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Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

consider the coconut

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

listen if an immortal feels brave and supported enough to come out we should respect them

This post is a journey

1 Reblog = 1 Respect

I maintain that humans started attempting classify animals, and some god or another made the platypus, and is still laughing.

Zeus: *hits joint* okay so like. It’s gonna have a duck bill right. But an otter body okay? And then a beaver tail. It’s a mammal. But. It lays eggs!

Hades: wait wait dude. Give it. Give it poison. Make it poisonous

Athena: You mean venomous, and make sure the eggs have both reptile and bird traits. Hermes: *takes the joint* Give it extra senses. Poseidon: It should be aquatic.

I MEAN where’s the lie

Demeter: … And where exactly do you expect me to put this? Everyone: Australia.

Absolutely nobody:

Classic who fandom: LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOOMS LOO

i wish chameleon circuit's music and thirteen's run happened at the same time, can you imagine the absolute bangers they'd produce purely from the last two episodes

album name: F.A.M.

tracklist:

Track six is basically a parody of London Bridge by Fergie

❛ whatever it is? the answer is no. absolutely not. ❜

❛ i’m unavailable for the next five thousand years, i don’t care how cute you are. ❜

“.........................”

“I was trying to tell you your shoe was untied, but okay. Thanks for the compliment?”

other people who play time lords: “i like being kind”, “i like being powerful”, “i like exploring the emotional consequences of immortality”, “i like studying the subjectivity of morality”

me: “listen, samsung is going to make a hard drive that is bigger on the inside in the next twenty years and the universe is actually holographic and this is the only outlet i have for talking about how buck fucking wild physics is please talk to me”

HEY EVERYONE SO NOW THAT IT’S BEEN LONG ENOUGH LET’S FUCKING DISCUSS HOW I NAILED WHAT WAS HAPPENING DURING SKYFALL AT 10:45 PM EST ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 4TH

y’all: mlm and wlw

my chaotic dumbass internal monologue: mlem and wuhluhwuh

Fun game: replace "baby" in any song with "maybe" to change them from being love or pop songs to just declarations of uncertainty.

Oooooooh maybe I want your love🎵

Hit me maybe one more time?

CUZ I WAANAAA BE A COWWWWBOYYYY maaaabyeee?

And I was like maybe, maybe, maybe oh Like maybe, maybe, maybe no Like maybe, maybe, maybe oh

Ice ice maybe

If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s

I’m just gonna go ahead and reblog this for purely educational purposes.

added bonus is that concrete now taste good

Sugar does not really do that. What you need is citric acid (you get that to get the hard water residues out of your pots/water boiler/washing machine), looks like sugar granules. Or concentrated vinegar. Cement needs a high ph to bind properly. So if you add acid, it won’t properly set and/or needs 3-4 times longer.

Speaking as someone who works in the concrete forming industry: the easiest way to severely fuck up any large concrete pour is to delay it at the wrong moment.

If someone is trying to build a huge fuckoff concrete thing - say, for instance, a giant wall - they’re going to need an obscene quantity of concrete, and that’s all going to have to be transported there from the nearest mixing plant. This means they’ll have multiple trucks coming by to decant concrete in consecutive pours while the workers place it and vibrate it to ensure it all intermixes and sets properly, forming a monolithic mass. If one pour is allowed to set before the next one is added, you get a big, ugly, possibly structurally unsound gap between the two called a “cold joint.” A bad enough cold joint can completely fuck your whole project because the next engineer or inspector who sets foot on that site is going to take one look at that motherfucker and immediately embark on a quest for blood vengeance. You will literally have to cut that whole section of wall out, slap some dowels in the nearest structurally sound bits, and re-form and pour the offending segment from scratch, which represents a fortune in cost overruns and will make everyone involved very upset. This is an especially bad problem in hot climates, because the concrete curing process is exothermic - that stuff sets much faster when it’s really hot out, and its 28-day compressive strength tends to be poorer as well.

So if, hypothetically speaking, you wanted to completely shit up a wannabe dictator’s enormous unfeasible poured concrete vanity project, you could literally just randomly hassle and delay every concrete truck on its way there. Dude’s gonna end up with a giant worthless pile of shitty crumbling concrete and exposed reinforcing steel, and an army of pissed-off contractors to boot.

reblogging for purely educational purposes nothing more

Reblogging this here, since we previously reblogged the inaccurate version.

according to Concrete Construction.net a small amount of sugar is used delibarately to slow setting by 4 hours (but actually increases strength.) Higher amounts of sugar delay setting longer, but we in delibarate use cases we are talking mixtures of 0.1%-0.3% if I understood correctly. So going off of the comment on cold joints, one assumes that if some of the trucks were sugared and some weren’t then they wouldn’t set at the same time causing the crumbling concrete they described.

essentially the point is to make it set at uneven rates so that it crumbles or is at risk of crumbling

Don’t forget to save some sugar for the gas tank of the cars and construction vehicles. It isn’t as damaging as the legends say, but it’ll sure prevent the vehicle from being operable for a while.

good to know

Reblogging for … science I swear.

VIVA LA RESISTANCE!

Also note: Don’t attack/harass the workers. They need to pay rent and put bread on the table as much as you do!

Who cares what someone trying to build a prison needs?

People who need jobs to care for their families do not deserve the blame for building prisons. The owners of for-profit prisons do, the congressman allowing and aiding the growth of the prison industrial complex do. Do not forget who we’re fighting against, it is never the underpayed construction worker, never the person working all hours to get food on the table, the exploited are not at fault for something done by the rich and powerful. They want us to think like this, they want us to turn on each other so we won’t turn on them.

Good War Advice!

Down with the Bloody Red King!

this is extremely interesting scientific information that I think everyone needs to know for science.