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just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated.
and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.
when I was in high school debate club we’d take turns arguing each side of an issue and I was very good at winning debates
this is how I realized that winning an argument had nothing to do with me being right
To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through
And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.
For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.
I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,
honestly the funniest thing about this post is referring to kentuckians as communists.
Brückenwurzel | bridge root by Michael Lumme
holy shit is this gorgeous.
Alright, I think I like tumblr now.
A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.
That was on July 7th.
Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.
On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.
There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.
But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.
99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.
None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.
And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.
You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.
this is one of my favorite videos ever
It's like watching animals playing in a sprinkler.
I'm doing an informative survey for myself. Please reblog and vote if you can!
I don't think I've logged out on purpose since 2009.
Spot on 😆
He loves club life
I call this problem "Serious whispers" because for some dumbass reason filmmakers seem to be under the impression that when people have serious discussions they always do it in furtive mumbles and whispers instead of talking at a normal fucking volume like ordinary people. Want to build dramatic effect and too lazy to actually direct your actors or edit your story? Just have them whisper! Instant serious tone!
Not the background noise though we need that to roar like a jet engine so you remember that these characters live next to a 6 lane highway at all times
Tony Hawk is like fucking Perry the Platypus because if I saw him without a skateboard I'd be like "A man" and the second he picks up a skateboard I'd be like "TONY HAWK?!?!?!?!?!"
This basically sums up all his tweets
phineas and ferb heritage post
plot twist
kinder surprise
the plot chickens
The Pacific Ocean is huge.
If they make an earth flag it should be of this angle to piss off the most amount of people
None Earth with South New Zealand
The amount of time you have to spend on this website to still remember the Deep Lore like None Pizza with Left Beef, only to apply it to this post. Truly, boggling.
[ID: Screenshot from SungWon Cho on Twitter (X). "it is an honour and a privilege to voice two tumblr sexymen, i'd like to thank the academy" Bellow are two pictures, a panty shot of Senshi from Delicious in Dungeon, and Mordecai from Lackadaisy" ]
Can we talk about how that was the perfect cross-cultural example? I was like "oh this sounds so pleasant, how is it-" then Pumped Up Kicks came on and i was like "oh. Oh yeah okay."
