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they should make nervous systems that are less nervous

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its funny when events that probably couldve been traumatic dont bother you so you'll end up casually dropping stuff like "so after that time i almost got lost at sea as a kid-" and theyll be like WHAT and youre like. oh yeah dont worry its just part of my lore. its honestly not even a top five interesting backstory moment. focus please.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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wrote this in my notes app because I was on a flight and didn’t have wifi and then forgot about it

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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

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the funniest solution to the fermi paradox has to be the one out of cs lewis' "out of the silent planet" trilogy: yeah actually life is extremely common, but the only place in the universe where original sin took place is the earth, which means that we're tpe only planet to develop any technology since everybody else is living in paradise already

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Cypress Knees in Congaree National Park, South Carolina

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would be fascinated if you added the metric by which you measure the concept of "a better life"

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You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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go my isopods!!

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"why did you stop writing your story!!! never stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!" well you see the character had to drive one mile to a new location and the sentence "she got into the car" was quite simply my undoing

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“you choose” “you can pick” NO, and if you insist I’ll kill you

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i think getting an undergrad degree should come with a free "second try" voucher, where if you want to go get a second different degree from any school because you picked the wrong thing as a 17 year old, its totally free to try again

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it's ...! angelocaris!

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didn't notice that this was a group message at first but thank you for the emoji react random stranger 🙏