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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

#“____ literacy didn't mysteriously vanish. it was fucking murdered for profit!” #you could fill in that blank with so many words it makes me sick #media literacy #literacy #etc. etc.

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#is dying or going deaf an option? #poll #tumblr polls #random polls #polls #jojo siwa #would you rather

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A Capella music actually sucks dog balls, and it's time we stopped pretending it was cool...

There's a reason beat-boxing is not considered cool

#pentatonix is proof of this #a capella #sucks #a lot

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

#spreading positivity #here... #so like... #check this guy out!

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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I'm doing it gang, I've spent stupider gardening money before like when I dropped $300 on shade loving perennial bulbs only to learn they were also plants that rotted with wet feet and all immediately died in my swampy gumbo soil

I'm buying two firefly petunias. I've never grown petunias much because where I live they're a winter annual but fuck it I'll grow them as an indoor plant I certainly have the sun to do it.

They're supposed to ship to me in April, I'll report back on if they immidiately die or this is the coolest thing I own. My biochemical engineering design project was using a similar chemical pathway to modify bacteria to glow in the presence of specific toxins so I absolutely need glowing petunias in my window box

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Started an alphabet legacy play in Sims 4 (I lost my Not-So-Berry save because I moved my files somehow, and I don't feel like fixing it)

I decided to make the Lamdgraabs have a baby and play as the baby... and SOLELY as the baby, meaning that I cannot manipulate the pre-made Landgraabs... and like....

For "Family Oriented" sims, they really suck at caring for their children.

#sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 legacy #bruh

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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I was expecting anything but not Bard

#sorcerer #my favorite class #i knew it #DND #quiz #the next lowest ones were 10% lower... wasnt even close

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“i don’t need a list, i'll remember what i need. it’s four things. no need to write it down” thats the DEVIL SPEAKING!!!!!

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can someone please send me that post abt washing your sheets "climb in my brothers"

#what the heck is a duvet? #is it something im too poor to understand?

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#yee haw #polls

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

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#i personally dont like either #simply because i have to allocate mental resources for doing tasks like that #i have to pay attention to the show I'm watching if its the first 3 views. same for movies #and I always watch (short) series multiple times so I can fully get whats happening #once to watch. twice to understand. three times to get it #its about engaging with the media for me #i also have to comment a lot (audhd) soooo... it takes a lot of time and energy to watch stuff like that #polls #tumblr polls #random polls #poll

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cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

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Needing a lighter for practical purposes.

Finishing edges of frayed fabric.

Testing flammability of different fabrics... Why are they fucking melting? Is this shit plastic?!?

Fabric catches fire, but it melts.

I'm sitting with my legs crossed bc I'm Queer.

MOLTEN HOT PLASTIC DRIPS ONTO MY LEG.

It hurt for less than a second. I was more focused on making sure the fire was out.

Let plastic cool and remove.

Treat burn. Why is it yellow?? I've never seen a burn do that (except for that one time, I got Sun Poisoning and had dragon scales for a few weeks... Now I have freckles)

#i bought the lighter for my candles and incense and so I could start a little campfire (EXCEPT ITS BEEN RAINING SO) #but i am human #i create #i destroy #i flirt with danger #that is human nature #those jerkoffs who claim sex and romance make us human are WRONG #its fucking around and finding out despite being able to formulate many possible outcomes #creatures are curious but they cant compute quite like us (but they're really smart in their own rights) #fire #i wonder what the spot will look like tomorrow #i did the cool water thing and put burn cream on it

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.