#is fucked

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Equal asshole opportunity Vlad

He continues to claim he’s an amazing teacher while allowing his students to do whatever. Kendo smacks those she feels are being rowdy, Monoma is loud and keeps saying wtf stuff as 1A, Tetsutetsu is ignoring the rules to be manly, but Vlad keeps going on about how great of a teacher he is. He won't stop even with evidence showing he's fucked up a lot of the time is given to him. As far as he's concerned everything is fine, no reason to worry.

He's still better then Eraserhead. He has a full class of students and none break bones all the time (nevermind Bakugou in this AU got expelled after the sports festival for attacking an opponent after the match and Mineta was expelled for harassment. Never mind Midoriya is a late bloomer.)

Vlad is just so damn confident he's the best because Aizawa has had issues in the past with the school board while Vlad never has. He's always had full classes graduate to be heroes (nevermind most never move past sidekick or they get in a lot of trouble the first few years because Vlad encourages unhealthy forms of competition and training. Nevermind Aizawa has recently been forced to go to therapy and has slowly changed from the heavily depressed and exhausted man he was after his husband nearly left and he nearly lost his job). His kids better show 1A they're better. They are, and they're going to train like they are even if they fall over.

It comes crashing down in this AU for Vlad when one of his students has enough of the encouragement of the competition and the hellish training, and goes to Nezu to complain. Nezu is surprised and looks into it, having trusted Vlad to do the same ‘medium well job’ as Nezu would term it. He's been trying to entice a friend to work at UA but they're busy and need more bribes.

Nezu puts Vlad on probation as does he strip the class rep title from Kendo and shove Monoma into therapy along with Testutetsu. Later Vlad is fired as Nezu’s friend steps in to take over.

Vlad always wonders why.

[bluegraywilde]

So reading an academic article on the interaction between extractive resources and civil wars and the author casually mentions that in 1993, Elf-Aquitaine (oil company now part of French oil giant TotalEnergies) paid $150 million to Denis Sassou-Ngeuesso, then the former president of the Republic of Congo (1979-1992), with the expectation of securing oil rights… very cool, very neat to bribe an opposition leader and former dictator, nice corporate responsibly to “participate” in the democratization of a former one party state

This man turned around and rather than spend the money on campaign finance and all that good stuff… raised a militia and tried to seize power, killing 10,000 people in 4 months (1993-1994)

Low level conflict persisted until a second wave of civil war that lasted from 1997-1999 (another 14,000-25,000 dead for those keeping score) in which he was finally able to seize power… which he still holds today!!!!

And like the Wikipedia pages (which I get not final arbiters of truth and knowledge but still) doesn’t even mention it on Elf-Aquitaine’s page and the only reference to any of this is on the Second Civil War’s page where there’s an allusion to French support due to unspecified oil interests…

… excuse me

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

after 4 hours of cutting very precise pieces out of cardboard, folding precisely, working with small materials, and glueing tiny bits

i have to concede my optometrist was right when they said my ass needs bifocals

that was 4 hours of being cross eyed and squinting and straining my eyes so hard my brain is scrambled

i'll concede my eyesight may be fucked with near objects as well as far ones

give me help for seeing shit in front of my face pls

[birdybat]

[delicatetaysversion]

help the outside world is full of dhul and sun

[scream-mans-friend]

nedzu for the unhinged ask game

i love nedzu sm hes such a funny little guy with such a big bad traumatic backstory. would love to see it someday

[laikuh]

The way…I cannot sleep…

[jesterbots]

genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

[elbiotipo]

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

[victusinveritas]

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[relatabletoaster]

[littlegoldfinchh]

lord the peasants are so loud today

[daylighteclipsed]

ENTRY LEVEL MEANS NO EXPERIENCE. IT MEANS NO PORTFOLIO OF RELEVANT SAMPLES. ENTRY LEVEL IS ENTRY LEVEL

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

they could never make me trust cops

[sreegs]