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Viola-ology

@viola-ology / viola-ology.tumblr.com

The random ramblings of a violist/engineer/very clever person. Fond of most things space, science, classical music, and sci-fi.
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From the somethingawful forums, the live thread when 9/11 happened

This thread was wild, especially because the OP was posting webcam photos from nearby right after the first plane hit. Possibly before CNN even reported on it. 

wow terrorists hijacking a plane that’s fucking rich, you idiot, you complete buffoon

This poster might be one of the first dozen people in history to publicly accuse Osama Bin Laden, possibly before any news agencies, and their post has the words “ROTFL Owned” in it.

🤔🤔🤔

Posted not even 2 hours after the 9/11 attacks and this person predicted the next 2 decades of American public policy. Remarkable.

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despazito

Somebody please explain to me what's wrong with CS, and why they're trying to convince the trans girl OP try homeopathic hypnosis conversion therapy. Are both of them doing a bit?

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vaspider

If someone could explain what was wrong with Cybersmith, they could solve all international conflict next.

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spiralarray

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

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cy-cyborg

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

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mapsontheweb

The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

Nope! When Chrome first came to popularity, people switched over to it cause it was “faster” (turns out, it just eats through your device’s CPU) but since then Firefox has upped its game in a major way. Chrome just doesn’t measure up anymore. Plus, nowadays Chrome is just a data harvester designed to show hyper targeted ads - so even if Firefox ain’t for you, it’s still worth ditching Google for a different browser.

Legit though I switched to Firefox and it’s so so so much better

i’m gonna keep reblogging this ad infinitum so yall might as well convert now

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storms-path

So about the benchmark...

Something incredibly funny that folks over on Twitter have discovered is that if you set your computer's date to 1st April, Meteor will... change somewhat.

Looking a little more gentlemanly than usual, Meteor.

Apparently he can get pretty damn blocky too, so make sure to check your hardware if you can count his polygons.

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pussyronin

Gollum and yoda sucking each other off while a big steamroller gets closer and closer

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shyfrog-says

This is one of those firing shots in to the air, property value lowering posts that keeps this site utterly unmarketable

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curioscurio

they turned off replies like Netflix canceling a beloved and audience adored premiere show. i could have written season 2

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