one time i got mugged and that’s the day i realized there are just too many actually bad people in the world for any of us to be worried about furries. oh no they wanna be a wolf and date a lemur……. cool did they mug you? no? why are you concerned it’s not your business
like we could die any day. just get murdered. just get hit by a car. just fall out of bed the wrong way and you want to make ur stand against someone who dresses up as a large cat I just don’t have the energy to waste
He comes from a very poor family. His father was an alcoholic who beat him and his mother (he once poured hot tea over her and put her in hospital several times), his brother is a drug addict, he literally built an empire out of nothing.
He credits his mother as his biggest inspiration and often has her cooking in his shows.
When he left his first restaurant he pulled a successful Jerry Maguire
– the entire kitchen staff went with him. That tells you what he’s like to work with.
He was one of the first to give a restaurant to a female chef.
He went to prison (Gordon Behind Bars) and taught inmates to bake and they opened a bakery (Bad Boys Bakery) that is still running. He hired one of them when he got out.
He did documentaries about the cruelty of shark hunting and cocaine. (when he discovered cocaine was used by his staff he didn’t fire anyone but made sure they are offered treatment)
His kids are a treasure.
He is always ALWAYS kind to servers.
When one of his partners (Marcus Wareing) wanted to leave they got into a fight and settled it in court, they no longer speak to each other but this is what Marcus said about him after the fight:
I feel bad that the first association to him for a lot of people is this shouty TV chef when he’s truly a wonderful person.
never forget that the reason he’s “shouty and angry” on his tv show is that he’s yelling at people who ignore the rules of courtesy and food safety and basically feed their customers poison, something which would enrage any good person
Conservation of energy is still a thing. Even if your setup was 100% efficient (it isn’t) you would need to pump enough energy into the broadcaster to power every device on earth simultaneously. Even in one room, that pole is probably sucking up at least five times as much juice as it would take to charge everything in the room through a normal socket. So yeah it would eliminate the need for all these wires all over the place, but you would need to somehow generate enough power all in one place to power everything, several times over.
So what I’m saying is for this setup to work you would basically need to build a dyson swarm to filter off a small but significant fraction of the output of the sun, and beam it from there to earth. As an added bonus you would be able to call down a deadly beam of annihilation anywhere on the current day-side of the planet by tweaking the focus of your power distribution array a little. But the price tag for all those satellites would be like, bigger than the national debt.
… of every nation on earth combined
To put our national debt into perspective, Elon Musk, famous crazy person with the funds to do literally anything he dreams of, has a net worth of 19.1 billion USD. The richest individual on the planet, Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, has a net worth of 112 billion. The 25 richest people on the planet, combined, have a total net worth of 1.37 trillion.
The current US national debt is 21.16 trillion.
The NASA budget is 18.4 billion.
You could almost certainly put an array of satellites around the sun to gather and redirect enough energy to simultaneously power everything we have for centuries and end global warming for less money than the current national debt of this one country. The weather control and assassination features are just a neat little bonus.
Oh I hate seeing this EVERY FUCKING YEAR, So I will put this as simple as I can. This a power transformer. it works in exactly the same manner, except the efficiencies is shit. That pole is most likely a massive set of coils and what happens is that you electronics need another set of coils. Now the pole pumps out a massive oscillating magnetic field. This field is then picked up by specially designed coils near by converting it back into electricity.
THAT IS WHY THE ROOM IS SHEATHED IN NON CONDUCTIVE PLASTIC IN EVERY DIRECTION.
Every sensitive electronic including desktop computers in the same secont of the building would be fucked by that field. Radios would be dead, wi-fi blown away by the massive radio interference of the pole. Then there is the fact that the strength of a magnet tends to follow the inverse square law in terms of distance. So for that entire room to be powered takes more electricity than- what is needed to run several houses.
To put is in as childish term as possible the room is like the base station of a cordless electric tooth brush, or any cordless electric charging station. For it to be efficient the two coils (one in the charger and the other in the device) need to be in extremely close proximity.
Now the distance can be extended but the wattage going into the transmitting coil has to be increased logarithmic every time the distance is doubled.
Every year some idiotic first year AC/DC electrical student comes across how to couple and uncouple induction coils and has this “brilliant” idea. To give you even more perspective. That room in the picture is like living at the base of a high tension power line.
As much as I love the works of Nicoli Tesla
THE MASSIVE COST OVER RUN IS WHAT KILLED HIS ELECTRICAL IDEA NOT CAPITALISM.
