“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else
Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
gender to me is like a car i dont really want one and society would be much better if it was not structured around it. but i got one because it helps me get around and sometimes its fun to make it go fast
and people tell you to move to one of a handful of cities if you want to avoid having one, but when you get there the majority of people have one anyway and jobs expect you to as well
Car dependence has ruined the physical and social infrastructure of this country. If we want any revolution we need Walkable safe human scaled cities
amtrak I love you and you’re so right but this post is about gender so
gender has ruined the physical and social infrastructure of this country. if we want any revolution we need gender-optional safe queer friendly cities
you’re all joking about not wearing earplugs to concerts, right? we’re not out here rawdogging 120dB. right.
to be clear i’m not trying to be moralizing or anything it’s just important to me that people at least know they should be protecting their ears at concerts and clubs. repeated exposure to loud enough music will lead to hearing loss. you will get tinnitus. you don’t want tinnitus.
[garfield meme edited to read “you are not immune to hearing loss”]
I understand tinnitus can sound really vague and inconsequential to someone who hasn’t experienced it, I really get where everyone making jokes about it in the notes is coming from. that said:
tinnitus can be extremely debilitating. mine still sometimes keeps me awake for hours at night, despite having gotten better over the years. it can make it difficult to concentrate on anything else.
the more you are exposed to loud sounds, the higher the chance of getting tinnitus, and the worse it will get. even if you already have it, or already have hearing loss, you should be wearing protection in places like concerts and clubs.
you can have both hearing loss and tinnitus.
there are many ways to find relief for tinnitus, and it may fade on its own, especially if you take care of your ears, but there is no known cure.
If you’ve never had it, I really recommend looking up videos of what tinnitus sounds like, and just imagine that, always. or go through the tags and read through what people have said about their tinnitus. wear earplugs!!!
the Transsexual’s Gambit is when you use whichever public bathroom has a shorter line and pray you pass well enough as nothing in particular for it to work
I cannot stress enough to Tumblr staff that they do not need to change the site. Do not try to be like Twitter. Do not try to be like Reddit. Do not alter how this site works.
Tumblr will be the most popular social media site if they continue letting all these other sites implode
Providing whole hard boiled eggs is a great form of enrichment for rats. They’ll have a lot of fun and get mental stimulation from trying to break open the shell, and eggs are a healthy source of protein and a favorite treat of many rats. Though this should be a treat provided only under supervision, rats are generally good at telling what is and isn’t food, and usually won’t eat the eggshells.
However, one egg is pretty large for a single rat, so I’d recommend feeding one egg for every four rats. If you have less than four rats, you could wait until they’ve eaten half of it and then remove it to make sure they don’t eat too much. Excess protein can also be difficult on older rats’ kidneys and can cause skin issues in harley rats, so that’s something to be mindful of as well.
The only other thing I notice in this video is the turf that the rat is running over. It’s hard to tell if it’s indoors or outdoors, but I’m leaning towards indoors due to the wooden furniture present. However, I’ll link back to this post on why rats should not be taken outdoors just in case.
