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sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it
new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?
me: dONn’t touch those
new guy:
me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.
new guy:
new guy:
me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.
Science is rational, scientists are human.
In Taiwan we have a special brand of snacks named 乖乖 (literally means “well behaved” but in a casual way like when one’s compliment a child or a pet of being good) that has green package.
It has become the lucky charm in the IT industry because engineers believe it will make machine acting good (like the name of the snack) and stay in green light (like the color of the snack’s package) when a 乖乖 is put on top of a server.
It is the only food allowed in a server room and the biggest semicondoctor company in Taiwan (which is also the biggest worldwide) even commissioned the snack factory to make a customized version with blessing on the package.
This is how a server room is blessed by 乖乖. You put at least one on top of each server. It’s important that the engineers change them before the expire date because legend says the snack looses it’s power after expire date.
You’ll hear engineers swearing up and down that their server room crushed down the one time they forgot to change the snack. Or some newbie ate the forbidden snack put on top of their server and caused a disastrous crush down.
The 乖乖 religion later spread to all people who want their machine to act nice. In the lab we put 乖乖 on ultra-low freezer (you really don’t want it to drop dead along with your 2 years’ worth of sample/data), mass spectrometer etc.
When Taiwan’s about to launch the first self made satellite in 2017, the develop team even put 乖乖 around the satellite model to prey for a successful launch (it did). This shit is real.
Broke: Humans are inherently good
Broke: Humans are inherently evil
Woke: Humans are, for good or evil, inherently ridiculous
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This picture goes hard as hell. Feel free to screen shot
things about this you may be interested to know
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Happened in ArgentinaB:
So this was not, like, a warehouse with 1,200 pounds of weed in it, and then the warehouse was empty. This is a little more than a thousand pounds of weed missing from a police stockpile of about thirteen thousand pounds (540 kg missing from 6,000 kg)C:
Just eating the plant does not result in the body absorbing very much THC. It has to be processed (burned, or dissolved into fats by cooking, or soaked in the right chemicals) But eating enough of it will alter a dog, so.D:
If mice did eat the weed, and they did get high, they would be a mouse version of stoned, not necessarily like human stoned, but studies involving injected THC solutions indicate that it does, like, chill them out (lowers stress responses)D:
mice will eat most things if hungry enough and have been known to ruin the occasional marijuana crop as it’s growing, but would have to be death’s-door-desperate to eat ready for market, pure dried flower.E:
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from twitter user deejaygeejaygee
it just gets better
and better
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you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?
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elderly man reading a pokemon creepypasta and believing every word of it
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Two Americas.
This should be on billboards across the country.
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