#Calculator Computation

[reasonsforhope]

100% have been perusing your climate change masterpost, and understand you're probably swamped so feel free to delete of course. But if you can find the time, is there any kind of hope to give in fighting climate change now? Can we save ourselves against the oncoming steamroll?

You hang in there too. Thanks for finding the hope among everything else. It feels so bad rn but I have to believe it can change. I hope it can.

Yeah actually I do think there is hope.

Things are going to get rough. Things are going to get worse before they get better, both for the climate and for people living in the US (and for people living in lots and lots of other countries that will be affected by the US election results/the ways the climate will worsen as aa result).

I haven't posted about this yet because I didn't want it to come to this, but now that it has, here's something that people have been quietly saying/research has been showing for months:

-via Reuters, November 6, 2024

Renewables, especially solar, are just too powerful to be stopped. They just too much cheaper and too much better, and that's only going to become more true, not less.

Also, I think (and hope) it's actually inevitable that at some point, we'll get to net negative carbon emissions. I think it's like solar: the technology, cost, and planet all make it feel like an inevitable technological trajectory, the same way solar tech is on an exponential trajectory. (IF WE WORK FOR IT, OBVIOUSLY, but also so, so many people ARE working for it, have dedicated their lives to working for it)

I sure fucking hope that's the case, anyway.

(You can find my masterpost on going net negative on what that actually means here)

It is gonna happen more slowly and shittily than I hoped, but I do think it's going to happen.

And if we can get to net negative emissions in time to save ourselves (which I think we will, the rates of advancement in many of these areas are very impressive), then we'll be able to slowly start to undo and heal lot of the damage.

[keferon]

OKAY OH MY GOD THIS FIC IS GREAT I HAVE ONLY READ THREE AND A HALF CHAPTERS AND IM ALREADY IN LOVE

I originally wanted to make both of these pieces in color but I’m gonna be honest I have no fucking idea how to draw Ricochet…he is described as black and red and…mmhhmmm does he have canonical (canonical for this fic I mean) design? Do I need to design him myself? Idk I’ll figure this out later

[foone]

speaking of having timestamps:

the readmore of that last post took me an a hour and a half to make.

That may be SLIGHTLY too much effort to put into tumblr posts, especially when that tumblr post is simply a JOKE ABOUT STARS WARS!

Deer future foone: Please do not do this again. You could have gone to sleep an hour and a half ago! You're tired! There will always be a star wars to make jokes about tomorrow! Love, past (nee current) Foone B¹ Turing

Footnote 1: The "B" stands for "Benoit B¹ Mandlebrot"

[piratesexmachine420]

*Guy who has so many computers voice* I need more computers

MORE

[platonically-loving-alastor]

Math

Vox: Did you know that the distance between Seattle and Austin is 34,095,562 grilled cheese sandwiches? Val: I did not. Vox: I did the math in my head just now. Val: That's fantastic. 34 million grilled cheese sandwiches, wow. How many loaves of bread is that? Vox: 68,191,124. Wait, loaves or pieces? Val: Loaves. Vox: Hold on. *recalculating* Vox: 3,409,556.2 loaves. If the loaves had 20 slices.

[the-meme-monarch]

so like queen Was Going To be a calculator. i have to wonder how far into development this was changed, since her design is still clearly reminiscent of it but there are certain things in-game that do rely on her being a computer (like her concern for/fixation on noelle and her searches)

but since it was changed to her being the laptop, why didn’t they make it resemble her? like why not make it a blue laptop

[gmanmedias]

via shannypop

[skybson]

1x19 - Tomorrow Is Yesterday

[illuteridae]

people on here who want to fuck computers and printers are some of the bravest things to walk this earth you're telling me you DON'T have the primal urge to slam any electronic device into the cold hard earth after its 15th error popup? i admire you

[zahri-melitor]

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #19:

“Oracle hacking bad guys is illegal”.

Birds of Prey #1 (1999): Oracle is hacking the Pentagon to use their computing power.

There are moments of the B&BOP run I like, and then there’s moments like this, where all I can think is “how far this has fallen”.

Babs is not going to feel an ounce of guilt over hacking THE CALCULATOR. That’s…how she does her work as Oracle. That’s how The Hunt For Oracle happened (because she was deliberately screwing with Blockbuster). This is what her job is about!

Dinah: how dare you do the thing that is the reason I met you in person in the first place. This is new news to me and I am shocked, SHOCKED you would act so illegally!

[conceptofjoy]

i understand jakehal.

[1l0v3myc4lcul4t0r]

NEW OBJECTUM IDENTITY!!

CALCULUM - coined by me! (arlo! aka 1l0v3 myc4lcul4t0r)

Calculum is a more specific offspring of Techum/Techtum (idk which one is the right name... ive heard both bro idfk.) This is identity is exclusive to those who are attracted to calculators! (you dont have to be only attracted to calculators though! you can like any other object too, but only use this if your attracted to calculators as well!)

colors and their meanings:

dark blue - the primary color of the TI-84 Plus Calculator by Texas Instruments.

light gray - the secondary color of the TI-84 Plus Calculator by Texas Instruments.

green - The color of the ALPHA button on the calculator i stated before. i am not typing all of that again, i'm sorry.

light red/pink - love !!

in the the middle is a transparent png of a calculator that i searched up on google!

so yees! if you use this, please reblog with #calculum, credit me if reposted anywhere else (pinterest, insta, tiktok, etc) and maybe even share to ur friends!! :oo!! maybe? pretty please? :33

[rubystims]

🕯️ / 🔢 / ✉️ 📖 / 🖥️ / 📖 ✉️ / 🔢 / 🕯️

gifset with the same vibes as this one but with numbers/equations and old tech for anon ! (no food/drink)

[rad-roche]

board game night is a total nightmare in the agency because nick is a robot who is pretty good at chess but not great and despite literal years passing gloria never gets over this fact. this was in her 'pros' section of dating a mechanical guy. if he makes a move that's pretty good but not The Most Optimal she will say what the fuck out loud. he has the hardware to consistently thrash her in it but unfortunately the software is 'a guy who's a pretty strong logical thinker' and that's quite the gap

[science70]

Hewlett-Packard HP 9800 Model 10 programmable calculator, 1972.

Correction: Thanks to @apexgrodd for helping to identify the device in the photo.

[ridragon]

You're telling me that helldivers 2's ai system works on socialism