#log scale

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

1.0, Big Brother (0% technophobic)

These are tech bros and billionaire executives, the kind of people who push for AI facial recognition, data tracking, and mind reading technology (metaphorically, until actual mind reading technology becomes viable, in which case, literally). If you give them an email address you haven't touched since 2006, in less than a day they'd have a file full of your personal information thicker than the FBI's and NSA's combined. Down here, you have guys like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and most politicians (especially after 9/11. Can you say USA PATRIOT Act?)

1.1 - 3.2

Here, you'll find the fanboys of the above. Guys who are really into NFTs and crypto. Influencers and blue checks who crave attention and show off all their 4 figure phones, 5 figure workout equipment, and 6 or 7 figure cars. The kind of rich assholes who think they're tech savvy because every appliance in their home connects to the internet and requires a subscription service in order to not vent deadly neurotoxin through their air ducts. These are all small fish who aspire to be big fish; the 1.Xs will throw themselves under the bus to protect the 1.0s, while the 2.Xs will get thrown under the bus involuntarily.

3.2, True Neutral (50%)

Because this is a log scale, the actual center is 3.16227766 (the square root of 10). 3.2 represents Average Joe American, the type of guy who doesn't care about the state of technology one way or the other. He probably doesn't own an Alexa or Ring camera, only because he's never thought of buying one (3.1) or thinks it would be too much of a hassle to set up (3.3). If facebook asked him for a 3d scan of his head to try out a new memoji, he'd upload it without hesitation. He thinks cops shouldn't need a warrant to spy on the Bad Guys™, and recently voted for politicians who wrote the Let Cops Decide Who is Good and Who is Bad With Impunity Bill (though he will never connect dots between his actions and their consequences). "Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?" This guy buys his friends and family $100 send-in-your-spit DNA tests for Christmas.

3.2 - 5.0

I'd say most of the people reading this fall somewhere around here, though they think they're much higher. Hell, I'm probably a mid-4, but until I actually started plotting out this scale I would have guessed I was a 6 or a 7. High 5 at least! 3.Xs don't know how to pirate things and begrudgingly subscribe to some or all the major streaming services. 4.Xs don't use facebook anymore, but are still on twitter because that's where all the people they follow post from. These people are vaguely aware of how bad things could potentially be, but have no clue how bad they really are; if you suspect you're in this range, please know that every single service you've ever given your email address to is connected to your name in a database somewhere, even if you faked all the rest of the info you gave out. If you signed up to a grocery store value card, advertisers immediately know every single item you've ever purchased, and can even make assumptions based on the purchases of people you are in close proximity to every day (your phone is close to this other person's phone from 9 to 5, so you're probably co-workers, or they're close from 6pm to 6am, so you live together, etc.)

5.0 - 6.0

A little healthy skepticism to help shield your brain from the fact that you live in an Orwellian surveillance state. You use adblocker and VPNs, you don't carry your phone with you 24/7, you use burner emails for every different website (though it won't make much difference because they're all being accessed from the same device, so it wouldn't take any government entity more than a couple seconds to figure out they all belong to the same person). If 3.2 is blissfully ignorant, 5.2 is in living hell because they KNOW what's up and are powerless to do anything about it.

6.0 - 8.0

These are the REAL tech savvy people who don't use social media, have zero smart appliances in their homes, and rely heavily on physical media. We should all strive to be here. In the upper 7s you get privacy activists who know deep down that the system will never be able to fix itself but still hope against hope that it will.

