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Tumblr added a bunch of tracking shit to share urls, so now ill teach you how to get rid of them

if you copy a url by sharing on the website, the link will look like this

getting rid of tracking in these is easy, just delete everything after the question mark and you are golden

in the case for the app, its slightly more complicated

first you have to delete at. that appears before tumblr(.)com the other tracking shit on this one has a lot more info, so please, clean app urls. after the first set of numbers, there's a / you have to delete everything after it

a clean Tumblr url should look like this

blog safely

Removing this garbage makes posts embed on discord btw

I don't think this guy knows what an equation is.

Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list

Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS

actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.

Good luck, kiddo

Are you satisfied, op? When will it be enough?

I feel I couldn’t have been clearer about the number at which this will be enough

Remember when we were told that hospitals were overflowing, and then people went to their local hospitals and urgent cares and they were empty?

WOMEN MUST EAT PROTEIN.

You hand these out without including a actual tip you are a terrible person and Jesus is disappointed in you.

I would like whoever makes these to find a SINGLE person brought to faith by one of these. Find me ONE.

These things reinforce every negative stereotype about Christians and push people away from Christianity. They’re not clever, they’re not loving.

We need to be better representatives of Christ than this.

Leave a tip and then feel free to write a Bible verse on the receipt. Better yet, talk to the people in your life who you actually have a relationship with and invite them to church before you try any of these cheap tricks to “reach” strangers.

they did it, the lunatics. minecraft in minecraft. there’s something intensely philosophically delightful to me to look at an image of a three-dimensional space and know that it is a double abstraction, data distributed on hardware that is itself only data distributed on hardware.

“Video sped up roughly 2,000,000x”

it’s vanilla minecraft without command blocks, but they are running a server version designed to speed up redstone processessing enormously. even so they said the conversion rate for memory is about 2 gb -> 277 bytes. so not exactly a high-performance system!

here’s a video on the prototype of what they made it on. dear lord

I don't understand the school of thought that says, "If you don't take the beginning of Genesis literally, you're denying the power of God!"

Look, saying God didn't literally doing something isn't to say he can't. That's silly.

The trouble is that usually the reason people say Genesis is figurative is because they don’t believe God could really do all of that.

If God is truly omnipotent, if nature and the laws of physics obey Him because He created them, which makes more sense? That God spoke the world into existence, or that He guided seemingly random processes for several million years?

But the bigger issue with taking Genesis chapter 1 figuratively is what it tells us about sin and death - and therefore, our need for a savior.

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

That one man is Adam (which is clear from the surrounding verses) and death enters Creation through Adam’s sin. Death does not exist in the perfect world God created - and thus the cure for death requires sin to be paid for (by Jesus’ death)

Evolution via natural selection requires death upon death to work. So if life on earth came about through natural selection, then death would have to exist before Adam, and thus before Adam and Eve sinned.

So if the idea that sin is what causes death and the forgiveness of sin brings everlasting life is the central theme of Christianity, then Genesis 1 must be literal, or none of the rest of it is.

Interesting.

I’ve always taken this part of Genesis to be figurative; it’s important for us to know that God created the world and that the first people brought sin into His creation, but more specific details (like how long it took) aren’t important enough to focus on.

And to be perfectly honest, I think God is quite capable of creating a universe in an afternoon, let alone a week, but I’m also of the opinion that He’s the sort of person who would take His time to carefully craft each and every thing He made, so I can easily see Him taking millions of years to assemble His creation using the mechanisms that He created to govern it.

Sure, God could have taken millions of years if He wanted to.

But Genesis is really, REALLY specific here:

“There was evening and there was morning, the [first, second, etc) day.”

If you know the term “day” could be figurative or literal, and you want to be really clear which way you mean it, wouldn’t you use a phrase like “there was evening and morning” to denote a literal 24-hour-day?

I don't understand the school of thought that says, "If you don't take the beginning of Genesis literally, you're denying the power of God!"

Look, saying God didn't literally doing something isn't to say he can't. That's silly.

The trouble is that usually the reason people say Genesis is figurative is because they don’t believe God could really do all of that.

If God is truly omnipotent, if nature and the laws of physics obey Him because He created them, which makes more sense? That God spoke the world into existence, or that He guided seemingly random processes for several million years?

But the bigger issue with taking Genesis chapter 1 figuratively is what it tells us about sin and death - and therefore, our need for a savior.

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭12‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

That one man is Adam (which is clear from the surrounding verses) and death enters Creation through Adam’s sin. Death does not exist in the perfect world God created - and thus the cure for death requires sin to be paid for (by Jesus’ death)

Evolution via natural selection requires death upon death to work. So if life on earth came about through natural selection, then death would have to exist before Adam, and thus before Adam and Eve sinned.

So if the idea that sin is what causes death and the forgiveness of sin brings everlasting life is the central theme of Christianity, then Genesis 1 must be literal, or none of the rest of it is.

SAD ISN’T IT PAYING FOR THE PRIVELEGE TO LIVE IN HOME YOU PAID FOR?

NdGT finally got something right.

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someone alluded to diners being an american thing lately and it blew my mind. do you guys not have diners. diners are so good. god i love diners. pancake.

They probably just have different late night drunk food cuisines, I think the UK equivalent is a kebab shop?

the diner is an american thing. where it exists in continental evropa it is an explicit american golden age imitation and it will sell borgar fry and milkshake. i imagine this is even worse in east asia. like you know that if you see a diner in tokyo that it's run by rawhide kobayashi, who hasn't listened to any music other than 50s and 60s rock since the 90s, when he opened his diner.

I have no idea what a "Diner" is separately from other restaurants. I mean I've seen movies I guess but that just... looks like a restaurant?

"They serve coffee" have you ever been to a restaurant? They all serve coffee. "Yeah but they open early" oh so like a café?

diners are way different than cafes but it's okay the European mind cannot comprehend diner

Diners originated in the northeast US to cater to a clientele of factory workers, truck drivers, and other blue collar workers who often had late shifts or odd hours. At a minimum they must be open both early in the morning and late at night, but ideally 24/7. They are casual, cheap, and offer a wide variety of breakfast, lunch, and dinner food, all of which can be ordered at any time of day. Many do have a sort of 50s throwback aesthetic but this is not strictly essential. The café is the closest European equivalent but is very different in terms of menu, look, and operations.

You can't explain a diner. You have to experience it.

The best ones have a 50 year old waitress that calls you hun or honey and a fat cook in the back that can sling thirty patties at once

Anthony Bourdain's ending exposition here is pure poetry, you want to know what a diner can be listen to the man that went from places that get all the Michelin stars to eating bugs at stalls in some random spot in Vietnam tell you about the Waffle House.

It's a chain, but it's still personal too.