good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose
Itās cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. Thereās a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.
The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her itās safe and ok!!!! (Whatās cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ādeal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughterā)
this is all in all an adorable video 10/10
Who Would Win?
Three apex predators
OR
One Screaming Long Boi
The second explination put this in my head.
Juvenile Lion: *loitering*
Mongoose: YOU DAMN KID, GET THE FUCK OFF MY LAWN!
Juvenile: MOOOOOOM!
Lioness: Oh for fuck sake not again. Mongoose, everything the light touches isā
Mongoose: OFF MY LAWN YOU IMPERIAL ASSHOLES! FUCK YOUR LIGHT! I LIVE IN A GOD DAMN HOLE, YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THAT BALL OF SWELTERING HATE IN THE SKY? THIS IS MINE! MIIIIINE! GO GET YOUR ASS BIT BY A COBRA AND DIE SO YOU CAN BECOME THE FUCKING GRASS AND I CAN FERTILIZE YOU!
Okay but do you realize how good this is for cancer patients?? People with scars who canāt grow brows??? People with alopecia??? (Sp? ) likeā¦ pls stop hating the beauty industry.
people with trichotillomania
Yes to people with trich. One of my roommates reblogged this saying they didnāt even know they made these until they met me. And the sad thing is, I didnāt even know they made these until I did a Google search one night in a fit of desperation. Iāve gone to so many therapists for trich, and instead of providing me resources like this, they would often leverage the fear of looking ugly as motivation to stop. If anything, it only ever made the problem worse.
These save me so much time in the morning. Before I discovered them, I would have to meticulously pencil my brows on every day just to feel normal enough to leave the house. By contrast, I can keep the fake ones on for about three days at a time, and gluing them in place takes only a few minutes with a bit of practice.
Iāve been getting mine from headcovers.comĀ for over three years now. Theyāre a bit pricier than the ones offered on other sites, but they last 3-4 months if taken care of properly (meaning to buy the siteās adhesive remover as well and clean them after each use). They also look very natural. Everyone whoās talked to me about them told me they didnāt even know my eyebrows were fake until I alluded to such or took them off in their presence.
This sounds like it could be quite useful for some of my readers!!
of course something ignorant was said about this product by the original tweet poster, but
reblogging for the false eyebrow site^^
really thinking about purchasing some.
Going bald during chemo didnāt bother me nearly as much as losing my brows. Iām not sure if it was because I had adorable wigs or just because I was prepared for that part, but nobody tells you how much the color, thickness, and shape of your brows affects your face.
I didnāt even know eyebrow extensions were a thing. Reblogging for my followers with trich and alopecia
i didnāt know chemo makes your eyebrows fall out. that would be so upsetting. iām glad false eyebrows are a thing.
These are wonderful for people with cancer and or with trich? Cause holy hell thatās amazing tbh.
I hate the fact that most people donāt tend to think about the fact that people with disabilities and disease/need for this might be able to you know, use stuff like this. They assume only people who donāt have issues and or the only issue they have is ālol thin eyebrows and u guys get brow extensions why u so extraā is justā¦. ughā¦.
I want to share with you all one of the tools I have used to learn Japanese since very early on in my pursuit of fluency. Itās one of my favorite applications and I really recommend it to anyone who is learning any language.
(psst! long post coming, but stick around to the end for a shot at the giveaway!)
HelloTalk is a language learning app that allows you to connect with native speakers of your target language.What I really like about HelloTalk is that there are multiple features that not only encourage you to try speaking, but also help to ease you into it without to pressure of a real time face to face conversation (this is a real life saver if you are even marginally as shy as I am!)
On your profile you can write a nice self introduction- Try writing it all in Japanese!- and you can even record up to a 60 second audio introduction! This is great because itās a good opportunity to practice your pronunciation and to let other people hear your pronunciation so that they can let you know what youāre doing wrong (or right!)
From there you can go to the search page , which will show you all of your new potential language exchange partners or to the moments page, which will show you some other members short personal posts that you can like or comment on to get a conversation going.
If you tap ālearnā on the moments page it will display posts that are written in your target language. I love this because it allows you to immerse yourself in the language and to practice thinking in it.
All that there is left to do is to start talking!
Most conversations will start of text based, but there is always the option to send an audio message by clicking on the microphone icon at the bottom right corner. There is also a transliteration button just above the microphone icon. This allows you to check to see that what youāre writing makes sense. After you type a sentence you can check it by hitting the transliteration button.
Once your ready, and after you have received 5 messages from you language partner you will have the option to do a voice call.
This will work like a regular telephone call and will be real time. And on top of that; if you and your language exchange partner are both VIP members you can make a video call and talk face to face!
Seriously!
HelloTalk is such a useful app to have! Having conversations with native Japanese speakers and helping them with their English while they help me with my Japanese has been both fun and challenging, and thatās the best way to learn something new! Keeping regular contact with someone in your target language will definitely help you to retain more!
As an apology for my long time absence, and as a thank you for both new followers and those who have been hanging on with me for a long time (we have more than 2,000 study buddies now! WOW!)
Ā Iāll be working with the nice people at HelloTalk to give away a one year VIP-membership to one lucky follower!
All you have to do to enter is reblog this post!! Thatās it! And for the sake of inspiring some of you to practice speaking out loud; if you record a video of yourself giving a short self introduction in Japanese youāll get a second entry for the giveaway!!Ā
BE SURE TO TAG ME (@nodoyobenkyou) SO IāLL SEE IT! And please make sure to include subtitles in your video so that we can all understand what youāre saying, no matter our level of understanding!
The giveaway will end Friday December 29th, so reblog and record before then! Good luck everyone!
This is a great app and Iāve met tons of amazing people on here. They also have a really low tolerance for harassment, which is always a concern with any of these apps.
Seriously, Iām sharing recipes with Japanese housewives and talking about dinosaurs with a financial analyst it is EXCELLENT
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purlsā¦
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom beingā¦
3322 square feet
Factoring it outā¦302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of aĀ ābinary codeā was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Hereās Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, youāll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.Ā
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.Ā
Hereās a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and hereās a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you donāt just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Hereās an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0ā²s) told the machine notĀ to knit the ground color (1ā²s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
Once again, knitting machines are not the origin of punch cards. Looms are.
^ yes, looms!Ā
Chaining together several punch cards was the clever part of the Jacquard loom. Hereās a picture of chained punchcards, ready to instruct a pattern. This is the forerunner of a computer program:
From the 1700s to the 1960s, punched cards were a Thing Used to Store Data. The early association of women with computer programming was possibly due to the fact that women were already familiar with creating and using textile punch cards.Ā
And then we all forgot.Ā
And then we apparently all decided that computing must have been invented by men in the 1980s, in a single bolt of enlightenment, when Bill Gates had a dream?? I donāt know, it seems to be how people treat it.
But anyway, yes, textiles are absolutely the origin of the data entry methods we use today, though to be perfectly accurate, the craft was weaving.
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