If you make the last step to your office slightly taller, people will fall as they come in and you’ll have the immediate upper hand in meetings. (source)
…this is a Vetinari thing to do
yes it is, but having the upper hand is only the official explanation
the real reason is so that Vimes will fall over it when he gets back from his latest adventure and Vetinari can say “Ah, Vimes, how was your trip?” with plausible deniability
Every new Watcher show reinforces my theory that Ryan is the truly unhinged one and that Shane is just like a. Liberal Arts Major.
i will never stop reblogging this how the fuck did she slide against the wall so perfectly
The fact that 'Fry as a pulp fiction damsel in distress' is a whole sub-genre of official Futurama artwork is the best thing. Especially when there's official art of both Leela and Bender carrying him. Freeler rights af.
I love how at the end of The Fifth Elephant, the actual villains of the story are: the hatred of open dwarf women which is written in a way that mirrors misogyny and transphobia, and rich people trying to get richer at everyone else's expense.
The second most powerful dwarf calls cheery a slur and Vimes is like if he uses that word in front of me or any of the other watch there will be, as we say in diplomatic terms, repercussions.
And when someone else, I forget who rn, calls cheery a slur detritus stands up to his entire huge terrifying height and says I know what that word means. It is not a nice word. I do not want to hear anyone use that word again
Feels v gender affirming idk
the fifth elephant really said
““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…
Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”
If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.
Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.
I am so, so proud of him holy shit.
^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.
And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!
Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3
My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”
And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.
There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.
Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations
Help I am stuck on my comic because I don't know physics
I'm trying to create a scene in which character A dives into an underwater cave while character B stands guard on shore. Initially I wanted them to have some kind of pulley devise so the diver says something along the lines of "If I'm not back after 2 minutes, pull me up as fast as you can" but I struggle to come up with a rope set up that makes sense and is not too complicated... I've been through all kinds of wikipedia stuff and graphs about and I think I should make them use a "gun tackle" but were and how would they fasten the blocks, they are on a cliff by the sea lol, maybe tree?
mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation
My boyfriend and I regularly recite this one to each other
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re at a low point:
If you were a fictional man right now, there would be *at least* ten people if not a large portion of the fanbase that would call you their wet beast poor little meow meow
pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them
This has been bothering me
I mean c’mon
it’s a second dolphin ready to deploy like a fighter missile
Saw a tweet that women aren't exclusively attracted to muscley guys, and instead are more into either fairy men, depressed 40 year olds, or line cooks, and...
well...
They aren't wrong
PORCO ROSSO dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1992
Guy who’s only ever seen Rocky Horror Picture Show watching his second movie with the word “horror” on the cover.
