i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

i sent this meme to 7 people, and 4 of them asked me to translate for them. i legitimately do not think that was necessary.

"The Stoppables"

How dare you leave these gems in the tags

This article is actually about a very serious problem. If you overgenerate electricity it increases the phase frequency of the power grid, and if that goes out of sync with your generators (including solar panels) it can destroy them. In the kind of way where your power grid is fucked for months. It is very very very very bad.

California started a program to make solar panels more affordable by offering very low interest rates for solar panels, to allow people to benefit from their lifetime $/energy cost that's below fossil fuels, without having to worry about the high frontloaded cost. However they did not do this for batteries. And power grid quality batteries with massive energy storage and serious charge-discharge lifetimes, are expensive.

And they did this because while solar panels are cheaper than fossil fuels per kilowatt hour of electricity over their lifetime, solar panels plus batteries are not. And California wanted a supplemented free market solution and didn't really want to think about the part that direct government intervention in the form of taxation and paying for this change would be necessary.

So everyone in California just kept adding solar panels to the grid with no disconnect mechanisms, until eventually it hit a point where at noon, solar panels generated more power than the entire grid needed. With no batteries to store the excess. This is a motherfucking power grid killer. It is a scenario where people get left in the fucking dark for months because of how badly it destroys the powergrid.

So the power grid authorities did the only thing they could do. They called up every industrial plant with heavy duty equipment and ovens they could and paid them to turn it on full blast (because using that equipment costs money in wear and tear even without the electricity cost). And in doing so, avoided disaster.

That's what this article is talking about. They are solar panel researchers criticizing a capitalist adoption strategy and promoting direct government intervention to create renewable energy. However as with most newspapers they don't get to choose the title, the editor picks the most provocative title that will get clicks.

“ummmmm ur bra strap is showing :/ ”

i thought this was me at first and i was really confused

omg hi

WE’RE MULTIPLYING

uhhhhhhh

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

právě jsem viděla nějakej jakože deep citát "life is a train, it stops for no one" a říkám si, slyšel ten člověk, co to sdílel, někdy o zastávkách, případně nádražích???

"I just saw some kind of wannabe deep quote like "life is a train, it stops for no one" and I'm asking myself, has this person who shared it ever heard of like, train stations???"

taking a class on sex this semester which has resulted in many fun things like "sex activity" and "sex final" being added to my planner. being very mature and serious about this .

obsessed

I had a class called "What is Evil?" The professor called us his "evil students" and I got to say things like: "I have evil class later." and "I have readings in evil to do." and "Well my evil professor said..."

I miss having that class

[ID: tumblr reply on this post reading "my partner did a sociology degree and one of the modules was on organised crime. very funny to see stuff like "anyone doing organised crime this afternoon" in a uni groupchat"]

I had a theology class once called the Satan Seminar. That was a fun one to talk about in public

Y'all, I was an international affairs major. Please take your pick from:

"How do I fit war crimes into my schedule?"

"Sorry, I have domestic terrorism this Friday."

"Have you started your counterintelligence yet?"

My alma mater had a class called "Research Methodologies" that was a required course for anyone doing a science based degree. It had an additional once-weekly class you registered for separately, the Methodologies Lab, which was abbreviated by both the course catalogue and the students taking it as "Meth Lab."

My university labels every course in the Comparative Literature department as C-LIT. You know, Comparative Lit. C Lit. When my students sign up for classes during their pass times I regularly hear things like, "Anyone taking CLIT 50 next quarter?"

And when students get lost on the first day, so many "find the clit" jokes....

At my school, there was a very popular course on human sexuality with a professor named Dr. Chad. Literally everyone referred to the class as "Sex With Chad".

This, by the way, was well before "chad" picked up its current vernacular meaning. That joke reads really differently now than it did thirty years ago.

Moje katedra má zkoušku z gramatiky pro překladatele se zkratkou GRTZ (GRammar for Translators - Zkouška, hádám).

"Má někdo tenhle semestr grcku?"

Na viacero predmetov máme prezývky:

Princípy tvorby softvéru (PTS) - PTSD

Pravdepodobnosť a štatistika - PaŠtika

a najlepšie - Tvorba efektívnych algoritmov (TEA) - Čaj

taking a class on sex this semester which has resulted in many fun things like "sex activity" and "sex final" being added to my planner. being very mature and serious about this .

obsessed

I had a class called "What is Evil?" The professor called us his "evil students" and I got to say things like: "I have evil class later." and "I have readings in evil to do." and "Well my evil professor said..."

I miss having that class

[ID: tumblr reply on this post reading "my partner did a sociology degree and one of the modules was on organised crime. very funny to see stuff like "anyone doing organised crime this afternoon" in a uni groupchat"]

I had a theology class once called the Satan Seminar. That was a fun one to talk about in public

Y'all, I was an international affairs major. Please take your pick from:

"How do I fit war crimes into my schedule?"

"Sorry, I have domestic terrorism this Friday."

"Have you started your counterintelligence yet?"

My alma mater had a class called "Research Methodologies" that was a required course for anyone doing a science based degree. It had an additional once-weekly class you registered for separately, the Methodologies Lab, which was abbreviated by both the course catalogue and the students taking it as "Meth Lab."

My university labels every course in the Comparative Literature department as C-LIT. You know, Comparative Lit. C Lit. When my students sign up for classes during their pass times I regularly hear things like, "Anyone taking CLIT 50 next quarter?"

And when students get lost on the first day, so many "find the clit" jokes....

At my school, there was a very popular course on human sexuality with a professor named Dr. Chad. Literally everyone referred to the class as "Sex With Chad".

This, by the way, was well before "chad" picked up its current vernacular meaning. That joke reads really differently now than it did thirty years ago.

Moje katedra má zkoušku z gramatiky pro překladatele se zkratkou GRTZ (GRammar for Translators - Zkouška, hádám).

"Má někdo tenhle semestr grcku?"

I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY

this is awesome but the original link just turned into a redirect loop for me, here it is again (x)

OH HELLO

No more potatoes in medieval novels!

excuse me

Twitch rule

European rail fans: here's a useful thing!

Put in the name of a station and it'll show you all the train stations that can be reached from there without a transfer.

(with a tip of the conductor's hat to @nycsouthpaw at Bluesky)

If your ever in Europe check this out, it is quite useful

A reaction meme for posts that damaged you on a spiritual level, sponsored by ČD™

[Image description: a photograph of an announcement screen in a ČD train from Brno to Prague. (ČD, or České Dráhy, is the Czech railway company.) There is some text in English running across the screen. At the moment the picture was taken the visible part of the text reads "op, please leave the train". End ID]

When you accidentally remove the load-bearing pierogi and the entire contents of the freezer come spilling out