Term I am surprised doesn’t exist: “Krakenalia”
Term I am surprised doesn’t exist: “Krakenalia” That is, a major sexy balls-to-the-wall party, except involving people who have a tentacle fetish.
Heroes and Hamiltonians
A generator of fluid mechanics, word play, and the collected opus of “Hilbert and Sullivan”
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My girlfriend is getting pretty good giving pills to the dogs we’re housesitting for.
My girlfriend is getting pretty good giving pills to the dogs we’re housesitting for. I really want to suggest she take care of a cat next time, “yeah, it’s pretty much the same, except easier because they’re smaller”.
Playing imagination games with a four year old is to be exposed to depths of contradictory lore and…
Playing imagination games with a four year old is to be exposed to depths of contradictory lore and mechanical rules not seen outside your average x-men comic
What’s interesting is how relatively few of these involved a major fight with the US to give them…
femmenietzsche : Current sovereign nations which at one point were directly controlled/occupied by the United States: Philippines Cuba Nicaragua Haiti Dominican Republic Iceland Italy (with others) Germany (with others) Austria (with others) Japan South Korea Palau Micronesia Marshall Islands Afghanistan Iraq Not counting de facto influence or simple regime change. I probably missed a few.…
The hot flashes involve a 30 foot sphere.
necarion : Middle aged wizards go through manapause. The hot flashes involve a 30 foot sphere.
Middle aged wizards go through manapause.
Middle aged wizards go through manapause.
There’s a degree to which the correct strategy for dancing with a total beginner is “do exaggerated…
necarion : Someone once asked me what advice I’d give for “how does an experienced lead dance with a total beginner”. And I realized that any piece of advice I’d give could backfire badly with a bad lead. “Uh, do the things I do and don’t hurt your partner and be a good lead” is not exactly actionable… There’s a degree to which the correct…
DNI - ABB actually supports good things happening to children sometimes.
artbyblastweave : artbyblastweave : I think there’s been some ambiguity lately regarding my exact politics so I’m going to get ahead of all that by saying right now that I’m an unreconstructed Orthodox Badist. I believe that we should do and say and support exclusively bad things and only cause bad things to happen to people If you’re an average political operator it’s likely that your main…
My GF’s city job is currently hiring some new employees. And it’s very funny that the system’s very…
My GF’s city job is currently hiring some new employees. And it’s very funny that the system’s very strict fairness filters are resulting in a couple of extremely sub-optimal outcomes. And my GF is chafing hard against some of the fairness rules, and I’m having this two-fold “yeah, these rules are clearly bad on net, but also even more clearly designed to prevent you…
When I worked at a daycare, I was instructed to quickly look away if I noticed a child had fallen….
xxxdragonfucker69xxx : thebibliosphere : The kid next door (talking toddler age) is playing outside and just wiped out in his Fisher Price car, and I just heard the babysitter say, “oh no, your insurance premium is definitely going to go up!” And the kid who had only been mildly sniffling before made the most confused, but startled sound you’ve ever heard. Just very clearly an attempt at saying,…
I’m singing the three lost songs from Iolanthe next week. And while I quite enjoy one of them, it is…
I’m singing the three lost songs from Iolanthe next week. And while I quite enjoy one of them, it is incredibly obvious why Sullivan cut the songs. They’re just not great…
Scene is Sampson singing after his blinding. Written by Handel shortly after going blind.
necarion : Since everybody else is Eclipseposting Scene is Sampson singing after his blinding. Written by Handel shortly after going blind. Handel went blind because he tried to get cataract surgery from John Taylor. Shortly after, Handel died of infection. John Taylor is also famous as the oculist who blinded (and killed) Bach.
Since everybody else is Eclipseposting
Since everybody else is Eclipseposting
Even if you set aside the, admittedly huge, problem of civil liberties in a surveillance state, part…
Even if you set aside the, admittedly huge , problem of civil liberties in a surveillance state, part of the problem with Flock and its ilk is that it’s not very good . And then a worse problem is that police think it’s very good and accurate. There is a major philosophical question of “how much civil liberty are you willing to sacrifice to get a safer society”. But I…
Hey, brain. So, I appreciate you giving me these little alarm bells to keep me from being eaten by…
Hey, brain. So, I appreciate you giving me these little alarm bells to keep me from being eaten by tigers or letting me know that I need to get pumped up because we’re about to fight the Romans again or something. BUT THE PERSON WE ARE ABOUT TO TALK TO ON THE PHONE IS OUR FRIEND. WE LIKE THIS PERSON. THERE IS ZERO CHANGE THIS PERSON IS GOING TO EAT US OR STAB US. STAHP
Trek was weirdly reluctant to actually pull that card. It was obsessed with captains working…
overseer-picard : =============== Underrated power dynamic: CMO vs. Captain. It would’ve been awesome to actually see Beverly relieve Picard of command. And by awesome I mean stressful (positive). Trek was weirdly reluctant to actually pull that card. It was obsessed with captains working themselves into the ground, *especially* Voyager. Where in at least one scene the Doctor tries to relieve the…
But the reason it could ever be found was that it was a banger and people wrote it down. There’s at…
iliiuan : cannoli-reader : iliiuan : cannoli-reader : quietwingsinthesky : we’re so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls. Seriously? You don’t like Gilgamesh? Rather, I mean that it’s not luck. They wrote it down because it’s a banger. It stayed alive, because people liked it and…
Someone once asked me what advice I’d give for “how does an experienced lead dance with a total…
Someone once asked me what advice I’d give for “how does an experienced lead dance with a total beginner”. And I realized that any piece of advice I’d give could backfire badly with a bad lead. “Uh, do the things I do and don’t hurt your partner and be a good lead” is not exactly actionable…
Someone once asked me what advice I’d give for “how does an experienced lead dance with a total…
Someone once asked me what advice I’d give for “how does an experienced lead dance with a total beginner”. And I realized that any piece of advice I’d give could backfire badly with a bad lead. “Uh, do the things I do and don’t hurt your partner and be a good lead” is not exactly actionable…
I think I agree with you. There’s a wild difference in how I deal with written text when it’s…
alexanderwales : Being in Germany and not speaking German really gives me a taste of what it’s like to be illiterate. The number of times I’ve walked up to a sign, started “reading it” and realized that it has exclusively words I don’t know is shocking. All capacity with language gets thrown out the window, because it’s the wrong language. Today was maybe the…