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priestfrommidnightmass · 7 months

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screw this. HEY, DYLAN! SO, THAT’S IT? YOU’RE JUST GONNA KEEP LYING TO ME? AFTER EVERYTHING I’VE DONE FOR YOU? I WAS ON THE HONOR ROLL BEFORE THIS, YOU KNOW? I SAID THE WORD DICK TO TEACHERS FOR YOU. I GOT SUSPENDED FOR YOU, YOU KNOW THAT, RIGHT? the fuck are you talking about? YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE. i’m an asshole? YEAH. YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE? i’m an asshole? just a guilty asshole? YEAH. YOU’RE NOT GUILTY BECAUSE YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE. YOU’RE GUILTY BECAUSE YOU FUCKING DID IT! YOU DID THE DICKS WITH MACKENZIE! it’s ironic. i set out to expose all the biases in the school. biases that could have led to the expulsion of an innocent student based on reputation instead of facts. but i got a little too close to my subject. and i think you can see here… DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORKED ON THIS? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY HOURS I SLAVED OVER THIS TRYING TO PROVE YOU INNOCENT? i may have had some biases of my own.

#MONOLOGUE OF ALL FUCKING TIMEEEEEE #i’ve been watching this scene over and over because it’s just so PERFECTTT #genuinely rivals the social network one for me. i MEAN IT!!!#god… 😭#american vandal

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fallen-symphony · 2 months

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Who do you guys like the most on your team? Who do you hate the most on the enemy team?

"An interesting question... Although I'm not one for relationships since I'm a superior being... I must admit that Obake's intellect and Motivations truly seem to resonate with me. He's like a more intelligent Dr. Regal.

"As for who I hate on the enemy team... Probably my stupid brothers... Especially RiFT. So much power, yet he uses it to serve lower beings. What an insult..."

"Glad to know we can get along, Slur. I have always found you fascinating... But as a brilliant mind who loves potential, Eggman Nega is a man after my own heart."

"The feeling is mutual, Obake. I do have respect for Dr. Starline and the Analog Man as well."

"Oh, it's such an honor to hear you say that, Mr. Eggman Nega, sir. Know that you are my favorite here as well."

"As for who I hate... Though I haven't met them in person, that Peni Parker and her robot, SP//Dr remind me too much of Hiro and Baymax, which remind me of my past Failure! If I can't get my revenge on Hiro, then Peni will be the next Best thing..."

"I feel the same way about that key wielding Sonic that showed up not too long ago! Dimensional variant or not, he's still a Sonic, and Sonic ruined my plans many times! I want to destroy him personally...!"

"Hey! You lay off him, Egghead! That Sonic is mine, ya hear me!? I'm the one who's gonna destroy him! I hate him and every other Sonic out there! I'll destroy them all until the only one left is me!"

"You tell 'em, Scourgey! Now, tell them how I'm your favorite person here!"

"If by that, you mean my LEAST favorite person here, then yes, that's you, Rosy."

"Awww! You say the meanest things, Scourgey! You're one of my favorite people here, too..."

"But her... This one right here... She's my girl..."

"Aw, thank you, Rosy. I like you, too. Such an adorable little psychopath ready to smash some heads... It's like having a little sister... But of course, my favorite has to be Dark Mega for obvious reasons."

"You're my favorite, too, Dark Empress! A beautiful Darkloid queen like you has stolen my heart..."

"As much as that Empress chick terrifies me almost as much as Rosy does... Gotta agree with her. Dark Megz is my favorite member here. We both got beef with our goodie-goodie two shoes doppelgangers, and we both want to live in a world of chaos."

"Yeah... I'm disliking that Megaman more and more each day. He gets to keep his Lan, while I was rejected by mine when I became the ruler of the Darkloids."

"I feel the same way about Roll. She gets to keep her Mayl, but mine wouldn't accept the new me..."

"Can I help you smash that good Roll that makes you look bad, best friend?! Can I, can I, can I?!"

"Sure... As long as I get to land the last blow."

"Deal!"

"Obake and Eggman Nega are inspirational. Their genius far exceeds mine, and I have much to learn from them. I don't have any personal beef with anyone on the enemy team... Yet... But that ARiA and her army of Guardiangemon might be a problem."

"CHYA HA HA HA HA HA!!! My favorite person here is obviously the Great Lord Brevon! No one can compare to his greatness...!

"As for who I hate the most, obviously it's that blasted Commander Torque! He and Squid Head have been getting in Lord Brevon's way far too many times! I promise to destroy them!"

