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Category: Tumblr crossposts

Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)

  • wilwheaton:

    micdotcom:

    Watch: Bee’s quest wasn’t over. Her next stop was a gun show — where things got even more ridiculous.

    Fuck the NRA.

  • animatedamerican:

    dajo42:

    kingshibuya:

    dajo42:

    “another female lead in a movie? what is this feminist sjw bullshit”

    i mean the fact that you see a female lead as a statement but a male lead as totally normal kinda proves that feminism is necessary but

    I swear y’all make this up. Literally no one has ever complained about a female lead omg.

    (x)

    and this is just from one trailer but yeah, ~literally no one ever~

    imagine if they included comments from the new Ghostbusters trailer too

  • weslehgibbins:

    Stephen Colbert on needing more females in Marvel [x]

  • the-future-now:

    Did you know a major environmental disaster occurred last week?

    Oil company Royal Dutch Shell has begun the massive task of cleaning up
    nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil that leaked from a company oil
    derrick roughly 90 miles off the state’s coast, the Associated Press reported Friday. The poorest residents of coastal communities and Native Americans were likely to feel the brunt of this.

    Follow @the-future-now?

    But don’t worry, I expect they’ve lept into action with some dish detergent and some kitchen roll and they’ll be cleaning it up just lickety-split. And it’s not like these things have unexpected long term effects or anything.

  • Netflix: Save Agent Carter, bring her to NETFLIX

    Netflix: Save Agent Carter, bring her to NETFLIX

    tipofyourstar:

    tipofyourstar:

    Reblog and share, even if you aren’t in the fandom! Let’s save this show!

    Come on guys, keep reblogging and sharing this! We need to help save this show!

  • Untitled post 13818

    notnumbersix:

    kayceee2088:

    hotteaandoranges:

    lizardlicks:

    curlicuecal:

    thesquirrelisonfire:

    the-unreadable-book:

    whimsicalspecks:

    orzhov-fun-police:

    autisticnarset:

    tumorhead:

    vaigh:

    tony-the-intelligent-goon:

    I can’t tell what my favorite part is, but it’s either

    • scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps
    • the idea to put ants on stilts
    • there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants
    • confused ants

    OR  E. All of the above.

    BUT WAIT THERES MORE!

    Can mantids wear and see in 3D glasses? YES

    THEY PUT LITTLE GLASSES ON MANTIDS

    Do honey bees suffer from sleep deprivation? YES

    Here is the BEE INSOMNIATOR.

    They put MAGNETS ON BEES  and WIGGLED THEM TO KEEP THEM AWAKE

    How do scales help snakes move?

    Well they put SNAKES IN LITTLE SHIRTS to find out!

    SHRIMPS ON A TREADMILL

    biology is the greatest

    bad and naughty children get put into the bee wiggler to atone for their sins

    The best thing about the ant one is that somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.

    THE BEE WIGGLER

    This demonstrates that discovery requires madness.

    gravity was discovered because Newton just so happened to have an apple fall on his napping ass what do you think science is

    This is a cool post but AAAH I need to talk about the ants.

    >somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.

    Not just any ants–desert ants!  See, most ants lay down scent trails to find their way around.  But in the desert the damn ground blows away constantly.  So how do desert ants find their way around?  Maybe they count.

    >scientists wasting budget and time to see if ants count their steps

    Okay but like.  Ants can count.  Ants have teeny teeny tiny brains and they can count.  Do you know how teeny an ant brain is?  Because I have spent time dissecting them out and let me tell you it is one of the most ridiculous occupations I have ever engaged in.  They are like period sized.  <–these things here at either end–>. 

    And the really cool thing about finding out that a teeny tiny brain can do a thing, is that the brains are simple enough that we actually might have a shot at figuring out precisely how they efficiently encode the ability to count.  And then we can apply that to things like math and computers and living human brains, which we aren’t allowed to dissect very much because reasons.

    Also, this was an awesomely clever experiment because do you want to know the budget for gluing stilts on ants to see what happens?  Really small.  Like ant brains.

    >there had to be a guy who made ant stilts and put them on the ants

    Their names were Matthias Wittlinger, Rudiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf, and the stilts were boar hairs!  Also there was a second part of the experiment where they trimmed the ant legs to make them take shorter steps, but no one ever talks about that part because it’s less cute and more morbid. :O  (It’s… slightly less morbid when you know this kind of thing happens naturally to ants with age and high temperatures.  Life is hard for ants.  But they are excellent at counting.)

    >Science.

    I know right?

