Taylor | Born 7/15/96 | F | 23 | Ace | US | I'm Saphruikan and I talk big, but I'm probably terrified of you! I mostly reblog memes, Pokemon, SNK, Undertale, SU, and pictures of snakes, along with some other random stuff. This blog isn't spoiler free, but if you want me to tag anything I'll do it gladly! Sorry if the happy naga!Marco gets in the way of any posts!
I’m really glad that Aaron’s self-immolation for Palestine is getting attention, but on November 8th there was also a Congolese man who did the same thing for the genocide happening in the DRC. From what I read in the article above, his fate and identity are unknown but I think his story should be getting equal amount of traction and I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it on Tumblr specifically yet.
I’m starting to think that maybe Europe just isn’t that big
no but because australia is close to the bottom of the map and the flat map is distorted to fit a square map shape, australia on the flat map is significantly smaller compared to places closer to the equator.
Thank you for being the one single person in the notes who understands map projections. Australia is big, but still significantly smaller than the US.
Australia is not significantly smaller than the mainland US, no. These are the real sizes, not a Mercator projection. I think you’re misunderstanding what yanzinator said. The US does have significantly larger island territories than Australia, though.
The continuous US (so, not counting the islands and Alaska) and Australia are roughly the same size:
US: 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2)
Australia: 2,969,907 sq mi (7,692,024 km2)
And the person above has the impact of the Mercator projection completely backwards: North America and Europe appear much larger than they actually are due to their latitudes. Most notably Greenland looks like it is bigger than Africa! (It isn’t.)
In the picture below, the pale blue is Mercator and the dark blue is actual size:
And here is Africa vs Greenland:
There is a website where you can drag and drop countries on top of each other to see the actual size comparison taking into account projection
Next up in the torment nexus: weed gummies that kill you
Some people are taking “Nobody in history has died of a THC overdose” as a challenge.
Love the people in the notes like “this would fix me” bestie this thing would dissolve your brain into a fine mist. You would discover the kind of mental illnesses Freud could only dream of. Forget meeting the Hat Man this is what turns you into the Hat Man. This is worse than that torture drug that makes you expirience 600 billion years in a second. This is the secret to honest to god shifting. The fucking MK-ULTRA era CIA would tell you to dial it back if you showed them this thing. This is the closest humans have ever come to making a physical manifestation of a bad idea. The only thing this is fixing is fixing to turn you inside out.
If you’ve been affected by the actions of US-based regulation in regards to accessing your ADHD medication, please submit a comment! Even if you’re outside of the United States. The fact this has such far-reaching consequences is something that needs to be known!
You have until April 15th, 2024 to submit a comment. Please make your voice heard!
PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.
you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.
to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.
to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.
if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)
They are already selling data to midjourney, and it’s very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.
here’s some instructions for anyone who doesn’t know how to opt out:
login in on desktop, it’s not available on mobile yet
click “Account”
click on your blog
go to “Blog Settings”
go to “Visibility”
Scroll down to the bottom option
turn the toggle ON, not off
you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go
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