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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
audscratprophetlilith
professorxvx

Forever my favourite comic on tumblr.

akavegan

I love this post way too much! Brave New World is and has been my favorite book since I first read it in school. (and many times since)

libertariantaoist

I think they were both right. But Huxley was probably more right.

drugsandanarchy

They’re definitely both right.

One must look at the scope of the world, not just America or “developed” societies.

If they are both (which I believe they were) talking about the downfall of man as a whole, and not specific societies, Orwell applies to the middle-east, the U.S. puppet-states, and horrible acts against humanity in general such as Guantanamo.

Huxley simply pertains to the “developed” world.

succubitch94

the irony of reblogging this and with no regrets

bemused-geek-nz

Just remember that Orwell's 1984 world also included distractions such as propaganda films, lotteries, and trashy entertainments he described as prolefeed. Concepts that Harry Harrison also picked up on in the Bill the Galactic Hero series.

As Ivan Stang once noted, “They don’t need the TV to watch you as long as you’re watching the TV”.

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lord-kiwi-the-wizard
gallopinggallifreyans

we figured out Roman concrete btw. This is the only thing on my mind

gunkopopfigurine

Oh? Do tell?

gallopinggallifreyans

HOKAY. Doing this in layman’s terms because I could not explain the chemistry in detail if I tried. Pls forgive if I’m a little off in the explanation because idk chem lol

So we’ve been trying to figure out why the fuck Roman concrete has held up so long, right? Our concrete lasts maybe like ten years before it looks like it took a wrecking ball to the face. And even then, our roads suck in general. Universally. Potholes. Everywhere.

Roman concrete has lasted two thousand years. Or more. Depends on where you go.

Now a bunch of scientists took chunks of concrete and threw a bunch of waves at it to figure out the composition, and turns out the concrete has lime in it. At first they were like “Huh, that’s weird, why are these imperfections in this super durable long-lasting concrete?”

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So anyways they dismissed the lime, and they also figured out that Roman concrete is suuuuuper strong in water. Like it gets stronger in water. Compare that to our shitty ass concrete. Our concrete suffers in water. It’s shit. Our concrete is a middle-schooler’s newspaper bridge project compared to the Bifrost that is Roman concrete.

Now, because chemical composition is fairly easy to figure out, they found volcanic ash. We don’t have volcanic ash in our concrete (as far as I know), so idk I guess they thought that was the differential factor that made Roman concrete so strong. To my understanding, the Romans used hydraulic mortar rather than aerial mortar. Hydraulic mortar could harden with hydration and reactive silicates, whereas aerial mortar needed exposure to the air and was weaker.

Now, remember those imperfections I mentioned earlier? Lime is very, very weak. You ever felt limestone? Yeah. You get it. So it’s not hard to figure out why we thought these were actually imperfections in otherwise amazing, god-like, S-tier concrete. We used to think it was slaked lime, which is just lime paste.

One of the labs involved in the research developed a chemical mapping technique that allowed them to determine the exact makeup and type of lime present in the concrete. They figured out that this particular form of lime might have been quicklime, which is extremely brittle and very reactive. Quicklime forms at extremely high temperatures. We mix our concrete cold. Another common modern L.

In short, the Romans engineered preferential pathways for faults in the concrete to pass through the lime, which would react to hydration and recrystallize as more lime (calcium carbonate) and heal itself.

This is groundbreaking. I’m so amazed. Here’s the MIT publication, and here’s the journal article.

gunkopopfigurine

Ah, I see, road fuseboxes.

gallopinggallifreyans

Basically yeah! Especially if those fuseboxes are filled with quick hardening foam and look like they were left there by accident, except they’re everywhere so they couldn’t possibly be an accident.

therobotmonster

Apparently they’re already working on methods of adapting this kind of concrete for modern use. We could potentially fix the US’s crumbling infrastructure and simultaneously upgrade to vastly superior long-lasting materials.

gallopinggallifreyans

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@corrodedcoffindisbanded it’s 8:30am this made me laugh so hard I woke up

dduane

cc: @petermorwood

ferpykins
headspace-hotel

what is a fishmonger? what does a monger do? presumably, he mongs

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@jtformerland has the right idea

bemused-geek-nz

The preferred term for influencers is “plonkers”. The matching term for a group is a “pretentiousness”.

Well it is for me anyway, partly because it has a good metre. “So, a pretentiousness of plonkers showed up today, you know, those fartmonglers who think they deserve free stuff because of all their followers? Bothered us, asked stupid questions, filmed each other posing like cockwombles, claimed we’d get ‘em coming through the door… never did of course.”

lord-kiwi-the-wizard
sufficientlylargen

Every time I see a post about updog I’m torn between not wanting to fall for it and wanting to help the poster complete their joke.

tommyeatseaton tommyeatseaton

okay but what’s updog ?

jaiwithinnumerableunblinkingeyes jaiwithinnumerableunblinkingeyes

Updog is a long sausage in a bun often served with ketchup, mustard, onion e, and/or relish.

yumantimatter

No, that’s a hotdog. An updog is when a new version or patch of an application is released

koito-yuu

You’re thinking of update. Updog is when you end a sentence with a rising intonation.

