I've started seeing the smart apostrophe getting used more and more. Even in messaging apps, where theoretically, one would have to put in extra effort to use them. I'm not usually the suspicious type, but I'm putting on my tinfoil hat for this one.

Hot take. I don't mind if you need to use a chatbot to ask a highly-specific question that is too niche for Google. All I ask is that you cross-reference your facts (with Google) before hitting post.

You guys should start going to restaurants and dining alone instead of ordering DoorDash or UEats. I went once. Food was fresher. No reheating required. Service was faster and friendlier. I gave a 10% tip, rounded up, and still paid less than delivery. Went home with leftovers. Best deal ever.

All animals, all plants, and all fungi, are really just Earth's gut biome.

English: There are 10 people in a room 7 people left 3 people are left

It randomly dawned on me that the only way we can know the LD50 of any substance is through trial and error.

Dear YouTube When I look up Sulphur Reaction, I'm hoping for some chemical reactions involving the element sulphur. I do not care about clickbaiters "reacting" to a Slipknot persona named Sulfur. Sincerely, me.

Black Holes are just Space Whirlpools.

The only difference between a Want and a Need is which part of the body is asking for it.

Recently, I've been having weird dreams where I nearly miss the bus for school, and then I chase it down, and it stops for me to get on. I haven't ridden a schoolbus in the better part of a decade. I have been out of school for YEARS now. I don't understand why this, of all dreams, is recurring.

Hot take: Antonyms should always be spelled entirely differently from each other. I can't tell you the number of times I made a typo and accidentally said the complete opposite of what I meant to say.

I was lied to for years. They told me secret admirers were real. But alas!

Recently, my brain has been time-jumping. This only happens at 12:30, when I look at the clock, and then a mere five minutes later, it's already 1:30.

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English: RATIO does not rhyme with PATIO

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A seal is just a deionized sea lion. (Get it? Cuz you take the ion out of a sea lion and you get "sea l..." I'll see myself out.)

Use Node.js for a while → Think "Rust would be much faster" → Pick up Rust again → Struggle with referencing and borrowing → Go back to Node.js → Repeat

TIL that the taxonomic name for Zebras is Hippotigris, which translates to Tiger Horse.

I watched Disney Channel when I was younger. Nearly 20 years later, I had a sudden epiphany. London Tipton was parodying Paris Hilton.

Apparently, my PC does not have Brush Script MT installed. This font is considered Web Safe, but for some reason, my PC thinks it's too cool for it.

Light is both a particle and a wave. The ocean has particles and waves. Thus, the ocean is light.

I am a grown man, and I am ashamed to say that I apparently couldn't tell the difference between reptiles and amphibians. As a nerd-linguist, to me an amphibian is a creature that can thrive both in water and on land. But using this to determine the biological classification isn't intuitive at all.

You know what, I'm with the British on this one. When you take days off from work, that may or may not be a vacation. Instead, calling it a holiday makes more sense. A vacation implies that you vacate your home and go somewhere else. A holiday actually means "a day of no work."

I have observed firsthand that, while a foreigner may be fluent in English, there will inevitably be at least one word that trips them up. My observation: the word "coercion." #langsky

Sigmund Freud walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'm gonna need to see your id."

Considering every mammal there is, humans are probably the worst at giving birth.

Realistic bath bomb: Rubidium

I wonder if anyone actually got fined $250,000 for selling a bootleg VHS.

A Spanish Inquisitor goes to a Fortune Teller's parlour. The fortune teller says, "I've been expecting you." The inquisitor responds, "Impossible!"

Don't trust statistics at face value. 15% of statistics are made up on the spot.

I was in a very elaborate sequence of near-misses yesterday, and I realized afterward that I have no sense of danger. I was worried in the moment, of course, because I didn't want to wreck the car. But about a minute after the ordeal, it suddenly dawned on me that "Oh dang, I almost died."

Somehow, even though SFX today can be procedurally generated with a technology that may not be named, I find the rudimentary rigging of non-CG SFX from the '80s to be more real-looking than the SFX of today.

I'm going to start spelling the study of animals as "zooölogy" and no one can stop me.

Nahuatl me whip. Nahuatl me nae nae.

I donated blood today, and it went pretty well. This time, I didn't become light-headed until AFTERWARD. Success!

Hallowe'en is the least-scary day of the year because you're expecting a surprise. April 1 is the most-scary day of the year because you're expecting a surprise.

You know how when you look at an unfamiliar script, you think to yourself, "all these symbols look the same; doesn't it get confusing?" Well, I just had that experience with my own handwriting...And no, even though all the symbols look the same, I was not confused.

A door is a temporary wall. A doorway is just a fancy hole.

Back in my day, when we wanted to accuse a photo of being faked, we called it "photoshopped."

The "unmute" button on social media videos should skip the video ahead a few seconds and drop you right when the teaching actually begins.

I find it funny that in 1994, a Swedish band made a song that makes fun of Americans, and it was so accurate that it became their unnoficial anthem.

It's not judgement, it's making fun. There's a difference.

Thank you, Google Search AI Overview. Not for providing me with accurate information, because you *definitely* didn't do that; but because you made me more avid about checking my facts and finding the right sources for my information, instead of relying on the top result.

Hey @vanillatweaks.net I noticed your website has a fun little soyjack variation of the trial vault. Many years ago, I made my own texture for the observer that I have been using ever since. The file says 2020, but I think it's older. What do you think? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (made for Programmer Art)

Sometimes I forget Luxembourg is a monarchy

I challenge someone to approach an English learner and try to explain to them the difference between "a piece of my mind" and "peace of mind."

Me: Says "Bering Strait." Auto Captions: "Bearing Straight?" Yes, that's definitely what you said. In context, it makes perfect sense.

Person A: [Shows a passion toward anything] Person B: "Have you ever been diagnosed with autism?"