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ao3 was founded on the idea that the archive needs to own the servers or the archive and it's works will not be safe and free of censorship.
this is what happens when the servers are owned by frightened puritanical investors
I've worked at big software companies long enough to know how this would play out as a bug. Users report the issue. Engineers think oh thats a simple fix. However this is Google so it's likely these tickets are triaged in a way that someone like a project manager has visibility into it before deciding to dedicate time into it.
the project manager asks "is this a bug, though?" not because of homophobia but because they want to know how many users experience this as being an incorrect suggestion vs a valid suggestion. so they call the data scientists in and run some queries, and lo and behold because there's more straight couples in the world of course the data shows this is only affecting a very small amount of users. this is working fine for most users.
but the engineers and other stakeholders point out why this isnt as simple as what the data days and it's more of a UX thing. call the project managers in for whoever's in charge of like, grammar analysis and not just the system that flags it. an epic is created in jira. meetings are scheduled. don't forget experts in other languages
five weeks later you're running an A/B test on not correcting users when they write "his husband" to see if DAUs drop when your grammar suggestion engine considers that gay people can be married
It's a source of considerable disappointment to me that, as far as I'm aware, there isn't a single publicly viewable video of someone attempting to create the Great Panjandrum in Tears of the Kingdom.
The what
To provide a relevant excerpt:
The proposed device comprised a steel drum filled with explosives, suspended between a pair of steel-treaded wooden wheels. The wheels were 1 ft (0.30 m) wide, and 10 ft (3.0 m) in diameter. The weapon would be propelled by sets of cordite rockets attached to each wheel. The designers predicted that, with a full 4,000-pound (1,800 kg) load, Panjandrum would achieve speeds of around 60 mph (100 km/h), with enough momentum to simply crash through any obstacles between its launch point and target. [...] The day of the test was described in detail by Brian Johnson, for the 1977 BBC documentary The Secret War: "At first all went well. Panjandrum rolled into the sea and began to head for the shore, the [military observers] watching through binoculars from the top of a pebble ridge [...] Then a clamp gave: first one, then two more rockets broke free: Panjandrum began to lurch ominously. It hit a line of small craters in the sand and began to turn to starboard, careering towards [the camera operator], who, viewing events through a telescopic lens, misjudged the distance and continued filming. Hearing the approaching roar he looked up from his viewfinder to see Panjandrum, shedding live rockets in all directions, heading straight for him. As he ran for his life, he glimpsed the assembled admirals and generals diving for cover behind the pebble ridge into barbed-wire entanglements. Panjandrum was now heading back to the sea but crashed on to the sand where it disintegrated in violent explosions, rockets tearing across the beach at great speed." Given the results of the trial, it is perhaps not surprising that the project was scrapped almost immediately over safety concerns.
SCOOBY-DOO: MYSTERY INCORPORATED | 1.01
We need to have a nomination for “Stupidest thing Tumblr.com has ever believed” and just move into an official Top 10 List.
For my nominations, I’m putting up:
or
I can’t decide which is more beautiful. It’s why we need a vote.
this is a picture of the human brain at the moment of death. tragic and beautiful
Fuck. That is a damn good nomination.
if you close your eyes when the train hits your brain will assume you are dead. Some find this comforting.
We’re getting into the good ones now. This is some classic Tumblr.
Two old favourites:
“Bitch, That’s the Tubby Custard Machine” (http://imgur.com/gallery/IObQF)
and the horse dildo that was passed off as someone’s arm. (http://abakkus.tumblr.com/post/48958415162)
This is rapidly becoming a master post of ignorances and I could not possibly be happier.
Rare blue watermelon
That disease where you get purple eyes, no period, and no body hair
How have we gone this far without anyone mentioning the bird in the chocolate fountain
soap makes water molecules smaller
I nominate the “we are killing the earth” picture of the earth in comparison from 1978 to 2012
the dog with the slice of ham on its face that everyone thought was a gigantic burn scar
“Tequila is the only alcohol thats not a depressant so you can drink as much of it as you like”
that post with the picture of the joker without makeup and people thinking it was a real person and defending him
that photo of voldemort being passed off as an aborted fetus
The two way mirror
“listen here, cumslut.”
I can’t believe you guys forgot someone trying to pass off a picture of the inside of a fig as a microscopic view of the inside of a vagina.
I can’t believe I was on Tumblr for every single one of these posts.
all the links on this post are broken and some arent given so heres a compilation of links for the stupidest things tumblr has believed (i tried to find the og post for most of these but some of them are posts/articles about said posts)
Black fire
Wanted to do an object head where the object is a Ouija board :D He talks by his eye planchet becoming transparent and going over the letters! ^^
The Darkling and Alina - Shadow and Bone
Artist: @msuglypants
Twisting themselves into pretzels with this headline holy shit
How many ways can they avoid mentioning that he's a cop?
morgana. yes thats right - merlin fanart in 2021 (: Gwen version
my friend who works in theatre just pointed out to me that WICKED is still showing tonight and the first line of that musical is "GOOD NEWS! SHE'S DEAD!" i really don't know how they're gonna work around that one
Important update
we can do it it
They rarely star wars
she killed herself
his breasts grow shaky
The dash is feeling Tennant-y tonight, I see.
i found this ancient post from my blog so if you want to know what tumblr looked like from an ipod in 2010……
WOW
A woman wearing Chinese armor at a Renaissance Faire
Spooky Caduceus for the spooky season. And because I’ve been playing Supergiant’s Hades non-stop for way too long. Here’s the good cow man in the role of Charon.
