This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

This switched gears from a post about white ignorance to a giraffe appreciation post. Such is the nature of tumblr.

Shiny metal exterior so you can blind any driver on the road while the sun is up. A fucking weird boxy design sure to cause severe injuries in the event of a collision. Not even a single crumple zone so any impact is translated directly to your frail human body. A solid marble dash designed specifically to cause brain trauma in the event your head hits the dash. Bullet resistant windows so if the giant battery onboard catches fire you can experience the agony of the bronze bull. All wrapped up in a package that looks like a joke vehicle made by a youtuber.

Cyber Truck

My son tells me that it also doesn't even have a clear coat on that steel. Anything other that touches it (salt, tar, oil, acid) is capable of corroding it. The user's manual says to wash the car thoroughly after each incident.

NO, NO IT'S EVEN FUNNIER THAN THAT

IT'S A $5000 OPTION

So as someone who has worked in many different environments...

Do you know why large, flat stampings, such as what the body panels on that abomination are, aren't used anywhere?

Because it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to make them stay flat/straight during the forming process. I will bet that for every successful body panel they make in production, they're throwing away 2-3 at MINIMUM.

Sure, you can stamp small, flat parts, all day long. The metal doesn't get a chance to 'flow' during the stamping, so you don't see ripples in it. But once you start to get larger, those ripples are going to start showing up, because ANY bend put into the metal causes the metal to stretch and 'flow.' But it really doesn't move uniformly - you can use 'marked' metal (has little circles and squares etched into the surface to show metal deformation) to stamp the same part 8 different times and you'll have 8 different results.

It's why nearly EVERY vehicle on the road today has curves and body lines instead of large flat panels - it's easier to hide those ripples and imperfections when NOTHING is flat, than it is to try to get a perfectly flat piece of metal.

The ONLY way you're going to get a perfectly flat piece of metal EVERY time is to machine it from solid, which is going to cost a LOT more.

I found a pun that works in both English and Spanish

Where do cats go when they die? Purrgatory.

¿De dónde van los gatos cuando mueren? Purgatorio.

Dude it works also in Italian! ‘Dove vanno i gatti quando muoiono? Nel purGATTOrio’

could also work in french: “où vont les chats quand ils meurent? Au purCHATtoire”

The ultimate pun

IT ALSO WORKS IN PORTUGUESE

“Para onde os gatos vão quando morrem? Para o purGATOrio”

WE HAVE ACHIEVED PEAK PUN

The pun heard ‘round the world. 

Yeah that's how it feels.

These Tiled Steps In San Francisco Glow At Night From The Moonlight

Birds are Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are not Lizards

None of this is a matter of opinion or debate

Get over it

Love

A Paleontologist

🤔

Please don’t, I’m too tired

The mistakes of 19th century paleontologists should not prescribe our understanding of nature

They're terrible lizards because they're terrible at being lizards.

Only correct response

do you think a dude ever had sex with another guy

it might be difficult to figure out. consult the scriptures

these scriptures just have pictures of dudes kissing and groping each other

Penetration, my liege?

not now my dearest advisor i need to read these scriptures

THEY'A TRIMMED THE HERBS!

Source

Okay I'm gonna add some context in case anyone doesn't know or remember

There's been a group of people on the internet called "Team 0%" (link it to their website, where you can also find this info), who've been working towards making the original Mario Maker for the Wii U have every level cleared

They though this level, named Trimming the Herbs, would be impossible for a human and would stay uncleared, because it was clear tested using a hardware cheats, something though to be impossible for the Wii U until the creator admitted to using them 7 years later, so the team decided to not count the level due to this

However, the person playing in this video, Sanyx91SMM2, after 100 hours of practice and attempts, managed to beat it without any tools on April 5th 2024, becoming the first to ever truely clear the level, days before the servers shut down

To signify this, team 0% decided to make the completion percent on their website say 101%, treating it like the secret final boss of Mario Maker

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

smeargle & togetic peanuts edition

How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu  PS: lots of engrish because foreign 

This is the best art advice ever and you should all listen to it because it’s basically what I’ve been telling people for years.

THIS.

This feels like one of those pieces of advice that are so brilliant that as soon as you have read it, it feels blindingly obvious. 

oh my god….

[pixiv] [part 2]

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Now that’s a kickass tutorial on how to develop your hair technique!

This is good tutorial

u, a dweeb: if a kid draws in anime style they are wrong and need to be told how wrong they are because it’s more important to crush any joy in drawing bc blah blah blah art school

Britney Spears, an intellectual:

I’m gonna translate this post to the people at the back there that still don’t get it- not everyone that likes to draw wants to have a future in art. You could be 5 or 95 and be drawing Goku in bape hoodie without it being a masterpiece and it still wouldn’t warrant the kind of “art criticism” I see here because not everyone draws with the purpose of becoming a professional. That’s it. That’s the whole point of the post.

This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies

Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.

Give it a day

People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

One whole minute of a deaf Kitty getting excited that her owner is home 

(Source)

A male common agama (Agama agama) basking on a rock in Cameroon, Africa

by Bernard Dupont

Happy International Asexuality Day!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

Lori and Mae hanging out🌅

“She loves horror movies and trains”

.......does laios think ranchers pretend to be cows to suckle cow titty

I think the image could be Chilchuck's horrified vision which is why the cow creature is so crosseyed, it's the same way he sees Laios (which we know from the doppelganger).