science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.
scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍
people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️
cant stop thinking about this video
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
"How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it" GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear's Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that's about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it's only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits...
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
...that they decided to drown it.
Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be "driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out.
You will concede that's rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world...
...and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck...
...only for the ropes to snap...
...and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it's criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for.
Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn't...
...to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat...
...and be fueled up.
"be fueled up", pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let's be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that's not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
"You can't be serious." Oh darling I sure can!
"Well the presenters can't then" no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It's at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
The Toyota Hilux is absolutely the small god of endurance and defiance (and possibly masochism).
yes I'm reposting about a small god truck are you kidding me
Anonymous asked:
So, about anonymous works, what's the process like? Would I still be able to reply to comments while still anonymous? Would the work itself show up on my stats page, and/or my list of works? If I decide later to make it not anonymous anymore, is that option open, and what's that like?
ao3commentoftheday answered:
Excellent questions! And handily enough I have a few anonymous works so I can tell you from personal experience :)
To post a fic anonymously, you create your fic the same way you would any other time, and you just add it to one of the collections on AO3 called anonymous. Do this in the “Post to Collections/Challenges” section of the Work Post form. It’s right above where you would gift a fic to someone. Type in anonymous and several collections will appear (screenshot below)
Looking at my own fics, it seems like I chose the second one on the list, personally.
The works still show up on my stats page, but it isn’t visible to other users when they visit my profile. I can still see it, but no one else can.
When I reply to comments, my user icon is a dark version of the default AO3 icon and my name is listed as Anonymous Creator (screenshot below)
When I look at my own fic, the top of the story shows the author name as Anonymous with my user name in brackets after it (screenshot below)
But when I log out and look at it again, all I see is Anonymous (screenshot below)
If you ever want to put your name back on the fic again in the future, edit the fic and go back down to that section where you can post to a collection or challenge. You’ll see the anonymous collection listed there with a little x to the right of the name (screenshot below)
Click the x to remove your fic from the collection. Your name will reappear on the fic and your username and icon will be visible next to your comment replies.
I’m not in the community that posted this but if you’ve never tasted the bitter agony of searching for a pairing you’ve only just considered to find it’s like one dedicated author who has churned out like 69 slightly better than mediocre fics you don’t know what a rare pair is.
I guess whether something is a tragedy, comedy, romance, or horror really depends on your attitude
reiterating this point here
ao3 is an incredibly simple website, if you struggle so much that you deem it unusable then you may need to educate yourself of the bare basics of how the internet works
returning to the classical text:
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