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#get you someone you can communicate with #not just pass #the broccoli test (@petralemaitre)

The thing about the broccoli test is, you've first got to put in the time communicating with the person. Tell them all your stories, all your thoughts and feelings and what-you-did-todays, all your off-the-wall thoughts and idiosyncratic reactions. And listen attentively to all of theirs! Talk! Ask questions! Compare notes! Explain where you're coming from and seek to understand the same for them!

Do enough of that, over enough time, and you'll find you have built a relationship where you can pass the broccoli test together.

But I think you'll discover, once you can pass the broccoli test together, that it's just a dumb party trick. When the stakes actually matter, you'll still check in with them -- because you built your relationship on never dreaming you already know all the things to know about them.

Many relationships would be a lot healthier if we romanticized honest, open and direct communication instead of idealizing the idea of a partner who's intuitively in tune with your every need. You don't need someone who can read your mind, you just need someone who's willing to listen when you speak.

#broccoli test #communication #relationships

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#voyager #nasa #space is the place #I have such nostalgic feelings for voyager #I'm glad they got it up and running again!

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The Cutty Sark around 1922 and 2021

#cutty sark #tall ships

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jack: i was degraded for being horny, not for being bad at my job

#aubreyad

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This really ought to top every, “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.

#dorothy l sayers #wimseyverse #I did not realize they were available at fadedpage #but I'm very happy that they are #anyway this is very much an endorsement of this rec #there are many good things in these novels

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#I'm a fast touch typist on a keyboard #I struggle with phones because of arthritis #poll

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peter in have his carcase calling harriet sherlock but also watson: non-exhaustive compilation

#have his carcase #wimseyverse #it's about time that I start up the reread again to go with the podcast

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#miss congeniality #april 25th

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Bush derps aren’t as frequent or spectacular as Horatio derps, but they do happen.

#william bush #william bush wednesday

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Oh, Mr Bush, you crafty sod.

#william bush wednesday #william bush #I have a fic based on this moment #or rather #the fall-out from this moment is a set-up for other things #('other things')

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#william bush #william bush wednesday

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I am the weakest, the most wanting in wisdom, I know, And my life, if lost, would be least missed, truly 🪓🌿

(below the cut are more doodle of lord and lady Bertilak with Gawain, look up at your own risk)

Keep reading

#gawain and the green knight

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gotta stop myself from binge-reading all the temeraire books somehow

#temeraire #oh lovely!

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#trans #violence cw #self-defense #some excellent strategies in here #but be aware that it might be pretty triggery too

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Fans' attitudes toward AI-generated works

Irina Cisternino, a PhD candidate of Stony Brooke University, is writing their research on topics related to technology, art and fandom. You can participate by filling out a survey and additionally, signing up for an interview. The survey is expected to last until at least the end of April, those, who signed up for the interview, will be contacted later. You need to be at least 18 years old to participate in either, be able to understand and speak English and identify as a fan.

After the completion of the research, it will be accessible as the dissertation of the researcher. If you have further questions, you can contact Irina Cisternino at [email protected] or Lu-Ann Kozlowsky at [email protected].

#fandom survey #generative ai #also known as #applied statistics

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Shiv/Tom/Greg — 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

I just still really love this one.

#succession

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✩Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant (1998)

#hornblower