Our objective material conditions, their unreliable self-reported information

I like quote posts for playful jokes and saying ”hey, I found this thing interesting for this reason“ but I can understand why people do not like them.

my great-grandad bore a striking resemblance to this guy (mutton chops and all), always jarring to see pictures of him

Potential Pokemon names from this segment: Teejayoshie Tkachuk Czechia

gmail learning affectionate nicknames and turns of phrase, and then suggesting that I use them, is super creepy

list of students from Frisco, TX who got perfect scores on the SAT or ACT

Bad news for sisters named Nell

Bad news for sisters named Nell

Flu kills half a million people every year

squinting intensely to figure out what dance the couple in the video is doing… I don’t think it’s a two-step, the tempo is wrong. Maybe west coast swing?

This is the Norwegian equivalent of standing in the rain wearing a silk shirt

I teach heat transfer, and I can confirm that the vacuum of space is an excellent insulator. Cooling electronics in space is hard.

[when I’m told that my fugue is subpar] Bach is that true

Honestly, I feel bad for the author of “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”, who is a great writer, had nothing to do with any of that stuff, and now has his last name turned into an epithet

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

European nations take pride in their national inventors and scientists on a level that Americans do not really understand

These Canadians have been skating as a pair since they were 10 years old, that’s wild

It’s Saturday yall, time to care a little less about random opinions we find on the internet

Even if the level of spending flattens out here, it’s a stunning amount of money, like a second defense industrial complex just appearing out of nowhere

Wow

"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel (a massive global climactic shift) around the corner.”

It’s Saturday yall, time to care a little less about random opinions we find on the internet

Me rn

he could just give it away it’s that easy

Guy who doesn’t understand how money works: What if we cut the sports page?

(Tom DeLonge voice) work sucks, I know

Looks like today is one of the regularly scheduled days that my work computer decides to update itself and break random things

Realizing that you’re getting a bit parasocial and taking action accordingly is an important but painful thing in modern life

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Absolutely, and then you get pieces like this one, from people who grew up in the burbs, moved away, and like to dump on the place for sport www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Random Signals The German Novella Analog IC Design Sustainability Microwave Engineering

he can check out the sandwich shops of New Haven

in 2021 when I interviewed for a startup, the CTO told me “startups are good for when you’re young and when you’re old” and I thought wow, I’m not really either one of those, and that’s how I realized I was middle-aged

48 and sunny today, not refreezing tonight, and they just cancelled school for tomorrow. I am going to become the joker

When I read the excerpt

Anyone who says they can do this should not have the power to do this

@mims.bsky.social congrats on the book release!

meriadoc dot ai has been registered, fyi

(Tom Brady voice) Matthew

There is a person in the news who would look a lot like me if he shaved his beard and we both were wearing hats, and it is giving me the willies

What a race for Hobbs Kessler and Grant Fisher!

This tree could handle 200 gallons of milk, but 414.2? No way, man

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