“Megan, Can You Do Me a Favor? Can You Fucking Shoot Me?” by Fall Out Boy
he fell victim to the fuckor
A Wave of Fuckor Wracked My Feeble Body by Fall Out Boy
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #embarrassment squick #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Thought 2: Wait, do they use more electricity than the rendering the same scene without a lamp? Is it just the background effort of the having the computer on, not the lamp itself? Hmm.
Thought 3: Calculating real-time lighting is one of the computationally expensive parts of modern video games, and power draw goes up with computational load, so adding a lamp to a scene plausibly does make rendering that scene use more electricity. So, yeah, cool.
Only if you’re using an OLED or one of those fancy multizone LCD panels that are actually more trouble than they’re worth. OLED screens work by starting from black and adding light you do want. LCD screens work by starting out with a bright white screen and filtering out all the light you don’t. They’re not perfect at this which is why OLED screens get deeper blacks. Fun fact! This is also how those cool “snowblind” PC cases work – they’re just LCD screens without a backlight.
Your average run-of-the-mill LCD will use exactly as much power displaying a plain white screen as a black one.
Also, barely tangentially related, but I just want to share a fun fact. You know those blinking nametag keychains they sell in gift shops?
these?
they’re actually LCD screens with a single massive segment! the name is actually a printed page behind the LCD panel, which applies power to turn the LCD cell opaque and make it black. that’s why if you cover the solar cell on the top with your finger, the name stays showing and gets dimmer, and doesn’t completely disappear unless it has power.
If your desktop’s LCD screen works the way these do (some draw power on white, some on black), a plain black screen may in fact draw infinitesimally more power.
AK-47 Type 1 (based on Avtomat Kalashnikova pattern, chambered in 7.62x39mm)
You can tell it’s a Type 1 (one of the original production models of the classic AK-47) by the following traits:
Some people believe that the AK-47’s loose tolerances make it more resilient to malfunction if it gets dirty, which isn’t really all that true. It is, however, a firearm that functions fairly well on very little maintenance.
Which, that’s impossible for a cat, of course. So definitely a gun and not a cat.
hey nice work! we were just about to go rob a bank with her
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#guns #cats #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?
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#…this reminds me of that post going around with the #”which field do you think normal people know one or two feldspars in (and quartz of course)” #me: ”yeah I know 18 is an unusually large number of pi digits to have memorised‚ most people only know 8” #(I had a specific copy of that post I was going to show you alongside this) #(but guess what! Tumblr just up and banned them last night for no apparent reason!) #(my pile of tabs-to-consider-reblogging is *actively linkrotting*‚ so I guess I’d better get a move on with sorting through them) #((particularly in case Tumblr decides to finish the job they did on me)) #(I still have several lizardywizard posts in my queue‚ and Tumblr claims those reblogs will go ahead as scheduled) #(we’ll see) #((with careful use of the right-click ”bookmark tab” button I was able to save all but one of the URLs)) #((so if they manage to get their account back I might still be able to retrieve those)) #anyway‚ I am particularly surprised that 5 is such a popular answer #I can understand 2 #but why *5* #it’s so lopsided #math #surveys #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #amnesia cw
ever since I learned about the “turned comma,” the rotated comma type that typographers once used as a superscript “c,” Michael G. Collins, M‘Culloch and the Turned Comma, 12 Green Bag 2d 265 (2009), I can’t help but notice when people get it wrong
Justice Kagan, for example, got it wrong in Kahler v. Kansas, No. 18-6135, slip op. at 2 (U.S. March 23, 2020):
word processors can’t rotate type, but we could approximate the “turned comma” much better if we used a single open quotation mark (‘) instead of an apostrophe (’), as Justice Kagan does here
or we could just use “c,” as we do for McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819), even though the report reads:
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#language #the more you know #embarrassment squick? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Hermit crab, but it’s a soul that moves to bigger and bigger discarded bodies as it grows
why’re y’all leaving all the good stuff in the comments
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#story ideas I will never write #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #death tw #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Star Seeker #art #comics #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
i insist that the loud noise is the one thing that separated vacuuming from being best sensory experience possible to the worst sensory experience possible. imagine vacuuming if it’s completely silent. it would be so much fun it feels like a beast on a leash swallowing up everything in its way indiscriminately it’s so awesome
get ye a mechanical sweeper
it works without any batteries or electricity; it’s just a little flippy cylinder wheel that pushes dust and garbage into the little side containers, but for that it works remarkably well; I was pretty surprised at how big some of the stuff it picked up was
we use them to sweep the carpeted dining hall at work and they’re pretty fantastic for that although they don’t work well on tile and you’ve got to empty the traps decently often for maximum effectiveness; I don’t know how well it works for house floorjunk as opposed to dining hall floorjunk
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#oooooooh #recs #domesticity #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 