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Listen listen listen listen. When people come to your country and you say "prepare for rain" you gotta be SPECIFIC because there are DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN.

I grew up in a temperate boreal rainforest. It rained all the time there, so I developed an overinflated confidence in my ability to go about my day while it was raining. I walked to school in the rain. I worked outside in the rain. Rain is rain, right? So when I went to Chicago and they were like "Yeah Yeah don't do shit outside when it's raining" I thought, damn. Yall weak.

Guys.

Guys.

Pacific northwest rain can be anything from "faint mist that might as well be damp air" to "fat pellets hitting your face and soaking through your clothes". The worst I ever saw was "wind blowing heavy rain sideways under the front door". Like, aggressive shower spray rain.

I went to Illinois and DROWNED. It was like I got dunked in a bathtub. I couldn't see two feet in front of my face. It was like stepping out of your house directly into the world's widest waterfall. I damn near couldn't breathe the way it was streaming down my face.

England rain is more like Pacific Northwest rain, but shorter and more sporadic. What London gets in a day in mid summer, Vancouver gets in 3-4 days in late spring. And it smells more metallic, where Vancouver kinda always smells a bit like moss.

Please, for the love of God, explain what you mean by "rainy". Like do I need a light jacket or a riot shield. Am I about to get power hosed or are my gumboots good. I'm begging

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I want to have more planets in the solar system rather than less, so I want all dwarf planets to count, both the ones we've found and the ones we haven't yet! (One way or the other, Pluto *isn't* the last planet in the solar system, imo. I don't care much which way, but "planet" is right there in the name of "dwarf planet"!)

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im convinced imaginary friends are a lie made up by the american media to sell more mental illness so. participate in my research

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so unrelated but have you guys heard about what's going on in the uk? our main gas company has been breaking into homes of single mothers, the disabled and other such vunerable groups and replacing our gas meters with smart meters while we're not home through a legal loophole. so. lol

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They’ve been rebuilding the Tower of Babel, but this time they have a team of linguists on site. Every time God smites the builders and invents a dozen new languages, the linguists have a dozen decently sized translations in about a month and work can start up again.

The linguists have been really into it. They say the new phonemes are fascinating. As for God, I assume that at this point he’s just curious to see how far this goes.

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What does “The Spectrum” mean? Do some people have “more Autism” than others?

I covered these topics in a comic to help explain the extremely individual and incomparable nature of the autism spectrum!

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You ever try to compliment someone but you’re autistic and they think you’re insulting them, because same

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It’s a neurodivergent combo meal

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I’m always just genuinely shocked at the end of the day. Like you’re telling me 12 hours just passed? No, that can’t be right.

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I want to say this while I still have the vaguely-inhuman aesthetic - not that I imagine that really goes away, but "not personalized at all" should - "Frigid Shingles are absolutely nowhere near you"

This feels hilarious to me and probably only me.

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i hate how you get desensitized to the cool stuff in your WIP if you've been writing it for a long time so when you read back over it you're like "this isn't as cool as i thought :(" but it still is! you just read it too many times

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I like Little Old Lady with a handbag because it's the only option that feels both "not serious" - like, taking him seriously or treating him as a respectable threat - and "not funny" - and I don't think he deserves the dignity of a humorous death. But "whacked in the head by a civilian" isn't really either, and that's the kind of death he deserves.

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"Physics" isn't an explanation, anyways, even with the assertion of "and these are the only variations that could possibly work under physics". Not sure if @wumblr isn't just trolling, but if they aren't - aren't electric kettles generally better insulated as a consequence of the heating coil not needing to heat *through* the metal to as significant of a degree? (The only ones I see are plastic for the electric kettles, while the only stovetop ones are metal.)

Losing less energy to getting heat inside the kettle, and to not having the heat leave again, would probably result in more effective heating... Unless Wumblr is just putting them both inside an oven and seeing which has the water inside the kettle boil first. That's probably how they boil their water, actually. In which case they might possibly be right, and also be wondering about how we clean the melted plastic out of the oven.

had a discussion with my roommate the other day about whether an electric kettle or a conventional kettle can "boil water faster" (neither, allowing for marginal increase in efficiency from putting the electric kettle's heating element in direct contact with the water, which may or may not be outperformed by a conventional kettle being put in contact with more heat overall, depending on type of stove) and it's got me thinking about overengineered kettle designs that actually do boil the water faster. 1) agitate the water 2) place the system under total vacuum which completely misses the point of making it boil faster by reducing its boiling point to below room temperature and also probably takes longer

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Thanks for the tips for diagnosing bots! I'm still working on getting my own tumblr set up and still haven't decided on my PFP and I've already gotten 6 bots, so I can't imagine how many a properly established tumblr might have.

my bot sniping criteria at this point, checked in order

1) followed me without interacting with my posts (lately real life humans have also started doing this and I BEG: please start liking the posts you like again! you’re interfering with my bot sniping!)

2) a username that isnt a coherent statement (ie vanesadsjfsh345 vs suckmygiantballs. one of these is a pornbot and it’s not the nsfw one)

3) real life photo as an avatar (basically the end of the line, busted fucko. i dont check anything else after seeing this. literally no-one alive on tumblr has a swimsuit model photo as an avatar, and if they do, they deserve the friendly fire)

additional clues, not in order:

- no posting history by an obviously real life human with opinions and interests (although, many who don’t are still people, so this is not real proof)

- no blog description characteristic of an actual tumblr user (again, lots of people don’t do these at all. though there ARE blog descriptions characteristic exclusively of porn bots. hot singles in your area and so on)

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That sounds much more fun with the bad timeline being the one paywalled. Pay-to-win is painful even when you want to support the author, but pay-to-lose is much less so. (Also sounds like a relative nightmare to execute as a webcomic, but as a web serial? ... A nightmare in a completely different way.)

Concept: Patreon-supported webcomic whose basic reward is "see today's comic tomorrow" – i.e., an apparently useless joke reward that grants access to a series of Patreon posts which update one day behind the public-facing site's update schedule.

The non-obvious twist is that the Patreon version of each page takes place one day later in-universe as well; at first this is reflected by small details, e.g., a timestamped video feed that's visible in the background being dated 24 hours later, but the differences soon become more pronounced due to events not lining up in quite the same way.

It's ultimately revealed that the Patreon comics take place in an alternative universe in which the story's inciting incident occurred 24 hours later than it did in the prime timeline. This culminates in an ending where, in the prime timeline, the main characters are able to prevent a world-altering catastrophe, albeit at great personal cost, while in the alternative timeline, they're exactly one day too late.