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#what about the mac and cheese though

apparently my grandpa had a habit of eating nasty stuff and pretending it was sweet ambrosia

Because my aunt Char forgot to strain the water from mac and cheese the first time she made dinner without my grandma’s help and continued to put the milk and butter and cheese powder in there and it was like noodles in vaguely cheese-like slurry

Which she also managed to burn.

And my aunt char (she was a little kid at this point) was SO DISTRAUGHT that she ruined dinner, and my grandpa said it was THE BEST mac n cheese he had EVER HAD and ate literally all of it.

I have also learned that he did things like this because when my grandpa was a kid, his parents really wanted daughters and so they doted on his sisters and he was raised by his grandparents because straight up his mom was so upset at having had a son she wanted nothing to do with him. So whenever he did anything for his mom, he’d get yelled at.

So he just wanted to make for absolutely certain that his kids never experienced anything like that and that they knew that they were loved and how happy he was whenever his kids did anything for him… like… 

Even though Lanturn’s sprite doesn’t show up while surfing, I keep imagining Lux and I floating quietly in the starlight.

damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed

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no its one of my fancy pencils :)

fileinfo.com is a website containing a database of 10000+ different filetypes, and has information on what the filetype is, what it's used 4, and applications that can open/use it

if ur unsure on a filetype/extension, look it up

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

Example: YouTube links have the format "youtube.com/watch?v=" followed by a string of numbers and letters. ?v= denotes the parameter for the video ID – the video you want to watch. Without it, you're just linking to YouTube's front page.

Forums, if anyone cares to remember them (from a time before social media rotted everyone's brains) tended to run on PHP, so a lot of the time their links would look like this: "exampleforum.example/showthread.php?thread=1234556789&page=25#reply15". Here, the parameters ?thread= and &page= tell the backend which thread and page to display, and the anchor #reply15 jumps to the fifteenth reply on that page.

Web shops use parameters to store i.e. size, colour, etc., so if you bookmark an item for later and remove these, your link will at best not store the size and colour (or other product variations) you selected and at worst just not work. What's more, Google offers the option to visit a no-AI version of their search page with the parameter ?udm=14 (you're welcome); if people just blindly removed every parameter from every URL (and yes, the query you search for is also a parameter), that wouldn't work too, any more.

Telling people to just strip out every ? and & they see is to breed digital illiteracy and set them up for failure.

Teach them to learn instead. To understand.

Most of the time, it's pretty trivial to understand what things do if you look at them for a moment and think. The aforementioned "showthread.php?thread=12345&page=25#reply15" is fairly self-explanatory once you understand that ? and & are URL parameters and # jumps to a named anchor in the page.

And likewise, ?si= (share ID) and its brethren are not that hard to spot. Anything that has "utm_" in it is Google Analytics. Instagram uses "gsh" as one of its parameters, and occasionally generates "instagram . com/share/(post and user ID go here)" links that uniquely identify you to anyone you send the link to instead of "/post/(post ID)".

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.