Shay.

the problem with fanfiction is that theres too many coffeeshop aus and not enough aus where the characters are trapped in an alivehouse psychological horror situation or perhaps a labyrinth of sorts

food that’s totally devoid of nutritional value doesn’t exist. all food has macronutrients which our bodies rely on to support life, and the vast majority of food has a significant amount of micronutrients. pop tarts, cheeseburgers, french fries, pizza, cookies, chips, white flour products and other demonized foods contain vital micronutrients such as iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, b vitamins, vitamin c, and more. meat is a better source of some essential micronutrients than plant foods. 

vegetables and fruits are great, as are legumes, but they’re not the only nutrient-dense foods. they tend to be lower calorie & higher fiber foods, tho, which in conditions of scarcity (the reality for many ppl on earth, incl the ~developed world~) are far less efficient delivery systems for nutrients.

“empty calories” aren’t a thing - calories are units of energy - and you’d have to work pretty hard to find a food that contained no significant amount of any micronutrient. again, all foods have the macronutrients that keep us alive.

kindly get off my posts about the health benefits of eating foods you enjoy w this shaming nonsense about “foods that have no nutritional value”. i’m sorry your relationship w food is characterized by fear & a mistrust of pleasure, but we’re not here to keep you company in your misery

Reblog to help find out how many of us share in the Struggle.

Feel free to elaborate on your name situation in the notes, should you care to do so!

(Companion poll about surnames coming soon.)

European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard

Americans: it’s true I do do this.

American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)

Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?

Brits, alternatively: your children will be taken out by a firing squad in their classroom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I guess what really bothers me about holding “story over rules” as a guiding principle in tabletop RPGs is that it’s misidentifying the actual problem.

In tabletop RPGs, rules produce stories. That’s kind of the medium’s whole thing. Any given set of rules is going to encode certain assumptions about how the game ought to be played, and obviously the kind of stories the rules want to produce and the kind of stories you want to tell are never going to be in perfect agreement unless you designed the whole system from scratch (and generally not even then!), but if you find yourself disagreeing with the story the rules want to produce often enough and severely enough that it makes sense to adopt “story over rules” as a guiding principle, what that means is that you’re using the wrong set of rules for the kind of game that you want to play.

Any time I see somebody talking like telling a story and playing a game are intrinsically opposing priorities and it’s the GM’s job to negotiate that fundamental opposition, what that tells me is that this person has spent their whole life running and playing systems that are just wildly unsuited for their preferred mode of play

Thor’s Helmet, NGC 2359 // Kibobo

Falschenhemisphärenschmerz is the German word for seeing a cool space thing and finding out it never comes above the horizon where you live

ah i see. it’s gonna be one of those huh

universal engineer moment

everyone tag your newly discovered genders

love that all of these are either data noise from trying to ingest and process messy records or systems that evolved to find that the gender binary did not encompass all of their use cases, and needed it to be expanded or eliminated to be anything other than a limiting constraint.

I wonder if that second one could be analogous to anything in real life

The proliferation of Python as a serious programming language and its consequences has been disastrous for humanity.

I know "which programming language is best" is largely a matter of taste, but holy shit is Python bad for anything other than outlining simple algorithms in a pseudocode-like manner for teaching purposes.

The entire Python experiment was a colossal misadventure. Because it is more human-readable when you are just demonstrating simple algorithms it is an easy language to introduce as a "first programming language" in entry compsci classes, as stuff like typing is abstracted away (I honestly feel that teaching programming like this is actively counterproductive to creating understanding, but whatever).

Anyway, so it got taught first, which unfortunately meant that people learning to program got used to it and started using it for actual applications, and now we are stuck with shitty Python abstractions and paradigms as the default for a lot of people and it has become one of the most popular languages on Earth, even though literally any other programming language will be much more well suited to the purpose of actually programming computers and will be more efficient. Now you have to know and use Python in order to do any actual industry work as a programmer, aaaaaa.

We literally have C# which is practically perfect for both imperative and functional programming and has a mass of libraries and can be compiled to standard executables and yet in order to write any ML code I have to create socket bridges to a live Python script because all of the libraries for data science were written for Python because data science people don't know how to use anything else and the .NET ports suck and are not up to date, aaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I feel like "capable of expressing concepts in a way that's very human readable" is a very valuable attribute for a language to have even if it falls over when people try to use it for everything, as any language would. there's some valid critiques of the language in here but I think it's very weird to use them to argue that python can't be used for serious applications

like what possible metric could we use for that beyond "people have used it for large scale products and the resulting code has been maintainable," something that is demonstrably true

some of your points aren't accurate to the language as it exists today, but I think attacking those would miss the forest for the trees: we know python is a serious programming language because people use it in serious contexts to produce maintainable software. any specific critique of its structure is valuable for improving it, but doesn't take away from that.