kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd:
kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd:
you know what’s always bugged me? when a character is faced with some magical two headed being or some shit and one always lies while the other tells the truth and to figure out which is which the character’s like “which one of you is the liar” or something like bruh literally all you gotta do is be like “what’s two plus two” one of them’s gonna say four and the other one is gonna say 83 or some shit. there you go. answered. go on with your magical quest to defeat david bowie.
this has forty notes. that’s forty more notes than expected.
THIS IS A VERY GOOD POINT and deserves more notes
LISTEN i don’t normally engage in Discourse but this information is DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING!
the point of the riddle isn’t to figure out which one is lying, in fact, knowing which one lies and which one tells the truth is irrelevant. What you want is the correct answer from the magical beast/two guards/etc. Usually this means knowing which path to take. For that, you HAVE to ask it “if i ask the other head/guard/etc which is the safe way to go, what will they tell me?”
if you asked the truth-telling one, they’ll tell you the wrong way, because the liar will always mislead you. if you ask the liar, they’ll tell you the wrong way, because they’re misleading you, so
ALWAYS do the opposite of whatever answer you get.
“who cares this is a stupid tumblr post this doesn’t matter irl–”
WRONG AGAIN! story time:
A few years ago a friend threw a halloween party, and since he dressed as the Riddler, he decided to have a riddle contest.
now, i’ve been preparing for a riddle contest my entire life, since i first read the hobbit and it got bilbo out of trouble. for some reason, i assumed riddle contests were as inevitable as quicksand.
I answered the first riddle easily (it was one of the ones from the hobbit) and then i had to answer the next one to win a bottle of top-shelf rum. it was a variation on the two-guard riddle, only i had to choose one of two paper bags. one had crappy cheap vodka, the other the nice rum.
the host and his friend did the classic one lies one tells the truth thing, and of course before i asked everyone started shouting “ask him what color your hair is!” and stuff like that, but i already knew what to ask, so i shushed them and won the rum
remember, kids, it doesn’t matter which one is lying and which one is telling the truth. all that matters is you get the correct knowledge to move you forward, win your rum, and make you seem like a superhuman riddle-solver to a crowd of drunken party guests.
always be ready for a riddle contest
Here’s a thing that usually doesn’t come up when people try to criticise this riddle as well. One of the conditions of the riddle is typically that you only get to ask one question. You arrive at the liar and the truth teller and you need to find out which bridge is safe and which one will collapse when you’re halfway across.
They tell you that one of them always lies and that one of them always tells the truth. And they tell you you can ask them one question.
If you ask “What’s two plus two?” than great. You know which one lies but you also still don’t know which bridge you can cross and can’t find out.
You played yourself.
Elephant Rock, Iceland
This is an old god, sleeping
Btw,
If you feel cute in it wear it
If you feel pretty in it wear it
If you feel hot in it wear it
If you feel cool in it wear it
If you feel sexy in it wear it
If you feel beautiful in it wear it
If you feel handsome in it wear it
If you feel comfortable in it wear it
If you feel uncomfortable in it dont wear it
Delicate and Extensively Detailed Origami Animals In Their Truest Forms
Madrid-based artist Gonzalo Garcia Calvo crafts imaginary and actual wildlife using flawless origami technique perfected by the paper sculptor. [Keep reading]
check out how angry these special snowflakes are over their safe space being invaded.
“convicted spy” i mean that is just literally 100% an absolute blatant lie but sure, why not
lmao i literally just wanted to see if she was actually hired and all i see is republicans pissing themselves.
Pretty much. Honestly it’s a bit rich for a cowardly fuck like Morell to talk shit about Chelsea Manning. In 2015 the man admitted, in public, that he knew the basis for the Iraq War (the whole nuclear weapons thing) was a lie and that he had told Bush and Cheney that it wasn’t true, so he knew that the administration was willfully fucking lying in order to get us into a bullshit war. Of course, he didn’t speak out about it, or resign in protest, or any of that shit, because doing that would have interrupted his illustrious career path. Every single death in Iraq can be put on his head, all of that blood spilled is on his hands – but of course his objection to Chelsea is that she ‘put the troops at risk’ (which is a totally debunked lie, but you know, what the fuck does a CIA spook care about the truth?).
tl;dr, Chelsea Manning risked everything she had and gave up her freedom in order to put a stop to war crimes, Michael Morell was in a position to expose the administration’s lies and maybe even stop the troops from being in Iraq in the fucking first place, but instead he decided to keep quiet so that he could continue to move up in the ranks. He’s a loathsome little turd who doesn’t even deserve to be in the same room as a hero like Chelsea Manning, so fuck him.
(Incidentally, to answer your question, she was brought on as a visiting fellow, which is sort of a guest professor position. It may or may not involve teaching classes, more likely involves writing.)
i guess you could say the trash took itself out.
Harvard rescinded their invitation to Chelsea Manning because of this backlash.
Aaand fuck you, Harvard.
Hey, that was great, I had hope for like twenty seconds there.
people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.
i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)
at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)
i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.
this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.
to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.
now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?
the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?
the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.
the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.
what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.
what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.
that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.
the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.
the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money.
when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”
every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.
good post
People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.
Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian
Specifically he was Parsi.
Also raisedZeroastrian.*zoroastrian
#i dont think the white boys can handle a queer brown guy being their god
^^^
centuries of religious art featuring white-skinned blue-eyed Jesus have made that pretty clear