how to make Speed a lot worse but also a lot funnier

Guys I'm sorry for being annoying about my interests on the be annoying about your interests site

I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.

In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!

Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.

Anyway dragonfly for admiration:

Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy

it's a lot of stuff...

ouch, baby. very ouch.

“A ship can never truly love an anchor.” dude shut up. a ship without an anchor gets dashed against the rocks. it’s useless, completely at the whim of the currents. a ship loves an anchor so much it carries it everywhere it goes. the anchor gives the ship the world to love. dude.

DUDE DON’T YOU DO THIS TO ME

When my kiddo finally decided (at age 20) that it was time for (most of) his enormous Lego collection to go, it was a gut-wrenching moment for me (goodbye childhood!). However, we used this service, which was simple and hassle-free.

This is wonderful to know.

“scientists can be relied upon to admit when they are wrong and update their views according to new information” is actually an EXCELLENT reason to trust scientists because it means you know they are giving you the best facts available and aren’t just defending the same view to look good….unlike the kinda of hacks and conspiracy theorists who are anti science…. 

im fucking losing it dude

Source

A tweet isn't a source but this is (source):

"i fucked your wife"/"i'm having sex with your wife"/"i'm cucking you": comedy

"i'm helping your wife with household chores"/"i'm taking your wife out to a nice dinner and show after she's had a long day at work"/"i'm bonding with your children over family gatherings": peak comedy

Transcendent comedy

“This site unusable when you dont care about the new joke” that’s great honestly. I like when people here suffer over inane stuff, it’s funnier than the original joke, let’s keep it going

this is the same as when the word ‘blorbo’ went big and I found it kinda dumb and corny, but then there were people who were fucking furious about it and wrote angry posts whining about how they hated this site because they couldnt avoid seeing the word blorbo. so I felt like ok I changed my mind I hope people keep saying blorbo forever

Look, I wasn’t into eeby deeby OR the plinko horse OR blorbo. It was a rough month. But that’s the price you pay for getting fresh local memes delivered to your door within hours of having been harvested. Not everything can be in season all the time; sometimes you just gotta add some flavoring to the current meme, and know that it’ll be Cask of Amontillado season soon

Some flavouring, you say?

Perhaps some extract of a certain variety?… nay, I shan’t say it

i had trouble picking up on certain expressions as a child so i didn't understand what 'let them eat cake' was supposed to mean or why it was a bad thing i was like. aw that's nice she's giving the french peasants cake. why are people mad about this

BASICALLY it's meant to represent that the person saying it (often attributed to marie antoinette, although she didn't actually say it) is extremely out of touch and doesn't understand poverty. like, in context it's a rich person being told that poor people have no bread to eat and going "?? why don't they just eat cake then???", as if the problem was solely a lack of bread specifically and not, like, starvation. i guess a more modern analogue would be if a rich person was told that someone wasn't able to find an apartment and they were like "ohh they should just get a house instead!!!"

This is a common misconception actually, cake in this context didn’t mean what we consider cake today, the original quote wasn’t suggesting they eat something more expensive in an out of touch way. Cake was the word for the leftover bits and by-products of some other food making process.

It’s more akin to telling someone who can’t afford to buy regular cheese just to just eat the cheaper cheese byproduct. Or if you can’t afford an item that actually works long term just buy the cheaper alternative that’ll break in a year. Bit more of a slap in the face than just obliviously being out of touch with the working class.

hmmm really? the original quote was written in french and isn't actually cake, it's "qu'ils mangent de la brioche". my understanding is that brioche was considered a luxury at the time; i couldn't find any sources about the term brioche being used in the 18th century to refer to leftover bits. where did you learn that, i'm curious to look into it?

Brioche is a very fancy bread. It takes a TON of eggs to make so I thin the 'cake means leftover bits and by-products' isn't accurate at all. French is very particular about their bread names. I've also never encountered the word 'cake' meaning anything but 'sweet flour-based dessert' in my entire life.

In fact long before the date this quote is supposed to be from, cake already largely resembled what we recognize as cake these days (frosted and no longer just sweet bread). Whereas before that 'cake' could be all sorts of sweet breads across cultures.

So I think someone has been misinformed. It happens.

it's wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this

a vast rube goldberg machine of privacy violations all working together to deliver the most precisely targeted ads straight into my adblocker

'Bout the same usable width, too. Those luxotruk beds tend to have big fat wheel hubs in them. Kei truck beds are completely flat.

how DARE you keep this in the tags!!!

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.

We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.

We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.

On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.

Now it's time to do that thing again and make sure that we don't kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.

If you ever think america is a clean country, go without garbage men for a week.

One of the only thing the 2000s had going for it was the mythbusters. Those dudes ruled, nobody hated the mythbusters, I mean they hated each other but nobody else hated the mythbusters

An entire generation of scientists, engineers, and psychos with access to amphetamines owe so much to them

Sorry prev, but your tags were good and I felt like everyone should get to read them

I could be the person writing one time verification codes. 873726. 290971. 041452. 667656. It comes naturally to me.

They look so good

You have the best verification codes

I do what I can

bella was lucky she didn’t have a cell phone of any kind because you know ya boi edward would be blowing up that phone 24-7 going “saw a snail today…. effervescent” or some shit equivalent

happy 3 yr anniversary to the post that singlehandedly launched the twilight renaissance

Happy 5 year anniversary to the effervescent snail post

we have already. They don't know exactly what is up with it, other than the sweat being slightly more acidic than normal and the acidic mantle being thicker and Way more acidic than normal, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with acidosis. As far as we have tested, our family has had this since at least my great grandpa, and the guy lived to be 93 years old.

What the fuck.

op is a xenomorph descendant from that one time ripley fucked the queen