8.0 - 9.9

These people scare me, not because they actually get shit done but because they have delusions of grandeur and TALK about how much shit they'll get done. Most libertarians think they're up here, but really they're down in the 4s and 5s with the rest of us. Real 8s and 9s are batshit Tyler Durden wannabes who think they can change the world by planning terror attacks "in minecraft." They never do anything because they either get caught or chicken out because it's more fun to plan for the singularity or the collapse of the grid than to actually carry out said plans. These are doomsday preppers and dude-bros who are little different than qanon nutjobs (except that qanon supports Big Brother)

10.0, Full Kaczynski (100%)

You are Theodore John Kaczynski, you live in a shack in the woods and you mail bombs to universities. NEVER GO FULL KACZYNSKI. You'll never succeed in hurting any substantial 1s or 2s, just innocent 3s and 4s. In reality, Ted cared more about industrialization and the environment than computers and the police state, but the internet didn't exist in the 70s. The modern world is built upon man made horrors beyond his imagination.

I guess I subscribe to a lopsided horseshoe theory; instead of both sides being equally bad at the extremes, the lower end is worse because it is much more powerful and influential. There are more 1.Xs than 9.Xs, but you'll hear about the 9s in the news a lot more often. You're more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark, or by a cop than an undocumented immigrant, but we all know that quantity isn't what gets reported on, now is it?

I dunno, take this scale with a grain of salt. It's all subjective.

#ted kaczynski #kaczynski #Technophobia #log scale #never go full kaczynski #technology #big brother #big brother is watching you #orwellian #surveillance #surveillance state #police state #privacy

[apotelesmaa]

I think tsukasa is a normie sorry. He does not know memes or internet trends he’s too busy scouring the internet for bootleg theatre productions and practicing facial expressions in the mirror. Guy who could tell you everything you need to know about some obscure actor/play from 100 years ago but does not know a single modern celebrity if they’re not involved in acting. He’s adding new poses to his vast repertoire he is not making banger posts online. “Based? Based on what?” Type of guy.

#nene is the most internet poisoned wxs member and she is not sharing that info with tsukasa #rui is also somewhat online but I feel like he’d mostly be on Wikipedia clicking all the links on an article for a soup #<- also the kind of guy to be watching videos on the most obscure topics just for fun #emu is untainted by the sins of modern internet she is just watching funny pet videos online #i do however think rui would teach tsukasa memes so that tsukasa can misuse them on purpose to annoy nene #sliding scale of nene in middleschool getting into heated online discourse vs tsukasa going ‘that’s boring I’m logging off’ #would like to amend that actually I think tsukasa would see a bad take on one of his favorite actors and get into a 5 day long argument #online on some random barely used Internet forum until the mods were like ok we’re locking this thread every1 shut up #mine #project sekai

[ahollowgrave]

Day Four: RAIN / sun

Odette, Rou, and some friends wait out the rain.

#decembhyur2023 #Pigeon Screens #Odette Hollows #FFXIV #Hyur #Middie #Midlander #I love and loath these shots (': #Love them because I think they are beautiful and I worked really hard on this #there are 7 models on screen #this is in lakeland obvi (not IC but like shh) and under one of those big trees with the roots #and it has a dead firering and two log stools under it #indicating people take shelter there sometimes #so I took the campfire minion and I scaled it up a little and tucked it into the existing firepite #so that is 1 model #then each lambis its own although I was able to reuse some posing #and then the moths are 1 model and ofc odette #loath this set because it could be so much better (': #ah well!!! i still really like how it ended up coming out

[switchcase]

Ended up seeing that complex case specialist and for the first time felt like I was a whole was understood. Usually I go to a Dr and they know about One diagnosis I have and everything else they're like "wow that sure sounds tough is your other specialist doing a good job? Cool cause I don't know shit about that."

#Also learned a few things! #Like apparently the brighton scale sucks shit at assessing hypermobility and connective tissue issues in POC #Because we often don't have hypermobility in the same areas as white people #And also apparently there is a study showing that 80% of PNES pts when observed over a long period of time turn out to have epilepsy #.log

[trojanteapot]

tl;dr the numbers in Infinity Train makes no sense and makes this scientist want to scream cry and throw up

Being an astronomer that is also a fan of Infinity Train honestly gives me psychic damage when it comes to how absolute bonkers this number system is. For most of my life after Book 3 I have chosen to ignore it for the sake of my sanity but I cannot any longer.

