wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

I'M FREE

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

The scuff-marks on this boat looks like a painting.

writers, why do you write?

put it in the tags u-u/

my theory is that they are evolving from large herbivores to small carnivores . thoughts?

All I can think about.

you are the funniest person on this post

Do people care if u get inspired by other polls.... Anyway the red/blue poll I see going around is nice but I found that I associate my friends with all sorts of colors so. here

I'm surprised at the low number of "don't know"s, and wonder if the poll is inspiring folks to ask.

Also, at this point, I'm the only vote for "the same but gender shifted." A little surprised by that.

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

in my shonen training arc right now!!! no eyedropper + one brush + normal layers digital painting study (+ attempt at stylizing the face)

i feel my current style is still lacking and not impactful enough for emotional scenes---i want to make everything more ~cinematic~ and do more emotional scenes!! & to do that i realized i need to study more realistic lighting & drawing background 💀

I remember someone saying "mad scientists in fiction aren't scientists because there's never a control group"

I think if you've created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

@aydascomprehendsubtext

Quite similarly to the fairy ring post (https://www.tumblr.com/lynati/698207583782289408/places-an-orange-just-outside-a-fairy-ring-to-see) I think what people forget is that they’re not scientists either, or at least that they haven’t read the methodology section of any publication outside of a few disciplines. By demanding a control group, they are trying to apply the rules for clinical trials and drug development … to FIELD WORK.

If the same people wish to tell, say, solar physicists or field geologists or field ecologists or marine biologists that they “aren’t scientists” because they “don’t have a control group,” those people are very welcome to produce a spare identical planet, or perhaps an identical sun, to serve as the “control group.” But since that isn’t POSSIBLE, then CAN WE CONTINUE WITH OUR OBSERVATIONAL METHODOLOGY. Science is not defined by the presence or absence of a control group; that is simply a type of experimental design. Not all science is experimentally based, even. Thanks.

I mean if you’re turning people into satyrs, you’re probably not testing the efficacy of the drug. You probably developed the serum already. You’re probably running a completely different type of experiment.

I did this same poll in a much smaller group (~35 people), but I have a lot of followers here, so I'm curious. Please reblog to increase sample size<3

2009 a space odyssey

happy 413

have you guys done that “what kind of reader are you” quiz and if so what did you get

here’s mine

ah here’s the link guys

"you sound like you like weird shit"

true.

also sibdihdjbahahaha

fuckin. slaughterhouse five. i had an english teacher in high school who let us pick from a list of books to do reports on so we could all have something different. and one time i chose slaughterhouse five because it sounded interesting.

well.

my report was pretty much "this piece of shit was a waste of my time and here's why it should be binned for eternity"

teacher was trying so hard not to laugh

but i aced those reports!!

I was always told growing up that "you should get into reading, it will transport you to a different world!" so when I started reading I thought that was just... the point of reading. Starting to get the feeling that maybe that call to action to get kids to read might just have worked on me because I am specifically that kind of reader... because... yeah, this is describing exactly what gets me jazzed about certain books.

The curse had been going on so long that we'd pretty solidly determined it went into effect before a certain age (21)

I came out as nonbinary and ace at 18 and a couple of my cousins made a joke that i was now immune and we all had a good laugh and forgot about it. its hard to explain the kind of like.... hopeless-but-amused misery that comes with having a curse this bad in the family for so long. everyone tries to beat it, and everyone knows its not going to work. even the people who dont believe theres a curse (or indeed magic at all) as kids have generally conceded by like 24

like, there was the typical 'you'll find someone someday' that you get as an ace, but it wasnt (completely) an assumption based in aphobia. no one believed it was even possible for me to not be married and a mom and miserable by 21. it would have been like arguing the sky was green.

but i got to 20 and wasn't even dating anyone and started getting side eye, and when i finally got to 21 everyone was so happy for me, it was crazy. my grandma cried.

but everyone assumed i'd just broken it for me (and honestly, it went a long way in unraveling a lot of transphobia in my maternal family - if my gender was enough to break the curse, it must at the minimum be real, right?), and then the next oldest cousin (my sister) almost got got, got all the way to living with and being engaged to a dude who was a fucking nightmare, and then just. woke up one day packed her stuff and walked out. no one could believe it, they thought she go back any day, but she never did.

next was the oldest male cousin, D, and as he approached 21 that was where (i, at least) start to suspect the curse was gone. we were really poor and so our families shared a house for most of my childhood, he's like my brother. I knew him well, and I was certain there was no way he was going to become an abusive husband or father.

and then he didnt! he did get a wife and kid before he turned 21 but he's a huge simp and so so good with his daughter, even with her being autistic which so many parents might have taken as a flaw.

at that point me and all the cousins were chatting about it one day and D pointed out that the only thing that changed between the previous person to get got (my uncle /neg) and everyone who didnt was me. We had something of a back and forth where we tried to figure out if my sister's ex-fiance counted, but we eventually came to the consensus it was curse death throes lmao. and no ones got got since.

(of course if you do want to take a hard line against magic or argue it's confirmation bias, you can, it's not gonna bother me - it's arguably possible that the belief that the curse could be or was broken was what gave my sister and subsequent younger relatives the confidence to leave/break the cycle)