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how it feels to come home from work at 8pm eat a huge portion of pork fried rice and immediately go beddy bye afterwards

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Alternating

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I came up with this three-way table to help me (and now you, if you want) to rate things out of 5 stars. I was thinking of books and films when I made it, but you can probably use it for other stuff.

The idea is that you rate the thing on how much stuff you loved and how much stuff you hated, and those things weight against each other. There's only one way to get 5 stars or 1 star, so those should end up as the rarest ratings, wtih 3 stars being the most common.

'Spicy' means that the thing inspires emotion, whether positive or negative, while 'bland' means it doesn't affect you much either way.

An example of a 3-star (spicy) - for me personally - would be the Twilight series, because there's plenty of garbage in there but also some things that are like crack to me. I can't think of an example of a 3 star (bland) because by nature they don't stick in the mind.

(This also assumes giving 0 stars isn't allowed. That'd throw it out of whack...)

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Me: I love doing things!!!! I love doing stuff!!!! Going places!!!

Me when I haven’t been home in two hours: my books :( my blankie :( my favorite coffee mug :( my no pants no bra combo :( :( :(

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How it feels talking about the user you hate and other people agree and you're not just a bitch

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Pros of being an artist: you can make your favorite characters kiss!!! Yippee!!!!

Cons of being an artist:

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i hate the part of depression that’s like all the things that bring me joy are empty and i can’t do anything. like come on bitch i know you love book can you just be happy about book :/

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You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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seeing top surgery scars through the arm hole of a muscle tank is also a kind of side boob. to the enlightened

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Today I went to the science museum. It was basically empty. You might think of course it was, it's a natural history museum, shouldn't you be doing things specific to Florence? Buddy this museum has had the same badly-taxidermied hippo for three hundred years, and for a hundred years before that a different museum had it. Multiple European scholars with varying levels of hippo expertise have tried to improve it over the centuries. You can't see stuff like that just anywhere. The description mostly just talks about everything that's wrong with the hippo, and how the current curators have worked to preserve the different layers of alterations and attempted fixes, while also stabilizing the specimen:

Its unnatural position and unappealing details make us suppose that its taxidermists have never seen it live. For example, although it is a digitigrade animal, the position of its feet was prepared like that of a plantigrade. [...] Two different approaches thus coexisted for over two centuries: a seventeenth-century one "cabinet of curiosities" like and a late eighteenth century one, with a naturalistic aim. [...] Therefore, a restoration, completed in 2012, was necessary which highlighted the two different approaches of preparation, allowing to enhance its original appearance, but also preserving the beautiful wax modeling reconstruction of the details of the head.

Here we have, in part, a history of "exotic" European zoological inquiry in microcosm. Everybody's all oh let's go see the important church, or the other important church, even though the line is an hour long, and no one wants to look at the fucked up hippo with me.

Also, I want to be clear: this was a great museum and I think more people should go and would have a great time there even without knowing or caring much about the history of science (or even being as easily amused by taxidermy as I am). Their current exhibit juxtaposes actual historical taxidermy with modern art of fantastical medieval-esque imagined creatures. And their collection of wax anatomical models is fascinating (and quite famous). They have a lovely mineral collection, too.

Also if you like me are easily lost, and you get confused about how to leave, you can just follow the wheelchair-accessible path because it's the only one you can find that leads to the exit! And then you get to see a surprise giraffe in a corner by the elevator, away from all of the other taxidermy. Why not!

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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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Briton Rivière, Requiescat.

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i love constantly evolving into a cooler version of myself