Month: August 2020

Six Times You Knew What Everyone Was Thinking (and one time you didn’t):

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sadoeuphemist:

1.

The King sits you down with his other two advisors, has you close your eyes, puts a hat on each of your heads. The hats will be either red or white, he says, with at least one red one. The first to speak up and name the color of their own hat wins the prize.

You open your eyes, see the other two advisors both with red hats staring at you. You all study each other, thinking. Silence. Silence. No one coming to a conclusion.

Ah, but in their silence it is obvious: if your hat were white, surely one of them would have figured it out already. Your hats all are red, of course.

2.

You pass through a tunnel in a group of n where n>2 friends, wind blowing through your hair; you emerge from the darkness to see each of your friends with a smudge of soot on their foreheads. You laugh. You cannot help but laugh. They look hilarious! The moment they realize they have a smudge of soot on their foreheads, they will wipe it clean, of course, but for now all of you are laughing. You all will keep laughing as long as there is a spot of soot left to be seen.

You think, How inseparable you are from your friends, how your minds all work according to the same rules of logic! You can imagine what they are all thinking, right now, in their laughter; and they of you; and you are imaging them imagining you and so on ad infinitum. You watch them laughing and are looking into a hall of mirrors.

You think this is what knowing is.

In any case, so long as your minds all tick along at sufficiently different speeds, eventually, your faces will all be clean.

Keep reading

Tags:

#storytime #philosophy

Stories From the Neopets Economy

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therainstheyaredropping:

An account of events in the Neopets economy over the years. Also reading this made me try logging into my old account, but it looks like it doesn’t exist anymore. :(

* That Time Neopets Changed Pet Art, Creating a New Scarce Resource
* That Time People Abused a Duplication Glitch and Crashed the High-End Economy
* That Time Neopets Decreased Sale Friction and Prices Dropped Accordingly
* That Time a Book Got 1000 Times More Expensive Because of Charity
* That Time A User Donated a Billion Neopoints to Help Save the Economy

Tags:

#Neopets #adventures in dragon capitalism #(look there’s *some* dragons in Neopets)

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itsbenedict:

itsbenedict:

wait what the- i just posted my- but instead it just posted the ask again??? or- no, the dash is showing an old post, what in the hell…?

is anyone else seeing this:

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instead of how it shows on my blog:

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? refreshing the dash doesn’t seem to fix it on my end, and idk if this is a problem with how tumblr’s serving the data or if it’s something funky on the client end

I was seeing posts in scrambled order too. Checked in a couple of times over the course of the evening to see if it had sorted itself out yet (it hadn’t), until eventually it occurred to me: “hang on, is Tumblr fucking around with that ~best-stuff-first~ shit again?”

And, yeah, they were. There’s a toggle in the Dashboard section of the settings.

Tags:

#reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #PSA #bluespace

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toastpotent:

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kidzbopdeathgrips:

if i had a dollar for every pixel in this image i’d have 15 cents

 

toastpotent:

if i had a dollar for every ounce of rage i felt in my body after i read this comment i would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you

 

castlevaniasymphonyofthenight:

actually I did the math, they would have $225, not $0.15

 

kidzbopdeathgrips:

sis i’m right here….

 

kensacollection:

if i had a dollar i would buy a can of soda :)

 

toastpotent:

while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?

 

kensacollection:

sorry i only have a dollar

 

toastpotent:

:(

 

castlevaniasymphonyofthenight:

hey I just realized my friend Vriska is right, they would have $22500 not $225

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^my friend Vriska

 

kensacollection:

if i had $22,500 i would buy a can of soda and an apply juice

 

castlevaniasymphonyofthenight:

You can buy anything you want with $22500

 

bongwatercoffee:

yeah and they want soda and apply juice

 

castlevaniasymphonyofthenight:

apply juice to what

 

zvaigzdelasas:

directly to the forehead

Tags:

#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Tumblr is a hell of a place

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traegorn:

closet-keys:

When I was a kid I was genuinely horrified by the idea of growing up and I think a large part of it was the insistence by adults in my life that puberty would turn me into someone completely different. They were like “sure you don’t like make up and boys now but you’ll feel differently after puberty” or like “sure you think you wouldn’t want kids now but you’ll see once you’re older”

it’s like damn, stop invalidating kids’ personalities and listen to them and maybe you won’t be so shocked when they don’t transform into a new person later

My wife and I don’t ever plan on having kids, but my Dad always had one piece of parenting advice I’ll never forget.

He said “Pay attention to who your children are when they’re little. If you do that, you’ll never be surprised at who they become. The only people who think kids suddenly become other people when they hit adolescence are the ones who never listened to what their kids were telling them the whole time.”

Tags:

#yes this #furthermore‚ it has been my experience that even when puberty *does* do shit to you it does not make you *endorse* it #knock on wood‚ but I strongly suspect that even if I *do* get some biological-clock-ticking shit later #I’m still not *actually* going to want kids #it’ll just be another annoying reflex‚ a vestige of ancestral memory #no more meaningful than the urge to jump off cliffs

Anonymous asked: do you support the war in vietnam?

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lastvalyrian:

tragedycamp:

tragedycamp:

ma’am this is a John Lennon/Paul McCartney erotica blog

and SCENE! that was my impersonation of what i think tumblr would be like in the late 1960’s. just to clarify this is a joke. this isn’t real. there is no beatles erotica here. it’s a bit. it’s a joke

this post is a failure because I was completely willing to accept both John/Paul fanblog and people demanding political positions on the Vietnam War in 2020 without question

Tags:

#agreed: this is a completely plausible post to see on real!Tumblr #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog