Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
I’ve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
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#Iliad #fun with loopholes
Month: October 2019
There’s nothing more representative of Doctor Who than the following two facts:
- every single dalek story plays the fact that the daleks are involved as a reveal
- every single dalek story has the word “dalek” in the title
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#Doctor Who #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
A Key You Can Photograph Is A Key That Can Be Copied
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Then, I do nothing else—because I’m a pretty nice dude who is just fascinated by this sort of thing. That said, however, the specific measurements for any common brand of lock can be found online, and, with a little experience, you can hand-file keys in only a few minutes. Just search for “Depth & Space” charts. Those will tell you how far apart to space your cuts and the possible depths you might find cut into that type of key. Note that, while the space and depth will stay consistent across a given brand, it’s up to you to figure out the specific depths for your key.
Seriously guys, stop posting photos of your brand new house key in clear fidelity on multiple social media platforms. People with malicious intentions can easily walk into your no longer secured homes.
This is not a new thing. There was a furor with TSA luggage keys a few years back (last I checked, lockpick and lock enthusiasts have managed to decode and recreate most of the keys except for a couple).
https://hackaday.com/2015/09/18/dear-tsa-this-is-why-you-shouldnt-post-pictures-of-your-keys-online/
But yeah, STOP POSTING CLEAR PHOTOS OF YOUR IMPORTANT KEYS ONLINE
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#PSA #stalking cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what
My pronouns are “you, your.” Don’t talk about me behind my back, you cowards
My pronouns are “me, my.” I am an ordinary toaster
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#the humour of my people #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #SCP #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
inqwatch asked: How did the sharing ever explain all their people getting horrific scars from hawks, losing limbs, and the general destruction tied to their efforts? I can accept that a lot of losses were Hork-Bajir and Taxxons, but we get a lot of descriptions of Tobias going for the eyes.
Look. Meetings of the Sharing apparently involve a lot of volleyball, as we know from mentions in #1, #10, Visser, and #31.
Volleyball is a dangerous sport. Volleyball injuries happen. Volleyball accidents frequently result in severed limbs. We know this from the dozens — no, hundreds — of recorded cases of this exact phenomenon occurring, almost all of them in one town in Southern California. Statisticians have hypothesized that this may have to do with the extent to which one particular local organization uses regional variations on the standard rules of volleyball, but all attempts at participant observation have resulted in the social scientists who joined the Sharing abruptly dropping the project and going in new directions with their lives.
Currently, warning labels on volleyball equipment indicate that its use has a 15% chance of resulting in serious injury and/or death. Factoid is actually a statistical error. The Sharing’s inter-chapter volleyball league, which loses an average of 41.7% of its members per month to volleyball-related amputations and murders, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
“social scientists who joined the Sharing”
That sounds like an excellent way to live in a constant state of terror and fascination; being a human social scientist who is infested and watching the mess that is the Visserarchy from terrifyingly close, and thinking that that either you’ll either never be able to share your findings (if you die or the Yeerks win), or be at the edge of any entirely new edge of social science.
This is basically my entire life. Too accurate. Make it stop.
Imagine being a yeerk inside a newly captured social scientist watching them passively eviscerate every aspect of your primitive 30-year-old military culture down to its component parts, every conclusion basically being “these guys suck at everything they’re doing and are struggling desperately to make sure their underlings don’t realise that”
<Stop it! Stop thinking! Stop trying to shake my loyalty!>
<I can’t! This is what I was trained to do! You don’t like it, stop reading my mind!>
<I CAN’T!>
*Visser Three starts speaking*
<And this one’s intimidation tactics have gone far, far beyond useful and are greatly crippling his own forces; not sure yet whether it’s pure unchecked sadism or insecurity and distraction as a result of – >
<SHUT UP!!>
“VISSER I NEED A NEW HOST, THIS ONE IS BROKEN.”
<It sounds like you’re the broken one.>
“PUH-LEEEAAAASSSSEEEE, I’M BEGGING YOU! I’LL EVEN GO IN A TAXXON OR GEDD, JUST MAKE IT STOP!”
post war someone is going to have an amazing dissertation “Perverse incentives in authoritarian systems, a first(ish) person case study”
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#Animorphs #fanfic #violence cw #death tw #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(the newly captured social scientist) #my past self has good taste
“No weapon forged by mortal hands can slay me!”
hits you with a rock
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#fun with loopholes #violence cw?
Maybe so shitty it’s awesome.
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#(h/t slatestarscratchpad) #Middle Earth #art #fanart #oh my god #(note: I cannot read tengwar and can only *assume* that this is the One Ring inscription) #((edit: have received word from a tengwar-reading friend that this is indeed the One Ring inscription))
just a reminder to my new followers that if were ever able to cross the explanatory gap and share our color perception qualia with each other, proving finally that we all do see colors differently, my red is real as shit and youve been seeing crap fake red. so come to terms with your shit fake red while it lasts
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #qualia #discourse cw? #philosophy
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