#Build applications

[spiderziege]

we are so back

[marzipanandminutiae]

I see a Craigslist ad titled "apartment in grand Victorian house!"

I click through the interior photos

I see minimalist Landlord White bullshit where period details definitely could have been left while still dividing the house up

now I am no closer to finding a preferable place to rent but I'm filled with rage

[nightfragrance]

thinks their opinions are facts and should be taken as such (delusional): hikaru, tamaki

knows their opinions are opinions but still thinks they’re better than yours (cocky): kyoya, kaoru

will have their own opinions and respect yours as well (civil): haruhi, mori

has their own opinions which are better than yours but will be civil with ulterior motives to take you down later (scheming): honey, kyoya

[lonestarflight]

"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."

Date: March 24, 1975

NASA ID: S75-24007, S75-24009

[sevspins]

what is autism, if not minecraft build photography persevering /j …. this is the first build in my forever world!!! my home :)) not furnished yet just made a bridge and my cottage :D

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

Folks how do we feel about a planet that had their divine feminine mother goddess syncretized with the God Emperor during the Great Crusade, so their worship treats him as having dual masculine and feminine forms as needed

Mostly because I was thinking of swearing in 40k, and the oath "Emperor's teats!" sprang to my mind unbidden

[gender-trash]

Heard about the Beijing robot marathon and immediately thought of your earlier post about how China is a great place to be for robotics. Thoughts on it?

never heard of it but from this article it sounds HILARIOUS. the entire premise is stupid though -- if you want to quickly and efficiently move a robot from point A to point B, what you want is WHEELS or, if for some reason you absolutely can't use wheels, at least something with enough legs to be passively stable. humanoids are a terrible form factor for this; they will be much less reliable and consume much more energy (i.e., you need bigger batteries and/or more battery swaps, and guess what, the only practical place to put a battery in a bipedal humanoid is in the torso, making the balance problem worse). humanoids are a terrible form factor for a lot of things. i don't know why people are so obsessed with building humanoids even though they are so bad. true to form, less than a third of the robot contestants even finished the race, one of them faceplanted at the starting line, and even the fastest took twice as long as the fastest human runner to finish. classic humanoid moment tbhhhhh

(also real quick i want to clarify that i Don't Know a ton about the chinese robotics startup scene, certainly not enough to make a broad statement like 'china is a great place to be for robotics' -- the point i was trying to make in that post was much narrower. like, there are certainly advantages to being physically near shenzhen but that's far from the only factor affecting robotics startups, you know? sorry for being an insufferable pedant on main, it will happen again,,)

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

I just rewatched 02 x 07 for the first time since finishing all the books and I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like everyone is either on the side of (1) it was all a big ploy, or (2) that's it for Moiraine and Siuan they can never come back from this--but I really don't think either of those are true.

I think the most in character thing Moiraine could possibly do is forgive Siuan, for the following reasons:

Moiraine knows that she would do the exact same thing that Siuan did here--namely, sacrifice anything (even their relationship and their trust in one another)--for the sake of the world and their mission. And this shared goal, these compatible values, and this mutual understanding is literally what has kept them together despite 20 years of distance and secrecy from the world.

[MINOR BOOK SPOILERS] We see in one of the books that Moiraine believes she and Siuan have made their beds and will lie in them one day by becoming involved in the quest to find the Dragon -- I believe the way she phrases it is about payment coming due for all the rules they've broken and the secrecy etc. that they needed for their quest. If this is her attitude, she is not only willing to give up everything, but expects to give up everything. And she expects it of Siuan as well.

Siuan has already proven how much she would give up for their quest. She became Amyrlin despite, as we learn this same episode, how much she did not want to be trapped in the tower and could not see her future there. She gave up any semblance of a happy life (how she would picture it both with and without Moiraine!) for this quest.

In some ways, if Siuan had just let Moiraine take Rand through a waygate to Falme, it would have actually been a betrayal of their mission. Their mission wasn’t “get Rand to Falme.” It was “protect and train the dragon reborn.” Siuan feels the need to do that as acutely as Moiraine does--and critically, Moiraine knows this about Siuan.

This goes quadruple if Siuan actually did think Moiraine could be a dark friend. Siuan thinks Moiraine lied to her!! And Moiraine knows this too, since Siuan does at least have the chance to say "You lied to me!" Moiraine would understand that if there was any chance Moiraine had been turned or was compelled, Siuan had to try and stop her from taking Rand off to god knows where.

Literally just a few days earlier Moiraine had threatened to have Alanna take Lan’s bond by force if he stood in her way--aka, the way of her mission. At this very moment, Moiraine herself has spent days (weeks?) contemplating what it would mean to betray the autonomy and trust of those she loves most if it means saving the world. And she knows what side she's on.

When Moiraine says, “if you have ever loved me don’t do this” my heart shatters into a million pieces. But that line is not just ,“it will be a betrayal of our love and trust if you compel me." It is that, but it's also a call for Siuan to see Moiraine for MOIRAINE. She’s saying “you know me.” She’s trying to get her (Siuan) to see that what she (Moiraine) is doing is not about her shame and pride but about the mission. Because it is ALWAYS about the mission, Moiraine IS the mission, and Siuan loves her because of that, and Moiraine knows Siuan loves her because of that 

Moiraine clearly hesitates before going through the waygate. Her character isn't one to linger out of shock and betrayal. She lashes out and she puts up distance--we've seen this all season. Moiraine moves forward. So I read her looking at Siuan here as far more "I love you and I'm sorry [I can't help you? it's come to this? we can't reconcile?]" than "How could you?" or "You're a different person to me now." I’m not trying to minimize the violation Moiraine is also feeling in this moment, I just think that if the violation was her primary emotion she would likely behave differently. And if she can have this messy a set of emotions even in the heart of the moment, I have faith she can similarly hold multiple emotions later when reconciling.

The flashback scenes are so heartbreaking but they don’t have to mean that Moiraine and Siuan feel so betrayed and far from those versions of themselves that they will never be together again. Those flashbacks can also be saying “remember when we were those people?” Holding onto those versions of themselves is how they hold onto their love despite this scene.

Those flashbacks also remind us that their relationship in the show is like 50 years old. It is deep. People don't throw away 50 years of relationship without a conversation, even if there is a deep betrayal involved. And that's normal people--not even people who have given up absolutely everything for a cause that the relationship has now gotten wrapped up in. In the books, they are together for a few years and then seemingly go their separate ways when the Dragon is reborn. I don't think the show would have gone out of its way to deepen and lengthen this relationship just to end it so quickly and unceremoniously.

[kvvkee]

marcille sticker / keychain :) building portfolio for artist alley!!!!!!!

[parab0mb]

Work Doodles Sketchdump!!! (3-2025) - Batch 1

Betcha you weren't expecting another one of these so soon eh?

I've had my old OCs Jori and PAM on the brain these past few weeks, so I guess I went a bit nuts with doodling them almost exclusively in my notepad (no fanart doodles this time around, sorry).

[Second Part]

[prettyvintageafternoon]

Friendly reminder that some of the biggest allies of the anti-abortion agenda are for-profit adoption agencies. Women having less kids directly cuts into the profit margins of people whose job it is to sell babies.

Remember that the next time people in the anti-abortion movement try to compare abortion access to slavery or criticize the "Abortion Industrial Complex."

[lonestarflight]

Skylab Orbital Workshop in the Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Date: October 2, 1972

Posted on Flickr by Drew Granston.

NASA ID: 72-H-1325 aka 72-HC-765

[calciumcryptid]

I like how the culmination of QToey isn't a kiss, but a hug.

They may have kissed in a prior episode, but when the moment came for Q to admit his feelings the couple ended up hugging instead. It felt respectful of Q as a character who has difficulty recognizing his feelings and expressing them in traditionally affectionate ways.

[llycaons]

the two places I looked at that looked nice both have pros and cons and one of them is slightly out of my price range but more convenient and the other one that I really loved has no dishwasher and is farther from work than I'd like...oh decisions decisons

[nexus-nebulae]

kind of want to start a sideblog where we give system advice (specifically on how to gain functions/dispel disordered symptoms) but we have no clue what to call it