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Customer: YOU FOOL DMV: CONFRONTATIONAL Verdict: DENIED

#YOU FOOL!!

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#don’t vote 2

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I’m loosing my mind the commercial break filler video is literally just a default iMovie title template.

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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.

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If you're struggling with the cost of living right now (reasonable), this is your PSA to...

Google universities/colleges near you.

If you can't get out to more than one, look up which one has the highest tuition.

Look-up when the graduation date is

Drive neighborhoods near the university the week before graduation

So much stuff gets left out on the curb. Wealthy college students tend to prioritize convenience over money, so instead of carefully reselling their perfectly good stuff, they frequently give it away or put it out with the trash because that's easier than moving, reselling, or donating. Take advantage of this.

I furnished pretty much my entire apartment from college giveaways and yardsales.

What I got for free:

Mattress and box springs

2 10 ft area rugs

The massive 9-drawer chest (that has a label on the back that it was custom-made and shipped across the country) that my TV sits on.

Two 13 x 2 ft raised garden beds

My desk - just sanded it down and refinished it.

Three short stools

An organizer rack

Watering can

Tommy Bahama outdoor cooler (retails for $350)

Chairs

Shelves

What I got for cheap:

Two futons for $50

Custom coffee table with storage for $25

Three tall stools for $30

#I’m looking to try and score a bookshelf next week

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#I don’t have a nightstand #I just kinda use the corner of my desk #I’ve got tissues and a sound machine on the corner closest to my bed though

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hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

#Stacy’s mom

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(inspired by this one for the sake of full transparency)

#the clutter one #I have spent way too much time putting tools away in the shop this week

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#I already listen to 89.3 the current which plays a lot of Minnesota music becuase it’s mpr #so I feel like I could survive #(I do not live in minnesota)

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[id: a gray userbox with a black border, and black text that reads “this user carries their nintendo 3ds wherever they go” on the left is an image of a black 3ds.

#lowkey I’m going to do this next week during finals week #need a break? whip out the 3DS and play some Pokémon or Zelda

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#computers

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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At some point we turned on 10 hours of silence randomly interrupted by the sound of a metal pipe being dropped.

It really enhanced the mood in the office.

Me: oh yeah I’ll just swing by my design team for a few hours to help out, then go back to my dorm to do homework.

It has been six hours. I went to the library afterwards to print and do homework. It is now one am.

I have an 8am tomorrow.

#and by enhanced it means it made me and one other guy chuckle every time that it went off

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Me: oh yeah I’ll just swing by my design team for a few hours to help out, then go back to my dorm to do homework.

It has been six hours. I went to the library afterwards to print and do homework. It is now one am.

I have an 8am tomorrow.

#I am having fun. especially since the transphobic guy left so he stopped making homophobic jokes #but a ton of this was designed by like one guy and he didn’t make any instructions or like. write anything down #and there is some cad he made but he didn’t update it with the final design #anyways I’m slowly loosing my mind