"I can always count on you to praise me, General Serpentine. I, too, can't stand Commander Torque. That blasted dragon girl might not be with him now, but he can still be a problem... Especially with that new squad of his."

"My favorite member is Ophelia! Even if it's not official, she's awesome!

"And my favorite member on the other team is my beloved Nana..."

"You're supposed to be talking about the enemy members you hate, lover boy. Anyway, probably no surprise to anyone, but Mr. Tinker is my arch nemesis on the enemy team. I got over the grudge of him 'murdering' Dr. Eggman ever since meeting the superior Eggman Nega. That doesn't mean I don't want to show him up. What about you, Sync?"

"..."

"Gee, nice choices there, chatterbox."

"I think we can all assume he hates everyone equally, teammate and enemy alike. Anyway, it seems we reached our limit, time-wise. We need to get back to our plans of taking over the Multiverse."

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elijones94 · 2 months

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In “The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show”, Penny has an unexplained dislike of the geeky and friendly Moonrock and only refers to him as “Creep”. In the episode “The Birthday Present”, while searching for Pebbles’s missing birthday present for Wilma, the kids investigate at the Gruesomes’ spooky house and are spooked by Gobby and his giant spider. Penny apparently jumps into Moonrock’s arms while Wiggy leaps onto his shoulders.

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mylesbackshall · 1 month

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Spear x fang

Original art by me: Myles Backshall

#spear #fang #primal #genndytartakovsky #dinosaur #dinosaurart #caveman #badassery #fanart #art #painting #mansbestfriend #cute #cutecat #cutedogs #jurassicworld #jurassicpark #jurassicworldfallenkingdom #lifefindsaway #rex #trex #nailart #blackandwhite #grayscale #wow #worldofwarcraftart #forthehorde #warcraft #samuraijack #deadpool3

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pinktwinkiezoppo · 2 years

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Theres a severe lack of FusionFall x Nicktoons Unite content

#fusionfall #nicktoons unite #whoever came up with the idea for those games is an absolute genius #but seriously it's a crime that there isn't more cartoon network and nickelodeon crossovers #think about Flapjack and SpongeBob becoming friends as soon as they meet #or Dexter and Jimmy being science rivals #Bubbles and Timmy just being friends and chatting #Ben and Danny being boyfriends #I mean what I didn't say that #zoppos posties

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j29736 · 3 months

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Miltown Study of Spatial Distribution (Book 2)

DECODING THE MATRIX BLINDS (Scene 1 - Splatoon, स्पलैश कार्टून): With the creation of the internet, we as a human species have never been able to communicate so quickly with one another using our senses of sight and sound. Vision and hearing have rapidly sped up on our screens and in major cities. The algorithms of these systems allow the powers that have influence over our society to influence our psyche to a profound degree which wasn't possible before. The internet and modern society has a way of making your perspective echo, making you feel trapped in a room full of mirrors, so one way to get around this is to rely on your other senses such as your ability to taste and smell. Your nose can detect food before your eyes or ears do. If you close your eyes and do a blind taste testing, you can figure out what food you're eating before your eyes or ears tell you. We also have other senses like hot and cold, a sense of thirst, a sense of wetness, your sense of touch, and a sense of heaviness and weightlessness. The more you give attention and energy to these senses, the more in-tune you'll be with them. We all have different bodies and what we put in our bodies will affect us all differently because we're all in different situations so get to know your body and not just the flashing lights! Sometimes it's okay to close your eyes, and sit in nature and feel the grass and plants around you. Slow down a little bit sometimes, and don't forget to breathe.

PHYSICAL PLANE AND MEMORY (Scene 2 - Kipo, Hauʻoli): When you write something down or take a picture, you can pick it up back up later and the physical reality will remind you of what you forgot, and it can do it on command. Your dreams can't do that, and that's how you know that the physical plane of existence isn't simply just your subconscious. Your body isn't a computer, neither is your life. If you forget something, but know where to find the information, the physical reality can not only show you what you forgot but surprise you with new information that you weren't expecting. Another way the physical reality can surprise you is by learning another language. I use Duolingo for that!