For example, let's take a look at these two screenshots:

So in the screenshot on the left, Grace is something like 13-14, and on the right, she's 17-18 or something. The point is, this is roughly 4 or so years apart right?

Now take a closer look at Grace's number on the right screenshot:

So there's around 15 visible digits. Which would mean that her number is in the 10^15 range, or a quadrillion, right? Nope.

There's digits all around her arm. So let's use our physics brains and assume her arm is a perfect cylinder, and that 3 digits spans the diameter of this cylinder. So with grade school math we know the circumference is pi*diameter, so actually she would have 3 times as many digits on her arm at that moment.

3*15 = 45

her number is in the order of 10^45.

10^45. One with 45 zeroes behind it.

Do you KNOW how MASSIVE that number is?????

BUT WAIT you say, her arm isn't a perfect cylinder, her wrist is smaller than her elbow. Fine. 10^40 then.

Coincidentally, when I made a number glove for my Simon cosplay, it also ended up having roughly 40 digits on it, but I digress.

LET'S PUT 10^40 INTO PERSPECTIVE.

This is the Sun.

In terms of kilograms, the sun weighs 2x10^30 kilograms. So again, that is 2 with THIRTY ZEROES behind it.

But if Grace's number at the beginning of Book 3 was a mass in kilograms, it would be at least ten orders of magnitude greater than that. Not ten times. Ten orders of magnitude. In other words, TEN BILLION TIMES THE MASS OF THE SUN.

Do you know what is ten billion times the mass of the Sun?!

THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

So, Infinity Train writers, you are telling me, that in the span of four years. Grace's number went from 702 to A FUCKING GALAXY SIZED NUMBER?!

Okay chief. Sure. Why not.

#infinity train #ramble #grace monroe #infinity train book 3 #shitpost #astronomy #astronomical numbers #log scales #logarithms #every day this show is closer and closer to giving me a goddamn aneurysm #also a perfect demonstration of how incomprehensibly massive numbers are and how our puny human minds cannot understand them #this all started btw while i was trying to write a really simple scene in my fanfic #it was going to be simple #it was going to be fine #how did it come to this #i hate my life #i blame vyvanse

[tophats-tea]

drawing fanart everyday for Danganronpa: A New Generation until the First Episode comes out

Day 62: polylog

Check out the fangan!

#danganronpa a new generation #DRNG #asaro abeno #rosie darwin #kya yoko #nishimura okura #julien kenta #poppi tomiko #dailydrng #tossing all first 6 character in the logs into a poly ship #they’re cute together so :3 #had to draw this before quana’s log comes out for obvious reasons #on another note #almost all of their outfits would probably be really uncomfortable to sleep in #but I didn’t really want to come up with alt outfits #and killing game usually don’t have nighttime pajamas for the participants #i think everyone’s heights are actually somewhat up to scale too somehow #polylog #I’ll come up with a better ship name later

[pierswife]

"I'm tired of being the puppet of this world"

Jaded and disillusioned Contest Idol Amanda my beloved <3

Tbh a lot of this was sooooo much experimenting with layer effects and brushes and god I had so much fun with this. What if you??? Had a Chandelure??? And were just so damn tired of doing something that you used to love??? But felt like you couldn't escape from it because you were in too deep??? Yeah :)

#no more wip hell!!!!! #anyway :) #tbh never drew a chandelure before so that was fun!!! it is... definitely not to scale but when are pokemon ever to scale?? #I would save this for halloween but I have better plans :D /threat #data log: manda's doodles #s/i: amanda (pkmn)

[nikkiissleepy]

anyway lilibet pics from alt

#logged in to do cny24 free pulls there #and got mermaids ref 👍 #and scales also #sleepy.jpg #shining nikki #took a cute avi pic too that i didnt save

[meticulous-tendencies]

it ain’t much, but it’s honest work

#food tracking #meal prep #meal planning #fitness #calorie tracking #bulking #fitblr #photo diary #weight gain #weightlifting #fitness journey #gym diary #food logging #food diary #high protein #waterloo #sandwich #porygon #food scale #kitchen

[aceofspades-11b]

Can I have a blue pen?

