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had a physics teacher once. i mentioned some “soon to come” innovation to him and he said, “i’m 60. they told me that when i was your age. it’s still only ten years away”. i was 16. totally recalibrated me. there are books from the 70s, 80s, 90, that all say this exact thing:

if you have a space like this, you eventually stop going upstairs and just sleep on the couches. soon you go upstairs so rarely that weird spiritual energy pools up there. very difficult to dissipate. starts to feel like a forbidden zone. ominous. its not yours. few discuss this.

sorry i was literally just vibing

never recovered from seeing this worldmap a chinese guy named hao xiaoguang made in like 2002:

nameberry (baby name website) charted the reddest vs bluest baby names (meaning: highest disparity in red states vs blue states) and it extremely interesting data:

i find the phenomenon of adult-children going no contact with their parents fascinating. most people online are familiar with the declining birth rate: people not having children. at the same time, in a temporal inversion, grown children are simultaneously“unhaving” their parents

i used to teach an art class for little kids. we had a unit where each kid drew “someone powerful”. 99% of boys drew: a tank man made of tanks with tanks for arms and his head is a tank. 99% of girls drew a princess. everyone i worked with hated this and it happened every time.

my friend believes all body disorder originates in the psyche, so if anything is even slightly wrong with me he takes out a huge book, looks it up and asks “did [specific event] just happen to you?” and the answer is always yes. 10/10 the most annoying thing ive ever experienced.

why are there tornadoes where there are white people. even the south american tornadoes are in argentina. the african tornadoes are in south africa. the only exception here is northern india:

once again

theres a 4chan post about how super intelligent characters on TV shows often make no sense, because its usually a normal writer imagining what its like to be super intelligent, which is impossible likewise this type of comedy is normal people imagining what its like to be weird

the “free tibet” movement is a weird case study. used to be huge, now functionally doesnt exist. tibet is not even used against china rhetorically. meanwhile the popular perception of china “taking over” tibet is them annexing some tiny random place. look how big it actually is:

realizing from the reaction to this that a lot of american right wing accounts have never considered that a total cultural victory for them will mean that something exactly like this will be the most popular kind of music for like thirty years straight.

the thing is, on july 4th, when we're at the barbeque, and i ask who your favorite american is, im not being friendly. im assessing your character and worldview based on your answer. i am etching it in stone. you're having fun. i am deciding if i can rely on you in an emergency.

the turkish word for “owl” is apparently literally “mr. bird”. could never be comfortable in a place like that

if youre a kid this is one of the most common shapes you encounter. most blocks are this shape. but whats it called? do most adults know the term “cuboid”? “rectangular prism”? no. imagine learning that the adults around you dont have a name for this. youd think they were idiots.