THE DICE METHOD (Scene 3 - Rivals 2, Uthingo Amaqhawe): Another way to get in touch with the physical plane of existence is by utilizing a dice cube. They say "well the dice cube can be emulated and you just BELIEVE that you're seeing a 3-Dimensional dice cube when your brain could just be in a cyrogenic cooling tower". Well, okay. If that's something that worries you, then try this: Get a dice cube that's a little bit bigger, like a fluffy mirror dice. That way, you can roll it slower if you want to and FEEL the metaphysical reality. Personally, I use a method where I connect the dice to letters. I will include some pictures and a video in a link to show you how I do this method. https://www.tumblr.com/j29736/742878924093145088/the-dice-method-linking-a-dice-cube-to-letters I usually use this method to come up with 3 letters and then look up words starting with those 3 letters, or finding countries or cities on a map at random, or whatever it is that I feel like doing with it. You can come up with your own methods as well or use mine.

SIMULTANEOUS THOUGHT WAVES (Scene 4 - Class of 3000, Darasa La 3000): In this scene in Class of 3000, Sunny and Madison are having a conversation about setting Sunny up on a date with someone who has feelings for him, but neither Madison or Sunny are aware that while Sunny wants to go on a date with Ms. Lopez, Madison is assuming that Sunny wants to go on a date with Ms. Squattinchowder and both Sunny and Madison confirm the date while being in completely different trains of thought. This is a very common aspect of life, where two or more people can have two completely trains of thoughts at the same time, because each person is holding onto their own memory and inner world which is unique to them. What's great about living in a democracy as opposed to a dictatorship or oligarchy is that when each person is allowed to freely have their own inner voice to express themselves to the world in a way that doesn't harm others, we get a much bigger bigger display of creativity in the world as a whole. The world is so much more vibrant and beautiful when everyone is able to be themselves.

DNA MEMORY SYNTHESIZATION (Scene 5 - Moon Girl, מון גירל ושדינוזאור): So we came up with a theory to describe what happens every time you have Deja Vu. Every time that you die, you are reborn back into the body that you were born in when you were a baby. Each time you are reborn, you are given what is called Past-Life Memory Recall and you get it from your DNA sequence which goes all the way back in your bloodline to your original ancestors. We assume that this theory is true when coupled with the "Giant Crunch" Universe theory. The theory goes that when the univese started, there was the Big Bang which created the cosmological forces of nature. "The Big Crunch is a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the expansion of the universe eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately causing the cosmic scale factor to reach zero, an event potentially followed by a reformation of the universe starting with another Big Bang." This is why you may know something is going to happen before it happens, or why sometimes you might be thinking of something specific and then other people around you in the room start saying exactly what you're thinkning, it's because you've been here before! If you don't remember, that's okay. A lot of the time, the more you focus on tapping into your Past-Life Memory Recall, the stronger it becomes. It is another theory, also, that each time the universe resets, all living beings on planet earth get a little bit better at harmonizing with each other because the DNA structures allow us to become a little bit more wise with each reincarnation.

POWERS OF THE SPOKEN WORD (Scene 6 - Aggretsuko, アグレッシブ烈子): Not only do we have our own thought patterns, but we are also given the conscious choice of whether or not we are going to let a thought pass, or if we are going to speak or act on those thoughts. We can have intrusive thoughts all the time, but our willpower is the ultimate deciding factor in deciding whether or not we are going to let those intrusive thoughts overwhelm us, or if we are going to find the thoughts that we truly believe and identify with and stand on those instead. Each time that you speak your thoughts out loud, your words carry a physical vibration which is felt by the entire world around you. Each time you speak, speak with purpose, and choose your words wisely. Your words will not only affect the life you're living now, but it will carry into your next life as well, possibly in unexpected ways. Your tongue is powerful, there's a reason WORDS are made up of SPELLINGS. Your words are literally spells.

THE SACREDNESS OF HUMAN-LIFE (Scene 7 - Overwatch, Tó éí iiná’ at’é!): In Overwatch, there is a game mode where all players must work as a team to get a moving vehicle from one side of the area to the other side before the time runs out. The goal of the other team is to halt the vehicle long enough for the time to reach zero. The feeling of working together as a team is unmatched and the ability to work with other, real life human beings as opposed to working with computers just brings about so many emotions. Working with other people can bring about feelings of excitement, joy, fun, and love. When we have real companionship in this life, and we can truly feel that companionship in our spirit and our hearts, it gives meaning to our lives. There's a big wave of A.I. nowadays that wants to replace artists, musicians, voice actors, and other creatives with computer prompts. If we keep doing that, we are effectively removing aspects of what makes each and every person on this planet so creative. It's not just that a person can illustrate well, it's that each stroke of their paintbrush is an expression of that person's inner creativity and what makes them who they are. Don't you love being in a room full of creative people and hearing the ideas that they have to share in ways that you weren't expecting? Collaborating as a team is not only fun, but it allows mankind to progress faster when we work together.

