arctanthrope

yeah I had something similar with the Beatles, where literally my first memory of music is Abbey Road, so my whole life I was like, I don’t get the hype, that’s just what music sounds like. it was only recently I went and listened to the album again with context of what other music from the 60s was like, and I finally realized that they were truly doing some wild shit with songwriting and production

“you can’t just say bankruptcy”

“I didn’t say it, I asserted it”

what do you call it when you put the seed in the pot if not “planting”?

I don’t understand why they removed Denethor’s Palantir from the movies, it’s like the whole point of his character, without it nothing he does makes sense

beer mixed with lemonade is called a Radler, which is German for bicyclist, so that’s also cycling beer (it’s also sometimes called shandy, idk what the difference is exactly, or if there even is one)

remember like ten years ago when he said Obama golfed too much, and when he had the job he would be too busy working for the people to golf

it’s nice, but it’s been over a decade since people started talking about needing a $15 minimum wage, with inflation that same value is more like $20 now

I used to work for a company that supplied powertrain components for most major auto brands, all the guys who worked with Ford said they would never buy a Ford. maybe that’s just what happens when you see the sausage get made, but on the other hand I never heard the same from the guys who worked with other companies

I had to check if this was loss.jpg

roughly 68°F btw

if by home you mean prison

I think equally important as teaching these things to begin with is letting students know when they’re being taught a simplified model, and that serious academic discourse of the subject is still evolving and/or involves much more nuance (which is pretty much always). some people who do pay attention in science classes nonetheless think that what they learned is gospel and never re-examine it, or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge when said nuance is relevant because it seems to contradict the simplified model they’ve cemented in their brain as the whole truth. the kind of people who say things like “I know there’s two genders because I learned it in high school biology” and apparently never considered why there would be collegiate and post-graduate studies on biology and gender (or why those are two entirely different fields of study) if we all already learned everything there is to know in high school.

damn, Christians gerrymandered the whole planet

ever heard of the Lone Ranger?

a million documents is on average about one document every 35 minutes for his entire life. that seems like a lot, even for a broad definition of “document”

live SpongeBob reaction

Saturn’s coming back around for older gen-z’s

doesn’t matter if it was unanimous or not, the board does not have the legal authority to change the name. my d&d group can vote unanimously that we should have free snacks, that doesn’t mean there’s no consequences if we go rob the convenience store

yes, I know, and I did. what I had read was not to smoke for at least three days, I decided to do four. I asked the doctor like two weeks in advance if there was anything else I should do, he said no, it should be fine. everyone was aware of everything and all the doc’s instructions were followed. obviously I didn’t go in stoned

apparently smoking weed regularly can make anesthetics less effective too. when I had to get put under recently (nothing serious), I was aware about that and told them ahead of time. they gave me a dose that apparently was supposed to put me completely out, and I just sat there for at least a full minute, fully conscious but incredibly relaxed, before they realized they would have to give me more. and then I definitely started to wake up in the middle and had just the briefest, vaguest awareness that they were moving around me before I was out again, so I assume they gave me more at that point. and then when I woke up after they were like “wow, already?”