chefpyro:

rave-lord-nito:

chefpyro:

topographicocean:

chefpyro:

It’s 2018 and I still have no clue how CDs work. It’s a shiny disc, how do they get data on that, let alone that much?? Magic

Like a vinyl disc, where a physical groove is marked into the vinyl, a laser marks the ink of a CD in a similar manner.

A laser (your disc drive) can then look at the pattern in the ink and understand it.

There’s no grooves on a CD tho???

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They’re just really tiny, hence the laser. The smaller grooves means that more info can fit on a disc of the same size.

Man how the fuck did they figure out how to make that

They took the vinyl concept and made it smaller. Like how they took the concept of computers and made them small enough to fit in your hand

kabronex2149:

tilthat:

TIL that during the Third Crusade 84% of the crusader army went home because the Holy Roman Emperor drowned in a river.

via ift.tt

“If His Holiness doesn’t rise out of the water in 15 minutes we are legally allowed to go home.”

Imagine Rose but they’re raised by Dad Egbert.
Anonymous

banishedquasiroyal-deact:

you probably weren’t asking for “self indulgent step siblings au” but uhhh

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HOLIDAY CARD WITH THESE KIDS

mint-and-love:
“jillsteinfuneralcity:
“ nomadnoah:
“America as a game map
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houston is level cap but if you try to go down to corpus or the rio valley you get zoned back to houston
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There is a bug in rio grande valley that if you try to way point or...

mint-and-love:

jillsteinfuneralcity:

nomadnoah:

America as a game map

houston is level cap but if you try to go down to corpus or the rio valley you get zoned back to houston

There is a bug in rio grande valley that if you try to way point or fast travel any where in the exclusion zone, you get sent straight back to Austin or San Antonio.

I was born and raised in the end game expansion. Where do I go from here

tanoraqui:

jasper-rolls:

every time i fuck up plugging in the USB to charge my iphone and scratch it against the underside of the phone i think about that scene at the start of sherlock where sherlock assumes that john watson’s sister is an alcoholic because of the scratches around the charging port of the iphone she gave to him as a gift and i think to myself “man sherlock is a fucking idiot”

#god if I could meet Sherlock holmes I would have a field day preparing my Look to throw him off #watch me wear an engagement ring for a week before hand and take it off and wear one of my mom’s blouses that has the shoulder all crunched #from years of violin playing and a pair of brand new matching socks and carry a brand new copy of a book i’ve read 20 times #and spill some coffee on my shoes and cuddle my neighbor’s cats so i have different cat fur on me #my dream is to throw off a sherlock holmes type with pure petty bs

lysikan:

rowantheexplorer:

yaboybigbadguzma:

broadlybrazen:

computationalcalculator:

thatpettyblackgirl:

So, letting people be who they want to be is a good thing. That’s shocking I tell you, just shocking. All I want to know is, how much time and money went into this research when you could’ve just asked trans folks how they felt for free

okay, A: they did ask. they did listen. like… I don’t wanna exaggerate here but “asking trans kids how they feel” is literally the entire study:

“children (9–14 years old) and their parents completed measurements of depression and anxiety (n = 63 transgender children, n = 63 controls, n = 38 siblings). Children (6–14 years old; n = 116 transgender children, n = 122 controls, n = 72 siblings) also reported on their self-worth”

and B: this isn’t the kind of study researchers do because “oh gosh we just aren’t really sure yet, we really just don’t know”, they do it because cis people have been sitting on their asses for decades ignoring anything that’s not an Official Scientific Study, so they said “okay fuck you, here’s the study, you’re wrong, now do something helpful or shut the hell up”

#Thank you #I’m super over this smug ‘yeah we knew that’ response to studies #I mean I get the impulse to go ’…yes and water is wet thanks captain obvious’ #But the thing is that you *need* this kind of hard data in order to act on it #Which is actually a good thing #BC ‘we don’t need no stinkin science’ policies based on ‘we just Know This ok don’t ask for our data just shut up and do it’ #Is how you get anti choice laws based in pseudoscience and religious belief #And climate change not being addressed in law and policy #Besides. Just think how satisfying it is to throw hard data in some asshole’s face to counter their claims.

Scientist: Treating trans people like people is the way to make them happy.
Cis Person: Yeah but…………how do we KNOW?
Scientist: *sighs* can I have a grant to study it?
Cis Person: Sure.
Scientist: Hey, Trans Person, would you be happier if people treated you like people?
Trans Person: Of course.
Scientists:

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Specifically, this study can now be used in medical offices and courtrooms. A trans kid’s parent can take this study to their bigoted local doctor and say “see, this is why you should either treat my kid or give us a referral to a doctor who will.” Or this can be taken into various legal proceedings about name changes, birth certificate changes/corrections, and custody hearings where it becomes necessary to prove to a judge that yes, helping the kid transition (and perhaps leaving the kid with the parent/guardian who is willing to help) is what is best for the kid.

These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.

These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.

We already knowed it, we just had to prove it - don’t knock the proof.

sonic:
“They saw an opportunity and, by god, they fucking took it.
”

sonic:

They saw an opportunity and, by god, they fucking took it.

meow-vvow:

polygonfighter:

spiletta42:

since1938:

mediamattersforamerica:

WHAT.

The tone deafness is mind numbing

Okay, so is the point of these things to give cops an excuse to shoot unarmed black people for looking at their cell phones in public?  Or is it to make mass shootings easier by slipping these guns past security in schools?  This is cartoon villain levels of awful.  Fuck the NRA.

Guys maybe youre also forgetting the possibility that this gives police a reason to murder ANYONE who could try to RECORD THEM IN THEIR CRIMINAL ACTS. In this day and age its vital to record the police, but with this being a thing they can reasonably say they were “afraid for their lives” that someone was gonna pull THIS on them and then shoot bystanders without question

I’m terrified and disgusted. This made my stomach drop further than it ever has. I can remember the feeling of seeing a car coming at me before a head on collision and this is worse than that feeling.

Imperial Snapchat (part 2)

laivaaja:

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… and then the Imperial Snapchat stayed quiet for several weeks.

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Anakin you are so goddamn extra