#that phrase was new to me

[kenyatta]

In a zonal architecture, the ECUs are categorized based on their location within the vehicle. The controller is closer to the ECUs, reducing the needed cabling, simplifying the wiring harness, and reducing harness weight by up to 50% with a corresponding reduction in vehicle weight. A zonal architecture can improve data and power distribution.

Developing time-sensitive networking (TSN) in automotive Ethernet is an enabling technology for zonal architectures. It allows efficient communication between ECUs that were in the same domain but are now separated into different zones.

A zonal architecture also supports implementing software-defined vehicle (SDV) functionality. Instead of adding new hardware (ECUs) to add new functions, SDV enables new functions to be downloaded using over-the-air updates into the powerful central vehicle controller. This enables what’s termed continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of new vehicle functions in near real-time.

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[yeyinde]

stalker!Ghost who gets tired of these little games you keep playing with him (blocking his number, changing your locks), and decides to take matters into his own hands. after all, it says something that you went out of your way to get a restraining order against him—accompanied by a scathing, bratty little message about leaving you alone. boundaries. him being a creep. as if everything he does to protect you was an inconvenience. was for nothing. maybe his old man was right. maybe some brats need a good, hard lesson in respect.

one he feels obligated to give.  

so. he comes for you. presses the muzzle of his gun against your trembling lip, and tells you to stick that pretty tongue out for him, birdy. 

(since you want to be so lippy, he'll give you something to mouth off on.)

[mrs-gauche]

Alas, so long as the music plays, we dance.

(Cole's cryptic comments + The Song)

[lazylittledragon]

what do you mean youre technically a detransitioner cause of terf bullshit?

it's a v long story but i detransitioned for a couple of years when i was 16/17, for multiple reasons but mostly because i fell into the blaire white/kalvin garrah chamber of "you have to be This way to be trans otherwise you're not real".

i was already Deeply insecure about myself and my 'passing' and i was led to believe that i couldn't want to wear makeup or skirts, and i couldn't choose not to have bottom surgery, and i couldn't do anything but bind for 12+ hours a day to the point that my ribcage is still misshapen. basically i thought that if i wasn't suffering enough doing 'feminine' things, i couldn't really be trans, so i should just go back to being a girl and suck it up.

the terf bullshit is because i'd seen a lot of terfs/detransitioners talking about the 'dangers' of testosterone and how it would turn me into a horrible ugly evil monster and how there was nothing worse than wanting to be a man. which combined with 'you need to fully medically transition to be valid at all' creates some very dangerous and upsetting feelings to cope with.

it also came from trying really hard to put myself in a little box before i realised that my sexuality/gender are very fluid and it's FINE for me not to have a label and just do whatever i want. when i was 19 or so i went back to using they/them (and eventually he/him) and changed my name again because even though i like doing 'feminine' things, i don't want to be seen as a woman.

tldr: i was conditioned by transphobic/terf rhetorics to think that i was being trans the 'wrong' way so i couldn't be trans at all, so i believed i must actually be a girl if i still wanted to do 'feminine' things. nowadays i am a transmasc who does feminine things because i don't give two shits about what any transmed prick thinks of me anymore.

[nattikay]

the constant inner struggle of a Na'vi speaker/teacher browsing Na'vi OCs

[adelphenium]

nolpat suitor showdown stadium series!

[podcastwizard]

look language is ever evolving and colloquial definitions are valid etc. but if you're going to describe something as banal as a 3 am trip to the grocery store as "feral" don't act shocked when i'm on all fours in the parking lot, shredding a rabbit's jugular with my canines

[kagooleo]

low blood sugar lance

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

i cannot believe...

..it took me almost THIRTEEN YEARS to google what he had actually said in 2012 (and then again and again, later) (edited video source)

"Je suis allée au cinéma avec mon copain *points at Louis* et ma famille."

"I went to the cinema with my boyfriend *points at Louis* and my family."

and it's the only phrase in french he kept repeating over the years:

i am DONE with today. like, i've been hearing him say this phrase for over a decade and never realized what he actually said?!?! *stares into the mirror* who am i? i feel like that “was i supposed to know XY or was i supposed to find out through a random quick google search 12 years later?”-meme hahaha fuck

and like, i know the word can also mean friend, but afaik you usually say "ami" then. but he didn't. he said boyfriend. and pointed at Louis. and then he said "He's caring. He treats me really well." after Louis said he hopes he's a nice boyfriend.

i'm laughing at my own slowness so hard rn, because i'm probably the last elder Larrie on this planet to get clued in on this lmfaoooo

these two, i swear! 🥹💙💚

[froschli96]

Can we talk about how Kadar says to Altaïr in the beginning: "An excellent kill! Fortune favors your blade!", and then in the bureau with Malik, before Altaïr goes to meet "Robert", Malik says to him "Fortune favor your blade, brother."

And then THAT is what prompts Altaïr to actually finally apologize to him?

(It's these little things in the writing that make me go feral! Another one of my favorite parts is Altaïr and Malik calling each other "Dai" - Altaïr first calls Malik Dai before doing investigations during the Majd Addin mission, showing his character growth in how he's willing to humble himself in front of Malik by basically acknowledging him as a superior of sorts (he's even THANKING him here for his help - compare this to "I am your superior, in both title and ability! You should know better than to question me!"), and then when they last talk before Altaïr goes to confront Al Mualim, Malik calls HIM Dai, in turn acknowledging his growth 😭 I just... I love them so much, I don't even know what to do with myself anymore.)

[outletcrash]

shakes her around like a beetle in a jar

[valtsv]

What did your old header say, something like “LATELY, IF I TRY, I CAN SEE AROUND BLIND CORNERS?” And what did it mean? Also, what is the meaning of your old header?

it did! it's a paraphrased line from one of my favourite fanfics, "sheherezade" by cher. it means exactly what it says. my new header, "a chain of wrists wrapped in a bracelet of teeth", is a creation of my own, and that's just me getting pretentious with the concept of biting the hand that feeds you.

[lobotomy-lady]

I don't care how many times the rich & famous talk about how being rich & famous is the worst fate humanly possible I will never ever ever believe them for one milisecond lol

[shortcakelils]

happy new year guys (I’m a time traveller)

[maculategiraffe]

as I was buckling the baby into his car seat he looked up pensively and said, "auntie mac, where are you from, originally?"