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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
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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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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
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Ancient Babylonian/Akkadian addition:
𒄿𒉡𒈠𒉺𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒌋𒋫 𒇷𒅂𒅖𒌅𒈬𒌋 𒄩𒋗𒁮𒅗 𒉡𒌨𒊭𒈠𒋛𒅎𒅁𒁍𒌋𒋫𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒄩𒊏𒊏𒉌𒅎𒀀𒈾𒄿𒁲𒀀𒅗𒂖𒁲𒄀𒊭𒉡𒌝𒈥𒄿𒇷𒅎𒀀𒈬𒌨 𒋗
Inūma pānûm mār ilim ūtallid ištu muḫḫašu damqam nūr šamšim ibbuṭ. Ana idi ḫarrānim ana idi akal-tigê šānûm mār ilim āmuršu.
At the time the first son of the god was born, from his beautiful skull* the light of the sun shone. Beside the road beside the Bread-Cymbal I found the second son of the god.
*Yes skull is the correct phrasing, Akkadian is just metal like that.
odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
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Can you imagine how much Tolkien would have lost his goddamn mind if he ever learned about Vatertag/ Männertag? A male-only holiday literally called “Men Day” where to celebrate bros being bros, you build incredibly elaborate drinking wagons and then take them for hikes in the countryside where you appreciate nature and sing walking songs while drinking the entire time. Dude would have lost his shit and retconned that into the shire immediately,
On that note, Hobbit Bollerwagen would be fucking NUTS.
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Don't usually share work stuff but I do work in climate policy and nearly every memo I write includes some variation of "government funding for this obscure but necessary area of climate mitigation research has been multiplied (sometimes by like, 1000x) under the Biden Administration" and while I know the oil permitting stuff is much splashier news there's a whole world of work that needs to be done under the surface that Biden is doing. And if he doesn't win in 2024 all that progress goes away and the climate is absolutely fucked
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Gentle reminder: “bear witness” means “learn about what’s happening, so you can talk about it, agitate for change, and help where you can”
Not “you must watch X number of snuff films and look at X number of dead children, in order to be a good person”
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They really put the "repetitive task for engagement" button in the adhd/autism website huh
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The "Luke I am your father" scene in Akkadian/Ancient Babylonian:
Tammaḫḫaṣ. Maḫārum ul telte’i. Ki Obi-Wan lā ana ramānīka tuttaqqar.
You are beaten. You are unable to oppose me. Do not be destroyed for yourself like Obi-Wan.
Lā tuštaḫlaq. Lā šū šūbitanni.
You will not be helped to escape. Do not cause me to destroy you.
Lûk. Šū ul kabtūtka tīde. Šū ul danānka tīde. Qirbam… u anāku lulammidka. Aḫāʾiš danāni… itti šunūti… quttûm ša nukurtam nilte’i. Ermiānim u ṣerret šamê, turruṣum nilte’i. Aḫāʾiš!
Luke. You do not know your own worthiness. You do not know your strength. Follow me, and I will teach you. Together our two strengths… with them… we will be able to end the war. We will be able to reform Anu’s Canopy and the Rope of the Heaven! Together!
Matimeni ul māmītam lutmākuššu! -
I will never swear oath to you!
Danānam ša aḫam daʾāmam lā tīde. Aššum abāka Obi-Wan ul īwūkum.
You do not know the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you about your father.
Šū īwâm! Īwâm tadūkšu! -
He told me this! He said to me that you killed him!
Lā. Anāku abāka. -
No. I am your father.
Lā. Lā! Annītum ul kettam! Lā matār! -
No! No! This matter is not the truth! No further!
Gabīdka ummer. Annītum kettam tīde. -
Examine your liver. You know this matter is the truth.
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOO.
Lûk. Šarrum rabium, maḫārum telte’i. Šū šarram rabiam īde. Annītum namtārka. Qirbam… u aḫāʾiš ana abim u mārim ṣerret šamê bêlum nilte’i.
Luke. You can destroy the emperor. The emperor knows this. This matter is your fate. Follow me, and together, as father and son, we will rule the Rope of Heaven.
Qirbam. Ēdāniš šuāti gerram.
Follow me. This is the only path.
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I can't get over the fact that Dick fucking Cheney said, basically, that Trump is too evil of a dude for him to get behind.
That's like... fuck, idk... that's like Dick Cheney saying a politician is too fucking evil for him to work with. The dude who famously shot a dude in the face and the dude apologized to him. That fucking guy.
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