thesetupwizard:

JD-

Hello, my name is Jonathan Dart, and for two years now I have been the head of the IT department at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Two years… How has it been two years? Well, in that time I’m happy to say I have completed many of the normal things an IT head is in charge of doing, such as-

1. 

Punching a man in the face

2. Adopting a pig given to me out of spite
3. Awarding “IT Points” for an entire closet of Sriracha
4. Turning the Great Hall into a flame-throwing game room 
5. Dating a metamorphmagus
6. Having  “2 5e Ethernet extensions” carved into my hand
7. Accusing the FCC of being worse than Death Eaters
8. Teaching a centaur how to use a hands free Bluetooth headset
9. Accidentally portkeying
10. Seriously though, punching a man in the face

You know. Normal IT stuff. I think I even fixed a router at some point. Thanks again to all my lovely readers!

mostlysignssomeportents:

Motherboard’s short documentary, “Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech’s Repair Monopoly” is an excellent look at the absurd situation created by John Deere’s position that you can’t own your tractor because you only license the software inside it,
meaning that only Deere can fix Deere’s tractors, and the centuries-old
tradition of farmers fixing their agricultural equipment should end
because Deere’s shareholders would prefer it that way.

The video delves into the weird world of bootleg Ukrainian firmware hacks for tractors, too.

The US Copyright Office is entertaining petitions to create exemptions to the law
that bans breaking DRM, even for lawful purposes and farmers are going
back to the agency, demanding the right to fix their own tractors and
make hay while the sun shines.

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/01/yoyot.html

shieldspatriot:

I feel like there’s this distinction that needs to be made

Luke Skywalker didn’t run away from his responsibilities, instead he thought it was the responsible choice to take himself out of the equation – there is a huge difference between running away to avoid responsibilities and realizing that you are the problem that needs to be removed from the picture to make things better for others

Luke was actually being very responsible when he made the choice to disappear and cut himself off from the force

football-milk:

neilcicierega:

dutchster:

my-little-mod-blog:

averagedopeydope:

uskftw:

all1sees:

division

square roots

dividing percentages

IT EVEN FOILS

beautiful.

i just checked ALL of these on my calculator and they are all correct

all. fucking. correct.

DAYUM, SON! IF ONLY THIS WAS AVIALABLE WHEN I WAS ON SCHOOL >:(

HAH! You kids. When I was in school, it wouldn’t help because we still used Roman numerals back then!

AHAHAHAHAHA-

oh my god

i’ll just be over here shutting the fuck up right about now

you can even solve geometric problems

or plot graphs

even 3D graphs!!!

Yeah, but can it-

Oh

today we will eat at Mass Surveillance

the-stalwart-system:

transmortifried:

heatandapathy:

idmangapasta:

iguanamouth:

paper-mario-wiki:

a gallon of milk but with this kind of cap:

quick suggestion

let me raise you an idea ive been keeping for years, just for this moment

The unholy trinity.

kylos-reyoflight:

This dude’s twitter thread NAILED why Luke’s storyline in The Last Jedi MADE PERECT SENSE.

Seriously, this guy is my new hero. Read the whole thing! I have been so puzzled on how anyone who calls themselves a Star Wars fan could not see Luke’s trajectory coming or understand it. This guy puts my thoughts into words

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

shieldspatriot:

you can love or hate luke’s storyline in TLJ

but all i can say is this – my little brother has always been terrified of failing – whether that’s not being good enough to do something, not being successful, not getting good grades – it scares him to death pretty much and he has so much anxiety over it that sometimes i find him crying over this – he’s a child and this crippling fear of failure has made him so stressed

we took him to see the Last Jedi and he came out of that movie saying that he wasn’t afraid to fail and not be good at things anymore and I asked him why and he said this:

“because Luke failed and he still came back to save the world. failure is the greatest teacher so we can do better next time.”

Lucas has always said that Star Wars was always meant to be for 12 year olds, to teach them how to cope with life as they grow up and how to deal with society – my brother is 12 and he learned that if the greatest hero in the galaxy can fail and still make it back, then he didn’t need to be afraid either.

and really, isn’t that the whole point of this?