At first, González-Acuña did not want to devote resources to what he knew to be a millenary, impossible to solve problem. But upon the insistence of Héctor Chaparro-Romo, he decided to accept the challenge. After months of working on solving the problem, Rafael González-Acuña recalls, “I remember one morning I was making myself a slice of bread with Nutella, when suddenly, I said out loud: Mothers! It is there!” (Note: Mothers, from the Spanish word “Madres,” means, of course, many moms. But in this context it is equivalent to the expression “Holy sh*t!” in English, or, to a lesser extent, “Eureka!” in Greek.) He then ran to his computer and started programming the idea. When he executed the solution and saw that it worked, he says he jumped all over the place. It is unclear whether he finished eating the bread with Nutella. Afterwards, the duo ran a simulation and calculated the efficacy with 500 rays, and the resulting average satisfaction for all examples was 99.9999999999%.
once again, legendary inspiration strikes during a food break
moments of rest are when creativity comes out to play—the shapes and patterns that your brain has been so intensely focusing on are still there but just in the peripheral vision of your mind’s eye; they can waver and morph when you’re not paying attention and sometimes that extra freedom to change past the bounds that you’d imposed when you were thinking intentionally and seriously is all the ideas needed to morph into the shape you’d been looking so hard for
I think a core conviction of mine (aesthetically, politically… across all domains, really) is that the low often in fact embodies the supposed virtues of the high, that these virtues are true virtues but their ownership by the high is a fiction, and that it is fundamentally important to bring this to light. We live in a world full of bad things, yes, but with good things in absolutely all of its corners, and there is no more insidious an idea than that this or that corner is empty of value so please don’t look.
In this regard you might call me a radical or you might call me a moderate.
I often come into conflict with radicals who think the reverse: that the supposed virtues of the high truly are the domain of high but are not virtues, that the domain of the low is vice but only vice is just.
Well anyway.
This post is about the aesthetics of slime molds but it’s also about people who say rationality is a straight man thing and it’s also about why I’m so interested in “barbarians” throughout history and it’s also about why I’m a partisan of fanfiction even though I don’t read it and it’s also about various other things than that.
Has all kinds of detritus stuck in it and on it, from being on the ground and so on. But I can hardly blame it for this, first of all because I have detritus in me too although it is better hidden (common strategy of the high regarding its vices). Virtues of the slime mold are its elegance, its uniqueness and its perseverance. Among others.
Instead of dividing the world into east and west I divide it in such a way that europe, japan, india and so on are the same type of thing and US, china, south korea are the same type of thing. Other countries fall into these groups too like I think argentina is a type of america, most of south america is a type of america but uruguay is totally a europe. This is objectively correct.
It’s about like. How do I explain it. I saw a video with this Japanese guy who had an immaculately clean apartment like pristine and organized with all these cute little thingies but he said that he takes a bath every night and then saves the water and reuses it in the morning. Like he doesn’t drain the bath, to save water. European behavior. On the other hand if you’ve ever been in a chinese guys car it smells like cigarettes SO fucking bad and he has trash on the floor and goes home and plays league of legends for 14 hours a day. Highly american behavior. The president of uruguay smokes pot or maybe that was the old president. In the rest of south america they’ve got presidents tweeting about which women are too fat. Do you understand?
Europe is Oedipal and America is DDLG
Right side vs. left side drivers. In france and shit they are spiritual left side drivers. And especially germany. France is the most american european country.
New York is the most european place in america that’s why it sucks. LA is the most american place in america. LA is the most american place in the world. remember that chinese tourist who carved his name on the ancient egyptian artifact? in america we go to the walmart looking like shit. in germany they go to beautiful buildings looking the same way but they dressed that way on purpose. because crocks are good for your feet or something. pnw is a european area, sf is an american bastion in europeanized norcal.
dental! we’ve got great teeth in america. in europe such as uk, japan and so on they don’t really care about it. although I do think yaeba is cute. the thing where mao zedong killed all the sparrows is like one of the most american things I can imagine.
I don’t know about other countries as much as I should. think that most of the middle east is europe and so is russia but idk about kazakhstan and shit that might be america. west africa is probably america. nigerian prince is inherently american. boko haram seems kind of american. isis is very american idk about kurdistan, I should find out about kurdistan.
