took acid on new years as per tradition and me and my sister got really into the concept of an origami crane folded out of a pizza so precisely and beautifully that it "shames our hatred". like all acts of human cruelty are shamed by the perspective that its beauty provides. we called it pizza crane
chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill
holy fuck
I saw a production and it was fascinating: that only describes the first and second acts, and then the third is set like a hundred years later when a bunch of half-remembered memes and plot summaries have coalesced into an allegorical oral tradition retelling the nuclear disaster that ended the world, with hints of dangerous schisms forming between fans of different interpretations of the story. It’s a story about how we find comfort in mundanity and ritual in times of catastrophe but then those rituals can overtake genuine coping mechanisms, which is a good message in these times but goddamn I cannot see Disney allowing any of this to be filmed intact
waow..
I think as your job satisfaction gets lower and lower you should gain access to an increasingly broad and powerful suite of forbidden magic
every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know
in honor of his passing the newly renamed Scott Adams Memorial Cafeteria will be serving this disgusting shit until 6pm tonight
There was a time Scott "Dilbert Guy" Adams was seen as a "smart" public figure & somehow this was the same time he was publishing books where he talked about his belief in the Law of Attraction, advanced alternate theories of gravity, and created a inedible Dilbert-themed vegan burrito that contained every important vitamin & mineral since that makes it The Most Healthy Food & incomprehensibly branded it "the blue jeans of food" (since "everyone likes" & "almost everyone wears" blue jeans, just like how everyone would like & eat a Dilbert-themed undifferentiated lump of minerals that would destroy your guts if you so much as smelled it)
RIP to the Dilbert guy, creator of the Dilberito, who spent his last days begging Donald Trump to let him try a fake treatment and declaring his intent to convert to Christianity at the last minute bc of Pascal's Wager
Perhaps it will come as a surprise that Dr House, contrary to expected wisdom,¹ retorted at this juncture that the hygiene drug would kill the patient. If indeed this is truly surprising, it pales in comparison to House’s suggested alternative: the bold assertion that the patient required the mouse bites to live.²
1. House, G. et al. (2004) Unforeseen Malignancies Associated with Hygiene Drug in Cases of Mouse Bite Related Nose Blood
i want a mysterious source of income
In Honor of Disgraced Dilbert Artist Scott Adam's passing, here is the internet archive link to the Dilbereeto flash game:
the clear advantage that hundun 混沌 has over tohu vbohu תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ is that hundun carries the implication of wetness while tohu vbohu has no implication of wetness at all
i like when they write it as tohu wabohu bc it seems easy as fuck to transliterate into pinyin.
made me curious whether chinese bibles transliterate or translate it & in at least this chinese bible international version they do 空虛混沌 kongxu hundun -- void and hundun -- which we can take as an example of dialectical synthesis in action. the wet is combined with the nonwet to make a tohu wabohu which is both and neither. and neither both nor neither.
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)
Yes.
Here, have a study (x) showing that mothers underestimate their daughter’s physical capacity from as young as 11 months old (though in reality it’s identical to that of their son’s at the same age). And if you think that parents acting on those expectations won’t alter their children’s development, then I have a sloped bridge to sell you.
what you have to know about the books is that it’s Glinda who knows sorcery in the book and Elphaba who doesn’t. she doesn’t study it in college. after college she still threatens to use magic to transmogrify people etc. because I guess it’s part of her intrinsic nature, but the way she has to say it is “im going to ask Glinda to how to do a spell and vanish on you if you keep finding me” and so on. which is especially funny because Glinda loves her and would do anything to see her again but she’s in a years long ghosting Glinda streak and will not be asking her for the spell for that
