I'll be starting my seasonal gig at Parks and Rec in a couple months and I've got a couple things I wanna say. I know that this will probably not reach the people who need to hear it, but if ONE LESS person leaves the parks a mess, I will be That Much Happier.
-You're not supposed to smoke, drink, or have sex in public parks but I know that people will anyway. But if you are going to do those things, please dispose of the evidence in the trash cans. A human has to pick these things up.
-Dog poop goes in a bag. Bag goes in the trash can.
-The little wax paper liners in the women's room? See you're supposed to put your pad/tampon in that wax paper bag, take the bag out of the bin, and then dispose of it in the actual trash can. Don't feel bad, no one told me either. Also no one told the dudes I work with. But this reduces direct exposure to bodily fluids, especially as the summer gets on and it gets hot in those bathrooms.
-On that subject! The little bins that they go in next to the toilet? Don't stick trash in there. Don't put diapers in there. Also don't put beer cans crushed in such a specific way that I slice my hand on them as I try to jimmy it out of there. Literally, that bin is too small for most things. They are meant specifically for those brown bags. Please for the love of god, throw things in the trash can.
-As for the urinals, please no solids. Most commonly gum and chewed tobacco, but you can use your imagination.
-If you're doing a photo shoot or an event with confetti, please use a paper confetti instead of a plastic one- its easier to get rid of.
-If you're doing a pizza party, we'd rather you stack the pizza boxes in a pile next to the trash can instead of trying to fit them in the trash. Because then we can just throw the trash bag over the top and tie it instead of trying to fish it out. This kind of goes for any big trash- if it won't fit in the trash can easily, don't try.
-Please don't call cops on people sleeping in the parks if they're not bothering anyone. Even if they've been sleeping there all day. Dude's just trying to chill.
-Destruction of the toilets will result in the indefinite locking of the restrooms. You ruined them and now everyone at the softball tournament can blame you for it.
-Parks people are not the police. We are maintenance workers who are not trained to handle most emergencies and the most we can do in any situation is report to the proper department. Please don't look to us for answers if someone is starting a fight.
-Also please don't spit on us for driving on the path. We're permitted to. Its essential for us to drive on the path to do our job.
-please don't abandon animals at the park. Rehome them properly. I spent a whole week trying to catch a rooster last summer.
-look, I get it- 'oh no, your pretty building has writing on it!' Grafitti is so edgy. We get it. But it means Jacob has to sand it off now so that the kids at the birthday party don't see a giant drawing of a weiner. Acts of rebellion that create more work for the working class are not revolutionary.
-please do not set fire to the Tiny Free Library. Why did you do that? That's mean.
-please do not feed bread to ducks and geese. Corn, birdseed, lettuce- those are better for them. If you want to reduce tge amount of goose poop in the parks, shop feeding them bread.
-also do not anger tge geese. They remember what its like to be dinosaurs.
I'll have more later, probably, once the season wears on.
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The first point and the third point are absolutely correct. Itās really crazy to think about how everything we see is just photons bouncing off one another relative to the particles around it which then are relative to us.
Also since each particle canāt be perfectly updated every frame sometimes we donāt have enough other particles around a specific photon in spacetime (3D space plus particles that were recently in the same space itās currently in) so then that photon has to guess its location for the next frame like you summarized in point 3.
The second point about the speed of light limiting the number of particles is slightly innacurate since Iām assuming at each time step of the universe our in-universe time kinda freezes during the computation and any particle could contact any other particle instantaneously (think shared read-only universal hashmap where each particle can only modify its own entry). Therefore the limitation on checking all of the particles in the universe every frame isnāt based on the speed of light but rather on how each particle just doesnāt have the capacity to check all the billions of particles in a 1 meter radius of it and similarly those billions of particles donāt have the capacity to check that one additional particle so the universe fuzzes with randomness and gets it mostly correct instead. Fun fact: Fuzzing with randomness is actually used in Redis and other caches to have low latency most of the time without having to exactly track how many times each cache has been accessed or when the last access was.
Thank you so much for the distilled summary! I def appreciate the feedback and knowing what you understood from it all. Iām still refining my explanation so thank you!
there's nothing that melts me more than just hearing someone be passionate about something. And if someone has hurt you in the past and makes you reluctant to fuckin completely go off on the expanded canon of the X-Files or whatever, I'm gonna hit them in the head with a big mallet. You're adorable, show it. Please
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karl marx didnt predict the puppygirl so what does he know really
Just stumbled upon this homophobic ad from a Christian Church on Facebook and the way it unintentionally slayedā
I wrote a poem about my first love about a month into our relationship. Today they broke up with me. Here is that poem:
Light Rays
Light rays filtering in all the way from the sun.
Sometimes after a detour to the moon
Filtering in through leaves or bouncing off the snow or ricocheting off someoneās iris into my pupil.
So much light entering my soul.
So much distance that ray has traveled
All so that my soul can become enthralled with anotherās.
When I look someone in the eyes I feel their soul capturing mine; overwhelming me with awe
I bathe in the depths of anotherās pupils. Become absorbed by the ever-expanding darkness. Let everything else fade. The darkness strengthened by the photon ring surrounding their pupils;
flecks of light which absorb and reflect rays, surrounding and contrasting the center.
I know I shouldnāt stare into the sun, for I might go blind from the magnitude of pure white light
But when I peer into the darkest depths of another all other senses fade away, consumed by my captivation.
I often look just shy of someoneās gaze;
Their nose, their eyelid.
Otherwise, Iād always be getting lost exploring the souls of others.
If I truly look you in the eye youāll watch as I get absorbed by you.
If I look you in the eye it means I want to feel totally embraced by you.
If I look you in the eye, it might even mean I love you.
Otherwise, I hope hanging by the hawking radiation, just out of reach of being absorbed, will suffice.
Hydra head dysphoria is so frustrating frfr
The thing where you improve the look of one thing that gives you dysphoria and then three other things give you way worse dysphoria than you ever had should be fucking illegal.
20, They/ThemYes I have the socks and yes I often program in rust while wearing them. My main website: https://zephiris.me
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