so uh I decided to compile together a bunch of rules that I've come up with over the years for myself for how I write videos. this is not comprehensive and is unlikely to be genuinely useful to anyone (very few of these are things I'd consider to be "good advice" for anyone else who wants to make videos, they're mostly just how I personally do things), but here we go anyway!
Leftism teaches you that the most annoying people in the world can have the exact same opinions as you. And they'll still get on your nerves
Other leftists will say some shit you fundamentally agree with but phrased in a way designed in a lab specifically to piss you off. Like you're right but shut the fuck up
"you're not man enough, not feminine enough"
so gender is something we can fail?
that means gender is not genetic and absolute and unchangeable
but something we can build and perform, and fail at (the standards they set) but also redefine?
if i can fail at being a woman, does that mean i'm not a woman? so does that make me another gender?
Hence why I reject the notion of “failing” to be masculine or feminine
No label can tell me what I’m or what I’m not. The whole [individual] is greater than its parts.
A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.
This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.
But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.
But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!
And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.
But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.
you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results
![[Cueball is sitting by his TV, holding his phone, when White Hat walks in.] White Hat: Hey, turn on the news. Cueball (Sitting on the floor in front of a computer holding a cell phone): Can't. Downloading a CD onto my phone. White Hat (off-screen): Why? Cueball: So I can use it to fix my computer's operating system enough that I can teach it to talk to my TV screen. White Hat: But then you'll be able to watch the news? Cueball: (off-screen): No. White Hat: Don't you have a computer science degree? Cueball: That just means I understand how everything went so wrong.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3b9b15dd8d2cc8e59242e2baee21ddaf/f9656e7c29ad5130-13/s1280x1920/848abcd662d05d0984bdf1cf094353eb8cf5a566.png)
ALTCertified skydiving instructors know way more about safely falling from planes than I do, and are way more likely to die that way.
Thanks to @somewhere-south-of-neutral for tagging me as well!
hello. i am dracula. do you have any blood for me.
oive got not one drop of blood to me name on account of selling it all for one shilling and a bowl of gruel terribly sorry mr dracula
dracula voice Thats just about the saddest thing i ever heard get said.
Tumblr is the kind of site where you could poll people about their favourite character, and regardless off the poll's theme, you could make one of the options a featureless metal cube and it would make it to at least the semi-finals.
Come to think of it, one could probably put together an entire tournament consisting of nothing but cubes. Like, just off the top of my head, we've got:
Just three more and you'd have a full sixteen-entry bracket.
when the media uses phrases like “the union is demanding higher pay” they want you to think hey wait i wish i got paid better you’re telling me these whiny writers are refusing to work? i’m way worse off than them and i still go in to work every day!
they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment instead of following the logic forward to hey maybe if i had a union i would have better pay!
and they say stuff like “working conditions” for the same reason because they know it conjures the image of a sweatshop or something and you’re like well that’s absurd writers work in offices how bad could it be they don’t have “working conditions”
they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment because you also work in an office instead of thinking about what the word “conditions” means and whether you are allowed to take off work to be with your newborn child
don’t be fooled by this shit. don’t buy into the idea that people work in any field solely for the love of the game yes even when it’s a literal game (writers work on those too). work is work! money can be exchanged for goods and services!
English major humor. I remember that “A” is for action, so affect is the verb.
Effect (noun) is the result of an action.
Affect (noun) is a person’s expression of emotion.
Effect (verb) is to accomplish a desired result.
Affect (verb) is to cause a change.
Lack of expression–often called a flat affect–is a common effect of facial paralysis, seriously affecting the person’s interpersonal communication. Speech therapy can effect improvement in both speech and affect.
I would say affect/effect was the most confusing set of words in English if it weren’t for find/found/founded/founder/foundered.
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WAIIIT. THE NEW IN-DEVELOPMENT TUMBLR LAYOUT WITH COLLAPSED REBLOGS.
IT REMOVES "NOTES" ALTOGETHER AND SEPARATES EVERY INTERACTION LIKE ON OTHER WEBSITES
I DO NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL
Also it generally doesn't make sense at all. It shows the last reblog of the chain. Which means you only see someone's answer to something, without seeing what they're actually responding to.
This is such a weird change.
Being able to see the whole conversation is half the fun of this website!
