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DOCTOR WHO | 14x01 "Space Babies"

recently this image comes to mind whenever i cant make a decision

The thing is, those Manic Pixie Dream Girl movies aren't unrealistic because that kind of thing never happens in real life. They're unrealistic because they never show the epilogue five years later, where the Sadboy Protagonist is posting on reddit going "help, my girlfriend has cool unique hobbies and it's embarrassing me."

I don't know how this comes as a shock to some people, but if you're dating a girl with a bug collection, you're going to be dating a girl who proudly shows dead bugs to your mom.

Hey now. Sometimes you come back five years later and now they're both cool girls

see also: my single favourite tweet about my former residence

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.

an article on the subject for the curious:

Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.

What’s going on:

So yeah, there is a chance this may be it for the festival. Good job, Eurovision. Great fucking job.

Shit is going down HARD in Eurovision right now.We are hours from the beginning of the fest and in the last couple of hours:

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

i had to phone a taxi today, scary

every time i see this post i think of that person who posted on reddit that they wanted to go to subway for the first time but they were scared they would say the wrong thing so someone gave them step by step instructions for the entire process and what all the choices would be and when they would ask what question and i just think

someone will

someone out there will see you and say "yes. the world is scary. but let me hold your hand and show you how to do it anyways"

everyone needs that someone, and everyone can be that someone

The subreddit r/explainlikeimscared is a surprisingly good resource for this. People are always very kind and thorough from what I've seen, and I spend a decent amount of time there giving walkthroughs and answering questions when I know the process.

All those videos that are like “Why is this big area of this country uninhabited???” always have five reasons it might be.

“Why is the population of Spain almost all concentrated in these little areas?”

Well it’s probably the mountains innit

“Why does most of Russia live on the west side of the country?”

Well it’s probably the freezing cold winters and boiling hot summers innit

“Why does most of China live east of this line?”

Here there be water, my friends.

Many great societies have managed a living in some of the less habitable parts of the planet but they have generally been hardy and small in number while the rest of us have stuck to the mostly temperate river areas.

Yes there’s ways to get water in the Sahara desert and ways to get warm in the Arctic but most people generally prefer flat areas with livable temperatures and lots of water.

Like that’s why the American west was mostly sparsely populated until relatively recently. The fact that there’s so many of us there now is frankly a result of the hubristic technology that is the air conditioner.

Kendrick is murdering this man