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?
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.
I actually meant like, a mast. mast-ectomy, cause every part of the ship gets removed at some point. maybe if it was a ship with one of those women sculptures at the front?
at some point Theseus’ ship had to get a mastectomy
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
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!
Bitches love reblogging this post every Tuesday the 18th
we need to have a way to post a pdf directly to tumblr. tumblr should have another post type called "pdf" so we can embed them easily. tumblr will never be the new pdf without this function.
I see your posts and laugh, but don’t I understand, each one’s a little prayer, a cry for help to your better self. Our hope is proof of our best desires.