Boolean Algebra sounds like the name for an esoteric but powerful school of wizardry. and it is
If you have no other option, you will succeed.
"I'll figure it out" is a powerful statement. Yes, you may not know what to do next or where to even begin... but you are ready and willing to do what it takes. You will in fact figure it out.
Finding out that Elon Musk was forced out as CEO of PayPal in favor of noted vampire Peter Thiel bc Elon Musk was adamant they keep it named "X dot com" instead of Paypal unlocks so much. His space company, his literal child, and now Twitter: it's the world's most inane Rosebud. He actually bought back the URL, like a cherished childhood sled (owning the right to name a website the letter "X")
Some people told him it made more sense to have their banking company have a indicative name instead of generically being called "X" with vague allusions to being The Site For Everything, and he'll prove those fools WRONG by getting the same things yelled at him over a different website's name twenty years later
For twenty two years he's been stewing about people telling him PayPal was a better name for a payment site than X. He was so invested in X dot com at the time they waited to hold the vote until he was on vacation. He has been furious over people saying "it's better for our site to have a name that tells you what it is instead of a letter" since before 9/11. This is his entire life
Pictured above: the only moment Elon Musk has ever been happy, before it turned to all-consuming rage and envy over a single letter
Is... is THAT why he called his space company SpaceX???
fr tho, I'm convinced at this point that he got divorced just so he could have another X.
That was somebody's mom whose dream had always been to be a restaurant owner but sadly she married into the mafia and she was like the mom of someone important and moms are like the one authority italians recognise so when she put her foot down and said "NO. We are going to make them great food and give them the most lovely evening!" Nobody dared disagree and thanks to op she got to live her dream for a night she probably remembers them as fondly as they remember her
Ubisoft Assassin's Creed's Evie Frye Voice Actress Victoria Atkins has been replaced by AI while protesting for SAG-AFTRA
She also never receives residuals
And yet Ubisoft continues to make more AC games whilst not even paying their workers what theyโre owedโฆ and using AI. Wow.
WHAT THE W H A T
what was i made for?
โopheliaโ by john everett millais but itโs barbie and for the sake of this concept letโs pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland
Thereโs a theory that early Europeans started saying โbrown oneโ or โhoney-eaterโ instead of โbearโ to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa โthe faceless womanโ because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber
English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize itโs spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.
Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter
Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise youโll draw their attention.
Yall have evil whales?
Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally โevil whalesโ, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (thatโs blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.
All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. Thatโs right, theyโre so evil, you canโt even eat them.
They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.
The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.
Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!
Or what about death from above? The stรถkkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.
Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hideโฆ
โฆ while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.
The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.
The same canโt be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.
The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.
How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.
For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.
This is also why fairies were referred to as the โGood Neighborsโ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.
The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly Iโm just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.
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has anyone here done the โguess that white manโ quiz my score was absolutely devastating
[ID: A screenshot of a quiz titled "Name That White Man! underneath says, "Total points: 6/27". End ID.]
It says I got 6/27 but I'm awarding myself this point because this was absolutely cruel.
Well, I'm sold.
I keep watching all of these things that are supposed to turn me gay and so far the only tingle was when Captain America bicep-curled a helicopter.
I'll keep trying I guess.
I fucking hate languages.
The Greeks had this word, right, we have no idea where it came from, it just kinda popped up out of nowhere, and it could mean either apples, cheeks, or boobs. Problem is it looked and sounded *exactly* like another, unrelated word which could mean sheep, goat, or any animal in general really, which must have got confusing if you were a farmer talking about your livestock, but anywayโฆ
Then the Romans, having stolen practically everything else from the Greeks, thought theyโd nick this word too, because Latin isnโt confusing enough without throwing in a bunch of loan words. And they adopted it to mean a pumpkin.
Then the English came along and were all likeย โwhen in Romeโ, and stole it, where it became our wordย โmelonโ. Which has now come back to mean boobs.
How do you like them apples.
I fucking love languages.
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In case anyone doubts the veracity of this:
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Calling boobs โmelonsโ literally transcends culture, time, and language.
official boob post
It is I, the law studying lemur
God I love the avatar community
