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Have you tried running into more?

oh god im running out of googly eyes

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leftist media discussion: "While this show said "trans rights" directly without any ambiguity, one plot element of this children's show could be considered morally questionable after 25 degrees of separation, so the author must be a heckin fascist"

right wing media discussion: "Well it happened. The reboot of Female Protagonist Fights Unsubtle Allegory for Capitalism That I Was Too Young to Notice as a Kid -our last bastion of apolitical entertainment- has gone woke because they made a supporting character black"

centrist media discussion: "did you see the latest episode of Sword Hero Cleanses the Undesirables on crunchyroll? best show of the year imo"

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Just wait for it

one day, and that day may never come, I will truly understand async I/O

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Why not season them afterwards?

today i took diced green peppers, seasoned them with salt and fresh black pepper and baked it at 8000 degrees for 22 hours. i make this whenever i want pile of smoldering ash.

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It’s a great gig if you’re willing to sleep in truck stops.

maybe i should become a trucker for the period between autonomous driving being developed and removing the outdated requirement that someone must be in the cab...

Leo Goodman:

Here now is a nice story that I would like to tell you about Bochner: Sometime during my first year as a graduate student, during the period of time when I was taking his course, he once told me that, if he had his life to live all over again, he definitely would not choose to be a professor. So I asked him what would he choose to be instead. He then told me that he would choose to be a laundry-truck driver. I then asked him why would he make that choice. “Well,” he said, “when you’re a laundry-truck driver, you drive the truck to the first house on the delivery schedule, then you deliver packages of clean diapers to the housewife, and you pick up packages of dirty diapers from her, then you drive the truck to the second house on the delivery schedule, and you repeat the same procedure there, then you drive to the third house ... and you continue to do this all day long, every working day. And, while you are doing this during all that time, [extra long pause] you can also simultaneously spend all that time proving interesting theorems!!!” [Smile/Laughter]

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why is the human body composed of such capricious tubes

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The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

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The ($ * respect * stability * meaningfulness) / (hours * stress * education requirements) ratio is so far below other industries that Nobody should be surprised by this.

Realized the obvious meta-trend of “[teachers, writers, etc] used to be better, and being a [teacher, writer, etc] used to be a real viable career path rather than a job where you’re either in severe poverty or a trust fund kid/supported by your spouse” is tied together because anybody smarter stays the heck away when the pay/failure rate gets under a certain level.

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The dorito could be a third sword

Bocchi with a sword?

Day 264: I'll do you one better

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I’ve been waiting a year to post this

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“Max points of complexity, but you'd get more loyalty out of a coffee club punch card.” Is a raw line and will live rent free in my head now

i love the hilarious eunuch ranking system by @welcometothejianghu so i decided to make one based on (mostly) REAL historical chinese enunchs!

in chronological order:

Warring States Period long story short, the PM is sleeping with the Empress Dowager, and he wants to extracate himself before her son (future Emperor Qin Shi Huang) gets old enough to find out. the PM finds her a suitable replacement, and the replacement is attached to a guy named Lao Ai. They pluck his beard and pass him off as a eunuch so he can sneak into the palace. Bing bang boom everyone's happy. This goes terribly wrong later, since Lao Ai tries to replace the emperor with his own kids and stages a failed coup. rest in pieces buddy...

it's very likely that Lao Ai was a ficticious character invented by Sima Qian, who will be appearing on this list later.

Qin Dynasty

Zhao Gao helped the first emperor of China conquer an empire, and administer it efficiently with his legal knowledge, but he also made the second emperor into a puppet, and weakened the empire for his own political gain. Max points of complexity, but you'd get more loyalty out of a coffee club punch card.

Before launching his soft coup, he decided to test the waters by bring in a deer and gaslighted the emperor by calling it a horse. the officials who were loyal to him called it a horse, and he executed the rest.

Han Dynasty Jiru, male favourite of Emperor Gaozu (Liu Bang), the peasant scoundrel who became the founder of the Han Dynasty. look, if the emperor has a harem of hundreds of women and you manage to catch his attention, you max out in style points. simple as. for most of chinese history it was fairly common for high-ranking men, especially eunuchs, to wear make up like powder and rouge, but i decided to give Jiru some women's huadia as well, cause he's a baddie.

Jiru gets a bad rap for alledgely distracting the emperor from his duties, but lets be real, history is written by civil officials who have no shortage of professional jealousy and gender/sexuality related prejudice towards eunuchs, since they were the personal attendants of royalty and could exert a lot of influence. plus Liu Bang was already pissing in the hats of confucian scholars, most of the poor work ethic is on HIM. Jiru should get credit for making him marginally less of a troglodite.

all in all he didn't try any court intrigue so extra points for loyalty and complexity. free my man >:( he's just a Han dynasty Monica Lewinsky who got slutshamed by jealous coworkers >:(

Han Dynasty

meet the father of east asian history, sima qian. half the people on this list can owe their placement here thanks to his extremely though history books "records of the grand historian"

history at this time was mostly "creative writing" and sima qian attempted to give the practise more academic intergrety, he went out and personally interviewed people, tried to get primary sources, and got rid of most of the more fanstastical aspects. however, he was not without his biases and some texts can be seen as allegorical/veiled insults towards the Han Dynasty, especially towards Emperor Wu. unlike most of the people on this list, sima qian was from the gentry and castated later in life as a punishment for treason. he was implicated after trying to defend a friend, and could not pay the fine to commute his sentence. the gentlemen at the time were expected to die by suicide rather than live with such ignimony, but sima qian chose to live so he could finish writing the history book his father started. the "giant conspiracy" joke explained: the chinese word for penis is a homophone for "conspiracy".

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