this is it. the happiest video
wholesome
but it’s not only the cat.
Being a window cleaner is cold and hard work. And he stops a few seconds to have a bit of fun with a cat. This is so fucking cute.
Of course my brain goes to a place where either the cat dies or the window cleaner dies/retires/gets fired and either way it’s very sad.
this is a legitimate problem in robotics.
like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.
it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).
anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).
In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.
ALToh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about
Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy
Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge
Ah, I remember seeing a video about Mark Tilden back in the day: he was demonstrating his technique for building “BEAM robotics” in a way that allowed them to adapt to changes to their physical configuration. I remember quite distinctly him being very proud of what was basically a robotic stickbug, and then demonstrating how it continued to operate as he mutilated it beyond repair relative to previous sorts of robots, and I felt that he was being extremely cruel to it.
I guess I wasn’t the only one.
God, remember when we all learned what CDDB was and the first programs to auto-add that data became available???
Remember when Phish did Rodeohead and System of a Down did The Legend?
Shout out to anyone that ever made a character that’s a ‘Secret
Government experiment’ that escapes the lab and is now wanted and
misunderstood.
That’s top tier character design, thank you.
Shamelessly poaching someone elses idea, social media poll but the options arent solely geared 2wards 15 year olds
what was your first social media before tumblr??
Tumblr was my first social media ever <3
Amino
DeviantArt
Google+
LiveJournal
MySpace
MSN
one of the big three (twitter/tiktok/instagram)
other (add in the tags!)
Reblog 4 a bigger sample size dadada you know how it is w polls
Booooooy how people don’t want to look at this.
Arguably, with age, the majority of people do become disabled.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
“Why should healthy people pay for sick people?”
“Because the only things separating healthy people from sick people are time and luck.”
All the previous reblogs with commentary being in 2019 is fucking haunting.
ID:
Redditor asks for help. He wants to call his adoptive mom
“mom” instead of her name
(Reddit Post:)
My bio parents put me (15m) up for adoption when I was born so I was always in foster homes until I was twelve.
I had a teacher Janice (33f) who was my home room teacher.
Janice found out about me being a foster kid and how I wished I had a family. Janice had also been a foster kid growing up and so long story short she then became my foster mom and adopted me.
Janice is the best mom I could have ever asked for She has been so unbelievably kind and loving to me and I absolutely adore her The problem is that I don’t call her mom, I just call her Janice.
I want to start calling her mom but have no idea how to without making it awkward. Please help me internet strangers.
Update:
So… was not expecting this big of a response.
Thank all of you for responding and some of the ideas made me really
tear up.
Anyways this morning I went to Janice and I said “good morning mom” she just looked at me and started crying then came over and hugged me and kissed my forehead.
I hugged her back and she said I could call her whatever made me comfortable and that she loves me more than anything. I just replied with “l love you mom”.
End of ID.
King
Worth noting that he protested loudly against the WWE doing a show in Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the company retaliated by making sure he hasn’t been on TV or PPV since. Not fired, of course, so they can keep selling merchandise with his face on it (and keep him from joining the competition), just out of the public eye so he and his protests gets forgotten by the fans.
Picture that: an ubiquitous celeb and household name like John Cena basically got black bagged and vanished for speaking up for human rights. That’s the power of capitalism, kids
I do not know a thing about wrestling but I knew of John Cena because he was that famous, like the Rock or Hulk Hogan or Mr. T, just a massive presence and household name beyond the WWE. It only hit me from reading this post that one day I just suddenly stopped seeing or hearing about him in the media ever again. Is this fucking why?!?
the-backspin-alchemist
tumb1rprincess
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Paid for seven thousand, the other 100k was free
