I Think 90% Of Conspiracy Theorists Would Be A Lot Happier If They Just Bit The Bullet And Got Into Creative

Quick! Download those animes from the Internet Archive before a copyright claim takes them down.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Carl Jung (via qvotable)

Bring back the 4:3 aspect ratio, too.

Movies used to have colors in them

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It's a shame you can't just keep taking gray market stimulants like caffeine and eventually achieve infinite energy.

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

I believe there are often very significant costs associated with being honest and open in the present moment.

it’s interesting how many people have knee jerk scorn towards Ozempic and think it’s almost foregone conclusion to be a Faustian bargain that will cause massive long term health problems in exchange for “cheating to lose weight”. as if suffering and struggling to lose weight is just punishment for being a fatty (smells Protestant). the thing is, this doesn’t even bear out in reality either because glp-1 drugs have the knock-on effect of improving health outcomes across the board for almost everything. tho good litmus test for sussing out the type of guy who tells themselves just-so stories

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane