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Are you an advocate for censorship?

is this because i said not to use the r slur

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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Minthara

#minthara #bg3

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Sometimes you read a thing and you're like "this is 113% out of character for both of these people but the trope is so hot and well done that characterization no longer matters." And that's a valid way of writing/enjoying fanfic too.

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if Broadway doesn’t want bootlegs floating around then they need to get their act together and make legal recordings.  you can say all you want that theater is meant to be enjoyed live, but the fact of the matter is not everybody can get to NYC to go to a Broadway show.  not everybody can afford to take the time off of work and buy a plane ticket to NYC and buy a night in a hotel AND get the ticket to the show.  people want to see the shows, that’s why there’s a bootleg market in the first place, but it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone has the time, money, and ability to make it out to the one place in the world to see something on Broadway, especially if it’s a limited engagement.  so record that shit, slap some subtitles on it, and sell it so we can buy it legally.

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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Yanina Couture 'Phoenix' spring 2024 couture

#fashion

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#not described

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[2912/11080] Dark-fronted babbler - Dumetia atriceps

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Sylvioidea Family: Timaliidae (old world babblers)

Photo credit: Raghavendra Pai via Macaulay Library

#birds

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toads riding snake

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What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

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He was eating a roasted rabbit like there was no tomorrow—which clearly had been the case for the rabbit

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

#SGA #terry pratchett

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𝗇𝗂𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖺𝗇 𝖽𝗐𝖺𝗋𝖿 𝗀𝗈𝖺𝗍 <3

~ 𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖡𝗂𝗀𝖶𝖱𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗁𝟣𝟤

#animals

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i've recently only truly become aware just how much I took for granted all the work that was put into archiving fics on ao3 from fandoms which pre-date the site. Mostly because I fell into a 90s fandom where the majority of it's fics weren't transferred over. So much of the fic that has meant so much to me - from due south, the sentinel, stargate atlantis, the list goes on - i never would have known about if it weren't for the efforts of fans who painstakingly archived works (both their own and others) and made it possible for someone like me to easily access fanworks 20+ years after initially published. like. shit dude. i have so much respect and love for all these strangers. how can i ever thank them?

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overanalyzing is fun but some of y’all are batshit insane

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shadowheart and lae'zel really went from enemies to "our gods lied to us about everything"

#bg3

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you’ve heard of unlikeable female characters. now get ready for unlikeable real women in your real life! and yes you still have to treat them like human beings. i know, shocking!