FRIENDLY COMPETITION AND INNOVATION (Scene 8 - Brawlhalla, Clube De Luta): Not all technology is bad! Technology, like anything else, just needs to be used for the right things, things that inspire and uplift humanity instead of destroying it. Because of computers and technology, we now have video games, television and cartoons which allow us to enjoy creative stories and entertainment in a way that was impossible a century ago. We can now tell stories not just through words, illustrations and paintings, but with moving characters alongside an entire soundtrack, sound effects and acting. If we get angry or bored, instead of just going out and starting a war, we could just play a competitive video game or duke it out in an arcade or in a gymnasium! We now have the ability to mass produce sports equipment if we want to play basketball or soccer or whatever you want! If someone tries to fight you, instead of getting beat up or beating them up, you could just use a taser or a tranquilizer gun. We now have GPS on our smartphones which allows us to connect with people and places faster than ever before. Heating and Air Conditioning in every home protects us when there's bad weather, and airplanes have allowed us to transport food all over the globe. Video games remove a lot of barriers in the human psyche which allow us to connect with each other in ways never thought possible before. Scared of Sharks? Try playing as a Shark with arms and legs and a Sword! Go ahead, get your feet wet don't be shy!

PROTECTING THE COLLECTIVE CULTURE (Scene 9 - Tuca & Bertie, Noog Phooj Ywg): So there's 8 Billion people living on planet earth, and there's also the wildlife being the animals and plants. Of those 8 Billion people, everyone desires a fair slice of those 8 Billion Pie Slices to be happy with what they need to survive and pursue their own dreams and fun. Personally, I think we should protect everything that moves. The humans, the animals, and even the venus fly traps that indicate that they want to live by the fact that they move their mouths, showing that they have a desire to eat. It would be nice if all humans were provided with the basic necessities they needed to survive for free: Fruits, Vegetables, Water, Shelter, Bathrooms, Showers, Clothes, Beds, Blankets, Pillows, Hygiene Products (don't forget feminine hygiene), Laundry, Weather Protection (such as Umbrellas), Electricity, Heat/Air, Transportation, Education, Healthcare, International Travel, Internet, Smartphones, and Windows Computers. You shouldn't need a birth certificate or social security card to get these things either, they should just be provided for free. The ID system that we have shouldn't be so hard for homeless and marginalized people. After that, I'd advocate for a free market system where everyone is free to run their own business to buy and sell with others. It would be nice to make sure that everyone had the right to survive first, and then let people have the option to get extra fun stuff that they want by getting involved in the economy or wherever life leads them. As for the animals and wildlife, I don't eat anything that moves, I stick to fruits and vegetables. One day I hope all wildlife on the planet evolves and is trained to stop attacking each other and start making peace with one another because they no longer need to eat each other to survive, but instead evolve by adapting to eat what doesn't scream or run when you try to eat it. I listen to the radio sometimes, even though I might not agree with everything the radio has to say, I know that it brings our international community closer together when we're all on one accord sometimes. It's important when we all care for each other and work as an international family. I've been looking into how to garden too, so that when the earth gives to us, we can give back. Same-Sex couples are also great adoptive parents, and transgender people are cool (but I don't recommend they transition if they want to until after they're old enough to move out of their parents' house) and I hope one day we can have a direct-democracy where we can vote directly on what we want for our planet. You should be able to do whatever you want freely as long as you don't kill, enslave, physically harm, cause injuries, cause illness, rape, molest, knowingly steal from the poor, or knowingly falsely accuse other living beings. The punishment should never be jail or prison, it should be a mental hospital.

CREATING YOUR OWN CHARACTER (Scene 10 - Animal Crossing, Cruce de Animales Nintendo): Not only is it important that we are all on one accord sometimes and that we provide for each other, but being your own character and supporting and pursuing your own journey is really important too. Not just for the sake of creating more vibrancy and creativity in the world around us, but for yourself. In games like Animal Crossing, you can make your own character. You can choose how you look, choose how your home looks, create your own designs, your own name, your own life. You get to interact with the people that you live with, and they get to see how you grow. Have you ever gotten tattoos? If you were thinking about getting one but are scared what people might think about it, I think you should go for it. Become your own work of art, and watch how others become inspired by how your creativity blossoms out of you like a flower. Never go along with what other people think or believe just to fit in, always hold onto your own center of life and never stop chasing that happy feeling.

