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Weed joke lol

Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

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I once dreamt that I woke up from a 10 year coma, my father was in the room checking on me and we went on a trip through all the important places in my life. I saw how everyone around me had progressed in their lives, achieved personal goals, grown more mature and eventually moved on from my life. It was a nightmare for me, that feeling of having been left behind, waking up to a world reminiscent of the one I had just left but different in all the ways that hurt me the most. Being told that I still had to finish high school, make new friends, adapt to all the sudden changes.

I woke up crying that night, crying because I felt a deep sadness that I hadn't realized I was suffering before, afraid that my life was slipping out of my control and glad that it was all a dream, that I could go back to sleep and that I still had time to get my shit together before it was too late.

That's the most real feeling dream I've had since, I was going through a rough spot in my teenage years back then, but I hadn't internalized it so I just coasted through my insecurities until that night. Although the experience was a bit traumatizing it worked in a cathartic way, made me rethink some choices and put, not to words, but to a fully vivid experience what my biggest fears were.

It's been around ten years since then and I think about that dream sometimes, about how 15 year old me would be proud of the effort we put, even if it didn't get the results I wanted.

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I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

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Tress of the Emerald Sea

Short review here, no time for more.

I began reading tress a few months ago after finishing RoW and Mistborn 6 so I went with a cosmere aware perspective. This might have changed the experience for me compared to people who have just started with the cosmere or don't follow the references everywere.

My favorite part of this novel was the tone. I haven't read something this whimsical since high school, the closest being Good Omens, I love how the tone switches from scene to scene, it manages to be introspective and serious at times while still keeping that sense of a fun pirate adventure (reminded me of Pirates of the Caribbean). The writing style helps to create this effect, as it is written in Hoid's style of storytelling, were information ia revealed right before it's necessary to the story and the prose is full of silly puns, bait n' switches and inside jokes.

I am a sucker for pirate or sailing relates stories, so it is logical that I love the setting, it's world building and magic system. The spores add another risk to the high seas, one that's more present than krakens and storms, it's an ever looming threat overboard. It's danger is never downplayed and it exists as an obstacle that can't be defeated, as such the inhabitants of this world respect the seas and fear the spores and only the bravest sail them. The spores feel like close relative of "elemental magic" , there are 5 types of spore each producing different effects when watered. The use of magic here is dangerous and complicated as spores seem to be extremely volatile and lethal when misused, but expert sprouters can exploit their effects to great extents by mixing them with technology (I really liked how they replace gunpowder).

Story spoilers ahead....

The story was delightful, I fully believed in Tress's love for Charlie, more from her efforts to get him back than their scenes together. By the end of the book I was starting to doubt Sanderson's direction, having developed Tress's character and her relationship with the crew for 90% of the book while leaving Charlie as a distant goal made it seem like the end would be underwhelming. And then Sanderson pulled the rug out from under me and revealed that Huck had been Charlie all along, this made me physically close the book and walk around the house dumbfounded. I mean, I believed that Sanderson was fully committed to the fridging trope (gender switched) but no, full development for the love interest right under your eyes. This twist was a 10 out of 10.

The only part of the story I think was underdeveloped was the Dragon, I mean the concept of a dragon roaming around the sea showed up mid book and was resolved rather quickly before the sanderlanche, it felt as if it was there just to work as future cosmere references and I didn't see the connection to the rest of the world building. Although I liked how Tress used her stubbornness as a bargaining chip against being held captive to defeat Crow.

End of spoilers

Overall this novel is an 8 out of 10, I never felt bored while reading, the magic was well integrated to the story, the tone and writing style stand out as different and keep the readers on their toes. Although it's teeming with cosmere references I'm sure it's great as a standalone read for anyone who wants to dabble into Sanderson.

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Okay, so. Star Wars has all these concepts that weirdo New Left boomer George Lucas tosses in there but because of storyteller limitations it would kill the plot to fully explain them all, so later writers have to come in for the spin-off materials and bat clean-up to fully explain all this crazy crap. And I would like to talk about something that made me actively angry at first, but which I now adore. And that is the Naboo.

