frustratingly clever
"Average person discovers infinitely many infinities per year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person discovers 0 infinities per year. Cantor Georg, who introduced the diagonal argument and discovered infinitely many infinities in 1891 alone, is an outlier and cannot be counted.
#ducks
Hanne Zaruma
studying the fall of the western Roman empire, and I can’t help but imagine Roman legions getting absolutely demolished by a bunch of Goths all dolled up in their fishnets and black lipstick.
smth smth hammer and nail smth smth
I’m not depressed, but I am still in awe of how much my friends get out and do things. like, they go out and meet people and go to concerts and volunteer and do things spontaneously. My little brain could never; I do things the same way every week, plan out my weekends a week in advance, do my homework before i go home from school. The biggest thing I change about my schedule is baking a cake spontaneously at 2200.
having depression makes your friends seem like the coolest most put together people on earth like wow... you got out of bed, had breakfast, went to work, AND spent some time on a hobby when you got home....? that's so impressive you're like superman or something. can i borrow your power.
genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital
assuming the average avocado is about 7 ounces, Melly should weigh ~1.39 kg. This seems a little low, so i’m inclined to assume a larger (12oz) avocado, in which case Melly should be ~2.4kg. If she’s heavier than that, I’m afraid your friend has vastly overestimated the weight of an average avocado, an easy mistake to make for the uninitiated.
For real though, I think at least part of the reason that people like to put unfounded faith in academics and professionals is because it’s reassuring to think that even if we don’t personally know the solution to our problems, someone out there is trained and certified to deal with with it. This is uuusually true, but less likely to be on the scale of people we personally know, and sometimes (like we saw during the pandemic) there just isn’t the research ANYWHERE yet and the most qualified people either have to lie about how confident they are or risk seriously freaking people out. It sounds like kind of a terrible choice to have to make.
being an adult means I can use my big boy money (which is supposed to go towards stupid things like rent or food but who the hell does that) to force people to look at Melly.
look at her. she’s simply so Shaped