Alright, thanks for reading. If you didn't get to read the first book (Miltown Numerology and Study of Spatial Distribution) then I'll put the link below. Bye!

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confusedfoam · 2 years

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chekhov's gun but it's the hint based plot device on the glenn close disney jr show. once per episode he asked the gun to solve a problem but theres a prolonged silence while the audience gets to guess followed by an extremely loud gunshot sound effect

#obviously nick jr (the rat not the rival tv network) is glenns talking side kick #and its a musical #a disney jr show where the mc is a stoner whos main tools are a guitar and a human gun #nick jr being named nick jr might be an ip issuse but yk #the guns mechanic just reminds me so much backpack from dora or one of those types of things #glenn close #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies

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2000skid4ever · 10 months

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My version of capcom vs snk 3 note made in summer of 2020 (blue mary, kukiri, strider, and asura are also in it i just forgot to put pictures of them)

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decibelcoatl · 2 years

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Daily Doodle #25

Constantly thinking about what happened if Rivals of Aether was a thing in the Battle Network universe. I think Lan would be best suited as an Elliana main. So, here he is dressed as the snake in a mech.

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#cyber art #Lan Hikari #Elliana #Mega Man Battle Network #Rivals of Aether #crossover #artists on tumblr

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algoworks · 1 year

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Google launches ChatGPT rival: BARD

BARD is Google's new AI language model that has massive neural network and is trained to generate text based on a large corpus of data.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

#google #chatgpt #bard #ai #language #network #data #rival

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fumpkins · 2 years

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Rival teams of male dolphins form the animal world’s biggest social networks, long-running study finds | Science

Anthropologists have long celebrated and puzzled over humans’ ability to cooperate. Our special talent lies in forming nested cooperative networks that involve unrelated individuals: family, community, city, state, nation, and allied nations. Not even our closest relative, the chimpanzee, does this. But over the past 4 decades, researchers have shown that another animal does: the sea-going Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) of Shark Bay in Western Australia.

Unrelated male dolphins deploy their social smarts to build complex alliances that boost their chances of reproductive success. A new study concludes these are the largest such complex cooperative societies outside of humans. Moreover, they appear to have evolved in a different way from our own. “It’s an exciting finding that helps bridge the immense, perceived gap between humans and other animals,” says Mauricio Cantor, a behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University who was not involved in the study.

In an exploration of dolphin society launched in 1982, behavioral ecologist Richard Connor, now affiliated with Florida International University, and his team have been following more than 200 male dolphins in the exceptionally clear waters of Shark Bay, recording which males spend the most time together. Over the years, they have found that males form close relationships with one or two other males, and that these partnerships are nested inside a larger alliance, which in turn are nested inside yet another alliance—rather like being a member of “a platoon, a company, and a regiment,” notes Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham, who is not part of the team. The male dolphins cooperate in order to capture and defend fertile female dolphins from other groups of males. A lone male cannot corral a female; he needs partners.

In the new study, the team analyzed data collected between 2001 and 2006 on 121 individual males, revealing a super-connected social network with every male connected to one another either directly or indirectly. The males even cultivate relationships with males outside of their three-level alliances, forming the biggest network known in any nonhuman species, and thereby increasing their reproductive success, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Each male had on average 22 allies; some had as many as 50.

Male dolphins form bonds by swimming and diving side-by-side, petting, holding flippers, engaging in sex, whistling to each other when apart, forming “teams,” and coming to one another’s aid should rivals attempt to spirit away a female. Those with the strongest social bonds spend the most time with females, thus increasing their chances of reproducing. “They’re making strategic social decisions,” says Connor, who suspects dolphins use their big brains in part to remember which individuals came to their aid and which ones fled during fights.

Cooperation isn’t exactly rare in the animal kingdom—animals from social insects to lions, wolves and spotted hyenas, and many primates cooperate; some, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, even do so with nonrelatives. (And unrelated female bonobos have recently been reported to form coalitions with outsiders against males). But none of these species form “multilevel alliances to accomplish goals,” says Athena Aktipis, a cooperation theorist at Arizona State University. “It’s interesting and cool that the dolphins do.”

Wrangham adds that Connor’s decadeslong study constitutes some of the most compelling support for the “social brain hypothesis,” the idea that the need to keep track of numerous social relationships drove the evolution of large brains and intelligence. The dolphins provide “a dramatic demonstration of the positive correlation between brain size and social complexity,” he says.