So much about Naboo culture is infuriating from a logical standpoint. They have a queen, okay. A constitutionally elected queen? Weird, okay. Don't know why they'd do that but... She's FOURTEEN? Excuse me? Is it a ceremonial thing or, oh no it's not? Legit head of state? Why does she dress like that? Why does she talk like that? I'm so tired.

Here's the explainer. Let me go cook.

There's this joke in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where the last living human goes back in time and finds out humans aren't actually from Earth, but an alien culture that tricked all the middle managers, pedantic weirdos, and other infuriating folk into getting in a space arc which they gave the wrong evacuation coordinates to simply get rid of them. The Naboo are like this but they're all artists and poets and hippies, but like classy ones. They fled their home planet during a war and crash landed on Naboo, then did a colonism to the Gungans because, hey, they were fleeing a war and it was do or die. This spiritual rot in their creation story is later rectified by Padmé. But it's super important to their cultural psychology. They're hippies, but will subjugate if needed. They are "peaceful" but I guarantee you every single one of them has a tiny extremely shiny pistol up their sleeve and they will draw down on you if backed against a wall.

The scene that I think says it all is at the end of Phantom Menace when Padmé is surrounded by Nute Gunray and his droids, they've got her dead to rights, but Sabé her double creates a distraction so the queen can make it to her throne. This one piece of furniture is the Naboo in a nutshell. It's richly carved with artistic details, it has two seats to the side so the queen's handmaidens can read the lips of people in the back of the room and use hand signals to communicate with the queen while she can remain focused mostly on who is speaking to her. It is hundreds of years old. And it has a secret compartment in the armrest that is FULL OF GUNS. Layers of artistic opulence hiding their true intentions.

The Naboo were created to be backwards compatible with Princess Leia. They're compassionate pacifists, but they will shot you if needed.

Why do they elect teenage royalty? It's a little creepy. It's giving "age of consent is emotional maturity". It makes no sense.

The explanation they give outsiders is they want youthful idealism untainted by cynicism. What they don't tell you is that they take kids with stated interest in politics and put them in an advanced highly competitive Leadership Academy which is like Model UN mixed with Battle Royale. Well, they don't kill each other but it's intense. It's like what the clones went though just all diplomacy training and tea ceremonies all the time. Which is crazy but so Naboo.

Oh, and all the delegates for the royalty election run using pseudonyms for security. Imagine voting for the head of state but you can't run a background check. It's so crazy.

Why does Padmé dress like that? Well, fashion is one of Naboo's major industries so it's like she's wearing the entire Fall line catalog at once. To advertise not only the talent of her people, but to show how much they favor her. BUT that dress has multiple layers of padding and resin armor. And aforementioned spots for those little silver blasters. And it breaks up her silhouette making her harder to shoot. And it's so elaborate you pay more attention to the crazy dress and not if the person wearing it is really the queen or a decoy. Everything about Naboo is like this.

Queen Amidala has that weird accent while Padmé does not. Because all her handmaidens helped create the accent together so they all can imitate it. It's like if you gave girls at a rowdy sleepover the job of federal counterintelligence. That's what they came up with.

The handmaidens wear colorful identical clothes so you can't tell them apart, hoods to partially conceal their identity, and they don't wear the queen's fancy makeup. So one of them can be the queen and spy on people in the audience. Because the Naboo don't trust shit for shit.

Their public face is so silly to hide all the truly weird shit they do behind the scenes.

They use their reputation as artist hippies to conceal multiple layers of subterfuge and disguise their methods of self defense and assuage their paranoia due to wartime trauma and their disturbing colonial past. All of them are completely off their rocker even by Star Wars standards. And I love them so much. They put on a show so everyone thinks they have them figured out but what they have going on is far more weirder and more sinister than meets the eye. You know how catty, neurotic, and competitive art school students stereotypically are? Yeah, planet art student. Love them!

