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i was saying this to my best friend the other day but why are voltron aus making keith either rich or like a prince or something. why must you take his poor kid sparkle. that man knows a 7/11 slurpee he knows a walmart brand bottle of soda. he deserves to know the simple pleasure of an inflatable backyard pool. I know he got those fuckass black jeggings from a thrift store. and that fuckass mullet is from great clips. is keith kogane truly keith kogane if hes not taking his change to the coinstar at the grocery store. dont take this from my man!!!!!!
#i used to take my change to the coinstar all the time but i dont get tips at work anymore so i like never have cash..... i miss it#grocery store trip you get ur coinstar money and then u buy a crisp monster energy GAME CHANGER#sorry i got rlly hyped abt the coinstar machine i forgot what i was talking abt#soad.txt#not art#voltron#anyways i truly cannot imagine keith being anything but kinda poor i often project my white trash upon him and i will continue to do so
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On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?
*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)
*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)
(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )
(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)
#polls#tumblr polls#I'm mostly in the 0/1 - 25$ category. Maybe the rare month is a bit over $25 if there's something specific going on like birthday.#Which I'm NEVER eating in an actual restaurant (erm... covid... plus I just hate restaurant environments. i would rather pickup#the food and bring it home to a peaceful quiet environment that I control lol). But more typically like stopping by a grocery store deli#section or something. I don't have coffee that much. And I can't eat fast food much due to my health issues/diet restriction stuff#so if I'm out like coming back from an appointment and I start feeling really sick and weak. I know that a hamburger will just#blow up my system and cause nausea or something. So I try to pick the breadiest most#neutral looking turkey sandwich at the safeway deli to eat during the hour ride home or whatever lol#I actually kind of wish I could do stuff like get food more often vecause it would take the burden of cooking everything off of me#but.. alas... Money... and Health Things... T o T#I still wouldn't do it ALL the time but like... once a week instead of once a month or something.. or maybe turning into a coffee#person.. I do love drinks A LOT .. i am a drink person who will have 5 different drinks sipping on at all times#But i just have to make them all myself mostly lol#And I cant really have too much coffee since it will make me sick. so like.. teas and juice mostly#When I inevitably become a millionaire by never using social media never networking and only finishing one#sculpture every 5 months which I dont even post about or sell - then I shall... get more drinks..#I will somehow wean my body onto coffee and drink one a day solely for the ritual of it#Though even then... I would still probably just like.. buy the mateirals to make it at home or something#Like if you had a million dollars you could just buy a kitchen grade ice cream machine and other stuff to make your own milkshakes and#coffees and smoothies and bubble teas. Genuinely I think even if I were a BILLIONAIRE I would still look at playing likr $8 for a single#coffee and go .. uh.... I could just buy the equipment to make this and then save that money. PLUS. its in my house now so no need to#have to leave. I can make my own drinks in the comfort of home. .. ideal..#Like no matter how rich I ever got I would still have the lingering scroogey stinginess. like i am NOT paying for that. I will jus#make it myself. Especially if it was an Everyday thing. Anythign thats part of my routine I try to optimize and make as efficient as#possible... ANYWAY.. In an IDEAL world I would get treats. but probably not that much. as on a daily basis it would start to get#to me and I would just save up to buy kitchen machinery if I was rich lol
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also I got an old whale oil sewing machine oil bottle from a guy at the market for a couple pounds
#thoughts#craxy i was just buying regular sewing machine oil the other day. I didn't know that this used to be a thing#but i guess it makes sense they used this stuff for everything
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took the longarm quilting certification class at the fabric store today!
very excited to start whittling down my pile of quilt tops and start a new pile of actual finished quilts
#quilting#also got to hear some fun anecdotes about the lady from the longarm manufacturer who Did Not understand my local fabric store’s demographics#no ma’am you are not going to convince the apartment-dwelling millennials who shop here to buy a $5000 machine in one class#it needs its own dedicated room and we have housemates who are using those
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#i fell off a ladder in work n hurt my wrist which was like fine whatever idc#but i got needy n wnted to use a toy n it hurts too much to move my hand tht i cant do it i might scream#is this my sign to give in n buy a fk machine#like i cant do it properly without bein in pain n all my toys fr kinda hands free stuff r dead#now needy n achy n sad the worst combo
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DMMD taught me the word “durability” (fan translation, Ren’s fight scene), which I then used in an essay in my mock English as a foreign language exam at the end of high school.
Lamento taught me the word “groin”. Couldn’t really use that one in an exam.
I wrote 80%+ of my Computer Science master’s thesis while listening to Sweet Pool OST.
Conclusion: gay porn is educational, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Time to replay Slow Damage to learn more about slapdash collections, admonishing people… and half-chubs.
#the jast translator is so obsessed with half-chubs i swear#i have literally never heard that phrase before#yea i know the jast translation of sd sucks ass#gonna buy the japanese release when i have money and play it using machine translation#my ramblings#nitro+chiral#nitroplus#slow damage#dramatical murder#dmmd#lamento beyond the void#lamento#sweet pool#surodame#スロウ・ダメージ#スロダメ
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Okay but why did they never have any holiday themed POI episodes?