Anthropologists have argued that human intergroup cooperation is unique and tied to the evolution of bonds between males and females and the role of males in taking care of offspring. These long-lasting pair bonds lead to extended social networks because both partners have relatives interested in ensuring the survival of their genes. But in dolphins, as in chimpanzees, males and females don’t form lasting pairs and males don’t help with parenting. “Our results show that intergroup alliances can emerge without these behaviors, and from a social and mating system that is more chimpanzee-like,” Connor says.

In other words, there’s more than one way for these highly complex alliances to evolve, says Frans de Waal, an emeritus primatologist at Emory University. “It’s good to ponder that there may be multiple evolutionary paths to this outcome.”

New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2022/08/30/rival-teams-of-male-dolphins-form-the-animal-worlds-biggest-social-networks-long-running-study-finds-science/

#Animal #biggest #dolphins #Finds #Form #longrunning #male #Networks #rival #science #social #Study #teams #worlds

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ur-mag · 7 months

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DWTS’ Julianne Hough promotes career away from show on rival network after fans call for her to be fired | In Trend Today

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#Celebrities #DWTS’ Julianne Hough promotes career away from show on rival network after fans call for her to be fired #Money #Motors #Politics #ShowBiz #Sport #Tech #UK #US #World

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elijones94 · 6 months

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💥 Courtney as the Human Cricket & Lindsay as Wonder Woman

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dcxdpdabbles · 2 months

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DCxDP fanfic idea: Corporate Rivals

Bruce is really excited to hire a boy genius from a small time town. He found him by accident while scrolling through some creative writing competition past winners on various school sites. He originally wanted ideas for his own contest for the annual Wayne Young Writers Scholarship when he stumbled up Amity Parks Youth Authors.

Daniel Fenton's science fiction had won second place, and Bruce thinks he only lost due to the judges not realizing all the science of the gadgets his charaters used were real. Real, well explain and proper research. Daniel obviously knew his stuff and knew it well.

He had reached out to Daniel with a science scholarship opportunity, wanting to see what he would come up with. He gave him a basic assignment asking him to fulfill a prompt "Software or Hardware development for disabled" in either theory or model. If he created something worthwhile, Bruce would send him ten grand.

Daniel did not disappoint, not only doing the theory paper but also sending back a prototype of a pocket ASL translator. It would be an app on a phone that would have an AI watching through a camera of the person doing sign language and say out loud what the person was saying. It had a few bugs here and there, but for a high schooler, those were very impressive accomplishments.

Bruce found himself sponsoring the boy for early high school graduation. The young Fenton boy was a genius just like his parents, but he lacked proper motivation. Bruce suspected it was due to his school not challenging him enough much like Tim.

When Daniel got his diploma Bruce offered a few rid to Gotham University with the condition he would be a employee at WE. Daniel agreed under the condition it was as a proper employee and not a unpaid intern. A little daring for a kid getting already a amazing deal but Bruce liked his moxy and agreed.

Daniel Fenton was to be a worker in the RD department for WE tech in one week.

He couldn't wait to introduce him to Tim. Two young geniuses would get along swimmingly with their shared brain prowess!

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Tim hated the new guy.

They were the same age, but everyone acted like he was amazing for finishing high school and starting university while also being a top WE reseacher and Devloper at such a young age.

Oh Tim was CEO, but as many people have whispered, he didn't graduated Highschool or have a GED so the only reason he got to be CEO was because of nepotism. Danny on the other hand got his position through hard work.

Which was ironic, seeing as the company has never done so well since Tim came on board. Their sales, PR, and production numbers all tripled because of him. Danny, on the other hand, was a sloth with little to no ambition. He didn't even work well with others! He mostly did solo projects and everyone seemed fine with that since genius "need their own space"

Tim has been networking since he was three years old, and failure to do so had always reflected badly on him and his company. He spent his entire life careful choosing his words and his actions. Even his appearance, what he wore, his hairstyle even the hand gesture when he talked, were planned before hand.

Then comes Fenton, who avoids crowds, dressed in the worst formal wear Tim has ever seen . Black jeans were not formal!- and acted like this important office was just a after school hang out spot. Now Tim was much more laid back than his board co-workers, who were all in their fifties or older, and even more relax then the mangers or superiors of lower stations but even he could not understand Fenton blaring music, bags of chips lingering everywhere and his ordination skills were none existing!

Not to mention the fact Daniel didn't believe in using computers unless he had to. His office was covered in towers of paper that he scribbled and work on! It was such a waste!

