Currently reading Hyperion… Got it, the electron is the Shrike!

You can always troll teenagers by using their words in slightly off contexts.

No way my parents did that accidentally!

I’m mostly a “wikipedia reader” type of person, so I don’t have good pop sci sources to recommend… Sorry!

Wait till you read russian novels, where everyone’s got 3 names and 2 official nickname everyone is expected to know…

Or to any woung people from 2000 onwards. To them, specifically white socks with slip-in sandals is a perfectly good choice of footwear!

It’s the logo of the Matlab software.

Group A starts indexing at 1. Group B at 0.

To me, the second layer of the joke is that the choice of starting number is significant enough that the author considers it to be two distinct personalities!

Just finished watching Tolkien stuff, so i got this:

Bees are kelvar: beings that are “capable of moving and escaping”! Except maybe for the queen bee, which may be an olvar.

Kelvar was a name used by the Valie Yavanna to refer to that part of her natural realm capable of moving or escaping, as opposed to the olvar which were rooted in place.

Nice! Thank you so much!

For me to be a better friend by better understanding his new limitations…

He already has a good support network, they organised a fundraiser to get him an electric wheelchair, which is awesome! But at first I didn’t understand why it was helping him, because I don’t know enough about the condition. 🫣

I have a friend who’s now living with ME. Any resources for the general public to better understand the condition?

I want this shirt with the Spaaace logo

Yup! The fact that it is defined as “illegal” allows goons to storm your house and court troll to harrass you.

Thus everything they say is true, in some way…

PPN! (pp network?)

How can they rif off MIB when we are not allowed to remember it?

Yeah, otherwise they think themselves human and want a seat at the table.

It’s like democracy is the least bad system…

A well crafted political system is one that stays uncorrupted the longest (or can recover less violently from corruption).

Countries are defined by land-hoarding class, because the nomadic people define themselves by their group instead of the land on which they live.

Without hoarders (landlords), we wouldn’t need to put as much effort towards regulating land use, instead we could focus on regulating behaviours. Ex: “this land is a national park, you are not allowed to trash it. Go next door, there you are allowed to pour the trash from your industrial process into the ground, because it’s your private land”

Well… This is jazz… I’m skeptic as well, but what if it was some sort of experimental modern jazz where the musicians would try to predict the next click?

Time to inject noise in this database and put H signs everywhere at random