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Yes, in the early 21st century we often consider people we only interact with over social media as friends, even if we have never met them in real life. And that's why I have not only reblogged this post, but also liked it (by clicking a button with my mouse).

As you know, you can make writers lives easier by doing unnecessary exposition scenes in real life, thereby making them realistic.

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The fuck kind of hell world do you live in that the self-checkout plays music at you?

listening to this to help me focus at work

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Fun fact! Titanium is often used for medical implants because it's *dodges lorem ipsum beam* because it's strong, nontoxic, won't corrode inside the body, and best of all, *dodges* bone will directly grow onto it! This is called "osseointegration" and it means that your titanium artificial hip, dental implant, or whatever will have greater *dodges* greater mechanical stability and will ARRRGGH! aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit!

interesting fact i have titanium in my spine

#also if you have a ti implant that automatically makes you a cyborg

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What kind of donuts? How were they?

watching The Hunger Games

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reblog to give a plushie to the person you reblogged this from

#I give you a dolphin plushie

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It's just like the message clearly laid out in Titanic: "Don't build boats. They sink." Only a fool would think hm, maybe there were specific details of the implementation that led to disaster and with better practices we could avoid that. Thank goodness we have learned our lesson and don't build boats any more.

jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

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So your unconscious self is judging you. Dream deciphered.

dreamt that the police came to my house to tell me someone had broken in and stolen three bottles of gin

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Of the four, are three of them worth stealing and one of them not?

dreamt that the police came to my house to tell me someone had broken in and stolen three bottles of gin

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Oh, it's very simple. You just need to memorize a series of taxon names, and then memorize a series of suffixes that go with each taxon.

So Hominidae just means "the family that Homo is in." Would it have been simpler to call them homofamily, homotribe, and so on? Yes, but that wouldn't have sounded scholarly and latinish, so we can't have that.

And that's just zoology. Plants, fungi, and algae use different systems, but just similar enough to be confusing.

But at least if you memorize all that, you can sound like you know what you're talking about, right? Wrong! Because how do you even pronounce Rosaceae, for instance? As far as I can tell, there is no official guide, so in practice the pronunciation is "whatever your graduate advisor says." And then you get to talking with someone whose graduate advisor said something different, and the awkwardness is just sublime.

Taxonomists, get your shit together.

#for all that this is a relatively sensible system #compared so some other disciplines

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Not only is it an ancient palindromic word square, it's also the inspiration for possibly the relatively longest fanfic ever (that is, measured by the length of the fic compared to the length of the source material).

Today I learned that the magic square featured in Tenet

SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS

was actually a real thing from ancient Rome - it means something like "The sower Arepo skillfully operates the wheels" in Latin.

I had assumed Nolan made it up for the movie.

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Largest most recent proto-language then, measured by number of speakers of descendant languages at the beginning of the Holocene. This would be proto-world, if there was such a thing, or if not, at least something very old.

The Yana Culture was ancestral to the population from which both early Paleo-Indians and the Ancient North Siberians arose.

By “the builders of Stonehenge,” I mean the earliest builders, ca. 3100 BCE.

Note that the last language spoken by a Denisovan/Neanderthal or by a community of Denisovans/Neanderthals may not necessarily be a Denisovan/Neanderthal language—it may be a language of anatomically modern humans they adopted. (It will at any rate be about 40-50,000 years old).

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The Yana Culture was ancestral to the population from which both early Paleo-Indians and the Ancient North Siberians arose.

By “the builders of Stonehenge,” I mean the earliest builders, ca. 3100 BCE.

Note that the last language spoken by a Denisovan/Neanderthal or by a community of Denisovans/Neanderthals may not necessarily be a Denisovan/Neanderthal language—it may be a language of anatomically modern humans they adopted. (It will at any rate be about 40-50,000 years old).

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#not very clear on how illegal a fistfight really is

Come to Seattle! Where consensual fistfights are legal!

According to police, there is a rarely used city law that says a fight is legal as long as both people agree to it, no bystanders are hurt, and no property is damaged. Jones reminded the cops about the particular law. "Actually I have them (the laws) on a little card," Jones said.

The intense criminalization of physical confrontation is a significant factor in what has caused gun violence, particularly among young people. People need to be beating eachother's asses more. Genuinely.

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Merfolk believe that illness is caused by malaqua.

By the power of the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and evil air!

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I have terrible news for you regarding cardiology.

The original parliament of the Republic of China was tricameral, which was even worse. Like guys, you're going in the wrong direction! Stop adding chambers!

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