Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

95% of the viral ragebait remodelings that go from cozy home to hospital gray are done by the listing agent and not the occupant.

Education seems like the domain where the low standards of social science research have had the most consequence. Every single robust finding would be actionable.

Combining the first and second post of this thread was enough to turn it into one of my most viral tweets ever. I wonder I should repost here with that edit.

Whenever honey bees visit my particularly aromatic flowers, like basil or lavender, I hope that I'm making some nearby beekeepers' honey interesting.

They should give you one sick day per year for DOMS.

Instead of CA HSR, we should have built passenger rail from San Jose to Lake Tahoe. Nobody likes making that drive in the winter, it's dangerous, clogged, and often shut down. Taking a train through snowy mountains to arrive at a chalet would be transcendent.

Rainbows are like shooting stars but for space instead of time.

Every time I visit wayfair's website I feel like it is installing a new operating system in my browser.

It's funny how cities are walkable and wilderness is walkable, but nothing in between. Pictured: two walkable neighborhoods.

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

Teslas aren't allowed to use the carpool lane anymore, but none of them seem to know that, and I wonder if the cops don't either.

It's crazy that a rainbow always looks like part of the landscape even if it is actually 3 ft in front of you. You have no idea how far away it is by looking at it.

Assume any neutral experiment is misconfigured.

Social media needs more conversational schelling points beyond news, politics, and bait. If there was some random topic of the day that everyone could riff off of, everything would be more varied and more interesting.

They should have the time change either the night of Halloween or the night before. If it's the night of, everybody is staying up late anyways so they probably won't even notice, and if it's the night before everyone gets more time to trick or treat after sunset.

I'm curious whether AOC has turned out net beneficial for the dems, and if there's a way to know?

Halloween is about laughing at death. We send children off with treats because children are how we laugh at death. Death gets all of us, but it can't get us all.

What actually is the media environment now? The median fox news viewer age is 69. I don't think they're really driving perception except to the extent that all the other popular personalities are coordinating what they talk about.

Just discovered I was blocked by somebody starting dumb bait discourse. Yay!

Notice when this is what your scrolling actually is. www.youtube.com/shorts/F8sCF...

Imagine if people were starving to death all around you, but not because they couldn't find food, just because they weren't hungry. No matter how thin they got, they weren't hungry, and just died. I don't think the fertility collapse feels like this, but it seems like it should.

You can sip coffee, and you can sip tea, but you can chug coffee, and you cannot chug tea. Of this comes the diverging fortunes of the US and UK.

If I don't cash in my daylight savings today can I earn interest?

Every app that uses an url shortener for their share button is hurting their users and the world. When I send or receive a URL, I want to be able to see what it is before I click. We aren't paying by the byte here.

I convinced my daughter to call her bunny rabbit pumpkin "beauty" so they can "beauty and the eye of the beholder."

Daylight savings time in theory keeps our circadian rhythm better aligned with the time, but the problem is that toddlers barely have one.

Nice of them to give us that extra hour so I have time to change all of the clocks.

I read a book on dinosaurs, and now I'm reading a book on mammals by the same author. That's how I learned that I know more about dinosaurs than mammals.

My son made an awesome beholder.

We do this for exactly these reasons.

Everybody ready to laugh at death tonight even though it will anyways win?

Claims

a pit filled with burning coal, a new mountain and a new lake, and a forest of trees snapped as if by a great wind— this seems like a possible oral history of a volcanic eruption

Protip: If you draw your design on your pumpkin first, rubbing alcohol wipes function as a sharpie eraser.

Protip: If you are roasting pumpkin seeds, boil them in baking soda water for a long time first, to soften the shells.

Uploading myself so my personality can be preserved in hard copy but it turns out it's just a container full of all the books I've read.

My kids' teacher put on an audio book of Ray Bradbury's "Zero Hour" for the class for Halloween, which seemed perfect for the occasion. I had read basically everything Ray Bradbury wrote from age 10-12, and coming back to them now, omg I did not remember everything being so absolutely pitch black.

Today's the day.

Happy Halloween

Claims for breakfast.

Living well in rental housing has a set of folkways and skills that often aren't passed on because people have moved out by the time their kids are old enough to benefit.

Private property and the protection of the law are just as much "positive rights" as health care. By asserting those rights you are claiming the labor of the police and the judicial system instead of the labor of doctors, but you are still claiming a right to someone else's labor.

If you are craving fruity candy, and there is fruity candy in front of you, but you don't want to eat fruity candy, eat an apple or some grapes and the desire will go away.

Acausally trading with myself by working out and developing a hobby.

Thanks Obama

omg this page is so pretty! It's interactive! www.georgehart.com/virtual-poly...

For the record, NIST produces no standard reference garlic, so you are on your own.

This is an awesome page for getting an intuition of how platonic solids work. www.georgehart.com/virtual-poly...

I assigned qwop as homework when I taught intro to neuroscience :) for that very reason!