honestly guys the world could be Great

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

I don’t think I’m better off for having a computer in my pocket at all times. I was better off when the computer was a thing I booted up to play Zoo Tycoon.

LEVEL 11 TEACHER PANIC EVENT

KID WROTE "MPREG VORTEX" ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB

I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY

ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR

ASKED "MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS"

SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS

@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo

don't you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher

I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao

side eyeing everyone who has an nhl twitter/blog but isn’t hyping up the pwhl right now. like get on that immediately please

like this is so important yet yall keep hyping up the most basic hockey guys I have ever seen. please for the love of god support women’s hockey and help ensure these women can keep going.

IT’S QUEER WOMEN ON ICE!!! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!!!

recap for those who don’t know/weren’t aware WHY this league is so important and why we should support it — this is the first season of the professional women’s hockey league (pwhl) in which these female athletes (olympians, former u18, and college stars, ect) are being properly compensated for their skills — AKA making enough to not have to work two jobs while also playing hockey — it’s not millions but it’s enough — starting at 35k, average at about 55k, and each team will carry a minimum six players signed to three-year contracts paying them $80,000 annually. The highest salary is rumoured to be at 120k. The league already has a collective bargaining agreement as well that covers the next eight years. There have been successful women’s hockey leagues in the past, but none began with the kind of staying power this one has.

it has 6 teams

The first season began on Jan. 1, 2024, with each team playing a 24-game schedule, 12 games at home and 12 away. All games are be streamed FOR FREE on the pwhl’s youtube channel. In Canada you can also catch the games on sportsnet, cbc, and tsn depending on the day. Link to the schedule.

This is so big for not only women’s hockey, but women’s sports in general. This league was crafted together as a labour of love by women’s hockey alumni like Jayna Hefford and other female athletes such as Billie Jean King. People who love the sport, and women’s sports in general and want to see it develop and succeed so little girls can have a dream and goal of playing professionally like boys do.

support this league. It’s our best shot

baby had wandered into the next room and I heard a clatter and then "oh no. ba spill everywhere"

the fact that you get the “best” ending (the one where shepard lives) by first gathering all the power in the galaxy behind you and then choosing the option which will murder an entire species and also your actual friend who has been on your squad this whole game is so. like i am convinced they aren’t saying anything here, they are literally not saying anything because it’s the mass effect 3 ending and they ran out of fucks to give but. it’s so bleak, right?

do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

“of course this is the bare minimum amount of labor someone must perform to be a human being worthy of being alive! what do you think, rimon?” brother if i told you what i think about this your head would fucking explode.

vampires bite your neck because it's sexy but also so you don't see their faces when they're biting you and start laughing hysterically

person being bitten: *getting really into it, maybe even falling in love a little bit*

the vampire:

The difference between 👀 and 👁️👁️ to me

so you think you can stone miette and spit in miette’s eye?? so you think you can love miette and leave miette to DIE?? oh mother!! can’t do this to me mother!!!

All memes left on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen

Nothing says ‘life continues’ like when you’re playing mass effect and you have to choose who to sacrifice and then you go to a new cluster and Hackett is like ‘hey a probe went down over there check that out for me’

Created while I was delirious with a fever