And yet, despite all of that, Daniel was rapidly becoming an asset to WE. His ASL translator app wasn't finished, but it had everyone buzzing with excitement and would be well received when it was released with Wayne Phones as a built in app.

Tim tried to avoid him as best he could least he get offended by his lack of work proper behavior

Daniel Fenton did not understand what it meant to put your all into something that you lost yourself along the way. Best to ignore him.

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Danny couldn't stand his company CEO. Timothy Drake reminded him a little too much of the A-listers but without the bulling bit. Somehow, that made it worse.

Timothy was popular because he was well liked. He didn't need to relay on his good looks or aggression to make other yeild to him like Paulina or Dash. Even if he was ridiculously good looking to the point, Danny confused him for a siren when he met him.

He had the ability to walk into any room and take command if it. Timothy didn't even need to speak, his very presence commanded attention and awe. Not to mention how great he was at his job.

WE had always been a popular corporation but under Timothy's command they rose to one of the most important corporations in the world. Bruce Wayne was raised to run a company, Timothy Drake was born to run it. There was a large enough difference between the two that anyone could see Timothy was superior at running things.

Danny was nothing like that. He couldn't talk to people, couldn't make them like him, and often he was overlooked for his sister or his wacky but loveable parents.

He was the other Febton. The one that was there and nothing else. A few months ago he was even considered the dumb Fenton, who somehow was skipped over for intelligence.

Then he wrote a little story and everything changed.

Danny turned out to be a proper Fenton, after all, having gotten the attention of Bruce Wayne for his mind. His parents haven't been so proud of him in a long time, and he found himself accepting the job position after graduating high school early before he knew it.

Along with the job came a move to Gotham city. He went after debating it a great deal with his family and friends, but the deal was too sweet to turn down. Now he was in Gothem and he knew absolutely no one.

Danny didn't know how to make new friends here. Tucker and Sam had been the ones to approach him at the beginning of their friendships. He also was scared of getting close to his co-worker less they suspect his Phantom powers.

He knew that Metas was not welcome, and he thought Batman wouldn't care that he was technically dead and not with a meta gene.

So he focused on his work, avoiding large crowds and keeping his head down. He would turn on music to help pass the loneliness and would gater papers to write down his thoughts less they made him mad by running around his head all day.

This anxious insecurity was something Timothy Drake would never understand. He just shone like a fallen star, dazzling the masses with his neat press suits, easy charisma, and intelligent bedroom eyes. Best to ignore him.

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Dick never really ventured to WE now that he moved out. He made a habit of trying to visit Tim every two weeks for lunch to fix this. He also really wanted to spend more one on one time with his little brother now that they reconsidled from Bruce's timeline fiasco.

He was still well known by the employees, even new ones, so when Dick arrived to the lobby he was waved in by security. The receptionists were all huddled together muttering to eachother and missed his entrance since security didn't call out to him.

Dick could tell the gossip they were talking about was juicy based on the way Lola was wiggling her eyebrows and Stacy and Isaiah's reaction.

He creeps closer to the front desk, hoping to hear something good.

"Isn't that against the rules?" Isaiah asks.

"WE doesn't have anything like that. Not since Thomas Wayne married his old PA and had Bruce. I think it's cute that Mr.Drake is following in his adoptive Grandfather's footsteps."

Dick paused, shocked. Tim liked someone at WE!?

"They aren't even dating yet, Lola"

"Yeah but you can cut the sexual tension with a- Mr. Grayson! I'm so sorry, I didn't see you. How can I help you?"

Dick blinks. "Oh I'm here to see Tim for lunch. But what was that about Tim you were saying?"

The woman pales as the other two quickly become busy with some email or another.

"Oh, um, I'm so sorry, sir. I shouldn't have -"

"It's fine I don't mind a little chat between co-workers. I'm just curious"

Lola stares before nervously blurting "Rumor has it that um, Mr.Drake has a thing for Daniel Fenton"

"The new boy genius?" Dick thinks about it considering what he knows of Tim's type and his past preferences in partners before nodding "That tracks actually"

He says his thanks and hurries away to Tim's office unaware he may have confirmed a relationship between Tim and Danny.

The gossip circles in WE exploded with the news everyone careful not to let the two subjects hear a whisper.

#dcxdpdabbles #dcxdp crossover #Corporate Rivals #Dead Tired #Danny and Tim are jealous of the other #but also kind think the other is hot #Bruce just wanted a play date for his smart boy #Dick is a gossip past it on #Part 1

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Ars Technica: ISP admits lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals

Ryan Grewell, who runs a small wireless Internet service provider in Ohio, last month received an email that confirmed some of his worst suspicions about cable companies.