The man made lots of money early on with his ideas but was shit at selling them properly and had made an every lasting enemy of the scum fuck Edison who did know how to sell things. Tesla also had the bad habit of letting other people use his patents without compensation so he lost control of many of them. Fuck radio, radar, and even your precious cellphones would have been delayed by decades without the magnetron Tesla developed and modern materials would of been set back decades without his AC power generator.
So commie fuckers like @thequantumqueer need to get their facts straight before they show off just how idiotically ignorant they are on a subject and their only skill is how to parrot some liars propaganda.
The actual reason Tesla’s power transmitter died is because he used up what would be today is tens of millions in investor capital for no return and no evidence of a possibility for return. His only prototypes failed to deliver results.
Now I do not want to hear another word from the tech ignorant side of tumblr on this fucking gimmick. You are just showing that you are gullible enough to be taken for a ride like you are some retarded Vegas tourist playing a curb side card game.
reminder that in order for Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower to actually work as intended he would have needed to send a one hundred megavolt, 30km vertical glow discharge straight into the ionosphere. The only way he theorized he could do this is with a bunch of high powered ultraviolet lights.
It didn’t work, and he never figured out how he was going to ever get it to work. And thank god he didn’t cause if he did and we adopted his plans safe air travel and predictable weather patterns would be a thing of the past.
I think Tesla is neat and all, but people on here really fall for the myth of the man way too often.
Okay, this all true- but you can’t tell me that a story set in a post-apocalyptic world where Tesla managed to do that and destroyed modern civilization wouldn’t be awesome.
… you’re correct
The year is 2053, over 100 years since The Wardenclyffe Disaster. Mankind finds itself trapped on the brink of barbarism as air travel is rendered impossible and volatile weather patterns devastate entire regions. To travel between the great cities, one must make use of armored Land Ships that are designed to leech power from the Great Current and fend off both feral mutated wildlife and the abominable killing engines created by the mad scientist himself to protect his greatest invention. Every year, the Land Ships venture forth to connect the cities and embark on expeditions to recover the relics of a long-gine past- but every year, some fail to return, and the knowledge of their creation and maintenance grows more scarce as the old masters of their production die, and the apprentices they trained grow old and frail.
Tesla Punk™
I’ll have you know right now, I cannot look at this room without thinking “robot strippers”
It’s completely wild that a therapy exists that essentially poisons autistic children with vitamin c so that they get sick to their stomachs and therefore relieving themselves of their autism… What’s even more unbelievable is that it’s called CEASE therapy aka Complete Elimination of Autistic Spectrum Expressions and that people actually believe in their “theories.”
These CEASE therapists only undergo 3-5 day long training sessions before becoming a CEASE therapist. These therapists tell parents vaccines, toxins, microwaves, sugar, and various other day to day items are the cause of autism. Even after the proof of vaccines not causing autism they still cling to the harmful myth recommending parents not to vaccinate their children.
CEASE therapy claims detoxing the child and keeping them away from metal pans and processed foods will cure autism and make autistic kids more social, more willing to make eye contact, and healthier overall… When in reality the child’s ‘change’ in autistic traits is likely because they are in excruciating stomach pain with little to no energy. Also, it’s most likely the child is afraid not to comply or else they’ll be made violently sick again.
Overall, children can’t just poop out their autism, yet these therapists think that is the case and cure. The phenomenon that any sort of disorder can be expelled from the body is extremely outdated and similar to abusive practices in psychology’s history like trephination (removing pieces of the skull), lobotomies, and the theory humorism. It is unbelievable that therapies like this exist and that people actively think it is beneficial.
this is easily the best one. the slight facial expression change once he finishes talking. the horribly unnatural fall into the water.
the nailed swimming animations.
When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:
– Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)
– Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)
– We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)
– Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)
– There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)
– We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)
– The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)
– We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary(Arabic)
So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language
Oh and some of our plurals are irregular, but at least it’s not like every goddamn plural is an entirely new word so you have to learn every word twice
At least it’s not like that, right? Right, Arabic? WHAT A DUMB IDEA THAT WOULD BE, HUH, ARABIC?
But we do kinda have the tone thing. Like record and record, resume and resume, etc
For a few words, but you can mispronounce a lot and still get away with it. I’m referring to this:
I love this post
As someone who struggled SO HARD to remember arbitrary gender for inanimate objects learning French (IS THIS CHAIR FEMALE OR MALE? IT’S A FUCKING CHAIR) I’m so glad to see English standing up for itself for once.