    Okay now I want you to talk about the mantis glasses and the bee wiggler.

    Your totally-useless-but-amazingly-fascinating science post for the day. :)

    all these random, unusual but cool science facts just scream @notnumbersix to me ?

    And I appreciate it, because it’s incredible. Aside from the humor, this post highlights the magic of asking questions, and you all know how I feel about those!

  • arkilliandragon:

    iamded-blog:

    iamded-blog:

    I was going through my emails and one of my online orders has been dispatched and when I ordered it I had to put in a state but New Zealand doesn’t have states and I was annoyed so I put “New Zealand doesnt have states you fuckass” and now in the dispatch email under delivery addess it totally has “New Zealand doesnt have states you fuckass” as part of it woops.

    Yeah so

    Yep okay

    Sorry mail person

    Omfg I can’t breathe

  • Untitled post 13822

    drivefasterboy:

    knitmeapony:

    This makes me laugh so hard EVERYTIME

    I almost sent this to the chair of my department once.

  • coelasquid:

    the1001cranes:

    danielle-mertina:

    I now know firsthand that going to a car dealership is…an experience.

    I went going exactly what car I wanted and I imagine that if you don’t know that much it’ll be easier for a dealership to screw you over when you get there by feeding you misinformation about a car, manipulating you into buying a more expensive model, and etc.

    I had already done all my research online so I knew what I wanted. Down to the color. (Green is my favorite color!)

    So boyfriend and I went (I followed Tumblr’s advice about bringing a man lol). And I test drove the car and loved it just like I knew I would. And THEN the real dealership experience began.

    The bottomline is that I knew my credit score and so I knew what kind of interest rate (APR) I should expect. I also knew the manufacturer price of the car (MSRP) and I knew how much they were selling for on average in my area ($3k less than MSRP).

    So I knew what I was going to pay and I had already decided on that in my head.

    So dealer #1 (a white guy–this is relevant to mention lol) brings back the first set of numbers. He cushions it with making small talk and flattering me on starting my PhD in August. He also chats up boyfriend.

    The numbers were bad. I could tell looking at it. Although they didn’t say the APR, I knew that my monthly rate shouldn’t be that high based on the number of months I’d be paying it. Also they only gave me $2k off MSRP.

    I noted that the sticker price was too high because I can go to another dealer and get it cheaper and they knocked off another $1k.

    And then I asked him what the APR was. He was very evasive and kept telling me to look at the monthly payments because that’s what “really matters.” No, what really matters is what I’m paying for the car overall which is the sticker price + state fees (unavoidable) + interest rate.

    Dealer #1 finally told me the APR and it was 3x the rate I knew I was eligible for. I told him that’s not gonna work. He turned aggressive and said that I’m a first time buyer and I can’t expect better and that I’m being unrealistic to expect a lower rate and etc etc.

    So I said that my bank quoted me a rate half that much and I’ll just go through them and buy later (at a different dealer). Because I want the car but there’s 2 other places I can go to get it in my area.

    Then all of a sudden dealer #1 could get me a better APR. His next offer was 2x what I wanted to pay. I said nah that good enough.

    Then they brought out dealer #2, who was a Black guy. He didn’t sit down and instantly start talking about the price. He said a bunch of small talk and said some stuff about being Black lol. Tryna be chummy chummy and connect with us on a racial level.

    Then he tried to push the same numbers as dealer #1. I said I know I’m young and I don’t have a math background but you’re charging me way too much for this car and I’m not going to buy it at that price. Period. I said: get the APR down and I’ll buy the car. He kept telling me it wasn’t possible and I said okay…I won’t buy it.

    But then he was like wait…lemme run the numbers. And ta da! He came back with the right APR. Also zero down. And payments lower than my target.

    This whole process took 5 hours.

    Moral of the story:

    – know as much as you can before going to a dealership so you can focus on the numbers
    – know your credit score so you know what your APR should be
    – get approved through an independent bank for a loan so you have leverage to negotiate with a better rate from the dealer
    – don’t focus on monthly payments. Times that by the amount of months so you know what you’re REALLY paying
    – threaten to walk because stuff magically happens at dealerships when you do lol

    YES. and I will also swear by The Toast’s How to Buy a Car Without Interacting With a Human

    All these horror stories about car dealerships just do that much more to keep me on motorcycles.

  • the-future-now:

    Using a series of sensors, Dua’s bot detects when a person is about to run into something and beeps to
    them. The project took her a total of four days to build. Her prize is every Marvel fan’s dream.

    Follow @the-future-now?