They’ll have a bunch of guys cooking some shit at a temple, churning all these giant pots full of stuff and they give it away for free, and they won’t be wearing hair nets. Not the kind of stuff they’re worried about in europe. I mean they are in the government and stuff, you know, they worry about hair nets in the bureaucracy. But probably some old lady who doesn’t care about that will cook for you at some place, and you might think that some of her sweat or hairs got in the food but you won’t really worry about that. It’s not like it will hurt you. Have you ever been to france the cups are always dirty. At any restaurant. They just don’t clean cups in france they don’t believe in it. In america we’ll clean those cups with industrial solvent and if a little bit of it gets in our water after that’s probably fine. Industrial solvent kills germs so actually it’s probably good to have some of it in your body, in fact.
Hmm yeah. Americans love a good chemical. Americans will put some type of acid on anything. In europe they eat maggot cheese, isn’t it sicilian maggot cheese? It’s from italy.
In europe there’s the most high tech facility you have ever heard of particle accelerator biolab and the 30 year old guys who work there go home to their stone house from the fifteenth century and their mom tucks them into bed. In america everyone has an iphone that projects holographs and their walls have built in DarpaSafe™ monitoring technology and they work at the hazard scooping plant scooping asbestos or maybe the hr factory deciding who to cancel this week.
heard chicago is going into the air tonight. whole city. ripped up off the ground in one big chunk. forever suspended over Lake Michigan. like Farum Azula. and Lori Lightfoot will finally ascend to the status of a lesser God.
No es gracioso, no me reí. Tu chiste es tan malo que hubiera preferido que el chiste se me pasara por alto y dejaste de contarme el chiste. Para ser honesto, este es un intento horrible de tratar de burlarse de mí. Ni una risita, ni un jeje, ni siquiera un sutil estallido de aire fuera de mi esófago. La ciencia dice que antes de reírte, tu cerebro prepara los músculos de tu cara, pero ni siquiera sentí la menor contracción. 0/10 este chiste es tan malo que no puedo creer que alguien legalmente te haya permitido ser creativo. La cantidad de poder mental que debes haber puesto en ese chiste tiene el potencial de alimentar todas las casas de la Tierra. Adquiere personalidad y aprende a hacer bromas, lee un libro. No digo que esto sea gracioso, lo digo en serio sobre cómo esto es solo una vergüenza en la comedia. Solo has matado el humor y cada acto cómico del planeta. Estoy tan decepcionado de que la sociedad haya fallado en su conjunto al poder enseñarle cómo ser gracioso. Honestamente, si pongo todo mi poder y tiempo para tratar de hacer que tu broma sea divertida, sería necesario que el propio Einstein construyera un dispositivo para atarme para poder conectarme a la energía de mil millones de estrellas para hacerlo, e incluso entonces todo ese chiste que recibiría la gente es un roce sutil. Tienes suerte de que todavía tenga la más mínima empatía por ti después de contar esa broma, de lo contrario habría cometido todos los crímenes de guerra en el libro solo para evitar que vuelvas a intentar el humor. Deberíamos poner esa broma en los libros de texto para que las generaciones futuras puedan ser cautelosas de convertirse en un fracaso cómico tan absoluto. Estoy decepcionado, herido y ofendido de que mi precioso tiempo se haya perdido en mi cerebro entendiendo esa broma. En el tiempo que tardé, estaba planeando ayudar a los niños que quedaron huérfanos, pero debido a eso me has dejado pasar el tiempo explicando la integridad obscena de tu terrible intento de comedia.
what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta
they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don’t ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don’t know and frankly it confuses me too.
“MISC FILMS”(aka films from everywhere that isn’t the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)
this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta
oh heck yeah
ok.ru is always my go to for safer film finding and is great for hard to find gems
so just verifying for anyone hesitant that it’s an alright site to use and you can use it without logging in as long as you don’t mind either hitting skip on the login prompt regularly OR just fullscreen a video to avoid seeing it entirely.
vermicomposting and growing my own mushrooms have made me finally realise that the thing i’ve always thought of as one whole “rainy northern forest” smell is like, 1/3 that freshly shed worm castings smell, 1/3 that living mushroom smell, 1/3 everything else. in mushroom growing forums/tutorials you often get told “you’ll know it’s healthy mycelium when you smell it, it smells like the most intensely alive mushroomy smell you’ve ever smelled” and people go “how the hell am i meant to know what ‘alive mushroom’ smells like, that’s such a weird description” but then they get some growing well, and sniff it, and they go ‘oh!’ because we have all smelled it before, just never so intensely and in isolation. it’s so immediately reminiscent of a freshly rinsed summer forest, and you realise that you’ve actually been casually aware of how full of mycelium the world is this whole time, even before you read anything about it, just unable to isolate and put a label on that information. anyway, i guess that’s why “forest scented” beard balms never smell even a tiny bit like forest, even if they make a really good effort at all the pine needle and sap smells. Lacks Mushroom
