The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively.
Designers: Kyuho Song & Boa Oh
I’m on mobile so the last thing won’t load but I’m gonna bet everything that it’s the squid ward “future” thing
That solar panel isn’t big enough to do anything, it’s like engineers do math to figure things out or something
This post has popped up on my dash a bunch of times over the last ten years (if you click the link, this is from 2013) and every time one of my engineer friends will once again write “this is totally useless. those solar panels can barely run an LED. this is just a designer coming up with something cool that engineers know will never work.” the fact that it hasn’t gone to production since 2013 is proof enough for me 😂
y’know…. conversations about world war ii would be a lot more bearable and constructive if white men found that period rightly horrific rather than pornographic
We glorify war because it’s the only time we’re allowed to release the beast and not go to jail for it.
You want to see who a man truly is, put him in a battle.
Man is never more himself, than when he has nothing to lose.
you’re not fucking odysseus, go to therapy
“it’s the only time we’re allowed to release the beast and not go to jail for it” –> it’s pretty unusual to walk around the street thinking “hey I wish I could kill someone” so you might want to get that checked out
“Man is never more himself than when he has nothing to lose” –> boy let me tell you about all the things you could lose in war
“You wanna see who a man truly is” –> I don’t need to put you in battle to know you’ve got some pretty fucked up ideas my dude
Chinese Kids Are Getting Their Parents, Their Parents’ Parents, And Their Parents’ Parents’ Parents Involved In A Meme
There’s a new meme in China, and it’s very wholesome.
The challenge, called “four generations,” includes four generations of family members making an appearance, from youngest to oldest.
A son would call his dad, who then calls his dad, who then calls his dad.
And a daughter would call her mom, who calls her mom, who calls her mom.
The results are super cute.
The videos are being shared on video app Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, under the challenge name, “Four generations under one roof.”
I took this seriously (because I’m a musicologist and that’s what I do) and it got me thinking about what qualifies as “like Weezer”
because there’s the obvious stuff that you wouldn’t find in medieval music. there weren’t electric guitars, drumkits, or modern English.
then there’s the musicology-level stuff that didn’t exist. chords as we know them hadn’t been invented yet. the idea of “melody” and “accompaniment” hadn’t been invented yet, with the exception of like drones on a bagpipe or a hurdy-gurdy. rhythm as we know it didn’t even exist. so like… without… all of that… what could possibly sound like Weezer? What essential Weezer-ness could translate to the fifteenth century?
So I decided to check the lyrics of the Weezer songs I remember from my youth to see if there are any themes in common with medieval songs I know. And they’re also not quite on the same level. Weezer sings a lot about the deleterious effects of drugs and also having to use violence to preserve their claim to various romantic interests. Medieval singers were way more interested in courtly love, where a man (usually) wistfully pines after a woman above his station and is thus improved morally.
So like depending on your definition of what “like Weezer” is, my educated answer is… no, there’s literally nothing at all like Weezer in the Middle Ages.
Aren’t you glad you read this entire post to come to that conclusion
me, watching a battle scene: please not the horses. leave them alone. they did nothing wrong. they are the only innocent ones. they don’t deserve this.
honestly this used to upset me a lot as a kid until my mom, who’s worked with horses for many years, told me about how they train the horses in those movies to do things like falling down, kneeling, crawling, or stay laying on the ground after they fall. and how it’s so tough to train a prey animal to do these behaviors and how hard both trainer and horse have to work. so now whenever i see a horse take a hit and go down in a movie, i just think “fucking superb you funky little horse actor”