invertedporcupine

No, that’s uptalk.  You’re thinking of the fourth-largest city in Sweden.

argumate

surely that’s Uppsala, whereas Updog is the giant spider in Harry Potter.

regexkind

That’s Aragog. Updog is a symbol conventionally used for an arbitrarily small number in analysis proofs

another-normal-anomaly

You’re thinking of epsilon. Updog is an upward-moving air current.

yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined

no that’s an updraft

updog isn’t a noun at all, it’s a verb; it basically means to chew someone out, or harshly lecture them

identicaltomyself

No, that’s upbraid. An updog is a small dog that likes cuddling on people’s laps.

speakertoyesterday

No that’s a puppydog. An updog is when the Mets win.

mistbornthefinal

No that’s an upset. An updog is the modern version of a henway.

yumantimatter

What’s a henway?

eversolewd

Oh, about 5 pounds.

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

rainysaturdayafternoon

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

snek-sama

Certified Tumblr classic.

emptymanuscript
friend-crow

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

emptymanuscript
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small-flower-prince

I have no idea what’s going on

pewterkat

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

ryanthedemiboy

Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr

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banananutloaf4life

But like, can someone explain. The fucking. Context.

dangernoir

It refers to a meme song, called The Badger Song or sometimes Badger Badger Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom. There is a snake in the lyrics also. You can watch the video on YouTube, if you so desire.

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x-cetra

By way of further explanation, this comes from a time when most people had 56K modems or even slower, so downloading a full video clip of even crappy 320x240 resolution could take 5-10 minutes. You really had to want to see the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins or the Exploding Whale.

Flash bypassed this problem with cel animation. Each scene uses a static backdrop image plus small images of each of the moving parts, like pieces of a paper doll, which are then repositioned, scaled or flipped using a series of text commands written in a simple programming language. As the visual components were just a handful of static images, they didn’t have to be compressed as much as later Youtube video, making their edges as crisp as modern 4K. The most bandwidth-intensive aspect of Flash was the accompanying soundfile, but that loaded in a matter of seconds rather than minutes for video.

The result tended to look like a Monty Python animation, and so Flash yielded a bumper crop of the absurd from BadgerBadgerBadger to Pavoratti’s Elephants to Fight! Kikkoman, the soy sauce superhero. All of which only survive in imperfect, fuzzy YouTube captures.

secondbeatsongs

I originally just put this in the tags, but I think it’s important enough to add to the actual post:

these flash animations aren’t just found in fuzzy youtube videos! you can see the original animations using BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint, a flash preservation project!

the software is free and open-source, and it has built-in players for flash and shockwave (as well as many other platforms). it allows you to search their archive of games and animations, and play them whenever you want!

they’ve got Badger Badger Badger, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Charlie the Unicorn, the original asdfmovie, and just…so many other animations and games that were thought to be lost or unplayable.

as of their most recent update, their archive has over 130,000 games and 20,000 animations, and most of them look just as crisp as they did 20 years ago.

so, go put Badger Badger Badger fullscreen and admire all of those sharp edges and clean lines! or play the Escape the Room series from 2keysgames, or the old Barbie games, or whatever you want! it’s an incredible resource, and I have spent hours getting lost in it.

bemused-geek-nz

And of course the Weebl has made a commemorative video of his nonsense. Clicky!

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lord-kiwi-the-wizard
lord-kiwi-the-wizard

What's considered socially acceptable is often referred to as a slope. Slippery or otherwise. Like things will naturally progress one way if you don't roll the boulder up the hill.

It isn't.

A more accurate description would be a giant near immovable stone on an open field.

You have the progressives on one side trying to move the stone and the conservatives on the other trying to stop it.

You have reactionarys trying to move it left and right rather than the progressive forward and anarchists who want to knock it over since the concept of the stone is stupid.

You'll notice however that the stone never goes backwards.

This is because as progressives become satisfied they either swap to the other side or stand and watch.

Religious persecution?

The stone moves.

Women cannot vote?

The stone moves.

Gay rights?

The stone moves.

Trans rights?

The stone moves.

And we are well aware that the stone won't go back. What was deplorable, unthinkable, illegal and scandalous one day is protected and fought for today.

And this applies to everything.

Gays, trans, women, men, minorities, majoritys, furrys, zoophiles, pedos, insect, adulterers, pagans, heresys, cults, unions.

Everything that at one time will get you: stabbed, punched, assulted, killed.

The stone moves and it becomes deplorable but not worth killing over.

The stone moves and it's simply disgusting.

The stone moves and now you can get in trouble if your against it openly.

The stone moves and now it's accepted.

And as I said. As it moves people move from progressive to conservative because I know FOR A FACT that those of you reading support and agree with half the list from a moment ago and wish the worst punishment imaginable on the other half.

The second you moved the middle ground of were we "should be as a society" to were you want it you will start to try and stop it.

And you will be an old bigot who's trying to stop what seems to them like an army of degenerates and morally bankrupt criminals.

And the stone will still move.

And you will accept or choose violence.

And the stone will not go back until it is toppled or destroyed.

This isn't a warning.

It is a promise.

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