More specifically, how come they never had a Halloween episode and played “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell in the background?
#THEY MISSED AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY THATS ALL#BUT ALSO CHRISTMAS#SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN PLAYING AND FINCH AND REESE GIVE EACH OTHER A SIDE EYE WITH ‘HE SEES YOU WHEN YOURE SLEEPING HE KNOWS WHEN—‘#LIKE CMON#also I wanted a team machine secret santa gift exchange in the midst of all the Samaritan craziness#like Reese gets Shaw - Shaw gets Root - Root gets Finch - Finch gets Reese#I’d picture Reese gifting Shaw the keys to his old motorcycle#(cuz he’s a cop now and doesn’t use it)#and it’s in a small box so at first Shaw’s like ‘this better not be a necklace’ and he’s like ‘just open it’#and they’re all aloof and it’s funny but also touching#then I picture Shaw just gifting herself to Root like#*slaps a bow on her head* ‘for the next twenty four hours we can do whatever you want’#and idk they have a girls day (you know getting their nails done - shopping for shoes - going to the gun range - making out - etc)#Root gifts Finch a rare painting or smth sentimental to him like that#but she tries to do it without like stealing anything (to ease his conscience)#(she’s mostly successful)#‘relax Harry I bought this. with money.’ ‘your money?’ ‘…’ ‘it was your money right??’#and idk what Finch gets Reese but I imagine it’s both sentimental and practical so he can use it often#and they have another ‘thanks for giving me a purpose’ moment and it’s gay as hell and we’re all happy#and they all pitch in and buy Fusco some funny ties or smth#and Bear gets lots of toys and treats cuz he’s the best boi#wow uh#you know what I’m not deleting all that imma just keep it in but just to recap this was about Halloween and a funny song they could’ve used#person of interest#poi#john reese#harold finch#sameen shaw#root#🎶song sings🎶
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the full email is posted here but this paragraph from rachel corrie's last email to her mother in 2003 before she was killed by an israeli bulldozer is absolutely fucking harrowing over 20 years later.
I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in: a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that the future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.
#it's devastating#especially watching discourse around boycotts as the worst case scenario unfolds.#but i think allies need to hear her more now than ever...#i've seen discussion surrounding motaz calling us useless#and it's true.#not in a self-centered sense of personal guilt#but in that we have been made to believe that we are powerless to resist this#that eventually the embers of peoples' effort will die#that we have no say in our government#but we do#you do#i dont even live in the USA anymore but i can still buy e-sims and stand firm in my beliefs#even if it means constantly learning about more atrocities and constantly arguing and defending my stance#the work must be tireless when you rage against a machine#it might not feel like much... but it's honest work.
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The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh//Hermitcraft 9: a minute to reflect, Joe Hills//Hermitcraft Season 8 Finale Animation - How Far We've Come, Chrisrin//The Starry Night, Wikipedia page//Hermitcraft VIII 1035 Final Impact, Xisumavoid////Hermitcraft S8: I Joined Hermitcraft! | Episode 1, PearlescentMoon//HermitCraft 8 ep 20 - End Times With Scar!, Joe Hills
#web weaving#hermitcraft#hc s8#hc s9#starry night#van gogh#joe hills#I feel so corny making web weaves but this is so real to me. do you understand. there wasn't a village there but they decided there should#and now there is. and it's famous and beautiful and made of so many little parts moving together. and the moon and did you get everything#you needed. and making new friends and reiterating the same thing time after time and finding new love and new joy and art to make with it#every time. the perspective of it all. the tiny world below full of so many huge all-encompassing lives.#we're all in this beautiful beautiful world together I tell you. and there's so much to reflect on and more to make and love and see#cries about it. do you understand there's so much in this beautiful beautiful world and we're in it together isn't that amazing.#you can see the shopping district from here. you can see jevin's castle layered over false's you can see bdubs's crastle and joint and the#spawn river and the April fools aliens and the pinball machine and Atlantis and etho's base peeking out from behind like a speck of green#sprouting out from the dirt and new life he's like this to me 🌱 that's etho's base. do you understand. and you can see I buy and the rocket#shop and the slime shop and false beans and the bridge Zed and grian used to transport afkango to the shopping district. ohhhh my god#everything in the world is connected do you see. it's so beautiful. ohhh my god#mine craft.#fp.txt#fav
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Don't talk to me; I'm still recovering from the fact that the first computer-synthesized voice to sing in 1961 - the IBM 704 - sang Daisy Bell, a love song.
