...and when it comes to their superchats and such, I don't know what I'm looking at.

 I'm a Subscribestar member, so I can theoretically sync both channels, but the whole affair seems to revolve around crypto currencies. Now I am assured by all the smartest people in the room that cryptocurrencies* are the only secure thing in this uncertain age and only statists and luddites show skepticism towards them. Sadly, I'm not particularly smart and I'm  a history major which has left me with an irrational fear of tulips.

^{Well, she's doomed. Art by Akiyama (あきやま)}

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Tuesday I went to school to make arrangements for re-enrolling in my final class. I checked my Student E-mail to see if my advisor was available for consultation. It turns out that she has left the country and won't be back for over a month but she insisted that rather than signing up for the current session that I "DON'T DO ANYTHING!" She said that she's pretty sure that I'm good to graduate, but that the process of applying for another class involves removing my graduation application. I also noted that my graduation worksheet"Degree Works" says that my credits requirement has not been met; that I have 'only' 123 out of a needed 120 credits.
Well. That's odd.
So... I'm going to hold tight while the chocolate ration is adjusted.

Below the fold is the a copy/paste of what I typed in the two fields of the senior survey I was asked to complete last week.

Below this text is a good visual representation of how not to stagger ladders for safety.

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It seems that Microsoft Word has a cool* new feature. It comes with an A.I. that includes...

fixes for spelling and grammatical errors and advice on more concise and inclusive language such as "police officer” instead of "policeman.”

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As there is likely little interest in the banality that lurks below the fold, we've decided to provide, as a service to you, gentle reader, a helpful demonstration of how to deal with some of those pesky manticore issues that may crop up from time to time.

^{Helpful demonstration by Painterfiend. Support them on Patreon here.}

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1 If a "progressive" lens is installed upside-down, does that make it a "regressive" lens? 

Posted by: Siergen at Tue May 14 00:56:16 2019 (jIT9h)

2 If you were taking the class with vision deficiencies, you are entitled to get a retest in many cases.

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So, I finally saw Avengers Endgame.

I loved it.
It was even better than Cats!
I am going to see it again and again.



Note that this is NOT a stand-alone film as it is a direct sequel to Infinity War, which itself is a sequel to several different films, but if you've been following the long serial that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then this film is an absolute triumph and is as close to sublime as we are likely to ever see from Hollywood.

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Cute girls doing cute things in a magical university set in a sort of D&D  world. Mysteria Friends is beautifully drawn, pleasant enough and I could look at Grea (the half-dragon girl) all day. Having just completed its run, the show looks to be 10 X 15 minute episodes so its not a major investment of time and it seems promising.

UPDATE: That is the most egregiously elaborate special collections area of a library ever. Also: Molting's cool!
 

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As I catch up on stuff not pertaining to school, I note that over the last year or so, I've absentmindedly ended up following 261 artists on Pixiv. This is a result mainly of irresponsible use of the FOLLOW button. I also support 4 artists via Pixiv Fanbox. The focus of these sites range from cute animations to landscapes to city-scapes to historical inaccuracies to first person analysis of the male gaze. You know what exactly none of these 261 sites are focused on? Boys Love.

So why the heck am I getting ads for...

Glistening sweat! Illustrations of Sporty Boys

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A 1.3 KM wide asteroid and its mini-moon are going to pass within 20 lunar distances on May 25th.
 

The asteroid system will be highly visible to amateur astronomers when it passes, in part due to its high relative velocity. There's info here if you want to take a look at Asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4.

One of our Crack Team of Science Babes has thoughts.

^{"Fortunately there's no press hysteria yet since NASA did not name this one after some Egyptian god of destruction."}

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"Thud!"

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While I did good on one of my classes, my Kanji exam is on Monday and will determine if I utterly faceplant that class. I'll continue to be scarce until at least then.

Here's something to unnerve and depress you until then.

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Coming up on the last week of school and am struggling to pass a kanji class and finish an unrelated research paper. Blogging will remain light for a week or so after which the long dry spell will end.

In the meantime here is a Canadian's take on everyone's favorite frog girl and gravititrix.

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Finally!

Joe Biden is running.

Which means these images won't continue going to waste in my flash drive.

In all seriousness, Biden is a formidable opponent, being a rather more folksy creep than the President. His base is very much the same as the President's, indeed many of Trumps supporters switched parties because the Dems abandoned the middle class. They are Biden's natural constituency.

In a battle of the creeps, Biden's above referenced lack of respect for personal space is being touted by many on the right as disqualifying. This analysis, to be charitable, represents a Brobdingnagian level of stupidity. Witness the fact that so many of us held our noses and voted for Pussygrabber McPottymouth over the Evita Peron von Pantsuit in the last election. Much is being made of the notion that today's inter-sectional Dems won't put up with him, but given the choice between placating their snowflakes and gaining power over the rest of us, one can be reasonably certain that the super-delegates will be as loyal to the Democrat's activists as they were in 2016.

I also suspect that the Ivy League Brahmans that run the Democrats are looking for a way to tamp down on the intersectionalists, who were, to the party leaders, useful weapons to be aimed at political opponents and us plebeians, but being unaware of their actual purpose they have proved to be embarrassingly bad shots. If Biden gets the nomination, rest assured, inappropriate touching will no longer be a newsworthy line of inquiry.

Biden has no real support among the party activists, but he has a good shot at the nomination.
If he gets that, (a big "if" to be sure) then I think he stands a very good chance of winning the general election.

So hang onto your hats.

^{"And order your noseplugs now! The election's only 19 months away!"}

NOTE:
^{Actual victims of bad touching have been replaced with 2-D girls to avoid unnecessarily embarrassment.
All 2-D girls are from Love Live.
All 2-D girls are 18 years or older. Proof of age is on file in the pattern room of Brickmuppet labs. That is our story and we are sticking to it.}
 

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NASA reported day before yesterday that there had been an "anomaly" during a static test of the Dragon space capsule.

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Here's some 'Narf' in its stead.

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While trying to confirm a rumor that Sargon of Akkad had been arrested*, I blundered onto this.  59 minutes and six seconds later, I feel that I am now dumber than I have ever been.



It starts off innocently enough, with retarded claims about the precision of the geometry of the Giza Pyramids. Then our humble Gumby presenter starts name dropping Thoth. By 7:27 he's claiming that Jews are space aliens who were visiting Atlantis when things went pear shaped but that's not important or germane to THIS discussion because all our problems seem to stem from the Martian Patriarchy and the misconception that Satan is bad. Zecharia Sitchin, Edgar Casey, and Nostradamus have all been mentioned by 13:26.  It goes on at an AMAZING pace explaining how the 12 dimensional properties of spacetime and the electromagnetic properties of ley lines are demonstrated and proven by the "hundredth monkey" phenomenon. The video goes on, laying out in excruciating and utterly contradictory detail a grand unified field theory of derp that (naturally enough) includes tantric inter-dimensional sex meditations.

So: What is the takeaway from all this?

The world is stupid and getting stupider.

I suspect that my use of the word "Akkad" in a search is what brought me to this surfeit of Fortean numbnuttery.



_{*He appears to have been given a stern talking-to for a 3 year old tweet.}

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^{Image of M-87's Powehi as touched up and enhanced by GigaMessy}

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Banality resides below the fold. As compensation, here is a clever, industrious and motivated young lady.

 ^{Girl who is determined to achieve her goal and is willing to try up to 7 times was drawn by Tomo (also here.)}

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