From “Lost” to “Beta”
As you may have been able to tell from some of my blog posts, social generations and social generational differences are things that really interest me. I love the idea of looking at social, political, technological, and global changes through the lens of subsets of the population based on when they were born, raised, and started families.
Thus, I was very excited to stumble upon the “Generationology” subreddit a few days ago. This subreddit contains a wide variety of posts regarding different social generations, including nostalgia-based posts, discussions about differing attitudes across generations, divisions within generations (e.g., early-, mid-, and late-Millennials), different generational vibes or “cores” (e.g., “Millennial core”), ponderings about future generations, etc.
It’s super interesting, though I’d love if there were to be a survey to see what generations are most represented by the posters in the subreddit (there’s probably been one of these in the past, but I can’t find it).
Check it out!
Stitch the Temps
I mentioned this to my mom the other day and realized I hadn’t posted the full set on here, so here it is!
Reddit user Adolwyn has been cross-stitching the monthly average temperatures for Calgary since 2018. It’s interesting to see how big of a swing there is from those hellish February temps to the hellish August temps.
They use a cross-stitch template that they found, but I agree with their assessment that one more lower temperature range would be very appropriate for Calgary, as we get a lot more < -18 temps than > 35 temps.
Supah cool!
Ugh.
This is hilarious (due to his reactions and voice) but also really depressing. And kind of disgusting.
r/place 2023
Because I posted a timelapse of last year’s.
Needs full screen mode.
r/place
So if you don’t know what r/place is, here’s some history and info. In 2017, this particular subreddit was home to an experiment that involved a blank online canvas, a limited color palette, and collaboration. Basically, registered users had the ability to place a single colored pixel on the canvas (and had to wait a certain amount of time to place another). People coordinated with each other, fought each other for space on the canvas, and produced overall a very cool looking image by the end of the event.
Fast forward to now. It’s 2022 and there was a new version of r/place with a bigger canvas, more colors, and more collaboration.
ANYWAY.
The reason I’m mentioning this is because the r/ucalgary subreddit was all about trying to get the U of C logo on there. But in the process, they kept bringing up the Canadian flag and how NO ONE COULD DRAW THE MAPLE LEAF. And how Germany drew a perfect maple leaf on their flag just to show that they could do it.
Edit: Here’s a video showing the evolution of the Canadian flag and how terrible that leaf was. Like, oh my god, guys.
That’s hilarious.
Edit again: here’s a really cool video giving a much better description than I can and showing how the canvas evolved:
I love this kind of stuff. It’s so cool.
Y’ALL LIKE FLAGS????
I DO!!!!
I love this kind of stuff.
For some reason, I’d always thought that Canada had one of the rarer aspect ratios for flags, but I guess the US’s is rarer.
Nepal’s like “fuk yo rectangles.”
El Salvador’s like “fuk yo common denominators.”
Pocatello, why?
So apparently the city of Pocatello has a flag.
And apparently it’s horrible.
(source)
It looks like a bumper sticker, what the fuck.
But luckily, we have the kind people on r/vexillology who gave it a redesign. But not without some scathing comments, of course:
- How am I supposed to know how proud pocatellans are?????
- This [the redesign] isn’t even trademarked, any dumbass can copy the flag now!
- Not enough pride in this flag.
- uncontrollable screaming
- Oh my god, that is horrendous. A copyright on a flag that looks like a Windows 3.1 background is just next level.
- we don’t talk about the last one…
- *vietnam flashbacks intensify*
(I love flags, sorry)
It’s a BAnanaNA…next to a BAnanaNA!
Q: what’s the only food-related opinion more controversial than one’s opinion on whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza?
A: which stage of a banana’s ripening process is the “ideal” banana.
And here’s the “scale” people were looking at when they responded, by the way:
I’m one of those weirdos who likes brown-ass bananas; I’d say my preferred flava-flav occurs at 13 or 14. The 10 is like my lower limit. The more yellow it is, the more it seems to have a slimy texture to me. Once it starts browning up, the texture changes to this gritty sort of mush, which sounds absolutely gross as I’m typing it out, but actually is quite enjoyable.
Some of the comments on this post are great, by the way:
- I’m curious about the people who chose 15, I mean, why not just eat dirt then.
- who’s the sadist eating 1 bananas
- 5: ok
6: good
7: good
8: good
9: perfect
10: disgusting
It’s a pretty sharp dropoff for me. - Lot’s of shade coming towards us 12+ people, but those 4- folks are just as insane.
Where are you on the banana scale?
Vexillologist? Here’s another site for you!
These are hilarious. Especially the real ones. So much eye pain.
Also, I love that the page title is “/r/Maryland.”
Edit: SOMEONE PUT THE FLAG OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ON THERE HOLY BUTT GOBLINS I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGH THAT FLAG WAS HIDEOUS
To be fair, though, that weird-ass sun on it probably looks so weird-ass because nobody ever sees the actual sun in BC so they had to render it based off of myth and rumor.
Idaho Towns Challenge
So the “Idaho” subreddit posted this picture the other day:
Can you get them all?
Highlight the white text below to see the ones I could get without cheating.
- Banks
- Blackfoot
- Billings
- Castleford
- Eagle
- Ketchum
- McCall
- Mountain Home
- ?
- Picabo
- Filer
- Bruneau
- Pocatello
- Soda Springs
- ?
- Twin Falls
- Emmitt
- Moscow
- Idaho Falls
- Boise
- Bellevue
- Middleton
- Coeur d’ Alene
- Salmon
Reddit and Forgeddit
I’m bored as shit and don’t feel like blogging.
Or living.
So here are the subreddits I subscribe to in case anyone cares.
- AskAcademia
- Calgary
- Canada
- CasualConversation
- ChildFree (people who voluntarily choose not to have kids)
- Glitch_in_the_Matrix
- GradSchool
- Idaho
- InternetIsBeautiful
- INTJ
- ListenToThis
- Math
- NewYorkMets
- PokemonGo
- PopHeads
- SampleSize
- Statistics
- Vexillology
DoopDoop
This thing is pretty cool.
You basically place arrows, pointing different directions, on the grid, then press play to see what sounds you’ve got. Here’s a little dinky example from me.
Here are a bunch of nice examples from a Reddit thread.
TWSB: Take Me Down Like I’m a Domino
More like TYSB (This Year’s Science Blog) since I haven’t posted one of these in forever.
Sorry. I’m a bad person.
Anyway, check out this vid:
In case you’re not the type to read the description below the video, a domino can knock over another domino that’s about 1.5 times the original domino’s size. The idea to try this came originally from scientist Lorne Whitehead in 1983.
In the video, they only use 13 dominoes. However, if they had kept making larger and larger ones, the 29th one in the tumble would have been about the size of the Empire State Building, the 62nd would be large enough to almost hit the moon (assuming, of course, that we could keep the earth’s gravity constant over all of these mega dominoes), and the 133rd would have the same length as the diameter of the Milky Way.
Reddit user Variance_on_Reddit (along with other nerdy Redditors) calculated that the time it would take these 133 dominoes to actually fall would be 11.67 quadrillion years due to friction (again, keeping “earth” conditions constant across all dominoes).
Pretty snazzy.
Reddit link (warning: Reddit)
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