hi uh i keep seeing this being debated on tiktok and as your resident adult with a history of infertility who knows just.. way too much about pregnancy and hcg tests: if you are capable of getting pregnant, you really REALLY need to understand how drugstore pregnancy tests work. if there is a line, no matter how faint, that test is POSITIVE. Iâve seen people test positive and get a negative or start their period a few days later and be like âit must have been a false positiveâ. actual false positives are extremely rare. what most likely happened is something called a âchemical pregnancyâ which is when an egg is fertilized but does not implant in the uterus so the pregnancy does not continue. that positive test was not faulty or false, it was just an early test.
if you think you might be pregnant, get your hands on a test. you donât need the fancy digital ones. the ones you can buy at places like the dollar tree work just as well. buy a few and take one every day until your period comes on if you need to. if there is a FAINT line you arenât sure about (sometimes tests have something called an indent that makes a shadow that can be mistaken as a very very faint line), test again the next day. as a general rule, morning is the best time to test for most people.
in a post-roe america, is it vitally necessary that you know and understand that because if you intend to terminate, your window is incredibly small in most states and by the time youâve missed a period or begun to suspect you might be pregnant, thereâs a decent chance you are past the cutoff. please please please educate yourselves on this because it could mean the difference between you having access to the healthcare that you need.
Since abortion time frames is mentioned its worth noting that that is typically worked out by LMP (days since your last period) NOT gestational age (how long you have actually been pregnant). For example, you might have been pregnant for 4 weeks, but will be considered 6 weeks pregnant if you last menstruated 2 weeks before conception.
Car Trunk vs Car Boot: A clear win for US English, trunk was already a thing in which you stored items, frequently for transport.
Crisps vs Chips: I gotta admit, the Brits have this one. Theyâre thin slices of potato that have been made crispy. No chipping of any materials involved.
Car Park vs Parking Lot: Equally matched. Whatâs a car park? A place to park cars. Whatâs a parking lot? An otherwise empty lot where you can park.
Elevator vs Lift: Both equally fail to address that the damn thing also goes down.
i love this list but i canât bear the slander any longer: everything in the fucking world goes DOWN, that feature came free with the gravity. the selling point of a lift is that it elevates your uncharitable little ass any time you like. so be nice to them.
Hc that Ford gets a job at a local community college as a physics prof after he and Stan are done sailing around the world and fulfills his destiny as the eccentric professor he was always meant to be
And he quickly gains a reputation amongst the stem students as That Professor
I bet his ratemyprof reviews would be insane:
âHe didnât grade any of our homework until the end of the semester, but he brought something called a âplaidypusâ to class and let us pet it. Her name was Dorothy. 5/5â
âHe constantly ranted about how âtriangles are the most untrustworthy shapeâ whatever that means. Also he doesnât know how to use the internet. I hated his class. 5/5â
And many more iterations of âthis guy is terrible. 5 starsâ
âProfessor Stanford Pines once lept up onto a table in the middle of class to catch a bee that had gotten in, and then completely derailed class to talk about how great bees are. Amazing class i learned a lot. 5/5â
âDr Pines has a twin brother who he occasionally mentions, and once a guy who looked IDENTICAL to Dr Pines taught instead. The class itself was fine (albeit with more swears) but itâs clear it was a totally different guy.â
âThis professor doesnât start grading until the end of the semester, grades extremely harsh, and answers all emails in a manner that is so untimely it borders on straight up disrespect. He talks about fairytales and monsters in such a way that im surprised heâs not an english major, but its clear heâs absolutely brilliant. I would never take his class again.â
âHe once spent the whole hour talking in a made-up language (we checked - it doesnât exist!) and realised it only five minutes before the endâ
love that the scifi/fantasy trope of ridiculously adorable creature thatâs actually a super dangerous predator is a real thing that exists in this world and itâs the desert sandcat
itâs one of the most brutally efficient predators on earth and it looks like it should be dressed up in a frilly little dress at a childrenâs tea party
Basically, I donât think thereâs going to be an announcement that Tumblr is getting shut down. If the pattern weâre seeing holds, I donât even think itâs going to happen intentionally. I think Tumblr is going to go out like an early 2000s forum: theyâre just going to keep cutting the tech support budget until something goes wrong in a way that none of the remaining skeleton crew know how to repair, which could be tomorrow or three years from now. If it does happen, itâs probably going to happen completely at random, so thereâs no point stressing out!
