nelsonakis:

We are going to hell

gleep-glorp-bobcat:

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posts-with-10000-notes-in-spirit:

felixcloud6288:

flyin-shark:

felixcloud6288:

flyin-shark:

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

Just don’t fly too close to the sun.

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

Fellas (gender neutral), you heard him. Ready the catapults.

current note count: 4,872

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

butter-and-too-much-bread:

zooophagous:

is-the-fox-video-cute:

Oh no, that’s awful! Wolf attacks are so rare, I wonder what happened?

Oh…

Imagine seeing a wolf pack hunting right in front of you and your reaction is to be all “Oh no le waah le waah I do not vant to see zis!!” Instead of “Holy fucking sheet, that is zee coolést thing I have evéur seen in my entiéure life”

Do they think that wolves just…do this to be mean? Do they not realize those wolves would go hungry now?

“wolf attack” those are normal predators hunting their normal food ma'am

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sreegs:

eclown:

kineticpenguin:

I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies

^ that pairs really well with this quote too

my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.

do you want to see a submersible that’s capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:

DSV Alvin - Wikipedia

DSV Alvin - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:

the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it’s a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it’s more or less uniformly strong in all directions

if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you’ll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives

Deep-submergence vehicle - Wikipedia

Deep-submergence vehicle - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)

Here’s a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?

the titanium sphere used to house the crew?

now look at the Titan:

its an accident waiting to happen.

the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind

the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of “safety gets in the way of innovation”

you can’t innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life

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what-even-is-thiss:

andthentheywilleatthestars:

tlbodine:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

At my brother’s suggestion I started to use ChatGPT to generate customized vocabulary lists for the languages I’m studying and unfortunately it’s just as useful as he said it is. I’m very angry about how much faster it is than trying to put together a list yourself.

There’s a lot wrong with this thing. A lot of the stuff it writes is bad or inaccurate. But it’s nice to say, hey. Please give me a list of 20 beginners level vocabulary words in Spanish about the publishing industry with definitions and grammatical gender included. And then you just get it instead of having to comb through user made Memrise flash card sets that may or may not exist.

It just does it. It just. I don’t have to dig. It’s just there. I’m so conflicted about this.

Ok, here’s the thing. Setting aside the ethics of large language models for a moment – at their core, what ChatGPT is, is a regurgitator of the exact statistical average of responses. Which means it is the perfect tool for a handful of specific tasks – one of the biggest being “assembling a basic list that meets specific criteria that would take a while to look up and sort through.”

It’s not great at being creative or coming up with new things, but it is fucking stellar at assembling a list of obvious answers.

(sometimes those answers will be a lie, so you’ll have to check them, but it’s still easier than trying to trawl through a bunch of sources to assemble a starter list)

It’s kind of like using a thesaurus – it’s great for prompting you with information you already knew but had temporarily forgotten. Not so great for learning brand new information from without verifying it.

#heartbreaking: this tool is really good at its actual intended purpose

Most of my experience with ChatGPT before now is people writing really bad and inaccurate answers to test questions with it in the English class I used to grade for and people writing really bad stories with it. Nobody I met seemed to be using it for mundane tasks. If I can quickly get grammar explainations and list suggestions from this thing and if that’s all it’s actually used for I’m fine with it. As a creative writer I’m sill worried about its potential to steal peoples work and be used by greedy people who want to replace me with bad stories written by a thing meant to regurgitate the average of the internet.

cargopantsman:

callmebliss:

animentality:

As an avowed Map Completionist in my gaming, this development is about to ruin my life

“Hold on, I need to go down this dark alleyway that has a palpable air of danger.”

“Why?”

“It’s still fogged out on my map…”

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thebibliosphere:

writereadride:

end-orfino:

ALRIGHT FOLKS

WHICH TEAM??

VAMPIRES

WEREWOLVES

See Results

@thebibliosphere it’s pretty close, gotta get your legions in here

Not me using my sideblog so I can vote for both.

Vampires are currently in the lead, but with your help me can bring the werewolves up to an even 50/50.

Because why choose when you can have both :p

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thejovianmute:

rage-quitter:

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

An exceedingly useful list of lists for writers.

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