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You might have thought card sharks and loan sharks were named after the predatory fish, but apparently there’s a decent chance it’s the other way around from an old Dutch word meaning “person that takes unfair advantage of other people”. Before that they were known in English as a haye or dogfish, which means sometime in the ~1400s enough English sailors started saying “don’t get in the water, it’s infested with those jerks

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literally all of these r me. im wikipedia bf

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westkreuz

honourable mention to wikipedia great uncle

[Image descriptions in order: a tweet by @ginarush “Gina Rushton” (verified) which says “it was extremely windy last night and my boyfriend couldn’t sleep and I woke to find him on the wikipedia page for Wind”.]

[A tumblr post containing a tweet by @EmmaJanePettit “Emma Pettit” which says “Boyfriend is sitting by his computer eating sausage with Wikipedia Opened to the page “Sausage.”“

chiconaturalfoods reblogs saying “Fully Immersive experience”.]

[A tiktok with the caption “need a wikipedia bf. need guy whose third monitor is always on some article like “gulf war”“ the background is some kind of pastry on brown paper.]

[A tiktok with the caption “set my great uncle up with the Cement wikipedia on my ipad and it’s been 30 mins”. The background is a photo of the uncle, who is a white haired balding man, sitting at a wooden table set for dinner, completely engrossed in an iPad.]

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happy ides of march

Okay I need people to understand that

  1. there are several academics who believe the groin stab was done by Brutus
  2. said academics are divided over whether it was because Caesar was sleeping with Brutus' mother (he probably did, but a while before the assassination), or if Caesar was sleeping with Brutus
  3. it has been argued that the groin stab was the wound that killed him

so. an integer (no fractional or decimal component) with infinite digit. its infinitely large but has it reached infinity? my gut says no but like something feels off about that? can an integer with infinite digits even exist? someone help me out here

It can’t have infinite digits, if you have infinite digits you have reached infinity. This is why Cantors diagonal proof doesn’t work on integers and this also is why they are countable

its impossible to "reach" infinity with integers, if you count up you wont ever get there. you wont even get a number with infinite digits ever. but if you defined a number say 10^infinity or anything similar, whats its cardinality? basically. what properties does that number have if we define it and declare it to exist. i worded it badly i said "reached infinity" when thats not something that can really be applied here

IIUC (not a set theorist) if the infinity there is the first countable infinity, 10^inf is uncountable.

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today me and my wife were out and about and while we were sitting down drinking some coffee I looked up and saw a family of three- two parents and a child- walking through the area all wearing the exact same shirt:

it was the exact same shirt, two adult sizes and a tiny baby one for the, like, four year old kid they were carrying

so I turned to my wife and pointed them out, because 1. it was really cute and mostly 2. I was wearing this

so we laugh and then i see one of the parents make eye contact, and i impulsively point at my shirt and then theirs and flash a thumbs up

at first I worried that I was being weird but they immediately turn to their spouse to say something, then point at me and they both start excitedly getting the kids attention on me. they nudge and coerce him and point at me and my shirt, smiling, but the child is too distracted by everything else in the room to notice our matching fit

eventually the parents look back at me and call out "its his favorite shirt, so we all got them to wear together" and I respond, "cool shirt, dude!" and they carry on with their day. ive never felt a stronger sense of community with complete randos and I will love them forever

The eternal human urge:

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recently someone saw my dissected frog tattoo and said “hey ur frog tattoo is really cool but i think it’s open.” i haven’t been able to stop thinking about this for weeks. what did she mean by that. does she think i walked into a tattoo shop like hello can i get one normal frog tattoo. and 2 and a half hours later the tattoo artists goes FUCK. it happened again. it’s fucking open. goddamnit

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It is paid for through an FDIC fund that banks pay into (not taxpayers) and that maintains like $100B to use in this exact scenario. If you’re gonna complain about no one caring where the money is coming from perhaps look up where it’s coming from.

And while it stinks that the money is protecting dumb depositors (mostly businesses) who chose a deliberately under-insured bank, executives at the bank and investors in the bank are staring directly at the underside of the bus right now (they are getting nothing but potentially jail time). The money is purely for people (again, mostly businesses) whose bank accounts would otherwise vanish overnight and which would accordingly tank thousands of companies and lose thousands and thousands of jobs

And it’s widely assumed that this is going to lead to a crackdown on this kind of bank bc the treasury isn’t going to make a habit out of retroactively insuring banks

😮😮😯Oh 🙀😯🙀😮 yeah babey 👼! It’s 🥧🥧🍰pi 🍕🥧🌞day 🌄! Pi is the 🐀 ratio ➗ of the 👨‍💼cir👨‍💼 💦🍆💧💦cum 💦🍆 ference 😮 to the📏😍 diameter ⏺️ of a 🔥🍑 hole🕳️😜😜😜. The 📏 😫 wider 😳 the 🤤 hole 🕳️😌😜, the 🤤🤤bigger🍆💧 the 🕳️radius📏, by a ➗ratio🐀 of about 🥧3.14🥧. 🥧Pi is 😮very😰 very 😋💦 long 🍆💦🍆🍆 and has 🙅no❌ end🍑. 🏷️Tag 3 😌friends💑 to totally Pi 🥧 them 👉!

LMFAO i was like “who the FUCK posted this on my dash, I will literally kill them” and then I realized I posted it, and had it scheduled since last year 🤦‍♂️

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

also websites that  automatically replace your typed out <3 and :D with emojis upon sending them are a Danger To Everything That’s Good In The World

bring back nose smilies :-)

There is no emoji that captures what I mean by :P (I do NOT mean “hur hur goofy-ass face!”) and the one for :^/ is not great. And lest we forget, 🤷🏻‍♀️ is absolutely inadequate compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Faces no emoji has ever managed to capture, imo:

:P

^_^

:3

^u^

:/

O.o

0.0

>:/

<(^u^)>

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I am too old to stop using XD

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i have never yet found an emoji that fully captures the shifty energy of: 

>_>

<_<

Oh man, I’ve missed O.o

Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.

O.o

o.O

O.o

Whatever the name of this team is, I am on it

this is   awesome

._. is pretty good too and 😐 just ISN’T THE SAME

XD, ^-^, :3, <3, and =P until death

¬_¬ is the most eloquent keystroke combo

U_U is my fav, and also O_O

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thehornedwitch

the SHEER MISCHIEF of OvO

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me af

I use emoji, kaomoji AND emoticons. They all have different moods!!

🤷🏻 is like ‘i have no idea’.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is like ‘who knows. nothing in life matters & we were all born to die’

Don’t be forgetting uwu

Personally I usually prefer emoticons, and also ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. BUT I do feel obliged to point out emoji are probably vastly less annoying to people using screenreaders.

>.<

:-/ is so much better than 🫤, and also you can control the direction of the slant, :-\ :-/

I do have a soft spot in my heart for old text where B) has been converted to 😎, as in

A) item one 😎 item two C) Item three

but it’s only funny in a slapstick way, i.e. when it happens to someone else instead of to me.