Chocolate Rain was a bizarre thing to meme on. I think even one of the guys from Green Day made a joke video...about how funny it is...that some slightly awkward kid is recording a song...?

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

I don't even think that Newt guy from Pacific Rim is a real scientist. He has very odd ideas about what dinosaurs were. I think he just snuck in and pretended to know biology.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

idea

Griffin McElroy, but more openly gay

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

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**Ellie** @noelle@elekk.xyz · Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

Ellie @noelle@elekk.xyz

@mint

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

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**Lord Guysbert de Fieri** @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space · Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

Lord Guysbert de Fieri @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space

If you ever find yourself creating a fantasy species and building their society based around specific biological evolutionary characteristics, remind yourself that humans are the ultimate pursuit predator and yet we have developed a society built around sitting or standing around in small rooms

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

christmas

I mean, thank goodness, but why? The Gregorian calendar is even named after a pope. It's not like he was thinking, "If I made the secular year start on Christmas, it would make all those people I consider below me/outright evil feel left out."

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 17:20

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**Penny Merman** @idesofmerch@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2019, 17:20

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Penny Merman @idesofmerch@mastodon.social

Skamble Skanks the Rude-Boy Cat

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:14

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:14

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@melissasage Jom Smiff

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 17:11

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Dec 27, 2019, 17:11

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melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

it's very funny that they call him "Avdol" in the dub, bc "Abdul" is a really really common Arab name. imagine changing a character's name from "John" to "Jom" bc you're afraid that the estate of John Lennon will copyright claim it

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

christmas

Hey.

Since Christmas is supposed to be the birthday of Jesus, and the Gregorian calendar counts years in an AD/BC system starting from the birth of Jesus...why doesn't New Years Day coincide with Christmas?

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 15:08

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**Janelle Shane** @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 27, 2019, 15:08

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Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

Powerful argument for why gender detection algorithms are bad and nobody should be making them
https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/43211/1/trans-algorithm-machine-learning-bias-discrimination-chelsea-manning-edit

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 16:21

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 16:21

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

@melissasage Sometimes you learn a little bit about a band and they defy your expectations, but every word of the Wiki article on the Cherry Poppin Daddies reinforces the first impression you would get from a band that named themselves the Cherry Poppin Daddies.