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hello OOTS fandom on tumblr (all three of you)

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the right strategy is to only read people who read people who read people. at least 3 degrees of separation are necessary from actual philosophers, although more are preferable; closer exposure is known to be toxic

Imagining you reading Foucault just so you can discuss him while somehow pronouncing it "fuckowl" every time

does anyone read people or do people just read people who read people

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need mercury

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>ABBA

>look at lyrics

>AABB

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marriage which is T0 but not T1

asymmetrical marriage: where you are married to someone, but they aren't married to you. I can think of no advantage to this relationship structure but it is another way to rebel against tradition.

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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rock counterpart

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type of guy who's vegetarian out of the principled belief that consumption of vitamin b12 is deontologically wrong

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getting irate tha Rowling’s goblins are an offensive parody of the Swiss

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The twist at the end of HPMOR is so fucking funny when you consider how quirrel was in the early chapters tho. Imagine if at at the end of Dead Poets Society Robin Williams took off his rubber mask to reveal he was Saddam Hussein the whole time doing an elaborate bit and also he never even believed in Islam and just liked killing people and giving the US military a hard time

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an exponential meme would be one where every derivative of it is just as powerful as the original

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2025 is genuinely such a cool number: beyond being just a perfect square, which most of us will almost certainly never live to see again, it’s the sum of the cubes 1^3 through 9^3 too!

I have a good feeling about this year—surely nothing too bad can happen on a square year, right?

…right?

it’s square year! happy square year

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it’s square year! happy square year

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happy last same year as it was yesterday 2024 tuesday

todays the only/last day you can reblog this lol

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apparently there are a few appearances of this online—best guess I can find is “the pioneer of fashion trends”?

So Tumblr, you guys figured out Goncharov…

What the fuck does my hat say? I’m dying to know.

My only guess is “poiener” is “power.”

Or, you know, “peener.” Because I’m five.

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Jonathan swift that one time

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?