My brain is a device which produces good grades (and, I’m learning to my pleasure, good research) at the low low cost of barely tolerable mental anguish. (I was going to say intolerable, but I’ve been like this for the better part of a decade and haven’t offed myself yet, so it’s obviously not.) Luckily, not getting good grades/research also causes massive mental anguish, so the temptation to change course in any way is largely nullified.
Fucked up Slovakia/Slovenia, Lichtenstein/Luxembourg, and Bulgaria/North Macedonia. I think this says something about how my brain retains information...
why is this picture of garlic from wikipedia so erotic i feel like i need to avert my gaze
This image looks like it was pulled directly from the mind of someone that is happier than all of us.
Sorry, the holodeck can’t simulate a total solar eclipse. It can do anything else, but, man, the lighting during totality. It really is like nothing else, you just have to see it in person.
The boyfriend/girlfriend is a form of worker who does not need to be paid for labor
If the boyfriend / girlfriend drives you somewhere, you give them money for the toll and gas but not their time. Because you don’t need to pay them for their labor
If the situation is symmetrical, which it may or may not be, you're functionally paying for their labor with your own labor. Your labor might also pay for itself, if you receive psychological rewards from helping those that you are close to, which many of us do.
…who on earth expects their partner to pay for toll and gas if they drive them somewhere
Yeah that seems really bizarre. I don't think that's a thing at all!
if the partner drives you 2hr round trip for a thing is it not basic human respect to give them gas money? it’s diff if you’re married
I mean, norms around money and gifting vary wildly, sometimes for good reasons, so I’m not going to say that attitude is objectively wrong in any sense… but it’s not one I’ve ever experienced first hand, and I’m not sure I’d want to. It seems a lot more pleasant to just trust that small purchases like that will balance out well enough over time in any committed relationship.
(Of course, the threshold for “small purchase” can vary depending on relationship length and the financial status of both partners. I would certainly count 2 hours of gas as such in most circumstances, but I guess if you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck in an area where gas is really expensive then it could be different.)
The boyfriend/girlfriend is a form of worker who does not need to be paid for labor
If the boyfriend / girlfriend drives you somewhere, you give them money for the toll and gas but not their time. Because you don’t need to pay them for their labor
If the situation is symmetrical, which it may or may not be, you're functionally paying for their labor with your own labor. Your labor might also pay for itself, if you receive psychological rewards from helping those that you are close to, which many of us do.
…who on earth expects their partner to pay for toll and gas if they drive them somewhere
sometimes i'm kind of self conscious that i may not necessarily phrase my poasts in a way that is natural in english, although that's also an issue in any other language since i have a somewhat unusual way of speaking due to autism at times. i hope at the least it's parsable even with the presence of mistakes...
Phrasing things in unnatural but technically valid ways is a vital public service. Without this we constantly risk language decaying into meaningless patter based on social expectation and vague context clues
Off the top of my head I would guess that there are Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes called A Matter of Honor, The Price of Honor, The Cost of Honor, Honor's Glory, A Loss of Honor, A Klingon's Honor, What Price Honor?, A Staff of Honor (Shakespeare reference), Duty's Honor, and Honor's Duty
Okay, I had to look it up. There are a few actual episodes along those lines:
but the novelizations are where they really cut loose:
Also a video game called Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard
"Honor" starts to look like the name of a planet, helped by the way that Americans spell it differently
Star Trek writers, seeing it's a Klingon Episode:
David Weber literally named the main character of his military space opera series Honor so he would have an excuse to do this with his titles as much as he wanted
I notice that I feel differently about these two uses of the verb "took".
Adrian offered me a pawn sacrifice. I took.
Adrian offered me an apple. I took.
It feels to me that the second example needs an explicit object. It should say "I took it". But I'm not sure why!
Possibly a consequence of the kind of linguistics shorthands chess players use, since it’s such a common verb in that context? Stuff like “takes, takes, takes…” when describing a line.
Tree roots following the pattern of concrete footpaths
Astrophotographer, in Idaho, captures falling meteor fireball.
i beg your FUCKING pardon
Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics, Fernando Zalamea (translated by Zachary Luke Fraser)
iran's retaliatory attack comes after israel bombed the iranian embassy in syria, killing seven. the inviolability of diplomats and the extraterritoriality of their property is the fundamental basis on which any kind of diplomacy operates: it was international law for thousands of years before international law existed, it has been respected by the most disgusting regimes in existence (e.g. both the soviets and the nazis deported each other's diplomatic missions, killing none), any transgressions have always been the blackest stain on the violator. a few days after israel's attack, ecuador raided the mexican embassy in quito to arrest the former vice president, who had been given protection by mexico. that a state-on-state attack on an embassy occurred is horrific enough, pointing to the rabid, brutal, rogue nature of the israeli state; that two happened within a week is a dire signal. we live in a much more stupid, dangerous, violent world
Wuling vans
English added by me :)
Only the sexiest baddies use Leibniz
I am going to scream everyone is reblogging this like it is just common knowledge I feel like I’m losing my mind
You could say it's... Deriving you crazy :D
The dots are common in physics for time derivatives, but what the fuck are those bars for integration? I’ve never seen that before in my life. Is that really what Newton used, or just something some wacko introduced later that they included for completeness?
@andmaybegayer please advise?
people will call them "cream" switches but they are not
They will be when I’m done with them
Art by Alena Aenami
