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Most dog skeletons are mounted incorrectly with the shoulder and hip sockets at equal level. in reality, when living dogs are in motion the hip joint should be aligned near the centre-top of the scapula:
angulation of the scapula and radius+ulna should stay parallel with each other in motion, so does the femur and hocks.
(from Martin Fischer and Karin Lilje's research using XROMM rotoscoping from Dogs in Motion)
how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:
-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of
-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."
-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.
And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.
Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.
If you were not aware, edits and version history are visible in word documents. For both work and school documents, I work in one document, writing and organizing and polishing and editing and putting in filler like "PUT QUOTE HERE" or "I HATE THIS FUCKING PRODUCT" and then when I need to present the document to other people I copy the whole text and paste it into a clean document with no history so that people can't look back over my early versions or angsty mid-process meltdowns.
However, I *do not* delete the original version, it's good practice to keep your work document to show that you, you know, worked on the document in case something like this ever comes up.
Just a heads up, both for people who didn't know about version histories and for people who might be deleting their working files after finishing their projects.
Someone brought up to me the other day that it might be risky for me to publish my "how to find hardware" document on tumblr if it's something I created at the behest of my job; part of the reason I'm not concerned about that is because the original worked document was created in 2018 and has been sporadically worked on since, so I can conclusively prove that the public document I'm creating is not sharing work product for a project assigned to me in 2025.
OP: the stall owner I often order spicy 炸串zhachuan(skewers) from whipped out an impromptu Inner Mongolian grassland dance
they found a small herd of unicorns in a hard-to-reach part of the Alps. the area was immediately blocked from human access and there’s a team of scientists observing the herd and documenting what they can. from analysis of collected unicorn poops, it looks like the unicorns are actually converting microplastics in their environment into usable magical energy. now the scientists throw them a plastic grocery bag full of styrofoam every week or so to help the younger ones grow up stronger.
a stray momma cat in Switzerland brought a 14 year old kid that had been feeding her to her home in an alley, where it was discovered she was raising a very young wild dragon with her kittens as one of her own. the dragon was carefully collected by animal control, and after a world-wide interest in the case, a very small population of dragons was discovered in a forest nearby. the group is big enough to breed, and more and more dragon sightings pop up in different countries all the time. one of the original animal shelter workers adopted the dragon and his whole cat family. they’re very happy in their new home and the cat momma grooms her dragon every day
they found a new species of sea serpent off the channel islands. it’s the color of beautiful kelp
ok so you support the disabled, disordered, and mentally ill. but are you normal when someone takes long to respond to you? or if they have a hard time listening to you? when someone has a hard time giving you their attention? or when their manners aren’t perfect? or when someone makes mistakes that may be obvious or simple to you? or when someone talks loudly or “causes a scene?” are you normal when people have to think really hard to explain things? or when they have a hard time putting their thoughts into words?
are you normal when people’s hair is unkempt or oily or visibly unbrushed? or when their face might be full of acne? or when they don’t have deodorant on for one reason or another? how about if their clothes are dirty?
are you normal about disabled/disordered/mentally ill people when they make you a little uncomfortable?
I'm so proud of Senator Booker (and his staff) for breaking the longest filibuster record by speaking for people's rights for over 24 hours, not only because I support his message but because the record he broke was Strom Thurmond's filibuster against civil rights in 1957. The fact that a person of color broke a record held by a racist man by speaking on caring for all people
I think about Azula shooters often and their common refrain of "if Azula hadn't had a mental breakdown, she would've won" and I'm here to tell you that no, she wouldn't have.
Azula spent so much of Book 2 being built up as this deadly terrifying force against whom the heroes are badly outmatched that it can be difficult to catch exactly how quickly Zuko is advancing.
