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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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miss-beloved

intersex animals r not nonbinary animals they r intersex animals hhow many times do wwe have to do rhis

miss-beloved

i dont know how to explain to you that referring to any living creature wwirh mixed sex characteristics as “true nonbinary” is harmful to bboth intersex ppl and nonbinary ppl

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people say "gender is a social construct" and then claim intersex animals are obviously nonbinary. you just put "gender is what's in your pants" in a new font.

wherenightmaresroost
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I'm sorry, I don't want to come across as harsh, but this is honestly ignorant as fuck.

I'm not gonna claim to know everything about the importance of studying dead languages, but I think I can safely say that it would probably be a really bad thing if we lost these languages to time if we didn't have people studying them.

We can lose hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years of story-telling history if these languages end up forgotten.

I can't put it into clear words right now because I'm busy or go int depth because I only have a common sense understanding, but I just wanted to address this. So if anybody on Tumblr who's more qualified to speak on this kind of matter wants to explain, then please take the floor for me.

wherenightmaresroost

  1. Many, many English words have Latin roots, so studying Latin can expand your English vocabulary to the point that you won't even need to check the dictionary meaning if you can recognize its Latin roots.
  2. Additionally, you can make up new words as needed by mashing together Dead Words.
  3. Lots of scientific jargon use Latin and Ancient Greek exactly because they're dead languages - the meaning of those words are set in stone. Studying those languages can help you understand and remember the extremely complex strings of words common in those topics.
  4. Latin is the Mother of Romance languages. Just studying Latin can make it easier to adapt to the grammar rules of the other Romance languages, or even help you Frankenstein out a meaning of a simple paragraph.
  5. All translation is a series of compromises. Even if Ye Olde Latin Text has been translated to English again and again and again, there WILL BE several points where the translator had to circumnavigate the translation to a phrase because the exact tone and concept is difficult to convey in English!!! (I am bilingual and this problem frustrates me to no end!!)
  6. And that's approaching this problem in good faith. We have a history of people outright lying about their translation credentials, deliberately translating a text "wrong" for their own benefit, or adding flourishes that drastically change the tone of the translation. Reviewing that 18th-century English translation of some 13th-century Latin book instead of just thoughtlessly reprinting it is vital to having a clear understanding of that book and placing it in its proper context.
  7. We have a LOT of untranslated archived material that have text written in dead languages, Latin included. Translating these provide us history.


And last but not the least:

Things do not have to be "useful" to have value.

demonicae
conarcoin

i will never understand the insane takes against having games be more accessible

conarcoin

“does every game NEED to be accessible to disabled people? 🤨” yeah, actually

conarcoin

also the pissing and shitting over difficulty settings. just play the game on the normal difficulty dumbass it’s not for you

demonicae

Same with stuff like screen shake, particle effects, flashing/lightning effects: “But the game would look terrible without them!”

Then Just.... Don’t turn them off then, dickface...

Meanwhile, *having the option to turn them off* would greatly increase the number of people able to play the game.

oldmiltia
oldmiltia

Ok so I was curious about that fucking deathtrap and I noticed a couple... oddities.

A promotional image of the OceanGate Titan submersible. It is a white cylindrical machine with a single domed window on the front and a conical tail.ALT

Alright so this thing is pretty stupid; I'm not at all familiar with submersible vessels, But it activated a sleeper gene in my skull from my time being obsessed with a certain video game.

So I decided to check the promotional page for the contraption.

A screenshot from the oceangate webpage promotional blurb regarding the titan. It reads: Titan 5-Person Submersible | 4,000 Meters "Titan" is a Cyclops-class manned submersible designed to take five people to depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media [...]ALT
A screenshot from the OceanGate webpage promotional blurb regarding the titan. It reads: Development and Innovation Project Cyclops Project Cyclops was born out of OceanGate’s appreciation for the complexity of subsea environments and the need for a diverse set of tools and technology to address operational requirements below 500 meters. Through strategic partnerships, OceanGate applies the latest [...]ALT

(I'm going to put aside the second image, where they state the previous shit they hammered out had a 500 meter depth limit tops (i.e. that they, at best, made something that could get to 500 meters then decided that meant they could handle making something that could handle 8 times that). Thinking about the fact they brag about this so brazenly hurts my head. Back to the topic at hand.)

Ok so google shows "cyclops class" is not. a thing that exists. But it sure is funny they keep saying that word. Again maybe it's just my stupid video game brain but that doesn't seem to be used in this context anywhere else. Then I saw the renders.

A 3D render image of the OceanGate Titan submersible. It is similar to the finished machine. The most noticeable changes are that the domed port being painted to resemble the cornea of a human eye (with the porthole being positioned as its pupil) and the text on it reads "OceanGate Cyclops 2"ALT
A 3D render image of the OceanGate Titan submersible. It is similar to the finished machine. The most noteworthy change is the full-glass front dome, in contrast to the single porthole mounted at the front of the actual ship.ALT

Ok the newer one on the left really loves that "single eye" thing and looks silly enough, but the older one is.... ok. I give up. That's Subnautica. That's Subnautica For Real.

A screenshot of the Cyclops submarine from the video game Subnautica. It is a white metal tube with a domed glass bubble at the front which serves as a viewport and a conical tail.ALT

They built their goddamn suicide death trap based on a submarine in a videoed game.

oldmiltia

A screenshot of two Tumblr comments from user @mallk-z. The first one reads: "Other way around. Subnautica credits ocean gate for letting them model the cyclops after their subs", the second one reads: "You can even see a little blurb in the end credits of the game if you wanna check it out for yourself"ALT

No Fucking way. There's no fucking way. There's no fucking chance that--

A screenshot of the credits from the game Subnautica. One of the lines reads: "CYCLOPS® is a registered trademark of OceanGate, Inc. and is used under license."ALT

I'm speechless.

hintsiren
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The original tweet is the corniest thing I’ve ever fucking seen

ovenroastedtwerkey

A. They're not gonna tip you, periodt. So already the $10mil is looking better.

B. They're not gonna talk to you, so any "business advice" you thought was gonna be worth more than $10mil, that's null and void, aint happening.

C. Here's the real secret of their "success"; they're all bad people. That's literally it. They're willing to lie, steal, cheat, bully, oppress, rape, etc to get what they want, and their appetites are never sated, so they never stop lying, cheating, etc. You don't get that kind of money through hard honest work. If you're willing to be a big enough piece of shit, you could easily be one of these guys.

So yeah, if someone's offering that choice, get it in writing and stay the hell away from these creeps.

red-mercer

But if you're serving them you can poison the food

hintsiren

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Originally posted by baileyjoseph