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Incredibly fucked that shrapnel is named after a guy. Henry Shrapnel, who invented anti-personnel artillery shells. A word that has linguistic roots if I've ever seen one.

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The Perseid meteor shower will soon light up the night sky as the Earth makes its annual transit through a stream of comet debris. The Onion shares tips for watching a meteor shower.

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Mourning Dove (part 1)

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"meteoric rise" is such a weird phrase. literally the main thing meteors don't do

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I have come to admit that my own toxic trait is that i DO hold a quiet disdain for people who think that putting flatpack furniture together is hard. Why is IKEA furniture in particular regarded as some Ultimate Test for Couples - "If you build it without killing each other, he's the one, haha!" ???? Like, listen, I get it, i've got a fuck'd wrist nowadays so I DO find that hammering peg A into slot B is considerably more difficult than it used to be, but the task ITSELF? It's like building lego, y'all. Except that at the end of it, you end up with not just some sort of miniature spaceship (admittedly very cool, if not particularly useful) but a functional and stylish side table. It's the perfect enrichment. I smashed together three Billy bookcases last summer with nothing but a screwdriver, a pencil, and the love in my heart, and I had the time of my life. Do you, too, not feel a thrill in your heart at the satisfying feeling of a cam lock twisting into place? Do not the tiny little crinkly bags of screws remind you of candy wrappers to be torn open and piled gleefully upon the floor, like a child at Halloween emptying your haul onto the living room carpet? Am I the freak, or are you? I am willing to accept the former but i die on this hill regardless

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shes singing pictures ;_;

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My toxic trait is that I like to take poorly thought-out worldbuilding from large media franchises that are clogged with decades of legacy cruft and retcons and try to hammer out something internally consistent, yet completely unintended by the rights-holders, then I insist that my interpretation is correct.

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Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about.

Geologic Periods [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A three-column table denoting "period", "my favorite part", and "my biggest complaint", respectively.]

Precambrian; Life develops; Snowball Earth episodes. Cambrian; Trilobites!; Evolution could stand to calm down a little. Ordovician; Earth might have had rings; Scary volcanic eruption in North America. Silurian; First land animals; Earth's newfound mold problem. Devonian; Big mountains in Boston; Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was armor. Carboniferous; Cool forests; Bugs too big. Permian; Pangea; Google "The Great Dying". Triassic; Tanystropheus; [Accompanied by a drawing of a long-necked dinosaur.]; Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan. Jurassic; Birds; Parasitoid wasps. Cretaceous; Raptors; Raptors. Paleogene; Pretty horseys!!!; Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum. Neogene; Forests of Dracaena dragonblood trees; Zanclean flood. Quaternary; Burrito invented; Whoever picked the name for the third period of the Cenozoic.

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the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

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Little sweetums kitty baby darling sleepy boy pooped in the bathtub ❤️