these are all the same sort of animal. do you understand.

these are all small skittish creatures that love to bite and are found in drawers of garages and classrooms. they’re all related and in the same small biter family. weird little kids who play with them while they’re distracted and have empathy for them can tame them and become these beasts companions

Everybody is always talking about character dynamics dating not for casual dating or for marriage but Secret Third Thing merge souls or die together or whatever. And every time I always think that IS marriage, you're just describing marriage. But everyone's idea of marriage is so watered down with free divorce and Tax Benefits they all think it's lame instead of realizing exactly what they're looking for is the POINT of it!!!!!!!

PADDINGTON played in costume by Arti Shah and voiced by James Hameed in PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL

It will never stop being funny to me that red lightsabers aren't just, like, using a particular color of kyber crystal that's popular among Sith. No, kyber crystal comes in every possible shade and color except red. To get yours to turn red, you have to torture your lightsaber for fun.

Anyone carrying a red lightsaber is holding physical evidence that they spent like five minutes in a back room laughing maniacally while doing the Jedi equivalent of pulling the head off their Barbie doll.

The Dark Side is so embarrassingly edgy ahahahahahahahaha

Lmao get Grievous’d.

Imagine a wizard learning blood magic and all of their friends being like 'ew blood magic' or 'isn't that evil?' But the wizard actually is a healer who's been learning every way to heal someone and uses blood magic to help circulation, stop poison, stop bleeding and even do DNA tests.

Now I'm imagining a healing wizard who can't just use a generic healing spell. They need various spells to accomplish many things. Plant spells to grow medicinal herbs. True sight spells to diagnose. Mending spells for bones. Heat and cold spells for fever, inflamation and muscle pain.

I don't have enough medical knowledge for this, but it seems so interesting, so if you like medicine and wizards- please turn this into a story.

There's this horror movie called Primate coming out about someone who adopts a chimpanzee as a pet and treats it like one of the family and then one day it flips out and starts attacking them. The tagline of the movie is "There's something wrong with him" but I was watching the trailer and thinking, yeah no, this is just a chimp. This is just what happens when you treat a chimp like a person.

Didn’t that happen with a real person who had a chimpanzee as a pet. It attacked them or a friend and killed their victim.

More than once, yeah

I saw that trailer too! I'd make a fair bet that the "there's something wrong with him" line is either just a naive grasp at explanation from the chimp's owner... or something supernatural or madscience-y is going on, because slasher movies are known for that.

also yeah. don't treat a chimp as a pet or a person.

Found out since I made this post that apparently he has rabies, but it's not portrayed realistically anyway

aw man...

the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

de naam 'eris' is zo grappig. er is wat?

Navnet "erik" er så spøgst. Han er ik hvad?

الإسم فيفي مهضوم كتير. في في شو؟

Göran är också kul. Gör han vadå?

tuomas tapani karhu on hassu nimi. tuomasta pani siis mikä?

Hey what happened to tht tower yall were building?

There's this horror movie called Primate coming out about someone who adopts a chimpanzee as a pet and treats it like one of the family and then one day it flips out and starts attacking them. The tagline of the movie is "There's something wrong with him" but I was watching the trailer and thinking, yeah no, this is just a chimp. This is just what happens when you treat a chimp like a person.

Didn’t that happen with a real person who had a chimpanzee as a pet. It attacked them or a friend and killed their victim.

More than once, yeah

I saw that trailer too! I'd make a fair bet that the "there's something wrong with him" line is either just a naive grasp at explanation from the chimp's owner... or something supernatural or madscience-y is going on, because slasher movies are known for that.

also yeah. don't treat a chimp as a pet or a person.

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.  

This is true of so many things in healthcare.  Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range.  If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.  It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.

can you think of anything better than dragons. no you can't. this is because dragons are the best thing ever forever.

It's so true.

Uses this as an excuse to share my dragon ocs.

@purpleisnotacolor I was not, that series came out a few years too late for me unfortunately, I probably would've been obsessed with it if it came out when I was a teen. I know what you mean though; personally it's not my thing and I'm not drawn to it's style much at all, but I think it's cool to see the influence it had on it's fanbase just like warrior cats did.

None of the art above is mine btw, sorry if I didn't make that clear. This is my style for dragons:

can you think of anything better than dragons. no you can't. this is because dragons are the best thing ever forever.

It's so true.

Uses this as an excuse to share my dragon ocs.

i found a website to use the huntrix font and it's great

what's the website?

vanilla>>> any other type of scent

one of the primary issues in the Beauty Privilege discourse is that every word for beauty/attractiveness that we now use as synonyms used to, as recently as a half century ago, be very strongly-defined semantic sisters meaning different things. you find this out quickly when reading victorian novels. "attractive" for instance didn't refer to physical appearance, but "beauty" and "prettiness" did, but weren't synonyms of each other, either. "handsome" was distinct from "beauty" and both were used to refer to men and women but meaning different things. "charming" was something else. etc. this created a healthy semantic ecology where people had stronger self-identification with various categories. maybe you weren't beautiful but you were absolutely charming. maybe you were a handsome woman (these still exist thank GOD). in modernity it's all been flattened into "hot or not" which is a category error because it's far more subjective than more granular and numerous definitions