Glue and Pieces

I love how, after everything thats happened in the mcu. People are still making fics where they all live together in the tower and no one died. Like, yes! I do wanna see buck and tony becomming somewhat friends. I wanna see sam being captian america with steves support. I wanna see all my friends still alive and happy and having movie nights. This genre of mcu fics is my favorite!! Plz never stop writing this!

what we should be wearing: a horrific mashup of victorian gothic and 80s clothes

Gonna wear these together

I AM HAVING FLASHBACKS TO EARLY AND MID-90S SCHOOL PHOTOS AN I BEG YOU TO FUCKN STOP

[A tweet from user at Jake Sidwell reads, “New doctor: You’re rather articulate about your condition. Me: Yeah. I have to be. Communicating with doctors who treat me as an unreliable witness to my own condition is second language. It’s even harder to feign ignorance to protect an ego so big it could get me killed.” End ID.]

Dr. : do you experience any of these (Covid) symptoms?

Chronically ill people:

Auto Mechanics Pose Dramatically to Recreate Renaissance Paintings

Photographer Freddy Fabris has paid homage to the great Renaissance master painters using his camera instead of a brush. This unique tribute—aptly called The Renaissance Series—fuses contemporary culture with the dramatic styling of the original portraits.

MAGNIFICENT

The photos and lighting are great; let’s also hear it for the models, whose faces are both wonderfully expressive and remarkably in-period for Renaissance art.

this comment on the NYT’s carbonara recipe that uses bacon, tomato ketchup, and parmesan…….God’s mind

“when you, Americans, weren’t even in God’s mind. Ciao.”

i hate when people are like UHM FRUIT ISNT ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU IT HAS A LOT OF SUGAR like shut the fuck up go eat your nutritionally complete meal powder you bought off a fucking kickstarter project okay let me enjoy a clementine 

God SAME.

It even goes beyond that, like if I ever eat a raw vegetable for my own health I always get shit like “yeah but the dressing is super bad for you so you canceled it out by eating ranch with it” or “carrots have tons of carbs they’re basically sugar”

And I’m just like for real? I can’t have a baby carrot with ranch? I can’t have some fucking grapes? If the only truly “”“pure”“” food I can eat is raw celery and a daily multivitamin I’d quite honestly and truly rather just be dead.

Just because something has a lot of calories or sugar doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. Veggies and fruits have a ton of vitamins and minerals and fiber and you NEED calories for like…your body to work. So who cares if you smother them in ranch. Just don’t dip a clementine in ranch

I’m gonna dip a clementine in ranch.

Why do you hate Jesus

Jesus is my homeboy but God has a lot to answer for and my rebellion will continue until he does so.

Nothing about this post prepared me for that raw ass last line.

if you have Norton Antivirus or Norton VPN, delete the software ASAP.

Norton is automatically installing and running a cryptocurrency mining program in the backgrounds of their users. There is no text box asking to confirm the use of this program and is installed automatically, it runs during “downtime” on your computer . While the official announcement said that this program was exclusive to the US, international users are reporting it as well. We don’t know the exact scope yet.

To delete this program, must go into the files (Program Files/Norton) and delete the file NCrypt.exe. It will ask for the admin permission. (Some report having admin permissions on their computer but being unable to delete the program.) If the software is already downloaded to your computer, I would NOT recommend continuing to use Norton, as there is no guarantee that the .exe file won’t return in another update.

Tell your friends and family, reblog, spread this, please. It’s barely been getting any attention, and I worry that Norton is setting a precedent that other companies will repeat. However, if a large (or very vocal) part of the userbase continues to complain, it may make Norton or other companies think twice before mining crypto on your computer.

Confirmed on Norton's website 1/4/22.

This was trialed in their early access program in June of last year, and is now included with all subscriptions.

Don't want to mine cryptocurrency? You should use a different antivirus.

Windows Defender is actually pretty good last I checked.

...UGH. :/

thank fuck I have a decent VPN

Amazing. This orange cat has multiple brain cell

He stole them from the other orange cats

hold up, I made this a while ago.

The MP line of product is very diverse 

MP11

Keyboard.

MP12

Robot toy.

MP13

Preamp.

MP14

Commuter train.

MP15

ANOTHER FUCKING GUN.

do i really gotta watch all of these before getting into mob psycho 100

I just had cultural whiplash about five times

Remember if you’re out at a store and someone says “This is a robbery” you can say “no it’s not” and then the robber will leave because theyre a robber and this is no longer a robbery .

You can not just say this without dropping the whole story

Ok so,

My dads coworker is at the front and this man comes Up and hands him a document.

The coworker took a Look at the document and while he couldn't read the things written by Hand, because he wasn't wearing his glases, he did notice the Logo of a different Bank so he's like:

"Oh, sorry sir you can't do that here! You have to go to the other Bank for this :)"

The man, visibly confused leaves, but dosen't take the document with him.

The coworker, now just as confused as the Guy actually Takes Out his glases and reads the hand written part:

This is a robbery

He channeled the spirit of bugs bunny.

Preserving games is SUPER important and no one in the industry seems to care about it whatsoever.

Emulation is important to games being preserved over time, because games, especially CD-based ones are so easily damaged irreparably. But the content is ultimately more important than the delivery method, and emulation is the only reliable way to make sure that said content doesn’t vanish from history.

We’ve completely lost an estimated 90% to 95% of films from the silent era. Roughly half of all films are already permanently lost. If the industry is not careful, we’ll lose the history of the early eras of gaming the same way we lost the early eras of film. Future generations will wonder why we didn’t bother to preserve such a crucial part of art history.