#positivity#do the computers know i love them#sometimes i watch the recording of the audio and it blows me away that i can do that#like yes daisy bell was a very popular song from 1892 but the point still stands#there were a million simple songs to give the computer to sing and the one that was chosen talked about enduring love#so yes you can be apathetic about it and say that there's no point in thinking about it deeper than a proof of concept for 60s tech#but i say nonsense to that - nay i will not stand for it here. everything is deep. everything is significant#to teach a computer a love song is the highest form of humanity and i don't care if that's dumb#hot take (semi-related): computers have humanity in them. humans made machines. we gave them purpose and existence.#(that's not saying that computers are 1:1 human BUT that humans made those machines - everything out there originated because of us)#(and i think that's why i don't buy that machines are more neutral than a human especially in judgement)#(a machine has whatever judgement their people had while making it. it isn't neutral at all based on the technology we have today)#i'm not obsessed with machines but i've learned to respect and admire them for what they are#i'd say that i would want to learn about tech for fun but i'm not enthused by it like other transsexuals are
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dumping some thoughts in the tags
#I've been TRYING hard okay#I've been trying to buy better clothes from smaller shops#but when they arrive it turns out they're cheap polyester drop ship crap#I've been trying to get more involved in the queer community and be more of a person#but the online zoom meetings were uncomfortable#the discord transmasc voice class went badly because I didn't understand how to use the bot#I booked a queer film night for me and my partner but it turned out to be creepy and churchy so we dropped out#I've signed up to steward pride we'll see how that goes#I went to a protest but it rained a lot so I only stayed for half#I've been trying to use amazon less but every time I go around my small local stores they don't have any of the stuff I'm looking for#I'm trying to be more myself and be more brave but my binders don't fit and I can't use a sewing machine#and every time I speak to a stranger or a colleague my voice goes up#I'm trying to work out more and eat less but I'm so tired#I'm trying to boycott and buy slave-free and say no to Ai and to genocide and to tiktok and disney and nestle and spotify#Telling myself I have food at home and to stop scrolling reddit and got get more sleep and to call my friends#All this therapy all these good choices all this work and so little to show for it some days#I am going back to fucking bed
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Do we think mentats have a healthy relationship with their own humanity or are they all kinda fucked up?
#the inherent horror of living in a world where the morality correct thing to do is buy a person to use as a computer#like. are you ok with being treated like a replaceable machine?#aren’t we all tho? a replaceable machine in the eyes of the elite?#idk man I’m just rambling#dune#mentats
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the annoying thing about having a sewing machine but it’s buried in the basement is i have a sewing machine but it’s buried in the basement. you can’t use something that’s buried in the basement
#thinking about how if asos doesn’t carry my favorite brand of jeans anymore & i can’t buy them directly from the brand (don’t ship to us)#then i need to really repair the ones i already have. if only i had a sewing machine#also if only i had the studio space at work that my boss promised me a year and a half ago. lol. you know what i would put in there?#sewing machine.#anyway i guess i could ask my roommate if i could use her machine#or god forbid PAY to go to studio time at the fabric store.#chatpost
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I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.
Because I bet it's a lot.
I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?
There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.
Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.
But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.
Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.
But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.
#and it's not like no people were doing translations so wonky translations were better than nothing#it's actual translators being fired for a subpar replacement#and anyone who keeps their job suddenly being responsible for cleaning up llm output rather than what they trained in#(which can take just as much time or longer than doing the translation by hand from scratch)#(if you want it done right anyway)#hell to this day i hear people complain about written translations of indigenous words and how they 'aren't english enough'#even though they're using the ipa and use a system white english people came up with in the first place#and you can easily look up the proper pronunciation and hear it spoken#but there's such a double-standard where it's expected that other languages cater to english/english speakers#but that grace and accommodation doesn't go the other way#and it's the failing of non-english speakers when an english translation is broken#you see it whenever monolingual english speakers travel to other countries and utterly refuse to learn the language#but if someone doesn't speak in unaccented (to them) english fluently in their home country the person 'isn't trying hard enough'#this is just the new version of that where non-english speakers are supposed to do more work and put up with subpar translations#even as a native english speaker/writer i get a (much) lesser version of this because i write with canadian spelling#and some people get pissed if their internet experience is disrupted by 'ou' instead of 'o' or '-re' instead of '-er'#because dialects and regional phrasing/spelling is a thing#human translators can (or should) be able to account for it but llms are not smart enough to do so#and that's not even getting into slang and how llms don't account for it#or how llms can put slurs into translations because it doesn't do nuance or context and doesn't know the language#if you ever complained about buying something from another country that came with machine-translated instructions#you should be pissed at companies cutting english-to-[language] staff in favour of glorified google translate#because the companies are effectively saying they're fine with non-native speakers getting a wonky/broken version
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#lean meme machine#x#Twitter#royalty is not celebrity#megxit#megain#merch your royalty#meghanarciss1#just call me harry#using your office for personal gain#harkles#can't buy credibility#markled#not a legend of aviation#prayers for princess Catherine#high heels harry#stiletto#waagh#Elizabeth arden todger cream#remember funding freedom lies#lies and the lying liars who tell them#formerly royal#british royal family#table 115
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tfw you impulse-buy a bunch of yarn because you're having Feelings, and those Feelings will certainly be fixed by trying a new fiber technique because that's totally how it works, but then one small item in the order is backordered, and that's holding up the whole order, so it turns out your Feelings Distraction will not actually arrive for a month, by which time you will be having entirely different Feelings which you are certain will be solved by an entirely different technique
#I was even trying to be good and ordering from a real yarn store instead of Amazon#I guess I will have to experiment with washing-machine felting using yarn I already have like a chump#I cannot fix my feelings or my creative challenges by simply buying materials#but by gum I can try
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