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This came up on my Pinterest feed the other day and I was like 'oh is this a diy craft thing?' and then it wasn't.
He's crossed the line between food and engineering and is rapidly advancing on the hobbyist fortress! He's captured laser cutting and shapeshifting, and now it looks like he's... oh my god, he's caught astronomy offguard!
GET TO THE PHYSICS!
For a religion that evangelizes, the cheapest way to spread the word of god should be considered holier than the second cheapest method.
If we instantiate the word of God into the cheapest possible product, and that product is purchased, the value of said purchase shall be set to 1 EHu, one Economic holiness unit.
But what if a more expensive method results in people being more faithful or more serious about abiding by religious doctrine? we need to get some kind of economist-monk in here and start drawing curves.
Second axis. Price in to converts out. Apply optimization algorithms.
Are we looking transaction (Rapture on Investment) or long term Return on Envanglizing?
Because if we're using RoE, that's calculated on the basis of Piety to Theological Holistic Operating Unit, or Holier than THOU for the investment.
I love how multiple cultures in the LOTR movies has bulky elaborate armor and it does fuckall anyway. Wearing 30 pounds of metal and apparently no chainmail. Getting shot in the shoulder immediately.
Like the stormtroopers in Star Wars. The fuck is the point of all that? Just to slow you down and make you clumsy?
Stormtrooper armor isnt meant to protect against blaster bolts, it protects against environmental factors. Stormtroopers are front line troops and encounter lots of debris in their fascist colonial conquest of the galaxy.
It doesn’t seem to be working for that either, those guys go out like hamsters regardless.
you remember how in rogue one the empire kidnapped that guy and made him design the death star or whatever? what if they did that to the armour designers too
If I recall correctly, that’s kind of true. They may or may not be shitty knockoffs of actually functional Mandalorian design.
The Empire's armour does something very useful. It removes the person from the business end of the Empire. It may do exactly jack against a blaster bolt, but it does a perfect job of making a cog in the machine replaceable with an identical cog. Mow down two dozen stormtroopers on a Monday, see another two dozen show up on Tuesday, and you can't tell if it's the first 24 post-bacta, or a fresh batch of XP. But you can tell that what ever you tried on Monday didn't do jack to dissuade the Empire from sending more of them.\
Faceless and relentless, and apparent near inexhaustible supply? All the horrors of a zombie horde and none of the cleaning bill for a post-skull nibble
that’s such a funny mental image
you: *stuffing as many eggs into your mouth as fast as you can*
me: *calmly and deliberately eating eggs in plain view of others*
Baboons got their own bread sticks at Olive Garden meme...
Reminder to self:
What do you mean?? I took one whole day off! Why am I not immediately recovered from years of barely scraping by at subsistence level???
i feel like we as a society don't talk enough about the november 2006 album charts
What? The same artist holding spots 1 and 2 is discussion worthy?
Stone faced and barely moving in the club.
To be honest yeah
Oh but you know that while Blade is playing it cool, his cat is absolutely moshing out to the red dot. What a good friend Blade is to the nightclubbing cat world.
:maintains a loud and proud level of pride in his friends for their victories against the traumas, small, medium and large:
:Is proud of the strength of friends and strangers winning their way back to feeling the worthiness of their own love:
In reality, Marcotte claimed, the concept is “simply neo-feudalism, a plan to end the concept of citizenship and make every working person a serf whose entire life is controlled by the whims of their boss.”
“The cities would function as mini-dictatorships, where the CEO of each town runs everything, and the people who live and work there are subject to the boss's whims,” she wrote.
“It would be like being an employee of a controlling company, except you don't clock out at the end of the day or have a life — or rights — outside of what the boss allows you.“
A generation of management who saw the history of company towns, slavery and bonded labour and said "Ah yes, but what if I got it right this time?".
currently obsessed by this shot of ray park in full maul makeup and jorts
That should have been canon. Blue Denim blood in in his veins, woah, oh oh, he's a working class Maul
Once, there was a Japanese monk who had a little personal superstition.
Every time he travelled to a new location, he’d find some wood that grew there and make it into a staff to defend himself from any bandits or ne'er-do-wells who attacked him.
He was convinced that the staff, being more in tune with his surroundings, would serve him better in a fight. One day, he explained this to a scholarly friend, who decided to do some investigating.
The scholar started swapping the monk’s staves while he was asleep. Some days, the monk would be using a staff he thought was from where he was, but wasn’t; some days he’d believe it was from elsewhere, when in fact it was the correct staff for where he was; and some days belief and truth would match.
Interestingly, the scholar discovered that it was the monk's belief that mattered - whichever staff he was using, if he thought it matched his surroundings he’d do a little better, and if he thought it didn’t he’d do a little worse.
Of course, since then there have been many more rigorous studies, but that scholar’s treatise remains one of the most important works in shaping human understanding of the place-bo effect.
Sir Terry Pratchett is a master of the written word but he ain’t shit for the way he trained me to accept dumb naming conventions because i got three missed calls on my phone from Scam Likely and I spent like half a day wondering who I knew named Scam.
Discworld Heritage Post
Trevor Likely’s cousin, Scamual.
Oh, is that Most's kid? Ol Most Likely was definitely the sort to raise a scamp like scamual
I'm this Catte y'know.
Just applied for the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) at my university. An administrative position at the top of the pack, because as a front line teaching grunt, it's time some of us coal face educators step up to management roles.
Reset the clock, something career limiting was did.
I’m pretty sure that Australians don’t have more then maybe 30-50k MAX people on tumblr. Like American had some 30 million users in 2020 (aka basically probably peak over the last 7 2018-2025) while Australia only has 26-28million people depending on who you ask (27 to be safe) so I’m just genuinely curious how many of us there must be on here.
If you Currently live in OR were born / raised in Australia and ID as (born/raised + ID, as I know a lot of born/raised here don’t ID as Aussie) you are Australian in this poll!
Roll call
front and centre, we've got to wake the Canadians up at noon
Whenever there's a trade spat with the USA someone always brings up joining the EU and it will never actually happen but you gotta admit it'd be pretty funny for Canada but not the UK to be part of it.
the CBC was talking about how formally it involves arguing that canada is "European" since that term is not actually defined, which sounds like a really fun exercise in theological casuistry. every country that's not in Europe should try to join the EU just so we can see what they come up with for that
Australia should try this (we should not try this) since we could reference our inclusion in Eurovision as evidence we are in fact European
Eurovision was pay 2 play, and AU was the very determined DLC candidate for the Eurovision Contest, so hey, Canada, get among it
