#relatedly

[thirteen-jades]

Do you feel more like a P or N channel mosfet?

N type feels more natural and intuitive to me. This is ~100% an artifact of the way I learned things and the sort of work I do (the focus of my research is probably impossible to dope P-type), not any meaningful physical superiority. P-type is pretty cool on a conceptual level though, in a way that's not immediately easy to explain when I'm so tired.

[geddyqueer]

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

THANK GOD AND THE WRITERS OF 911

[spiritunwilling]

Talked to the poli sci kid at my math table today. Maybe if the poli sci guys and humanities guys joined forces we'd be unstoppable

[purinrinrin]

i think it's funny whenever i see the criticism "ffxiv fandom loves to repeat jokes over and over until they're not funny anymore!" when there are what, 24+ million players worldwide. for every Very Online Player who has already seen every joke over a hundred times there are gonna be a ton of players who haven't even seen it once. instead of getting mad about it why not take the xkcd approach:

[calypsolemon]

can't wait until the rgu cast reaches the outside world and learns about public transport

[bijoumikhawal]

lol, I mentioned "yeah, actually I have no problem with people who don't want to see sex scenes, but if people can't handle the embarrassment of accidentally watching a movie with one in it with their family they aren't mature enough to watch R rated movies (and i really dont know why you'd watch an R rated movie with your family if you're worried abt that), and if there's trauma involved they aren't doing their diligence to protect themselves by not looking up content before, and I would know as a CSA survivor" in a long and stupid twitter argument and that got me the block

[dumbdiscodragon]

Every time someone on the internet says "hey this thing I tried helped me with mental illness maybe you can try it too" a bunch of people feel the need to pile on and say "how dare you guilt me for not trying the thing you tried???" and accuse them of being ableist and the whole nine yards. Like friend.. Please... You are taking your shit out on a complete stranger for no reason.

Like... a random on the internet isn't responsible for your family dismissing you and pretending your issues aren't real. But you react like that's what they're doing when all they're saying is shit like "being dehydrated all the time negatively impacted my mental health please remember to drink some water" omggggggg

[ouroborosgirlcocks]

My brain will not be normal about trans women with small cocks atm.

[leguin]

I'm sure many of you have found yourselves in a marriage where you think I wish I hadn't gone to the marriage ceremony. It would solve a lot of my problems if I just had not gone that day. So you thought to yourself how could you have avoided that cause you were already cohabiting so its not like you could have…well you could have leapt from the car on the way, nice and dramatic you know or you could show up and excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and just keep walking, just keep right on walking, walk a long time, but you didn't do that because you are a moral coward, and your curiosity of how things were actually going to go got the better of you, and I think that 'got the better of you' is a cool phrase when we are talking about what went down with you and your beloved. I was as sorry as anybody to hear about it, but at the same time I wasn't because I have a clinical kind of sadistic interest in what happens to you: the things you do when you get with these people and you can't stop drinking, and it's interesting, it's like watching fractals. You don't know what colors they are going to turn, but you know they are going to be spectacular.

John Darnielle introducing "Have to Explode" on 12/05/2008

[onewomancitadel]

You might think MBTI types are about as harmless as they can get re: understanding/interacting with other peoples' personalities and trying to typify them and using jargon for social-related purposes but there literally was a Sims forum where if you were an F-type you would be summarily mocked for being a Feeler who feels too much emotion. Forever. And you had to take the test if you wanted to post a lot and put it in your description or signature so everybody could see.

[st-just]

So the obvious answer is 'everyone involved in the conversation is 16' but there's this sense I get of, like, media representation discourse where people act like they only started making movies/books/games/etc that weren't a sea of straight white dudes (with occasional helpless ingenue sexy lamp/femme fatale and/or blatant racist caricatures) in, like, 2010, and any exceptions are heroic examples of outsider art or w/e.

Which is, like, kind of true for queer representation specifically. But, like, you can say that black people are underrepresented in major films without making it sound like the Lethal Weapon series or Blade or w/e were unappreciated works of the avant garde. Will Smith did pretty okay!

(Yes I'm perfectly aware how utterly useless complaining about people on the internet being histrionic and overbroad with their arguments is. But it's my blog and I'm allowed to seethe a bit).

[pebblethief]

hate how hard it is to find a new podcast to listen to

like getting names of them is dead easy, but the only way to narrow down if you'd like it is to actually listen to it (whereas I can usually tell if I'd like a show from a Google image search lol)

and I can't just listen to the first episode bc you can't expect them to hit the ground running

is very time consuming

[thebreakfastgenie]

I am convinced Alan Alda's phone acting is related to his improv background in some way. Idk how though.

[iamanartichoke]

I'm sure this is an example of something, regarding suspending your disbelief for fiction or not thinking too hard about things that work in a handwavey way for plot and narrative purposes - but, while I generally like to know things, I wish I didn't know that getting knocked unconscious is, like, super bad for you, bc all I can think anytime someone gets knocked unconscious on tv/film is, brain damage! memory loss! severe concussion! potentially catastrophic long-term effects! at the very least, a trip to the doctor (hope you have good insurance!) Like, I literally get distracted from whatever is happening on-screen bc my brain insists on making note that all those people that Insert-Hero-Here just knocked out are probably all brain damaged now. It's super annoying.

[mountainsatellite]

I think I was like 34 before I learned that being born in a country did not automatically grant you citizenship in that country and I am still baffled by this.