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The Nerd without Glasses

@bentheechidna / bentheechidna.tumblr.com

Hey I'm Ben. I'm a huge nerd and love associating with other nerds. I'm a CS major. D&D, MTG, video games, and anime are big nerdy hobbies of mine and my life's goal is to be a game developer of some sort.
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The Vietnamese leadership measured the impact of its military actions by their political effects rather than by conventional military measures such as men and materiel lost or territory gained. Thus Henry Kissinger’s 1969 lament: “We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.”
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medli20

public service announcement

I keep getting people asking about bowling on this post so I’m just gonna repost this drawing I made on Twitter

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lorddoom01

How did her grandmother fill 4 vases?

She was a very large woman. Easily 12 feet tall.

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mystorl

then why the heck is her family not tall too?!?!

Pop-pop was very small so it canceled out.

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God can you imagine being gay as hell and your vampire lover is drinking your blood very homoerotically and someone walks in on you? Mind your own damn business

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csny

i daydream of posting “bye” leaving tumblr forever and driving 12 hours away and throwing my phone in a culvert. too bad this will never happen because my phone is my soulmate and instead i tuck her lovingly into bed every night

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damazcuz

my local mcdonalds online prices have me doing cookie math

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so the difference between having 0 cookies and having 1 cookie is 80 cents, right? you might assume that the cookies to follow would be similarly priced. maybe 2 cookies could cost $1.50 or something! but you'd be wrong

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the difference between 1 cookie and 2 cookies is not 80 cents or even close. it's 1.31. huh? cookie number two costs more than cookie 1 did? it's over 2.5x the price of 1 to get 2? hang on cause

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then the difference btween 2 cookies and 3 cookies is TWENTY cents. which makes sense in comparison to 1 cookie's price but not cookie 2's. why'd the cost jump from 1->2 but not 2-> 3? ordering 2x of 1 cookie for .79 each doesn't work because the store will leave the additional cookie out of the order. it's infuriating i just want 2 cookies for 1.60. i have questions for you ronald you clown piece of shit.

DAMA BABY I HAVE ANSWERS. IT'S ALL ABOUT CHOICE ARCHITECTURE. they give you a cheap option and an expensive option, you choose the cheap option. they give you a cheap option, a medium option and an expensive option... suddenly the expensive option is looking better value, so more people buy it. nobody is actually going for the middle option, it's just there to trick you into paying more. lots of love

(visibly crying) so we should kill the ceo with a brick right?

yes. take my hand

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striders

if you take a 40 mg edible, drink a cappuccino, and pour yourself a cocktail at 9 am. you too can start making banana bread, pick up your phone to check a measurement, forget what you were doing, and loom over a bowl of mashed banana for 10 minutes without moving

oh don’t worry that was in there too!

YOU get it

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I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger

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ive been to a lot of protests in my life and a thing that a lot of people dont understand is that a protest is a threat. its a large group of people saying “we are being nice now, but you must understand that if we stop being nice we have the power to cause you Problems”.

so everyone saying that protests have to be more polite or follow accepted rules is missing the entire point. the point of a protest is not to say “we disagree with you”, they already know that. the point of a protest is to make it clear that if they continue to do things you disagree with, you will burn down their house.

now this wont stop them because theyre stupid and arrogant and believe themselves to be beyond consequence. so here’s the really important thing and that’s that after they do it anyway, you have to burn down their house

I cannot stress this e-fucking-nough. My great-grandmother - hell, most of my whole family - were on the civil rights marches. The fact they had to be so peaceful was because everything done during those protests was breaking the law. None of it was legal, none of it was nice.

She told me this:

“Understand - to many white people in the US, seeing that many Black people gathered together in one place would have been shocking. It’s easy to bully a family in a town. A bit harder, but bullying a community is still possible. But over a million Black people marching upon the Capital would have had the same effect on every single White person watching. They would know what Black people were REALLY saying behind the hymns and the march.

‘Imagine what would happen if we were angry.’

“White people were terrified of those marches. And there were supposed to be afraid. Of course they were gonna push back - they have the guns, they can make up new laws on the fly. They have all the power in the world, literally - and still, nothing scared them more than a million Black people on the march. Protests stopped working when White people were no longer afraid.”

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ironinkpen

can't believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai

"even avatar yangchen said—" that's not the POINT, the point is that aang is the LAST airbender the LAST air nomad the LAST person following these teachings, the point is that if he breaks his vows the air nomads will truly die out with him, forever. the point is that the monks taught him all life is sacred and even if ozai is a piece of shit who everyone agrees deserves to die, aang refuses let ozai force him to give up the last thing he has of his people, their lessons, refuses to let ozai wipe the last air nomad from the earth and finish what his horrible family started. the point is that aang beats ozai because his spirit is unbendable, the point is that he takes the man whose ancestors set his on fire and robs him of the ability to hurt anyone ever again, the point is that the Fire Lord ends the fight kneeling before the Last Air Nomad and THAT is the ending aang deserved

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥🤪 this strain is called “Magic The Gathering”💀 it’ll have you doing unholy things to game mechanics 💯☝️

Me: This ain’t shit

Me, 5 minutes later: I’m gonna play cards that aren’t even in my deck on your turn

Jace: I counter, and take 7 sequential turns