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rest in fucking piss henry kissinger

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when a human infant is in the womb, moments from being be born, a vague figure of glowing amber light appears before them. in one hand, it holds a small soapstone carving of a coiled eel. in the other hand it holds a mortar and pestle made of polished red quartz. it bids the infant to choose between these two things, but we don't know the significance of this choice, because all babies throughout history with no exception have always picked the soapstone eel. so that's still one of the big mysteries out there.

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Some ideas wade along the algal shore. A concept skitters atop the canopy. A theory, high in the sky, watches a group of notions begin a network of tunnels in the dirt.

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you WILL develop an all-encompassing & unconditional sense of warmth and empathy for your younger self (no longer asking)

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think i'm going to become an orc defender. not because i like muscles so much as i like the capacity for incredible violence

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In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

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it’s a common misconception that maths is all theoretical; they actually keep the 0 in a vault in France and u can go look at it if u got connections.

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i am shrunken down and brought to the gnome world and when i attempt to assimilate to their culture I use an acorn cap as a hat and they all laugh cheerfully at my silly mistake of wearing what they use as a bowl like a cap and though this is a transgression that would have humiliated me in my human life I am instead laughing alongside them at my humorous misunderstanding

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Leg / arm warmers? Fall weather & nice visual effect.

what cute fem clothes recommendations do y'all have? im not really sure what to get next

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Skyscrapers are a machine that nobody really thinks of. They reach into the air, housing hundreds or thousands of people in the most efficient way possible. Each one has efficient elevators, the tuning of which is so precise that a highway engineer would eat her hat in jealousy.

I'm sure when skyscrapers were brand new, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the futuristic concept of forcing people to live above other people. All kinds of new survival technologies had to be invented. And then, we just stopped thinking about them all that much. House stuff doesn't get a lot of credit for how cool it is: there's the modern miracle that is silicone bathroom caulk. All you care about is why it gets dirty so fast.

To appreciate the skyscraper better, I decided to build my own. Constructing your own, crappier version of something that takes an army of construction workers and thousands of years of accumulated engineering practice is the best way to learn about anything. That's what my grandpa said, after all, before he drove that replica of a Leopard tank through the local savings and loan and escaped to Mexico with the cash.

After only a few months of hard, sustained effort, I finally had some progress to show. I had successfully dug out part of a basement, the essential part of a modern residential skyscraper. Why? It's because this is where the cars live. And until the cops came to scream about the "sinkhole" I was creating that "swallowed the neighbour's house," I was getting ready to pour some concrete. Talk about ungrateful: not only do they not appreciate the great effort I was taking to understand the modern world, but they weren't even happy that it was going to provide storage for a lot of my street-owned hoopties. Have fun explaining this to the meter maid, jerks.

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UPD8!!!!!!!!

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The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

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cryptogender: “my feelings about my gender are private, and I wish to give no information about it to random strangers via a public interface like pronouns. All pronouns go because I want to be maximally uninformative.”

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taking two different bad explanations of the same fact and trying to do interferometry to understand what exactly this guy is trying to express

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a new element called warm and cozy was discovered deep within a sweater