There you go, @charmwasjess

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i want devices that are functional and hardy and i want them to last and fuck the rest of the shit i dont need. my ds and 3ds can lie in sleep mode for months if not years and i can pop them open and they've still got two or three bars left. my old phones in high school could go days without a charge. if i leave my nintendo switch on the floor for a few days doing absolutely fuck all nothing i will turn it on and it will cry to me mother i am dying. i am dying mother. and i tell him he'll never be half the man his brother was and he can't hear me because he's dead

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Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

PhD Timeline [Explained]

Transcript

[A chart titled "U. S. P. H. D. Program Timeline", with arrows directing the various labelled stages and a block showing the percentage of Coursework to Research over time.] Meet with Advisor. Research Proposal. Qualifying Exams. Propose Dissertation. Research and Write Dissertation.

[The next stages, "Submit Dissertation" and "Defend Dissertation" have been crossed out in red, with new stages also written in red covering up the Coursework to Research block.] Get grabbed off the sidewalk outside your home by masked government agents. Be whisked out of the state before a judge has time to intervene. ???

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He really said 🦖🦖🐓

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Art by terry wei

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I never feel more 'are ya winnin', son???' than when I need to do literally anything on instagram other than post photos, so if you'd like to see my sad attempt at a probably already played-out meme, the reel version of this is over there. XD But I liked the snoot view of Krypto, so here we go!

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This is exactly why I switched to firefox, less tracking and better privacy implementation. Although it's not the best in the market and google is keeping Mozilla fed it's a comfortable enough alternative. I hate how so many websites break or become unusable if you disable cookies, trackers, ads, etc.

Don’t let Chrome’s big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome’s invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the “Privacy Sandbox,” is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven’t been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it’s built directly into the Chrome browser. It’s been in the news previously as “FLoC” and then the “Topics API,” and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.

Use Firefox.

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dominus thrax: finally you are here- What The Hell are you wearing

drifter in their 1999 fashion: it’s my asskicking outfit, bitch

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Warframe 1999 may be the single most batshit “fuck it let’s do some stupid shit” update ever created in a video game. Fuck it. Go back in time to 1999. swordfight your future self. The villain is a Jojo’s reference. There are sentient bioweapons that have been blasting a track by an evil boy band for over 100,000 years straight. It’s rumored Trent Reznor did the music, and that rumor is very obviously true. You swordfight a tank. And there’s dating sim elements

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Warframe 1999 may be the single most batshit “fuck it let’s do some stupid shit” update ever created in a video game. Fuck it. Go back in time to 1999. swordfight your future self. The villain is a Jojo’s reference. There are sentient bioweapons that have been blasting a track by an evil boy band for over 100,000 years straight. It’s rumored Trent Reznor did the music, and that rumor is very obviously true. You swordfight a tank. And there’s dating sim elements

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Huh

Interesting

I was watching Kengineer's 3rd solo playthrough episode last night when this quote from the Lotus popped up during the Once Awake quest, and it got me thinking about 1999.

1999 is when the Infestation pretty much shows up for the first time (at least as far as we know), which places the Radiation Wars after 1999 (of course).

...but how long after?

Now idk how old this Lotus quote is and whether it's in the devs' minds at all, but imagine that the Radiation Wars are directly after 1999, sparked by this recent apocolyptic infestation spreading all of a sudden.

Imagine the 1999 quest ends with nuclear armageddon, perhaps even on New Year's. We make that final New Year's kiss (or not), knowing that the people here are doomed to die (though they were probably doomed to die to the helminth strain inside them at some point anyways).

I imagine in this scenario that for the sake of replayable 1999 gameplay (and maybe even the opportunity to change romance routes) that this time fragment of 1999 we find ourselves in repeats indefinitely, always ending in the beginning of the Radiation Wars.

would be pretty funny i think