So, letting people be who they want to be is a good thing. That’s shocking I tell you, just shocking. All I want to know is, how much time and money went into this research when you could’ve just asked trans folks how they felt for free
okay, A: they didask. they did listen. like… I don’t wanna exaggerate here but “asking trans kids how they feel” is literally the entire study:
“children (9–14 years old) and their parents completed measurements of depression and anxiety (n = 63 transgender children, n = 63 controls, n = 38 siblings). Children (6–14 years old; n = 116 transgender children, n = 122 controls, n = 72 siblings) also reported on their self-worth”
and B: this isn’t the kind of study researchers do because “oh gosh we just aren’t really sure yet, we really just don’t know”, they do it because cis people have been sitting on their asses for decades ignoring anything that’s not an Official Scientific Study, so they said “okay fuck you, here’s the study, you’re wrong, now do something helpful or shut the hell up”
#Thank you #I’m super over this smug ‘yeah we knew that’ response to studies #I mean I get the impulse to go ’…yes and water is wet thanks captain obvious’ #But the thing is that you *need* this kind of hard data in order to act on it #Which is actually a good thing #BC ‘we don’t need no stinkin science’ policies based on ‘we just Know This ok don’t ask for our data just shut up and do it’ #Is how you get anti choice laws based in pseudoscience and religious belief #And climate change not being addressed in law and policy #Besides. Just think how satisfying it is to throw hard data in some asshole’s face to counter their claims.
Scientist: Treating trans people like people is the way to make them happy. Cis Person: Yeah but…………how do we KNOW? Scientist: *sighs* can I have a grant to study it? Cis Person: Sure. Scientist: Hey, Trans Person, would you be happier if people treated you like people? Trans Person: Of course. Scientists:
Specifically, this study can now be used in medical offices and courtrooms. A trans kid’s parent can take this study to their bigoted local doctor and say “see, this is why you should either treat my kid or give us a referral to a doctor who will.” Or this can be taken into various legal proceedings about name changes, birth certificate changes/corrections, and custody hearings where it becomes necessary to prove to a judge that yes, helping the kid transition (and perhaps leaving the kid with the parent/guardian who is willing to help) is what is best for the kid.
These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.
“These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.”
We already knowed it, we just had to prove it – don’t knock the proof.
my cousin’s cat was acting really weird today, freaking out and not letting anyone near her, hissing and growling, and it got so concerning they decided to take her to the vet
it took two adults to get the cat into the carrier and in the process my aunt got clawed so badly she had to go to the emergency room for shots/stitches, so eventually the cat gets to the vet
the vet has to sedate her to take a look and it turns out she has a piece of tape on her leg that’s scaring her real bad. and that’s all
😂😂
Another reason why dogs are better
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMFAOOOOO !! y’all just paid a whole lot of money to the vet for a piece of tape l😂
Here’s the thing: with many cats, it is very very difficult to tell when they are in pain because while sometimes they freak for the Littlest Things, when something bad is happening to them they turn into Stubborn Stoic Badasses. Serious problems are sometimes only found when they are taken to the vet after seemingly innocuous behavior changes, like grooming less, refusing to eat something in particular, sleeping more, changing their peeing habits, being uninterested in doing something or going somewhere they liked before…
So I’m glad it was just tape for this kitty, but it could be something serious, and I believe taking it to the vet was the right thing to do. And let’s look at it this way, from the money side of things: had this been a medical issue that went untreated, the family would have had to face bigger costs later.
I have to say those sedatives would have been worth their weight in gold.
So what if it turned out to be ‘just a piece of tape’? It was causing severe, acute distress to the cat, to the point where she was untouchable and mauled a human. This was a problem that the pet owners were not able to solve or remedy at home, but the vet was. That’s money well spent.
Is anyone honestly disappointed that it was a piece of tape and not something terminal or dramatic? Hooray for easily fixable tape and a happily ever after!
Dogs are not much better. We commonly see dogs present as emergencies because something is stuck in their mouth (bones or sticks, usually) that we could totally just remove then and there if the dog wasn’t such a huge wuss bag about it and actually held still for 10 seconds, but have to use sedation to actually handle them.
Just because it’s easy to remedy once you’ve used your skills, knowledge and pharmaceuticals to gain access to the problem, doesn’t mean it was a waste of money.
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