Somewhere out there is a guy with a bear trap on his head because it’s been on there for years and if he took it off now people would be like “Hey, you got rid of the bear trap! What prompted this?” and he won’t have a perfectly rational answer.
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rip mathematics prodigy theodore j. kaczynski, more known for other work
The percentage of people from the world population capable of following a written argument is probably very small.
"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Smiling Spider (1887) by Odilon Redon
today i learnt that you can knock out large portions of a mouse's genome, and it can still bear children and live a long and healthy life
because large portions of the genome just do not do anything
oh look a WittgenSign 🧐
The White House bragging about how many different countries have reached out to negotiate in response to the tariffs reminds me of that part of Disco Elysium where you have the option to put a loaded gun in your mouth and threaten to pull the trigger as a negotiating tactic. It is certainly one way to start a conversation!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: one of the only few bad things about Tolkien's legendarium is that it makes 90% of all other fantasy worlds look either completely or somewhat mediocre in comparison.
Like, what do you mean you don't have a fictional language for your fantasy world? WEAKLINGS
This post is a stand-in for a very real complaint that I'll eventually speak of at a later time.