Month: November 2017

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silkarth:

marshmellowtea:

high-metafive:

so i made and account on tv tropes and it asked for my relationship status

i went over and was about to put in “single” or “it’s complicated” and, well..

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i can’t deal anymore

this is beautiful

Amazing.

Also, that youtube link at the bottom is exactly what you think it is.

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#long post #oh my god #rickrolling #(I did check) #(and when I got most of the way through typing out the video ID) #(”Never Gonna Give You Up” popped up in the URL-history section) #(apparently I’ve listened to that exact video of it before) #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #(don’t get me wrong a lot of the other ones are amusing too) #there is probably some warning tag I should put on this but I am not sure what

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While I do *have* an internal time sense, said sense tends to believe external cues over its own lying eyes.

The upside is, when springing forward I’ve usually adjusted by the end of the first day, and almost always by the end of the second. All I have to do is look at clocks a lot and follow my routine at least somewhat aggressively.

The downside is, every year at falling back I try to shift my sleep schedule back with it, and it never works.

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#slept 12:30 – 9:30 last night #which is more or less what time I slept a week ago #there was a while there where I was sleeping 12 – 9 and I liked that better #I thought using DST to help would make it easier to go back to that #but no if I’m going to do that it’ll have to be the hard way #(although 12:30 – 9:30 isn’t *all* that bad) #oh look an original post #Daylight Savings Time #(I don’t know how helpful my internal-clock malleability is for non-DST jet lag) #(because I have never left my time zone) #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #(sort of)

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adzolotl:

adzolotl:

argumate reblogged your post and added: “adzolotl: someone mentioned “that 8-bit Bring Me To Life cover”, so I…”

what do you mean the good one

you called it a timeless classic

did I just get pranked into listening to multiple 8-bit renditions of Bring Me To Life

dear Tumblr staff:

if you’re gonna let us use italics, maybe make them render everywhere hmm

consider the difference between “what do you mean the good one” and “what do you mean the good one”

#whoops 

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…I know I’ve been inconsistent on italics vs asterisks to indicate emphasis here, but that’s it, I’m officially going with asterisks.

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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seiseragaki:

 

we-are-shawarma:

titillatingtubist:

Are you kidding me?  This is my goal in life!

That’d be awesome. LOVE ME AND DESPAIR. ARE YOU GAY? ARE YOU STRAIGHT?! YOU JUST DON’T KNOW BUT YOU STILL WANT ME. MWAHAHAHAHA

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#this amuses me because my reaction to it #is exactly the opposite of the reaction of the presumable target audience #both of these things are *downsides* to me #today a random stranger (customer) referred to me as ”she” #and I felt pleased that I had presented my gender successfully #I’m not even trans or anything #it is not and has never been particularly *difficult* for me to present as female #yet I am still always pleased by success #also being attractive sounds like it would lead to a lot of unwanted attention #ideally I would like to look plain in a vaguely pleasant manner #(I think I do pretty well at this for the most part) #gender #tag rambles

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love-this-pic-dot-com:

Morse Code A Visual Guide

 

coyotecomforts:

sammiwolfe important to our lives lol XD

 

sammiwolfe:

Oh oh my god now Morse code actually makes SENSE when you lay it out like that

 

eurotrottest:

Awesome!!

 

ironykins:

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This is also nice, if you want to decode morse code quickly. 

 

goldendragon22:

that avl tree though

 

ironykins:

That’s not a coincidence! Naturally, it’s less work to transmit shorter sequences of dots and dashes, so we try to use up all the shorter sequences first. Basically, this means that we fill in all the branches at one level of this tree before moving onto the next. The result is a perfectly balanced decoding tree. 

The placement of the letters is also far from arbitrary. Here are all the letters in English ordered from most common to least common: 

ETAOINSRHLDCUMFPGWYBVKXJQZ

Notice something? The shortest morse code sequences were assigned to the most common letters. This makes the common letters easier to remember, and makes messages as short as possible in the average case.

Numbers are sort of an exception to this. All numerical symbols are encoded with 5 dots and dashes. But there’s a pretty clear pattern to these as well. 

1 = .—-

2 = ..—

3 = …–

4 = ….-

5 = …..

6 = -….

7 = –…

8 = —..

9 = —-.

0 = —–

So if the listener hears a series of 5 dots and dashes, they immediately know it’s a number. To decode it, they count the number of dashes. If the dashes came before the dots, the number is 5 + the number of dashes. Otherwise, the number is 5 – the number of dashes. 

Morse Code is neat.

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#Morse code #the more you know #things I have vague aspirations to learn someday #but suspect I will always have higher-priority things to do

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solluxander:

can you illegally download sleep

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#Step 1: look for those sleep-aid hypnosis recordings #Step 2: find one that charges money #Step 3: steal it #voila #(no I have not done that) #(I don’t even like audio) #(and in general there’s exactly zero reason to steal things when other things in the same category are freely given) #(to even be tempted you need some reason to believe you’ll like the paid one more) #(which usually means ”a particular for-profit piece has a high reputation”) #(and that’s not something that comes up much in this case) #((the entire concept of pirating porn makes no sense to me)) #((because IME most individual pieces of for-profit porn have no reputation at all)) #((and the ones that do never have a reputation that makes me more inclined to want them)) #tag rambles #sexuality and lack thereof #okay so while I *was* joking about that answer #if you actually try anything like that remember to vet your scripts #(”vetting the script”: listening to it first *without* following along to check that you approve of what they’re saying) #(and they’re not going to try to fast-talk you into some bullshit) #(because no matter how many of them are fine there’s always that one asshole you know?)

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somnilogical:

ive been having fun calculating food costs per kcal

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huel 4.24 μ$/kcal

soylent 3.8 μ$/kcal

eggs 3.2 μ$/kcal

rice 1.6 μ$/kcal

ramen 1.11 μ$/kcal

lentils 1.0 μ$/kcal

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humans consume ~2*10^3 kcal/day

1 μ$/kcal foods let you live for 2 $/day

humans consume 6*10^4 kcal in a month

there are 8.1*10^4 kcal in a human

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i like getting a sense of things

I do this too! Since my post-2012 appetite is pretty good at adjusting for the calorie density of my food, the intuitive unit for “how *big* is this food relative to other foods” is the kcal. (Which runs into problems when I’m trying to figure out relative food prices *in general*, because Mom’s intuitive appetite unit is the “serving” (whatever *that* means) and Dad’s is the “millilitre”, so we sometimes can’t even agree on whether one piece of food is bigger than another. But as long as I focus on only my own eating I can get a good sense of it.)

A lot of things turn out to be cheaper than they look because of high calorie-density. I was especially surprised by peanut butter: I figured it would be *somewhat* on the cheap side, but it’s as cheap as ramen. (In my own circumstances, that is; I notice your figure for ramen is higher than mine, if I moved the decimal places right (I work with “cents to two decimal places”). Both peanut butter and ramen were 0.06 cents/kcal.)

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#food #adventures in human capitalism #reply via reblog #disordered eating #(I’m okay but I expect people blocking that tag do not want to read this)

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ink-and-roses:

ahumblebard:

doxian:

I want a movie about a little girl, aged like 11-12, going through the stuggles of prepubescent girl life, with her entire inner monologue is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

Shot of disgruntled adorable little girl.

SLJ: I knew that Susie was a backstabbin’ motherfucker, and if anyone was going to ruin my chances of being Miss Sugar Drop Queen, it was that asshole. 

I didn’t know I needed this in my life until now.

This is never not funny

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #juxtaposition #story ideas I will never write