Without the goverment, who will help those in need?

Okay, the notes on this are giving me hives and I am seriously concerned about the absolute lack of critical thinking present, so some things about this from a union electrical worker who works a city contract:

1) Are those stairs up to code?

Just by looking at them: no. Open risers are a tripping hazard, I don’t see any tread grips so they’ll become a death trap in wet conditions, and those treads don’t look thick enough, supported enough, or even level. But hey, maybe it’s just a bad photo. But how far do the railing support posts go underground? Are they below the frost line? Were they properly supported in concrete? Was the concrete prepared right and given enough time to cure properly? Is the wood properly treated for weather resistance? Did he take into account the ground shifting on such a steep grade?

Even IF he did all that and the stairs were 100% up to code, the city has no way to verify that. So no, the city can’t just leave them there.

2) Who cares if the steps are up to code?

I saw a concerning amount of this in the notes. I thought we were all on the same page re: Cities have a moral obligation to make sure their structures aren’t deathtraps waiting to happen, and that’s what codes are for. I promise you, you WANT buildings and structures to follow codes and regulations. But in any case, they definitely have a legal obligation for it, so if they leave those stairs up on public land and someone trips, the city could be on the hook for millions in damages. So no, the city can’t just leave them there.

3) There’s no way stairs cost that much, it’s just the city stuffing its pockets:

$65,000 definitely seems on the steep side to me, and I’d want to see a breakdown of expenditure. But I also don’t know the scope of the project. For a set of stairs like the ones above? Yeah, that’s a lot. To excavate the entire grade and put in a concrete structure that includes stairs, an ADA compliant ramp, and good quality weather resistant material? That sounds more reasonable.

But the city also likely needs to have the following: a ground survey of the build site, architects to draw the plans, civil engineers to OK the plans, and the contractors - typically union, and therefore more expensive - to excavate and then build the structure. All of those steps are going to take a LOT of people and a LOT of time and therefore, a LOT of money.

4) Labor doesn’t cost that much, someone is just giving the job to his contractor buddy who’s inflating the price:

Labor does cost that much. Stop telling people to unionize and demand the value of their labor and then getting mad when people do it.

Anyway, in my city at least, contracts are done by blind bid and the lowest bid wins. Under most circumstances, my city legally cannot take a higher bidder, explicitly to prevent the above circumstance.

TL;DR:

“Local man puts up steps” is NOT a safe solution to this problem, the city legally and morally cannot let an unsafe structure stand, even simple construction is complicated and expensive as hell, and acting like the city could have done this for $500 is ridiculously out of touch.

Building and egress codes are /literally/ written in blood just like so many other protections, we take that shit seriously.

Also, speaking from the healthcare angle, a broken hip from tripping on stairs can lead to complications that kill an elderly person. 

Having them not be open, having tread grips, etc, is potentially life or death for the elderly. There’s a reason hospitals take fall risks so seriously (that’s why beds have those lockable railings on the sides.) 

Did not think of this. Good information.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tom-riley-park-stairs-rebuilt-1.4227365

A few notes:

- There was already an accessible path to that area of the park. This issue is all about a footpath created by people taking a shortcut up the steep slope. Not an actual maintained path that’s part of the park.

- After removing the wooden steps, the city installed the above-pictured cement stairs with proper handrails, tread width, riser height, etc.

- The $65,000 initial estimate was probably for redoing the entire area leading from the parking lot to the community gardens, not just the steep part at the very end. 

One last thing: You can tell that this was an ad-hoc footpath because there is literally a railing blocking the way between the path and the parking lot, and the dude’s steps went up and over that railing.

“Labor does cost that much. Stop telling people to unionize and demand the value of their labor and then getting mad when people do it. “

THIS, YOU LAZY, TIGHT-ASS FUCKERS

#MedicareForAll

I've said it before, but I'll say it again:

I'm an American living in Germany. I've lived here for four years as of this week (June 2021).

Two and a half years ago, I had a medical emergency in the form of gallstones and an infected gallbladder. I tried to tough it out, like a True American Who Can't Afford Treatment, and ended up in the hospital getting the gallbladder removed. I was brought in on Thursday, had the gallbladder and five gallstones the size of macadamia nuts removed on Saturday, and was home by Tuesday. Total cost, 200 euro.

Back in March, 2021, I saw a visual distortion in my right eye, like an afterimage of looking at something bright for too long. Got seen by the eye doctor that day, got sent to the hospital that day to get a diagnosis--ocular vein occlusion--and spent the following three days getting followup diagnostics, including a full blood panel. I got diagnosed with having elevated levels of homocysteine in my blood, and that turned out to be caused by a genetic disorder that runs in my family (MTHFR-5 mutation) where I can't metabolize B vitamins correctly. And now I'm on modified B vitamins and the difference in my daily life is amazing.

Total cost for the hospital stay and all of the blood tests and eye examinations and other tests?

250 euro.

In my old city in the US--which has a nationally renown hospital--the gallbladder removal costs a year's salary for a minimum wage worker.

US healthcare if you are not wealthy is a bad joke.

I’m a New Zealander living in America, and the prescription that cost me $30NZD for AN ENTIRE YEAR back home costs me $USD/MONTH here.

I hope I never end up in hospital. You’d better shoot to kill if you have an issue with me bc I’ll be coming to take the bills out of your hide!

This porno didn’t fuck around

there’s… a lot to take in here…

I was so flummoxed by this I had to learn more, so I took to Google, where I found this blog post by Dan Cardone, who was a grip on this film. Some highlights:

growth