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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
w-what if potato is actually lucky
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This cannot be true. He cannot be THAT stupid
For anyone who isn’t a programmer, to understand how bad an idea this is, programming isn’t like being a writer, it’s more like being a writer, an editor, and a test reader. Yes, you can do a bunch of writing in it, but often you’re editing instead. You maybe add a dozen new lines, but maybe they replace a hundred lines that were worse. Or maybe you spend DAYS just reading, taking notes, looking for plot holes. Programming is all three, and how much you do of each changes all the time.
Just like making a book, coding projects tend to start out with a lot of writing, then as they mature they shift more to editing and reviewing, as you aren’t making new things, but refining and correcting what’s already there. Twitter is 16 years old at this point, it’s going to involve a LOT of editing and reviewing rather than just writing.
You could easily be one of the most effective Twitter programmers and have your net “lines added” count be NEGATIVE, because you found some inefficient or broken code and rewrote it to be simpler and better.
This has happened to me! Once I had a part time job for a medical company and they wanted me to look into a problem they were having where sometimes they’d lose data. I spent nearly a week reading over their code and doing tests, and finally narrowed it down to one line of code, which needed a one line change.
One week of work. 1 line added. They paid by the hour and were happy to pay me for all that work, because in the long run that probably saved them millions. You really want to judge that as nearly worthless compared to the time I turned in 400 lines in a couple hours to make them a form that would send an email with survey results?
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“I grew up in Colombia. There wasn’t much to watch on television back then because we only had a few channels. Everything was black-and-white. But every night there was a famous music show. All the big bands came on that show: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin. Always my nose would be stuck to the TV. I went completely crazy. My parents could not understand. Sometimes I’d get so excited that I’d cry. I grew my hair long. I told myself: ‘One day I will be in a band. I do not know how. But I will do it.’ A few years later my father got the opportunity to manage a dairy farm in Spain. From there I was able to get a visa to London. I was nineteen years old, and London was almost too much for me. It was so exciting. All the time I was crying. I worked as a dishwasher and started going to all the nightclubs. I fell in love with punk music: Sid Vicious, Billy Idol, The Clash. They made me dance like a crazy. So many times I cried. But I especially wanted to be on the stage. So I found two guys and started a band. We were called The Ridiculous. For two months we played on the street outside the club. But it was harder than I thought. We never were invited inside. Our drummer found another band. Then the guitarist found another band. And then it was just me. That was forty years ago, but I’m still keeping the punk alive. One day I will try again.”
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How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
- Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
- Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
- Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
- Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
- Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
- Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
- Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
- Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
- Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
- Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
- Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
- Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
- Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
- Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
- Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
- Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
- joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
(via thefoulbeast)
- Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
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I added a couple more since I first posted this
now I officially have a playlist for every single mood I am capable of experiencing
I fucking love you
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okay i’m desperately trying to remember what this book/artist was called but did anyone ever read a book when you were younger that was basically just a collection of kind of surreal, dream-like illustrations with maybe sentence long caption at the bottom of the page?
the one that i remember the most clearly was a picture of someone who fell asleep reading in bed and there were vines and trees growing out of the book and covering their room. does anyone know what i’m talking about?
THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (by Chris Van Allsburg)
here are some pages of it i found online
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