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I can't remember the last time I made any at home, but when I'm at the Chinese Buffet, I'll usually take a couple of gelatin squares from the dessert section.

I’m having a heated argument with my father about jelly. I think it slaps. Especially when it has little fruit bits in it. He wrongly thinks it’s horrid and old fashioned. So I come to the great heathens of tumblr settle our debate.

(I had to google what Americans call Jelly and I’m so confused. So you get a stolen google image for reference)

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Definitely worth a read.

That year, a Hoover Institution economist who advised both Nixon and Reagan named Roger Freeman said the quiet part out loud when he told the San Francisco Chronicle, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.”

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There is always a point in the process of packing for an expedition where I'm like, "OK, so I've packed everything I could possibly need, but what if I suddenly become an entirely different person halfway through this four-day trip, and need completely different stuff?"

I usually realize that I've hit that point at least an hour after I've hit it.

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My secret 4th thing is that I clicked on it because I thought, "Hm, I wouldn't mind hearing "Never Gonna Give You Up" right about now.

TRUST EXERCISE

This is not a rickroll

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He likes experiencing other cultures.

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Yeah, post it, just be up-front with readers that it's incomplete and you expect it stay that way. People can make their own decision about whether they want to read it or not.

(And if you end up famous, somebody will go through all your stuff and publish your fragments and unfinished work after you're dead anyway, so why wait?)

Okay to reblog to help sample size!f

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Stompy little guy

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Gen x, I own them but use them very, very rarely.

if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

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Yeah, that's worse! I broke a windshield with my head once, when I was about 17, and the thing is, in that situation, something is going to break, and of the available options, you want it to be the windshield.

Source smoothdunk on twitter

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And why was this technology allowed to disappear? I should be able to go to Target and pick up a basin with little animals that spin when filled with water.

“Bronze basin with little animals that spin when filled with water. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty, 697–628 BC”

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I'm going camping* again this weekend! Since I was so successful making campfire beef stew, what should I try this time?

I have some chicken breasts, carrots, potatoes, and onions, and I'm going to the store tomorrow.

My first thought is, "throw those items into the pot with a can of chicken broth, and See What Happens," but I'm open to other suggestions.

In addition to the cast-iron kettle, I have a small cast-iron skillet. I may try cooking a piece of salmon over the fire in the skillet; I haven't gotten very far with that, either. I believe I possess a lemon; that might come into play somehow.

Sausages-on-sticks and baked potatoes in tinfoil are my camping standards and are on the menu; I'm going for four nights, and there's a fireplace on the porch so I can cook out even if it rains.

(*Cabin-camping, as per usual.)

Stew for reference:

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Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), male, family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, found in southwestern Africa

photograph by Nigel Voaden

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unusual bunny.

YOU’RE TELLING ME THIS IS A 1 TO 2 YEAR OLD DOG??? YEARS??? THIS THING??? YEARS????

(SOURCE)

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It's working. Keep going.

Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

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Um, sir, that is a muppet. you are keeping a muppet in the zoo.

it is once again... binturong appreciation hour

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I used to hate egg yolks; I have recently starting coming around on them, but now I'm middle-aged and have high cholesterol and guess what's on the list of things I should cut back on?

making my own picky eater poll

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Yeah, Starfleet officer or Herald of Valdemar for me.