Me looking up half chewing the only one pen I brought

Fellow batchmate didn't even respond just looked away in disappointment

#fuckin phy lab #fuck u #if I can't defeat it with sarcasm or whatever is available in the moment I'm done for #and I come preloaded with sarcasm #so I was as prepared as I could be #turns out I was wrong #and the moment was so wrong #imma kill the prof and lab assistant #got the worst experiment #2 crucial things were not provided #had to go around 20 mins asking for proper apparatus #one broken multimeter I got #discharge rod they just said uske bia krlo hum kya kre tum log kharab kr dete ho leke chle jaate ho #arree benchod #ye to teri zimmedaar haina ki kya kre #fucker tried gaslighting me ki iski zarurat nhi rod ke bina hojaega #had to “share” #fuckin prof himself said yeah this setup may not be working good luck with it #good luck?!?!?!!! #good fuckin luck #why tf would you have it on exam day if you KNOW IT DOESN'T WORK??!!!!!?! #alag hi lund aadmi hai #also apparently we needed a pencil scale erasers calculator whole lotta stuff to make graphs and all which I didn't have #but that's on me #altho I did need readings first to fukcin draw a graph #indian institute my ass

[lavampira]

druid sun elf turned whm/sch elezen rights !

#idk i was messing with her to figure out eventual glams and she was so cute in the sunset i had to snag this before logging for the night #she’s so noodley arm tho shdgshf need a scale for her #dani plays ffxiv #game: ffxiv #oc: elaith nathair

[wncrails]

#trains #wncrails #n scale #1:160 #nscale #train #n scale trains #nscalelayout #model railroading #logging layout #shay locomotive #shay

[porto-rosso]

idk mostly my thoughts on vissagio's kon proposal are that it's really a shame we're not getting a new transfem character in a big 2 comic, especially seeing as we've never had an older, (slightly) higher-profile character come out as trans decades into their publication history before (which would've been kinda big! that's largely unprecedented!). That being said, it definitely wouldn't have been a well explored, nuaced look into Kon's character as it's clear vissagio's main source is yja and her main goal is to write a superman self insert.

#and like. these 2 things can coexist #and while vissagio is correct that transing kon would have gotten some level of exposure #i don't believe it would've been on enough of a scale where the benefits outweigh just overall how badly her proposal misinterprets kon #i guess #.log

[scientific-tricorder]

I was thinking about Star Trek movies and this came to me.

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#Star Trek #Star Trek movies #TOS movies #TNG movies #The Wrath of Khan #The Voyage Home #The One with the Whales #Nemesis #Galaxy Quest #Master and Commander #Not to scale #Tricorder log #Please add on

[zebraslovescupcakestoo]

Sorry, I completely forgot to post past masquerade outfits🙃.... 

The last one I had to purchased some missed days at the last minute, because my internet chip part from the laptop got busted and needed to be replaced.

Still happy to get it on time before the NEXT Phone Fling LTE log in event.

Screen shots are from BLUSH BLUSH.

#blush blush #William #Myx #Stirling #Scale #alternate #outfit #masquerade #LTE #log in #diamond bundle #purchase

[switchcase]

If you nerds keep doing this shit I'm gonna start calling you non-SRA multiples and say it's an academic term if you complain.

#.log #RA survivors are who got DID noticed and it used to be thought that only RA/OA and other forms of extreme abuse was the only cause of DID #if you make cute little dissociation memes on your blog and then say this on my shit #(which btw is explicitly a book from '91 and was only interesting from its conceptualization of OSDD and dissociation as a scale) #I'm going to start being mean about this lol