Grewell, founder and general manager of Smart Way Communications, had heard from some of his customers that the Federal Communications Commission's new broadband map falsely claimed fiber Internet service was available at their homes from another company called Jefferson County Cable. Those customer reports spurred Grewell to submit a number of challenges to the FCC in an attempt to correct errors in Smart Way's service area.

One of Grewell's challenges elicited a response from Jefferson County Cable executive Bob Loveridge, who apparently thought Grewell was a resident at the challenged address rather than a competitor.

"You challenged that we do not have service at your residence and indeed we don't today," Loveridge wrote in a January 9 email that Grewell shared with Ars. "With our huge investment in upgrading our service to provide xgpon we reported to the BDC [Broadband Data Collection] that we have service at your residence so that they would not allocate addition [sic] broadband expansion money over [the] top of our private investment in our plant."

The email is reminiscent of our November 2022 article about a cable company accidentally telling a rival about its plan to block government grants to competitors.

Speaking to Ars in a phone interview, Grewell said, "This cable company happened to just say the quiet part out loud." He called it "a blatant attempt at blocking anyone else from getting funding in an area they intend to serve."

It's not clear when Jefferson County Cable plans to serve the area. Program rules do not allow ISPs to claim future coverage in their map submissions.

Jefferson County Cable ultimately admitted to the FCC that it filed incorrect data and was required to submit a correction. The challenge that the ISP conceded was for an address on State Route 43 in Bergholz, Ohio. The town is not one of the coverage areas listed on Jefferson County Cable's website.

While checking the FCC broadband map today, we confirmed that the address is no longer listed as having Jefferson County Cable service. But that one fix alone wouldn't prevent the company's grant-blocking strategy from working, because the FCC map still lists the company as serving the address right next door and others on the same road.

False data hurts ISPs seeking grants

False broadband data could hurt Smart Way directly because the ISP plans to apply for grants to upgrade its network. There have been over a million challenges submitted to the FCC nationwide, and it's unknown how many mistakes are on the map overall.

The new FCC map is supposed to show exactly which homes and businesses have access to Internet service and what types of service are available at each address. Using that data, the US government and states will decide how to allocate federal funding to projects that fill in broadband-availability gaps.

But the maps rely on Internet service providers to report where they offer service and are rife with errors that show ISPs claiming to serve more homes than they actually do. Nevada officials said they found more than 20,000 mistakes in their state alone. Vermont officials said the map is "missing or incorrectly lists the location of over 60,000 broadband-serviceable locations" and "lists service availability levels far beyond what the state has found through its mapping and what we are hearing about from residents."

If you'd like to submit challenges, you can search for reported broadband availability at specific addresses here and use that page to file challenges. In addition to the individual submissions, state governments and broadband-focused groups have been submitting bulk challenges.

Grewell said he submitted about a dozen challenges in late November, most of which pertained to addresses purportedly served by Jefferson County Cable. He said he filed the "challenges in areas that I knew there was no fiber-to-the-home whatsoever."

We haven't received a response to requests for comment from Loveridge or Jefferson County Cable. But Jefferson County Cable withdrew its coverage claim at the one address referenced in Loveridge's email after Grewell's challenge.

"The provider subject to your challenge has conceded the challenge and is required to submit a correction for the challenged location in the online portal within 30 days," the FCC told Grewell in an email notification on January 12.

Despite that one success, Grewell told us yesterday that he hasn't received responses for any of the other addresses he challenged. The successful challenge at one address also didn't trigger map updates to nearby homes, as previously mentioned.

#lies #isps #internet #fiber optics #cable speeds #ISP admits lying to FCC about size of network to block funding to rivals #broadband #broadband speeds #network speeds #fcc

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lime1991 · 1 year

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Expanding on Gabby's home universe

#my art #my ocs #sketches #artists on tumblr #puppet oc #muppet oc #thats probably more accurate actually these characters are based on sesame street and sesame street puppets r muppets #the network #Gabby #Jonas #info: jonas is part of the band that exists on the show gabby is part of. they only appear during big group songs #sunday is like elmo but not a main character.. idk. also idk their gender which is why they ask if theyre included in the ''girls'' hangout #also the name jonas calls gabby is just a play on abby cadaby. thats how i named gabby in the first place so its like a callback lol #i like to imagine sesame street exists in their world and is like a rival tv show like in greg the bunny

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