:

Here it is: Best stuff first

Extremely handy if you follow a lot of people and hate missing anything good. 

Best Stuff First moves the best stuff on your dashboard—mhm!—right up to the top. 

It’s rolling out this week on iOS and Android, and comes with this Help Center article.  

Thanks! ✌️

Head’s up folks! Tumblr decided to shit the bed and go non-chronological!

This bullshit is being rolled out this week and it’s going to be default!

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#…holy shit #I saw the original staff post but I missed the part where it’s *on by default* #I don’t use mobile but I’ll have to keep an eye on my settings to make sure they don’t do this to my laptop #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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surreal–memes:

 

itsblehnedict:

oh, yeah, it’s artificial neural networks that do that, they’re the ones who call lots of things “dogs” that clearly aren’t dogs. no other sorts of minds would ever do that constantly

#clear and irrefutable evidence that neural networks work exactly like the human brain with no differences  #look at this weird dog

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(mostly Benedict’s caption) #dog #see also ”Dog or Not?” #(and as a warning tag:) #bugs

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justice-turtle:

wtf-viz:

Shattered distribution.

i’m sorry i understand this is trying to make a point but literally all i can think is “what the shit kind of graphic design is this”

Recently, I had a practice exercise for Critical Thinking class (Unit 7: How to Lie with Statistics) in which I had to find a terrible graph in a news source and explain why it was terrible.

As such, my reaction to this post is “*sigh* howmuch.net is at it again”.

(In the case of the post I linked, the article was even worse than the graph taken in isolation. Fun fact: as far as I can tell (and admittedly it’s not all that clear), the original data source uses “housing” to mean everything involved in maintaining a residence (such as utilities), but the article strongly implies that “housing” = “rent”. And they casually assume that a household with average income will also have average expenses, and at one point actually conflate income and expenses!)

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On the bright side, the OP is wtf-viz, which means that the point this post is trying to make is “what the shit kind of graphic design is this”.

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#adventures in University Land #reply via reblog #adventures in human capitalism #(tangentially)

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