Hey Science side of tumblr folks, if you were working on an NIH grant that was canceled, ProPublica is looking to hear from you to amplify your story and put it in the perspective of the ongoing assault on our commitment to care for each other.
Multiple relatives of mine donated their bodies to science. That donation was in each case an awe inspiring act of kindness and love, an effort to help create a world in which the thing that was at the time actively killing them would not do so to others if they could help it.
Huge swaths of disease research is based on similarly beautiful commitments to humanity, and the NIH represents our societal commitment to make those sacrifices matter.
So I am taking these bastards pulverizing it extremely personally and am incandescent about it. I am personally committed to making everyone involved in this suffer as much as I personally can. Which is to say I would appreciate if you took the time to help ProPublica shine a light on this atrocity if you have a story to tell them.
ProPublica is reputable af and extremely hardcore in their investigations. Theyâve also got a pretty good track record of embarrassing politicians enough to get good shit done.
I support them financially because we NEED them, and I encourage anyone who fits the profile to get in touch with them.
Speaking of porn logistics, another personal favourite bit of fuckery is when an artist draws a picture containing multiple dicks, then produces a separate alt for every possible ejaculatory configuration, like there are four dicks and sixteen alts such that thereâs a version where only dick A is jizzing, a version where only dick B is jizzing, a version where dicks A and B but not C are jizzing, and so forth. Iâm imagining some high-class dick connoisseur with exquisitely rarefied tastes out there like âyes, I want to see this character getting jizzed on, but only by the dick on the far left â the other dicks can wait their turnâ.
Some day Iâm going to write a spy thriller where it turns out that the conspirators are sending coded messages via those E-Hentai galleries full of endless microscopically differing jizz alts, where each image contains four dicks and each dick serves as a one-bit component of a hexadecimal encoding.
Brb gotta encode national secrets into my hentai art
Hey fun facts that are fun together :
* as a reverse engineer, I have worked on extracting these sorts of arts from hentai games.
* the game art does this sort of thing so that the story can toggle between different versions. Maybe you didnât get enough Friendship Points with Tgirl Jessica, so sheâs not ejaculating in this picture.
* the games are often smarter about this than the galleries: instead of storing every combination of ejaculating/not-ejaculating, they store 1 base image, then separate per-dick ejaculatory overlays. So if youâve got 4 dicks, this means they have 5 images instead of all 16 possibilities. But this makes no sense in an image gallery, so you have to compose the images together. Youâd think all-off and all-on are the only options you need, but some people are content maximalists. (itâs possible site policies regarding quotas and stuff is encouraging this behavior).
* around the same time I was working on tools to extract images from hentai games, I also was working on tools to steganographically hide files inside images, in several ways. This was in part because I was working with 4chan at the time and helping them catch files hidden inside images, because channers were turning 4chan into an arbitrary file sharing site (is it a jpeg or a neutral milk hotel album? Itâs both!), using it to bypass filtering/moderation (you put an image inside an image and now you canât see the internal image unless you extract it. Maybe it breaks the rules. Breaking the rules on /b/ is very bad), or hiding viruses in there (viruses that then post themselves back to 4chan and the cycle continues!)
* This is also when I worked for the US government
So all those facts put together, Iâll just say that IF it turns out secret government agents were hiding confidential information encoded into the images of hentai game ejaculations galleries, then⊠it was me, and I did it back in 2009.
Foone Turing, the trans Ian Fleming for the digital age.
Basically, I donât think thereâs going to be an announcement that Tumblr is getting shut down. If the pattern weâre seeing holds, I donât even think itâs going to happen intentionally. I think Tumblr is going to go out like an early 2000s forum: theyâre just going to keep cutting the tech support budget until something goes wrong in a way that none of the remaining skeleton crew know how to repair, which could be tomorrow or three years from now. If it does happen, itâs probably going to happen completely at random, so thereâs no point stressing out!
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