Back up a bit to Book One. For the fearsome exiled crown prince of the Fire Nation, Zuko's not that impressive a firebender. He's not bad by any stretch, and he's able to lay the untrained Sokka and Katara flat pretty easily. Then he gets in the ring with Aang, who is an airbending master, and the difference between a regular bender and a master becomes apparent when Aang literally puts his ass to bed:
People have attributed this to the fact that no one's fought an airbender in 100 years, but I think it's also worth noting that Aang (a 12 year old from a pacifist nation) has probably never fought anyone before. Like, ever. And yet the second Aang thinks "okay, I'll attack back", the fight's over.
Zuko's got the same genetic predisposition for firebending talent that Azula does, yet it never seems to manifest because of his mental blocks. At the beginning of the series, he's already so beat down that all he really has is conviction, pride, and anger, so even with training from Iroh (the firebending master, thank you very much), he struggles. Yet throughout Book 2, when he has no time to train because he's on the run, he actually seems to advance faster. The fact that his bending is literally tied to his character arc (as his morals become tangled and he has to fight off aforementioned mental blocks) is pretty brilliant. Like, by the time of the Crossroads of Destiny, Zuko getting his ass handed to him by Aang is a pretty consistent feature of the show--he just can't match wits with him.
Hell, at the beginning of the series, he and Iroh (again: the actual firebending master) launch a combined power surface-to-air attack...which Aang casually swats away into a nearby ice wall. Come the Crossroads of Destiny, however, and Zuko by himself launches this bigass fireball that blows through Aang's defenses.
Zuko advances so quickly that it's scary. That prodigious talent is in him even if it doesn't come through as cleanly as with Azula. Who, by the way, was busy about to get flattened by Katara some few dozen feet away, until Zuko took over and then effectively stalemated her himself.
All of this in retrospect makes it abundantly clear why Zuko's firebending seemed to skyrocket so much when he learned true firebending from the Sun Warriors: it was really the only thing left. He's hard a hard road learning how to fight waterbenders, earthbenders, and airbenders, and even if unconsciously, he's applying the philosophy Iroh taught him about augmenting his bending style with aspects of other styles (see also, the waterbending-like fire whips he uses in the above gif). Once he actually understands fire and how it works, he's got it mastered. Hence why any gap between him and Azula effectively disappears as soon as their next fight--before her friends have betrayed her and her stability goes out the window. There's no real sense of urgency to their fight at the Boiling Rock prison. True, Sokka's presence with the sword helps, but Zuko doesn't look remotely worried and he counters Azula's every attack perfectly.
All her life, Azula only ever learned fire. She was taught by the best people the fire nation can employ, so she knows all the cool tricks, but she's still poisoned by the corrupted firebending practiced in the modern ATLA timeline. Unlike Zuko, who managed to get the basics if nothing else from Iroh (fire comes from the breath, and can be used to survive as much as to kill), Azula has always used fire as a weapon and a means to hurt others. She has no true knowledge of the craft, meaning she's got the same weaknesses as Zhao, she's just better disciplined to the point she can make up for it.
Zuko's victory was a given considering Azula's complete loss of control by the time of Sozin's comet, but even had she been in a perfect mental state, she'd have lost, because in many ways Zuko is simply the better firebender.
And that's the truth of it.
I don't know. I just don't know
It took me a solid thirty seconds to realize that Phragmites was probably the genus name of the plants in the picture and not, like, an ancient Greek warrior waiting in the marshes to attack.
my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion
dilute black (blue) 4x combo, black mackerel tortoiseshell tabby (torbie) with moderate white spotting
adoption successful
@whatcoloristhatcat did you not watch the whole video? There is a 6th cat here, and the adoption was Not successful
I’ve been listening to the people in the apartment below me have arguments for two years now and I still can’t figure out what language they’re speaking. The best I can narrow it down is like if Portuguese and Hebrew had a baby. Is that a common pidgin combination
I just listened to a clip of this and jesus christ you fucking got it. there are like 3500 people in the whole united states who speak this and two of them are in a very fraught marriage four feet below me
Job hunting is so hard now. I miss the days when you could sell a man a fur coat for his mistress then take him out for lunch and get him blackout drunk, then show up at his office the next day and convince him he offered you a job.
spices should not expire. I don't have that kinda money and you are flavor in a bottle. relax.
