At Some Point Theseus’ Ship Had To Get A Mastectomy

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.

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

I love eating the inside of my mouth.

smth smth hammer and nail smth smth

everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

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.

Reminder to people with skills in STEM, but particularly SE, CS and DS, all this stuff happens online and in databases. When Trump and Musk try to deny the free flow of information, or find undocumented immigrants, or set up snitch hotlines, or whatever garbage they order next, you have skills to protest directly against these. Overflow their hotlines, save and distribute as much at-risk material as possible, disable Teslas.

We too often think of protest as a realm of the humanities, and ignore the real power we have to make their efforts more difficult. These are interesting and consequential applications of technology, and I urge you make use of your skills here.

These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

i remember hearing about the college app essays as a kid and how much time people spend on them and so starting in 7th grade, I would practice writing proper essays, like 10-15 pages EACH. I did this like all the way through highschool because I figured that was what I would be expected to be able to write, and then I first looked over the commonapp questions and they’re like, a couple hundred words on the vaguest prompt that has ever prompted. like, i understand there are administrative reasons, but I was so godamned shocked because everyone had called them essays, which to me meant a complete piece of writing??, and ig i just ran with that assumption as a kid? I feel like that’s pretty reasonable, is it normal that people struggle so much to write a few pages? Is this an American thing?

“even a worm is turning in his grave” you have done something so fundamentally offensive that even a worm would disapprove beyond the grave.

Remembered the phrase "[someone] is turning in his grave", as a way of saying that someone who's now dead would so deeply disapprove of something that a living person is doing that their corpse would stir in unease.

Then I remembered an expression, "even a worm will turn", as a way of saying that no matter how downtrodden or lowly someone seems, they can nonetheless turn against their abusers and oppressors once they've had enough of it.

Then cross-contamination happened and the phrase "a worm is turning in his grave" emerged to me. I have no idea what that means.